Installation project/Casting letters during Art Incend

Graphic Design area project for Art Incend the first week in November:

Graphic Design students are working on designing and making molds to cast letters for the words "Ignite" and "Spark" (or is it "Strike"?...). Two teams are designing one word each by creating letters to be cohesive in scale and concept. They are then creating 3-D letters using found materials that will be used to create molds that will then be used to cast the letters in metal during the Art Incend iron pour Nov. 9. After Art Incend, sites will be selected around campus to create an installation using the cast letters. This could be great work for your portfolio! + fun ....

Any graphic design student is more than welcome to participate!

So, two questions:

1.) Two students have dropped out of the original two teams, so Cassie and I are looking for two volunteers to take over the design and production of two of the letters (not sure which ones or for which word just now.) This involves a time commitment to work within the team and see the project through to completion (being responsible for getting the molds made in time and overseeing the casting, etc.) You could even put on the "leathers" and do metal casting yourself.

2.) If you are interested in forming a team to create new words, we need to get busy really soon. Five students signed up on a sign-up sheet last week during the GD I class, but I seem to have misplaced it. Can't remember everyone who signed up. We talked about creating the word "Imagine" which would require 7 students to each create one letter each. Are the students that signed up still interested?

The cost for participating will be approximately $35 in order to replace the materials & metals you will use.

Please send me an email if you are interested in either project listed above. It will be awesome to create something that will become a one-foot high letter in metal that will become an installation. If it turns out well, we are planning to photograph and document the project and send it in to some design competitions. Having this on your resume would be a-m-a-z-i-n-g!

I will give anyone extra credit who participates.

We will need to have a meeting sometime next week to get this underway....

jhannaford@comcast.net