Welcome to the 2010-11 School Year!

Welcome back students and parents! As a means of conserving paper (and being 'greener'), the syllabus for the DATA Di program can be found below. The full Google document was explained in class to students with the first and last pages sent home for signatures.

Please feel free to post comments or share thoughts on this post or any other entry. Looking forward to seeing you all at Back to School Night on September 22nd.

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Introducing the 2010 DATA Graduates

Congratulations to the 2010 graduates of the Digital Arts Technology Academy

(y'all ROCK!)

Visit the 2010 Graduate Gallery here!

Amplify Collaboration with Designer Luis Fausto

During the month of May DATA Di students worked with local designer Luis Fausto of Synergy Designs on the Amplify! Branding Challenge.  Students competed in teams to develop Identity Systems for the Amplify / Inksanity hair and tattoo studio in Palm Desert, Ca. which included a logo, studio photography, business card, rack card and promotional poster.  Each student on the team had different jobs during the process as they acted as a professional design agency.

Fausto emphasized the following items as students participated in the client briefing, worked out designs, shot original photography, and pitched final products

• art as the foundation for design
• the importance of sketching your designs before hitting the computer
• the importance of communication and working as a team
• what identity means for designers in today's industry 

The final products crafted by the two teams were pitched for client consideration to the owners of the hair and tattoo studio.

Visit the Amplify!  Challenge here!

Paint the World with Light Book Now On Sale!

Paint The World With Light by The Student Creative  is now available to purchase online.  DATA Di students collaborated with 19 other schools from 12 states in four countries to create the first book in the Student Creative series.  100% of the book's proceeds will go towards bringing technology to the Jacaranda School in Malawi.

For more information please visit:

 

The Jacaranda Foundation

OR

The Student Creative Wiki

The 2010 Lion's Quill

DATA Di was once again apart of The Lion's Quill, the Cathedral City High School arts and literary magazine.  This was the 13th issue published by English teacher Donna Fitzgerald and her Creative Minds club celebrating the poetry, photography, drawing, and painting of CCHS students.

Congratulations to the following students for their work being published in the 2010 issue!

Victor Gonzalez, (Cover image) Think, Believe, Create

Melissa Wilson, Placed 

 

Tyler Johnson, Abandoned

Erik Ramirez, Self Portrait

Jessica Hernandez, Split Image of Balboa

Tyler Johnson, Dead End

Jessica Hernandez, Austin and Elias

Mike Pena, How Do I Get There From Here?

Tyler Johnson, Fractured

Victor Gonzalez, (Back cover image) Believe