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= = = YSDN 2106 (3.0) Graphic Design in Canada — Winter Term 2011 — Group Wiki= === There is a digital copy of a Francois Picard Interview on Digital Locke**r** <-- Francois Picard ===

Short URL to our Group's Wiki: www.icedive.ca/2106

Devin Pickering - devin@icedive.ca Ann-Elizabeth Couillard - couillaa@yorku.ca Alicia Banton - leggie_ban@hotmail.com Kitty Ma - kittyma@yorku.ca
 * Group Contact information:**

Note: When talking to Fancois, ask him if he wouldn't mind emailing us some portrait or other pictures of him that we can use in our website presentation. We will send him the link to the presentation.

Questions to ask Francois Picard – []

(avoid yes/no questions, order primary questions first, ask questions in relation to work, questions that feel good to answer) Picard's LinkIn: []


 * 1) How can you describe your work?
 * 2) **How did you become a designer?**
 * 3) **Why do you call yourself a designer?**
 * 4) Do you consider yourself Canadian, or Quebecois?
 * 5) What kind of design "movement"(s) do you see yourself associated with (ex. modernism, post-modernism, desconstrucivism)?
 * 6) **What do think of appropriation in design?**
 * 7) How does Canada (or Montreal) influence your artwork?
 * 8) **What differentiates Canadian design in general from the rest of the world?**
 * 9) **What are some Characteristics typical of Canadian design? If any? (ex. german design utilizes blackletters, swiss with red and lines, etc.)**
 * 10) **What would you suggest to young Canadian designers to help them firmly establish their design in Canada, and internationally?**
 * 11) What steps do you take in creating a new design (process, influences)?
 * 12) How do you approach the relationship between your firm and your clients (narrow this question)?
 * 13) Have you ever had to compromise your integrity for your clients' sake? (Do you try to please your clients to the fullest even when you know what they want is not "good" design?)
 * 14) **What is inspirational and motivatesyou to sustain your creativity?**
 * 15) Your education was very technical. Do you think you developed more as a designer from formal or informal education.
 * 16) You are a designer, yet your website is as bland as dry flour. Why is that?
 * 17) Do you have an ultimate goal as a designer? A Canadian designer?
 * 18) Do you believe that there is no such thing as "bad clients", only "bad designers"? (12 Paradoxes of Graphic Design - Tobias Bergdahl)
 * 19) Where do you see Canada in terms of this new "green" or "sustainable design" movement that has sparked in the last 5 years
 * 20) How important is aesthetics vs functionality to you in design?
 * 21) Do you involve yourself and your design work with social issues (environmental problems, human relations, media, sexuality, violence, information technology, education, design, art, government, poverty, health)
 * 22) What do you consider as "good design" and is there such a thing as "bad design"?
 * 23) What do you think of spec work?
 * 24) **Where do you see the print industry in terms of survival in the next two decades?**
 * 25) **As a seasoned, veteran designer, do you still find yourself dabbling and experimenting with new technologies made available to the industry?**
 * 26) **Were you consciously influenced by the idea of post-modernism?**

"Why does this question matter more than that question?" - Donnelly

Primary Questions > >
 * 1) **How did you become a designer?**
 * 2) **Why do you call yourself a designer?**
 * 3) **What do think of appropriation in design?**
 * 4) **What kind of design "movement"(s) do you see yourself associated with (ex. modernism, post-modernism, desconstrucivism)? Were you consciously influenced by the idea of post-modernism?**
 * 5) **What differentiates Canadian design in general from the rest of the world?****What are some Characteristics typical of Canadian design? If any? (ex. german design utilizes blackletters, swiss with red and lines, etc.)**
 * 6) **Do you consider yourself Canadian, or Quebecois? How does Canada (or Montreal) influence your artwork?**
 * 7) **What is inspirational and motivates you to sustain your creativity?**
 * 8) **As a seasoned, veteran designer, do you still find yourself dabbling and experimenting with new technologies made available to the industry? Where do you see the print industry in terms of survival in the next two decades?**
 * 9) **What would you suggest to young Canadian designers to help them firmly establish their design in Canada, and internationally?**

UPDATE (March 28) - PRESENTATION **Our presentation is this Friday everyone so lets get things rolling!!** //After seeing other group's presentations, we've decided it would be most efficient to split up the parts.//


 * PRESENTATION TOPICS**
 * 1) Biography (from the stapled sheet we got in class - DEVIN scan and upload!!! — DONE)
 * 2) Introduction to his works (stylistic tendencies, messages, influence of Quebec - maybe looks at pictures of the city that may relate to his work?)
 * 3) Comparison of his works to different movements (compare one piece from him with another piece that has similarities from a different time/place, compare pieces that just don't fit, and compare his works with other French Canadian Designers to see if there is a trend?) - We've concluded that his styles is all over the place, so different pieces may take on different styles/movements ie. post modernism, modernism etc.
 * 4) Interview (the most important/interesting answers that relate to the questions we wanted to ask him, talk about the question we would have liked to ask) - the recorded file can be found in the digital locker


 * PROPOSED BREAKDOWN**
 * Alicia and Devin, since you guys have the files for his work and I'm assuming it'll be too large to upload here, can you each take either #2 or 3?
 * I'm not sure if he's going to be speaking French in the Interview but I think it would be safe if Ann-Elizabeth took #4.
 * I can take the Biography (Devin can you scan and upload the file on here by tonight/tmrw night? If not I'll ask Brian for it — DONE)

//I hope this works for everyone////!!//


 * TO DO LIST**
 * 1) Individual research for our parts (each part approx 3-5 minutes)
 * 2) Create PDF slides for our own parts (Who wants to make an InDesign file with paragraph styles & template?)
 * 3) Compile all PDF files together for presentation (Send to one person to do this, or meet up) - **BY THURSDAY @ 8pm**
 * 4) We also have to start thinking about what we're going to write for the Essay. (Update on website progress??)

//* If we can meet up on either Wednesday after noon or Thursday after 4:30pm that would be good to go over our parts & compile PDFs.// //* If not, that's okay too. As long as everyone makes their parts relevant to the questions we intended to ask, it will work out!//

<-- **Francois P****icard** I found a picture, but this is the only one. []


 * Link to Francois Picard resources (including biography and pictures of his work):** []

Intro to Francois (Kitty) -Company -Style -Bio

Intro to his works (Devin) -French Canadian influence -Modernism -messages

Comparison of his works (Alicia) -To movements -Other artists -To other pieces of his own work

Interview (Ann-Elizabeth) -Talk about how we didn't get to interview him -Then talk about the questions we were going to ask and why we felt that they were important -how they relate to the class

Conclusion (All)

Indesign template should be made for final PDF should be done tomorrow afternoon