Welcome blog peekers :)

I helped with a presentation for the sophomores and junior designers interested in following our footsteps to Germany for the spring. It was SCARY and all my stories and details and facts only boil down to it was the best five months of my life and that's all anyone really needs to know anyway..

design finds:

http://www.orbasquara.com/

Here is a really wonderful band site i found. It makes me want to get together all my travel pics and type skills and doodles and deep thoughts and make them into a snazy flash website. I love the integration of the handwritten type with photography, pen illustrations and computer type and graphics. It's a lot of ideas, but somehow came together in the end. It's a little lengthy, but lots of experimenting and it makes desert roads and deep country look quite sexy–or at least that's how Jeremy would describe it.

Still job huntin

There are zero jobs in Lawrence. How am I supposed to pay for my weekends..

school is my life again

We had another one of my favorite paintings in class today.

Death of Marat, 1793 Jaques-Louis David

David didn't give Charlotte Corday the time of day, and painted a man in a tub. Wonderful. Design wise its uses so much negative space—believed to be inspired by David seeing the body presented in the large open cathedral—and the reference to the Pieta in the pose, and a crown of thorns-esque towel that would have been soaked in vinegar due to Marat's skin condition. It was also not anything like the allegory and history paintings that, at the time, were the main styles being used to capture important modern events. Good job David for being entirely too creative.

Also, for Graphics I settled on rebranding Composting. This will be exciting. And hopefully get me to compost, along with millions of others like the Got Milk? campaign!