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.

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

 

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

 

 The alumni team

 

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.

Best Week Ever

I know it's going to be the best week ever. I am currently listening to MGMT and sitting in the design lab making awesomely awkward photo montages of the cross-country team with lions.

Why? BECAUSE THE LIONHEART RELAY STARTS WEDNESDAY!!!!

We are driving up to Savannah on Wednesday after school gets out for Spring Blink, and then the running commences Thursday morning at 4 a.m.

I am totally stoked because the cross-country team is made up of a bunch of cool kids. I am not biased because I am one of them....okay...I am...but deal with it. Coach Dave bought some reflective vests for us to wear in the dead of night so we won't get hit by cars (yay!) and Alex bought the new Pokemon black which he wants finished by the end of the relay. (No we are not too old for Pokemon...stop judging)


Here are some of the awkward photos that I have made


triplets

 

Alyssa the Destroyer

 

NO LION SNUGGLING for Richard, Justin, and Derek

 

Group Hug

 

Bath time

 

Becca wants a massage too!

 

Zak's pursuit of seducing the entire girls' team

 

practice run

 

Dave uses lions as benches

And my mom is in town. Today we ate a lot of food and then went to the beach for 3 hours. It was glorious. We ran into some old cross-country boys that said awkward things to my mom and then we ate some more and ran into more friends. My mom also told other friends the one time she saw a fetish convention and then did the Bernie dance in front of the popsicle shop. 

My life is great. and awkward.

and after the lionheart relay is over WE WILL CELEBRATE and after the celebration I AM GOING CAMPING with the graphic design kids.

see... this will be the best. week. ever.  

I did it

I passed the portfolio review!!!!!!!! Which means that I get to go on to the much harder portfolio review/competition against 15+ other schools...YAY.

There are 21 of us seniors that went to the review and only 10 of us passed. I am happy to represent Flagler in a competition but I am sad for my good friends that don't get to go.

On another note, my portfolio case is done and in the mail! It looks absolutely gorgeous and it is exactly what I wanted. I ordered it from Klo Portfolios in Canada and they do amazing work.

Here is my portfolio cover!!! (The blue is just a paper filler)

My case is a white acrylic screwpost with a cut-out of my logo and a beveled edge

Here is their website and here is their flickr page 

My mom is coming to town today to visit during her spring break!!! I am so excited, so I am off to do more design until she gets here :)

D-Day part 1

AT 8:41 AM ON FRIDAY I finished my 43 page presentation.

Sheesh, I should have been a communications major if I wanted 'leisure time' or 'sleep'.

I heard people laughing on campus yesterday when I was working, and I wanted to slap something. STOP HAVING FUN WHEN I'M CRAPPIN MY PANTS WITH STRESS.

I didn't really crap my pants....but you get the idea of my stress level.

I was reading about sleep deprivation the other day and I realized that I live in that state more often than I would like.

Oh, and I ran out of Chik-fil-a coupons yesterday which was depressing, so I need to stop at my local Hilton Hotel and snag more. I need them more than the tourists do.

And I wore a hoodie out in public to turn in my presentation (really) ( I never do...ask my dad)

here's proof

Coffee is the new water

16 hours until I have to turn in my files for the 9 week review...and then I have to wait 4 more hours to present my projects.

I am probably getting heart palpitations from the amount of caffeine I consume. Oh well.

Here are some designs I am trying to finalize in my remaining hours


These are the posters I made for the Project Mayhem fashion show inspired by Fight Club

 

Here is a patch that guests of the fashion show will receive

Poster for the Let's Move campaign

 

The Lionheart Relay flyers (The relay is in one week!!!)

 

 

Here is informational pull-out tap on my Thermeleon paints. The pull-out will describe the lightest and darkest shade the specific swatch will change to, and let's the consumer know how much they should expect to save on energy costs with the paint.

 

I also decided to make little swatch cards for the consumer to pick up at Home Depot

 

That is only a sample of what will be in my presentation tomorrow, so I hope it goes well and that I don't get annihilated by the judges.

I was up to 5 am working last night and here are some pics of the night

 

eating rice at 4 am

 

This video is hysterical.

and this