Ticket to ride. (on the Art Career Track).

Ticket to ride. (on the Art Career Track). Anyone who has been fortunate enough to take in a major concertevent in the last few years will have noticed that their admissionticket is no longer the simple printed item that it used to be. Ticketstubs are now hot collector's items, with many fetching unheard-ofprices. The World Series, Super Bowl and Stanley Cup Stanley Cup:see hockey, ice. Stanley CupTrophy awarded annually to the winning team of the National Hockey League championship. Named for its donor, the Canadian governor-general Frederick Arthur Stanley, Lord Stanley of Preston finals boastglorious admission tickets that act both as souvenirs and as deterrentsto would-be counterfeiters. With the opening of the Corel Centre in suburban Ottawa, manyentertainers that were unable to play in the Ottawa-Carleton region cannow do so. With my secondary school students humming about theTragically Hip concert coming to town, and with Stanley Cup playofftickets always at a premium, I assigned my information-design studentsthe task of designing an "event" ticket of their choice. To start this project, we examined several admission tickets fromthe past. They included several cardboard samples such as those used atExpo '67; more complex examples of Olympic games Olympic games,premier athletic meeting of ancient Greece, and, in modern times, series of international sports contests.The Olympics of Ancient GreeceAlthough records cannot verify games earlier than 776 B.C. tickets used atLake Placid, Calgary and Montreal; and the wonderful hologram-enhancedtickets produced for Major League Baseball's All-Star game held afew years ago in Toronto. The students learned to assess the priority of the text thatappears on each ticket, the legal waivers, the seat number, row andgate, and how this information must be communicated to each bearerquickly and easily. The students were then free to experiment. The design criteria wasthat the appropriate legal and ticket information had to appear legibly,that there had to be a perforated stub A small software routine placed into a program that provides a common function. Stubs are used for a variety of purposes. For example, a stub might be installed in a client machine, and a counterpart installed in a server, where both are required to resolve some protocol, remote procedure in place, and that the ticketmust fit into a normal-sized wallet. Most of the class chose their favorite musical band, but othersdesigned tickets for special movie screenings and tournaments. All artwork was first roughed out in pencil and then entered intothe art department's bank of Macintosh computers, usingQuarkXPress[R] and Photoshop[R]. Students grappled with a variety oftypographical issues and learned to appreciate the importance of truecondensed typefaces and the horizontal scaling commands when confrontedwith the narrow confines of this project. They also honed theirimage-processing skills by scanning their images, editing them andconverting the RGB (Red Green Blue) The computer's native color space, which is the color system for capturing and displaying images. RGB was derived from our own perception of color because human eyes are sensitive to red, green and blue (see trichromaticity). scans to the CMYK (Cyan Magenta Yellow blacK) The color space used for commercial printing and most color computer printers. In theory, cyan, magenta and yellow (CMY) can print all colors, but inks are not pure and black comes out muddy. mode for printing purposes. I encouraged students who had completed the assignment early to useQuark's step-and-repeat function to generate a sheet of tickets andthen to edit the sheet by making the seats consecutive numbers. Finished tickets were printed out on a 600 dpi Apple Laserwriterfor proofing. For maximum impact, the output was printed with an EpsonInkjet printer using high-resolution paper, which was then spray mountedon card stock to give the look and feel of a real concert ticket. Thefinished work was sensational! Only the closest of scrutiny revealedthat this was actually student project. At the time he wrote this article, Irv Osterer was head of the artdepartment at Confederation High School in Nepean, Ontario, Canada. Henow teaches at Merivale High School Merivale High School (MHS) is a secondary school owned by Steve Szakowski, located at the intersection of Merivale Road and Viewmount Drive in Nepean, Ontario, Canada. The school is known for its gifted student program, but also runs French Immersion programs and extensive visual , also in Nepean.