• last week i went on a trip w/ the TSU A.I.G.A chapter to minneapolis to visit some friggin sweet design firms (you can find an itinerary of our trip here if you're extremely curious), which was friggin sweet because A) i got to know some really legit viscom girls a lot better and B) we were in a big city visiting friggin good design firms... what else is there to say? highlights: duffy and partners, where i learned about using visual briefs as a "bible" for each project (SO GENIUS!). Target's in-house designers were also extreeeemely cool and down-to-earth... not pretentious like you would expect. so cool. i'm so glad i went, even tho i'll be playing catch up w/ school projects for while...
here's my "visual brief" for the (currently nameless) company i'm designing for:
• also, i've decided to change my capstone project from a grocery store to a bakery... i came up w/ a really sweet logo for a bakery called brownbag bakery, but thankfully my cool classmates (no, they really are cool) informed innocent lil me that brownbag actually has a sexual connotation w/ it or something, and my prof also said (essentially) it sucked. so (after getting an education via urbandictionary.com) i'm in the process of changing the name, probably to ALL RISE PASTRY SHOP. or maybe just all rise bakery. or RISE baked goods. idk. new logos are still in progress, which means i'm quite behind on many things these days... and it's only february. great.
here's some examples of stationary sets i designed for the already-deceased brownbag bakery:
• here's another poster i designed for CCF recently:
• and finally, a confession... i've been slightly obsessed w/ Beyonce this week. "Sweet Dreams" has been in my head every morning for about 4 days straight now... how can you not think she's completely fabulous?! lungs of steel + moves + decent acting skills = a classically awesome entertainer and legitimate diva. here's a pic of her playing Etta James in Cadillac Records. if you can't handle the intensity of the movie, at LEAST listen to the soundtrack, people. it's. so. good.
• wait, one more plug: i set up the facebook page for studio1004 this week at work. become a fan today and keep up w/ the awesomeness of kville's best photog! and his faithful sidekick ^_^
happy living, dear world!
