absolutely insane. and apparently it only took 2 weeks! there are more pics here.
...I definitely need to step up my sharpie drawing!
Friday, June 26, 2009
sharpie!
there's an article on AdAge about Sharpie's new campaign about "uncapping creativity" and it seems like it should be interesting. they're also coming out with more sharpie pens which makes me really excited since I LOVE those pens. Anyway, they have a pretty cool site up now where people can upload all the things they've designed with sharpies. I found this AMAZING photo of a lamborghini that a guy completely covered in sharpie drawings:
absolutely insane. and apparently it only took 2 weeks! there are more pics here.
...I definitely need to step up my sharpie drawing!
absolutely insane. and apparently it only took 2 weeks! there are more pics here.
...I definitely need to step up my sharpie drawing!
Monday, June 22, 2009
fun ads and photoshop tutorials
working at merkley + partners is absolutely amazing. There's so much to do and it feels great to be producing tons of work :-) Today Pat and I spent a while researching various ads and executions styles for a project we're working on and I came across a bunch of cool work. I love the simplicity and style of these eini & co. cupcake ads:
speaking of cupcakes, my ads for connie's bakery are going to run next month! very exciting :-)
In our research we found a bunch of cool tutorials as well and I spent tonight working on creating an apple in photoshop from scratch:
This particular tutorial came from psdtuts.com and I think it turned out pretty well...It definitely makes me want to try more tutorials and learn more of the complicated photoshop techniques.
Alright bedtime for me, more cool stuff i've been finding in the next post!
speaking of cupcakes, my ads for connie's bakery are going to run next month! very exciting :-)
In our research we found a bunch of cool tutorials as well and I spent tonight working on creating an apple in photoshop from scratch:
This particular tutorial came from psdtuts.com and I think it turned out pretty well...It definitely makes me want to try more tutorials and learn more of the complicated photoshop techniques.
Alright bedtime for me, more cool stuff i've been finding in the next post!
Friday, June 5, 2009
wow
life has been a little surreal lately. as of last weekend I am officially a college graduate, which is liberating and terrifying at the same time. the past week has been crazy with moving back to NY, doctors appts, having to testify in court (finally justice for my stolen wallet!) and lots of job interviews and phone conversations with some amazing headhunters...and everything's falling into place! I was offered an internship at Merkley + Partners starting this monday (very last minute!) and I'm SO excited to start. I love so much of their work and I feel that quite a bit of it has a similar style to my own so it should be a great experience. Pat Don might come with me, which would be awesome, but he wouldn't start until a week later. If he does he'll end up living with me at my parent's house which should be quite the experience :-) Anyway, i'm super excited for monday... it'll be great have some work to do so I won't sit in front of the tv all day...and maybe I'll have more to write about!
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
some cool sites
Generally I find ART315 to be irrelevant and painful considering it means 3 hours of sitting on a hard wooden chair with a tiny built-in desk (and being a lefty it's always impossible to write at that angle!) listening to a long and drawn-out lecture about some incomprehensible topic. So it was definitely a bit of a relief to go to class the other day and actually talk about some interesting stuff.
We were learning about new media and he showed us this cool artist Julien Vallee who works with a lot of paper collage to create ads... it reminded me a lot of Leo Monahan, a friend of my mom who makes intense 3D collages out of layers of paper. Talk about good craft. We also looked at some of the work Joshua Davis has done. I think its pretty cool that he can create computer programs to make some awesome illustrations, and then wades through thousands of computer generated images to find the right one. I definitely wish that UD had offered more classes on flash and other programs, rather than just having little workshops here and there, of course they're just STARTING to now that I'm graduating...c'est la vie.
We were learning about new media and he showed us this cool artist Julien Vallee who works with a lot of paper collage to create ads... it reminded me a lot of Leo Monahan, a friend of my mom who makes intense 3D collages out of layers of paper. Talk about good craft. We also looked at some of the work Joshua Davis has done. I think its pretty cool that he can create computer programs to make some awesome illustrations, and then wades through thousands of computer generated images to find the right one. I definitely wish that UD had offered more classes on flash and other programs, rather than just having little workshops here and there, of course they're just STARTING to now that I'm graduating...c'est la vie.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
its a SNOUTBREAK!
The past few weeks have been absolutely out of control.
