Merry-go-round collaboration

Here we are working on concepts for the ArtPedaler show next month by drawing for 20 minutes at a time and then passing our paper's clockwise.

That's Finn, one of Maria's new kitten. He wanted to sit on whatever I was drawing.

replay

playing with stuff after it goes to press can be really fun...



Just finished album art for the new Mama Digdown's Brass Band album, "We Make 'Em Say Ooh." Decided to mess with it some more. Maybe they'll want flyers or something.

Check out their tunes on myspace.

I gotta make

Frank Chimero said it best the other day at Design Madison — "Some people, they just gotta make."

I just gotta make... as many things pretty as my little hands possibly can before I leave this world. Every second is an opportunity to make something beautiful.

"This work fills you up," said Chimero, frankly. True that Franky baby, true that.

I think this is why I got a job

This was a piece I did this summer with Cricket Design Works when I was just a lowly intern. I was inspired by those religious, mexican candles you can get in the cleaning isle at Woodman's. Jesus, I love those.

I think I invented this. Don't steal it!

I think I might use this as my self-promo piece. Here's the concept.

You like me! You REALLY like me!?

I am honored to say that my hard work and dedication to the Art Department at MATC was rewarded today. I received an award for Visual Arts Student of the Year. Allow me to toot my horn a bit! *Toot, toot*

Thanks for reading. We will now continue with our normal programming.

Learning to sew again

I decided after searching for weeks for my ideal portfolio and case that I just needed to make my own. So I got some really nice card stock for the interior - Neenah Classic Crest in Epic Black. I cut black boards for the outside with hinges and decided to do post hole binding. I got all the following supplies at Dick Blick:

Heavy duty black board $6.00
Lineco spine repair tape $15.89
Pina Zangaro adhesive hinge strips (already 4 hole punched, really took the guess work out) 10 packs are $10.20ea
Pina Zangaro screwpost kit $4.68
Bookboard hold puncher$11.85

So I cut two boards down to be a bit larger than the 13x16 paper. Then I used the scraps to go inside for the posts, so they would be hidden. First I used the adhesive hinges (which I attached to the black card-stock I bought from Neenah) to measure where to punch the holes. I put the posts and the all the hinges, bookboard and adhesive ones together so I knew what the thickness would be before taping hinges down to the covers.

Then I bought super heavy weight canvas fabric, about $10. I spray mounted it to the covers and edged it on the inside of the covers with book repair tape.


Then i got a funky fabric for a case and used the heavy weight fabric as a liner. I sewed a pocket on it and attached a magnetic button closure.

I still have to make handles and a strap. I wanted the shoulder strap to be removable, so my friend saw some overall hooks and we decided that would be a really cool way to do it.

It was a lot of time and sewing, but now I have the exact portfolio that I want. Check it.

Sandwich Packaging Mock-up #2! Not much different, better picture though

New Catalogue Project! I decided to do a made up lighting company...

The springy, grassy spread



The welcome spread


The front and back cover


My thumbnails/brainstorming for interior pages

Sandwich packaging mock up #1

love my internship

I tiled some of my packaging ideas and put them on the coffee bags. Now I'm refining type and working on label and its placement. It's so fun. I love it.



Check out my sweet cube.

On the Table Cafe packaging concepts beginnings

packaging for in-prog crit

Done.

World Map....of food

I decided that my ads for the international grocery store I am branding needed a world map made out of food. Here it is 3 hours into the process. Am I nuts? Yes, and dried fruit, beans, quinoa, rice, pasta, pepper, curry, sugar, oatmeal...

Finally after refining and failing for 6 months...

After designing all these logos (on first pic) I finally had a breakthrough today. I think I might like this one for a couple weeks!

This is how I listen.

Redesigning Tangerine Dream foaming face wash packaging