carry out

Rejection:

 

twiggy-esque

What’s this?

More cats in publications? Is this a theme? You bet.

My spring preview design wasn’t picked for print but for online instead! I’ll probably be writing about the creation process more this week for class, so let me just give you a bigger preview …

Explore it online!

The final presentation was a collaboration between myself, the online editor and a web editor who put all the working pieces together to make it functional. What a trip.

cats.

This post doesn’t need a longer title. I’m back at work and can now show you my final infographics project from last semester (I posted some in-progress images of the cats last month) that ran in the Missourian last week – it’s a full page! The subject matter shouldn’t come as a surprise, if you know me.

Here’s another graphic from the Thanksgiving season (two smaller graphics combined into a full page), as well as another holiday-themed one that I never got to finish:

peter gabriel

Video still of my hands, which I will now attempt to draw in Illustrator for a t-shirt design so that next year, a few hundred (I wish – really only tens) of students will walk around with my fingers on them. Thanks to Daniel Posey for the image capture.

UPDATE:

Something like this.

midnight oil

When I get home I am adding “digital cat portrait artist” to my resume.

You might think I am joking.

Summer’s over. School has started. I am unhappy.

Today we practiced making shapes in Illustrator.

faces in her dreams

So we’re learning the basics of illustration-making in Magazine Design.

I have a confession. I found this on Google images (search ‘cookie monster’) and live traced it.

But I’m seriously considering just handing this in.

leave it all down there

So in progress you don’t even know! (That’s the text I left over top of this last time I saved it to the server.)

Department page assignment for magazine design. Just took a break to pause and assess my progress. Look at these colors. I just can’t get away from blue + pink + green. My room used to be that color combo, till I kicked that to the curb by buying a new bedspread last year. Things have worked out much better since.

Current focus: the right page of this and the configuration of it. I really like the fox box (remember that?) in the bottom right corner, but it doesn’t seem anywhere near fantastic to have two helvetica neue headlines next to eachother. To switch the placement or switch the box? Only the next few hours I put into this will tell.

Input appreciated, plz, questions, thanks, hugs, baked goods. I need to trim my bangs again.