NYC Portfolio reviews are tomorrow so the studio has been a whirlwind of activity, everyone rushing to cut business cards, make promotional pieces, print and bind their books... somehow I finished my book last night around 12, despite the fact that the paper I ordered didn't come on time (even though they GUARANTEED I would have it in time), luckily Hillary had some extra paper laying around. So an hour of printing, and hour of cutting, and almost 2 hours of binding and making a cover I FINALLY have my book and can breathe for the first time in weeks! Now I just need my postcards to be printed, but the GCC seems to have lost my file. great.
I just can't WAIT to be back in NYC tomorrow, I have nothing planned for the afternoon so it's going to be wonderful to just sit down somewhere and work on my sketches for House Industries all day and just relax. Maybe it'll be a nice day and I can sit outside =) The review should be fun as well, seeing all the VCers who graduated already...Amy said she might be there too which would be awesome so she could see all the work I've been slaving away at!
In non-art related news, there is now a swine flu outbreak, or snoutbreak as it's hilariously being called, and the gym is closed down to become a flu clinic. You'd think it was the apocolypse: last night UD sent me a text message, phone call, 3 emails and a phone call to my parents to warn me about the 4 students who have it, and tell me that I should be washing my hands and not coughing in other peoples faces...really? Glad I learned that back in kindergarten...
Anyway, time to make some last minute adjustments to my website before tomorrow and hopefully pick up my leave-behind postcards!
NYC Portfolio reviews are tomorrow so the studio has been a whirlwind of activity, everyone rushing to cut business cards, make promotional pieces, print and bind their books... somehow I finished my book last night around 12, despite the fact that the paper I ordered didn't come on time (even though they GUARANTEED I would have it in time), luckily Hillary had some extra paper laying around. So an hour of printing, and hour of cutting, and almost 2 hours of binding and making a cover I FINALLY have my book and can breathe for the first time in weeks! Now I just need my postcards to be printed, but the GCC seems to have lost my file. great.
I just can't WAIT to be back in NYC tomorrow, I have nothing planned for the afternoon so it's going to be wonderful to just sit down somewhere and work on my sketches for House Industries all day and just relax. Maybe it'll be a nice day and I can sit outside =) The review should be fun as well, seeing all the VCers who graduated already...Amy said she might be there too which would be awesome so she could see all the work I've been slaving away at!
In non-art related news, there is now a swine flu outbreak, or snoutbreak as it's hilariously being called, and the gym is closed down to become a flu clinic. You'd think it was the apocolypse: last night UD sent me a text message, phone call, 3 emails and a phone call to my parents to warn me about the 4 students who have it, and tell me that I should be washing my hands and not coughing in other peoples faces...really? Glad I learned that back in kindergarten...
Anyway, time to make some last minute adjustments to my website before tomorrow and hopefully pick up my leave-behind postcards!
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
ugh
so my goal for this semester was to keep up this blog and so far its been an ultimate FAIL. I could blame it on the fact that I currently spend between 9 and 12 hours a day in studio at this point, or the fact that recruitment took over my life for the first few weeks, but really, I sit at a computer more than half of every day so I don't have any excuses.
However I HAVE started using twitter. Stacey posted this gross but cool video and I was happy to find that it's Phil Hansen whose work I've been following for a while. His website is here and it has a lot of cool, weird stuff. I particularly like the idea behind his goodbye art where he creates work that he destroys so that the only thing left is photographic documentation. He works on a huge scale a lot too...it kinda makes me want to go make a giant painting.
In other news, its absolutely gorgeous outside and finally starting to get warm which makes me very excited. I can't wait until it's warm enough to go take a nap on the green =) Spring break is in less than 2 weeks which is mildly terrifying since the semester seems to be flying by and that means I'm way closer to graduation and attempting to find a job! eek. Anyway, its back to work for me, I promise I'm going to try harder to update this thing on a regular basis...
However I HAVE started using twitter. Stacey posted this gross but cool video and I was happy to find that it's Phil Hansen whose work I've been following for a while. His website is here and it has a lot of cool, weird stuff. I particularly like the idea behind his goodbye art where he creates work that he destroys so that the only thing left is photographic documentation. He works on a huge scale a lot too...it kinda makes me want to go make a giant painting.
In other news, its absolutely gorgeous outside and finally starting to get warm which makes me very excited. I can't wait until it's warm enough to go take a nap on the green =) Spring break is in less than 2 weeks which is mildly terrifying since the semester seems to be flying by and that means I'm way closer to graduation and attempting to find a job! eek. Anyway, its back to work for me, I promise I'm going to try harder to update this thing on a regular basis...
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