I submitted this comp today for critique in Advertising Class. What is a comp? That was a question I was asking myself this week. It is something where you push it as far as you can go. It has to be proportional to your intended substrate (thing you are putting it on) and in this…

  This should have been part of phase 1 of the Ravenna Garden’s website design project. I think I’m having trouble (as a fledgling designer) coordinating my efforts. It’s coded fine, but I was too proud of my working slideshow to notice the ugly. Anyways, now’s my opportunity to go back and polish this website before…

Today in Tom’s class. A brief summary: banana cannon, graffiti is an old hat, “You are writing what you think are ads,” prismism. You can’t be successful if you’re always safe, but you have to make sense.You can’t be successful if you don’t give your work the effort it deserves. Okay is failure. 18-year-olds are sophisticated…

Creative Brief For TeeShirt Design “Let’s see… 1)      We would like to do about 100 to 200 T-Shirts.    2)      The shirt will be used for our first event (A Cigarette Butts Clean-Up, where students and employees volunteer to pick up the cigarette butts on campus and then we count each butt to see how…

the next 10 years poster For Self-Directed Project class, the first (not self-directed) project was to make a poster reflecting my next ten years. My initial idea was to make a bunch of origami fortune tellers, but I didn’t know how I’d glue them to a poster, so then I thought more about having the same…

  I spent my morning creating “art-rings.” I started out with the idea that I was going to make some circular stickers and I was browsing famous color palates to help with my color choices and then I just got carried away making these concentric circles of my favorite artist’s work.  Creating is like that…