unemployed and almost homeless

Did I mention that I graduated college?

Because I did on April 23rd and I'm happy to be done with school.

Now I've been applying for jobs like crazy. It's weird being done and having no serious obligation in life besides looking for a job. I'm out of my apartment at the end of the month and I have no job.....so food stamps?

I think I'll just go to the beach and figure my life out there.

Cheers.

IT IS FINISHED

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

:)

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.

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 :)

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

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.

 

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.

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 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.