oh. my. gosh.
after all the crying, coffee chugging, x-acto knife cuts, sleepness nights, and listening to Cher.....
I have finished my portfolio
here it is
http://issuu.com/jgrine/docs/portfolio
enjoy
:)
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Oh Snap!
I think it's about time for my semester-ly mental breakdown.
8 days to design my portfolio....and I still have a lot to do.
*just breathe*
but I did design my graduation announcements. In the stress of designing I need to remind myself that in the end it will be a celebration of my crazy 4 year journey.
8 days to design my portfolio....and I still have a lot to do.
*just breathe*
but I did design my graduation announcements. In the stress of designing I need to remind myself that in the end it will be a celebration of my crazy 4 year journey.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Honeybadgers
I finished my portfolio projects!!!
Kind of
I still have to make mock-ups and re-photograph everything but at least the design are done. Now I just have to design the entire book, write narratives, and have it printed for the AIGA review by the 16th. no problem.
(insert sarcasm)
I'm kind of panicking. Let alone I have to make a 50 self-promotional pieces to hand out to the judges at the review and for when I interview for jobs later in life. I am going to make a flip book of patterns that I have made from my logo which will be super cool if I pull it off correctly.
Flagler is also hosting an AIGA event on the fine lines of what is considered inspiration and what is considered copying. It will be super fun and is on April 9th, and as the senior class we are being the greeters (hoping to get on some of the AIGA judges good side before the review). You can check out the event here http://www.aigajacksonville.org/
Also on our never ending list of portfolio things to do, we each have to make 5-10 posters for our portfolio show on the 21st.... here is a snippet of what I've done.
now I just need to get more coffee :)
Kind of
I still have to make mock-ups and re-photograph everything but at least the design are done. Now I just have to design the entire book, write narratives, and have it printed for the AIGA review by the 16th. no problem.
(insert sarcasm)
I'm kind of panicking. Let alone I have to make a 50 self-promotional pieces to hand out to the judges at the review and for when I interview for jobs later in life. I am going to make a flip book of patterns that I have made from my logo which will be super cool if I pull it off correctly.
Flagler is also hosting an AIGA event on the fine lines of what is considered inspiration and what is considered copying. It will be super fun and is on April 9th, and as the senior class we are being the greeters (hoping to get on some of the AIGA judges good side before the review). You can check out the event here http://www.aigajacksonville.org/
Also on our never ending list of portfolio things to do, we each have to make 5-10 posters for our portfolio show on the 21st.... here is a snippet of what I've done.
now I just need to get more coffee :)
Monday, March 28, 2011
Visual Disease
The website for my collaborative guerrilla art project is up and running! You can visit it here at www.visualdisease.com and get involved.
Again, you can download your design arsenal at our flickr page which is linked on our website, and feel free to start posting around your town on bad designs. Please photograph them and email the pics to us at GrineyBobo@gmail.com and we will include them on our Flickr page.
join us on our new war against bad design
Again, you can download your design arsenal at our flickr page which is linked on our website, and feel free to start posting around your town on bad designs. Please photograph them and email the pics to us at GrineyBobo@gmail.com and we will include them on our Flickr page.
join us on our new war against bad design
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Eliminating visual disease with portfolio
Portfolio is anti-climactic. Just like every other semester of college, but when I say that the end is near....I mean it.
The end of college. The end of graphic design homework. The end of sitting in the design lab for 15 hrs.
I'm excited. I want to get in the big people world and join the other graphic designers of the world. Right now I have started to design my portfolio book while finishing up the last bit of tweaking on my 12 projects. I am super pumped for my portfolio book because I want it to be an experience...something that a viewer will want to flip through and read time after time because they enjoyed it. My portfolio will not be only about the projects filling it, but an interactive experience that will display who I am as a person and a designer.
I want it to be humorous and bold. I want it to be fun and daring.
Here is a draft of my opening pages. I want it to almost be like a conversation filled with patterns and pictures and laughter.
The end of college. The end of graphic design homework. The end of sitting in the design lab for 15 hrs.
I'm excited. I want to get in the big people world and join the other graphic designers of the world. Right now I have started to design my portfolio book while finishing up the last bit of tweaking on my 12 projects. I am super pumped for my portfolio book because I want it to be an experience...something that a viewer will want to flip through and read time after time because they enjoyed it. My portfolio will not be only about the projects filling it, but an interactive experience that will display who I am as a person and a designer.
I want it to be humorous and bold. I want it to be fun and daring.
Here is a draft of my opening pages. I want it to almost be like a conversation filled with patterns and pictures and laughter.
Again, this is only a first draft so this will change a lot by the time I show it to the judges at the AIGA review on April 16th.
Oh, and for my final portfolio project I am doing a collaborative guerrilla art style project with my friend Corey. It is called 'visual disease: the war on bad art'. I am currently making a website for it so take a look and get involved. We are waging 'war' on bad designs by eliminating the visual disease of ugly advertisements and other designs that clutter our visual world. We want to inspire people to print or buy stickers that we create that are typographic weapons to stick on top of the 'bad design'. We would love if this grew and other people would take initiative in their own cities to participate.
