Wine and Food

Looking forward to tomorrow's wine competition. We (the Steering Committee) finally choose a winner for the art competition. Jennifer Lommer and her acrylic painting won. Although it is a lovely painting, I have had a heck of a time getting it to work with this years ad campaign and branding style. Anyway, here is the first round poster draft. I will update with the final. If you're not already planning on being at this year's event as a volunteer, you can go to the website and purchase tickets here.

Illustration Practice

I am going to start drawing my friends and family to get more illustration practice. I will post the results here on the blog. Please do not be offended by my cartoon and childlike renderings of people. Here is my first try. Shelby Jo, doesn't she look beautiful!

Here's my Typeface book

So, I think I figured out how to post PDFs that you guys can check out. This book was made for a typography course and I created everything you see in it...EVERYTHING! For the best viewing, click "book mode" instead of "scroll in the bottom left hand corner, then click Fullscreen.

PopSmack Book1-highres3

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Stuff, Stuff, and More Stuff!

1. Thanks to John for following. (are you gonna be a dad soon?)

2. Anyone out there that's interested in tagging and alternative culture...check out beautiful losers. (HB you have to see this)

3. Props to Carissa for liberating herself with a haircut after ten years. Lookin' good girl!

4. Redesigning the Oregonian is a real life situation in that designers often get paid projects that they have no interest in. aka (I have no interest in redesigning the Oregonian ...BORING)

On the radio (what i'm listening to lately)

Pandora's Grunge - the Seattle Scene and Police radio (bringing back the 80's)

*try it, it will make you feel good in the morning.

Designs coming up:

Redesign of Culture Magazine (unique to me). This magazine I stumbled upon at Shelby's is all about cheese. I think it will be a fun project to do something elegant and fun at the same time. Who doesn't love cows and cheese, hello!

Helveticookies

Check out these edible typeface cookies. What a novel idea. Tisin Ann...Nicky... I'm still waiting for my videos! Helvetica cookies can be found here.

iPhone App for the Oregonian

Happy Sunday people, so we got a glimpse of the sun yesterday for a couple hours. That was nice while it lasted, now back to the rain :( Here is a pic of an iphone app in the works. Having serious color issues (don't like 'em). Kinda fun designing to the iPhone since it is the best phone/handheld device ever created. Sorry to all the crackberry users. If you have comments or critique for this project, post them to flicker here.

Family Game Night

On my way to family game night tonight...hope you see all you St. Jamers there. Thanks to the girls at lunch today (weeksie, shels, tlc, jenny jenny, rebecca- who is in serious need of a nickname and charween), it was a nice break from the grind. Charween thanks for reading, you're the best. Also wanted to say hi to Bauer... you know how she gets butt hurt about these things :)!

Magazines

I need to pick 5 magazines to try to redesign, leave me a comment on your top five.

NIA - The Best Workout

Portland staters if you want a good workout in the middle of your school day, attend NIA. This class is packed with martial arts, hippie dance forms, and overall happiness. The instructor is crazy which is always fun. The setting is amazing and what's not to love about moving energy around the room. Carissa and ShelbyJo, get your buns up here and check it out. Who knew you could get dance, sweat, lay on the ground and shower in the middle of the day...I know I already told you but man Bo we are so lucky!

I've created a beast

For all you facebookers out there...check out my husband (befriend him). 4 days ago Nick didn't know how to turn the computer on. Who knew facebook would be the motivator. Oh yeah, and Ryan showing Nick the satisfaction of Pandora helped a lot too. Shout out to ShelbyJo here in my living room, as we click click click the web...

The Oregonian

We have been tasked to completely redesign the Oregonian. Here's where it resides currently, but lots of work is on the way.

Click here for a larger size or to critique boo's flickr.

Fun Times - Let's Do It!

Here we go, time to get with the program and practice typing, reflecting, posting and living. It's 2010, and quite frankly, if I can do all of my talking about myself on this blog, then maybe I can be more present for others in the real world.