blah blah logos blah

Logo design is not my favorite thing in life. I like typographic logos and enjoy making them, but when a logo involves an image I struggle because I am not the best at drawing. 

I am currently working on a logo for The Lionheart Relay, a 200 mile run between Flagler College and Armstrong Atlantic University, the closest competing team in our Peach Belt Conference. The Flagler College cross-country team is going to cover the distance with 14 runners in a span of 30 hours on March 16th and 17th. Seven pairs of runners will complete 3 miles at a time on a rotating basis while the other runners rest in 2 accompanying vans. I am on the cross-country team at Flagler and I am super pumped to do this relay, so why am I struggling to complete the dang logo?!?

The team is using the relay run as the major fundraiser for the year. I am making flyer, posters, tshirts, and donation sheets but before we can start advertising I have to make this logo. 50% of donations will benefit the cross-country program and the other 50% will go toward the Peach Belt Conference charity of choice, The Make-A-Wish Foundation. 

I just need to hibernate until I finish the project....and I need to start training, but that's a different story.

Here's the current rendition of my logo

Here is a draft of the tshirt

Until next time

"All good things are wild and free."- Thoreau

 

Jeniffer?

thanks Starbucks for taking a new approach to a common name

My Graphic Life

This is my design blog and I haven't even put any art up. fail.

In lieu of missing my portfolio class' progress check because I am sitting in a Starbucks 3 hours away..I am posting some past projects and things that I am currently working on.

Here is a poster for the play, All's Well That Ends Well, that I designed/painted for my Graphic Design 1 class sophomore year

This is a chalk drawing I did for a campus competition. (won first place in the individual category woohoooo)

The next two are illustrations I did my junior year. The first one is my final project where I depicted a ghostly image of myself coming out of a cup of coffee, and I did this because I had so much caffeine during finals week I started to have weird nightmares. The second image is a poster design for the Harvest of Hope music festival the benefits farm workers that are underpaid.

And last but not least, here is a magazine spread for an urban art magazine that I designed my Junior year. You can view the rest of the magazine and a sustainable magazine I designed here at http://issuu.com/jgrine

Have a happy Friday :)

Awesomeness

This is why I love Florida

Hey Egypt

Pam Blam and awkward yoga

My legs hurt. Not the normal pain after a running a few miles after a 2 week break. This is the type of pain that makes me hobble walk around. My range of motion has severely lessened and I walk like I am looking for the nearest restroom. In the past I have only experienced this type of pain after running a half-marathon, but this new level of pain comes a different source. P90X.

And what is P90X? It's a work out video with a strange guy named Tony working out in a staged locker room with a guy that has a prosthetic leg, a woman nicknamed 'Blam', and a guy that has too much energy. I joined some of the other cross-country runners at Flagler in our student center for what I thought would be an enjoyable workout. But no, we squatted and jumped for an entire hour. I was even in pain after the warm-up which consisted of 6 minutes of lunges. Whatever, bikini season is coming up now that the dang groundhog didn't see his shadow and I need to get ready.

Here is Tony and the gang

Here is the last time I was in the same pain after the Space Coast Half Marathon in November.

Even though my legs ache, I still went to my yoga class this morning. I am not taking yoga because I believe that I am connecting to the earth by standing barefoot on carpet, or if when my arms are below shoulder height when holding them straight out it means that I regret my past. It's a 1 credit class that I need to graduate...that's why I wake up at 8:30 am to take it...not because I want to. Well something about yoga is awkward to me, and it's called a root chakra. When my teacher announces that the main chakra that connects us to the earth and yada yada is a red chakra located between the anus and the genitals...I start to cringe. That's definitely not what I want to hear at 9 am. That's definitely not what I want to hear ever. I just don't want to hear the term 'anus' and 'genitals' ever while at school. And why does it have to be red? The root anus/genitals chakra could at least be blue. Seriously though.

Awkward.

On a completely different note, I went home today because my sister is back in America for a few weeks woooo!!! She has a cool blog that you should check out http://jessicamelanie.blogspot.com/

Jessica brought me back some cool and funny gifts from China that I'll show later on when I get around to taking pics. 

Until next time.

"All good things are wild and free." -Thoreau

The Bernie Dance

The Bernie Dance is one of my new favorite obsessions in life. If you have ever watched the movie 'Weekend at Bernie's' someone made a dance for it and it has become a dance floor sensation.

here is the original dance video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRBLmogRL4c

and here is my lovely parent's version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbDX5hpFCRw

Next time you are out dancing I suggest you try the Bernie out.