The website isn't done yet but you can still check it out here http://visualdisease.com/
or visit our flickr site http://www.flickr.com/photos/visualdisease/
I am super pumped for that project and for portfolio class to come to an end.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Critical Mass of fun
Today was one of those days that I just sit back and happily reminisce on.
I woke up and went to Chik-fil-a with friends, dyed my hair, and then went to a photo shoot.
Another graphic design senior needed as many people on bikes to shoot pics for her Critical Mass ad campaign. A critical mass is cycling event that has a group of people going through the streets halting normal city traffic. According to wikipedia "the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition credits Critical Mass with spotlighting bicycle issues and aiding their efforts in advocating for cyclists."
Ten of us met up and had to cycle s l o w l y in a pack circling in front of the St. Augustine parking garage for the photo shoot. It was funny because we were going so slow that our bikes kept jerking back and forth in attempt to stay upright.
I wish it was filmed.
Afterward, Colin, Brandon, Ashley and I went on a 10 mile ride around town because it was so beautiful. We went out to the beach, saw the lighthouse, the fort and ran into other design students on skateboards.
The day was too beautiful to pass up.
Here we are at the beach being extraordinarily awkward
I woke up and went to Chik-fil-a with friends, dyed my hair, and then went to a photo shoot.
Another graphic design senior needed as many people on bikes to shoot pics for her Critical Mass ad campaign. A critical mass is cycling event that has a group of people going through the streets halting normal city traffic. According to wikipedia "the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition credits Critical Mass with spotlighting bicycle issues and aiding their efforts in advocating for cyclists."
Ten of us met up and had to cycle s l o w l y in a pack circling in front of the St. Augustine parking garage for the photo shoot. It was funny because we were going so slow that our bikes kept jerking back and forth in attempt to stay upright.
I wish it was filmed.
Afterward, Colin, Brandon, Ashley and I went on a 10 mile ride around town because it was so beautiful. We went out to the beach, saw the lighthouse, the fort and ran into other design students on skateboards.
The day was too beautiful to pass up.
Here we are at the beach being extraordinarily awkward
I played trivia afterward and my team placed 2nd! I love playing games and winning money for free food at school....time well spent.
And now I am in the lib completely re-doing my childhood obesity ad campaign. The judges at the past portfolio review hated what I had done so now I am going simple. I am using sprinkles and the tag line "Don't sugar coat the facts" with a factoid about childhood obesity to create the campaign.
This is a two page magazine spread that when folded in a magazine, the sprinkles look like they are in the gutter of the page. (It looks cool, I promise)
And some single page magazine ads
Now to create an ad for grocery carts and a home mailer.
Long night ahead.... but I am fine with it considering my awesome day.
Monday, March 21, 2011
The Lionheart Relay
We did it. 187 miles from Savannah, GA to St. Augustine, FL in a span of 2 days and 23 hrs of running. It was exhausting, sweaty, and incredibly fun.
Eighteen people in two vans with a golden retriever made the journey. We began at midnight on Wednesday with a breakfast at Denny's (big mistake) and then met at our school's gym at 2 a.m. to drive to Savannah and start running at 5 a.m. Two runners ran 3-4 miles at a time and continued the transitions until we covered 113 miles finishing at Kingsland, GA. We stayed at a ghetto inn that had white-turned-brown towels in the shapes of animals, and the rooms smelled like cigarettes. Five people stayed in my room as we played with glow sticks and listened to Usher. The next day kicked off at 7:30 a.m and we ran until 5:45 where we finished as a group in front of the Bridge of Lions.
Along the way we stumbled upon the Liberty Trail, the Smallest Church in America, a Redneck Yacht Club, bugs, broken down trains, we wore wigs, ran with balloons, and had countless stops along waterways. It was one of the best group trips I have ever been on.
Here are some of the highlights.
2 a.m. in St. Augustine
The alumni team
Eighteen people in two vans with a golden retriever made the journey. We began at midnight on Wednesday with a breakfast at Denny's (big mistake) and then met at our school's gym at 2 a.m. to drive to Savannah and start running at 5 a.m. Two runners ran 3-4 miles at a time and continued the transitions until we covered 113 miles finishing at Kingsland, GA. We stayed at a ghetto inn that had white-turned-brown towels in the shapes of animals, and the rooms smelled like cigarettes. Five people stayed in my room as we played with glow sticks and listened to Usher. The next day kicked off at 7:30 a.m and we ran until 5:45 where we finished as a group in front of the Bridge of Lions.
Along the way we stumbled upon the Liberty Trail, the Smallest Church in America, a Redneck Yacht Club, bugs, broken down trains, we wore wigs, ran with balloons, and had countless stops along waterways. It was one of the best group trips I have ever been on.
Here are some of the highlights.
2 a.m. in St. Augustine
5 a.m. in Savannah at Armstrong Atlantic University
Smallest Church and a sheriff
We had a sermon in the church (all of us fit inside)
Blambert and Bonus at the handoff
At our 23 dollar a night Economy Inn
Florida/Georgia border
An awesome broken down train
Finish line in St. Augustine
We raised over 3,000 dollars during this relay fundraiser and half of it is going to the Make-a-Wish Foundation. When Alex and I thought of this relay 3 months ago after watching the Hood to Coast Documentary, we never thought that it would come to fruition. It was one of the best group experiences I have participated in.
I love the cross-country team.
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