weekend warrior: party people

John and Heather were in town, Lorraine turned 30 and threw herself a rager, and there was a photobooth. Naturally, hilarity ensued. Please note how us girls just jumped in with that random boy. He was super into our themed frames.

working on: Similarly Different update

Similarly Different is plugging right along, we've posted two and are working on the final prompt. This is a fun project because it's so open-ended. For prompt #2 I really wanted to incorporate watercolors, and I've been wanting to do a series of fashion drawings, so I got my feet wet with this post.

The girl in the front in black reminds me a Vera Wang. I'm so grateful for my scanner when I work with lines and colors on different layers like this, to think that I used to do all my scanning at school. I hope you like the finished product!

just for fun: desktop wallpaper

While actively avoiding working on my Type II project this morning, I decided to make something of the James Victoire quote I'd had sitting in my inbox for a week. The result was a desktop background, so I'm reminded to keep at it and make good work.

It's Monday, start strong!

four more years

image via door 16

internet hunting: YA-NE-SEN a Go Go

A friend of mine posted a link to this beautiful little video on twitter, and after watching it in awe three or four times I knew had to share it here. The art is beautiful and captivating AND she's an adorable dancer! I'm in love.

working on: Similarly Different

In an effort to completely overwhelm myself with work this term, I've been trying to take as many of the opportunities that come my way as possible. Last week one such opportunity showed up in my inbox in the form of a collaborative project between PSU graphic design students and graphic design students from University of the Creative Arts, Farnham in the UK. Headed up in part by PSUGD's own Briar Levit, each of us here in Portland is paired up with a student from UCA and given a fortnightly prompt. We 'research' our prompt (ephemera, sketches, thoughts, visuals) and email it to our partner, who takes the 'research' and creates a visual piece of art based on it. All final art will be posted to the Similarly Different blog, and each school will host a culminating gallery show.

The project is unlike anything I've ever worked on before, and I'm really excited and interested to see what kind of work it produces, particularly because we're working with total strangers! Sometimes I feel like being a designer in Portland is like designing in a vacuum, so I'm curious to see what this geographical collaboration will turn out. Feel free to follow along with the blog, and I'll try to post things here as they are created as well.

look what i made: a GIF

For part II of our first project in my type class, I decided to conquer something I'd never tried before: make a GIF. My friend Cass kindly sent me the super simple instructions she'd found on the web, and after a little bit of cutting and a little bit of photo-taking, I was done! The most intricate one of the series is still in the works, but I'm pretty proud of these!