I enjoy Cut’s output. Their content is usually as fun as it is uncomfortable. I have tried to think of some fun concepts we could work with here on campus without pushing the limits of acceptable content.
- Have students or faculty from others floors/department guess which students in a line up are graphic design students, and which are visual media students. This could be fun for us and give us some insight into what people who are not a part of the program think of design/visual media students. What stereotypes are out there? What does a designer look like?
- Cut has a segment where a person off the street tries to match artwork to the artist. We could do this with students at SCCA. We could have visual media students guess which works were created by which design students and vice versa. This has comedic potential and it ties in the school as a major component in the concept.
- The two ideas above are okay and I suspect you may get similar ideas from other students. What may be lacking in my first two concepts is some of the tension involved in Cut’s approach. Maybe we could do something involving professors, like “which SCCA Professor did crazy thing x in college?” A lot of the students seemed really surprised by the old picture of Erik that Andrew showed during his presentation so this could be a fun one for students to work on.