Sub/Conscious Meanderings

At the close of a long day at work, my co-worker Brad turned to me and said, “You’ve been ffffound!”. To my disbelief, I saw the logo concept I had designed for the New York Public Library staring back at me from his computer screen.

Now for the explanation: As designers, we often look for inspiration as we do our work. At Hint, this has become an essential element of how we keep up with design trends. Christian (the boss) likes mantras and one of his is Good Design In, Good Design Out—referring to necessity of the “recharge” or inspiration to continue doing good design. ffffound.com is one site that we refer to fairly regularly and it’s both flattering and terrifying that my work has now made it on to the site.

This ought to provide me with the sufficient motivation to finish my website. So…

After a brief hiatus from all things school-related, I’m starting to wrap up my BFA. The newest development is that Marua got fat. Please don’t judge her. Fat women are beautiful, too.

I’m also working on the italic, too. So that should be posted pretty soon. (Hopefully).

After gasping for air for the last few days, running around trying to tie up lose ends on this project and that test, it was immensely refreshing to walk out of my last final, pause for a moment, and take a deep breath. I was the first to finish the final in my Business Management class. I took a refreshing look at the last final of the semester, picked up my things and walked toward the front of the classroom. After handing the instructor the test and the answer sheet, he walked me out and shuttled me to the nearest empty room and requested to see my portfolio. I was flattered by the unexpected attention, but also dying to get home and sleep after a 42-hour stint of sleep depravation. And yet here I am writing about the whole thing and still not sleeping—such a masochist. So, at that I’m off to bed.

The pace of my life has significantly decreased within the last week. I have two more finals to take and my BFA to finish, but most everything else has tapered to a close. I’ll hopefully be updating my website within the next couple weeks with more work. I might be undertaking an overhaul of my blog also, but we’ll see.

Graduation is in less than a week, and I’m excited to start another chapter of my life without school—finally being able to read my extensive list of books and focus solely on type design (apart from work, that is)

My fame as a type designer has begun. Okay, not really, but I was asked to participate in a very interesting project that highlights creatives in the Salt Lake area. Dallas Graham, the owner of Montage Creative has started a personal project that delves into the depths of individuals artistic endeavors—as deep as you can get in 45 minutes. Daily Documentary is a year-long project to interview and photograph a person a day. I was lucky enough to participate and thought I’d pass it one. Take a look.

I spent most of the weekend working over the uppercase and finessed a little on the lowercase. I’m excited about the progress but almost overwhelmed by the sheer amount of work I still have to complete in the next three weeks. So here goes the little engine that could. I think I can.

The last few days have been relatively productive for my BFA. I’m pretty pleased with the overall direction of Marua. It’s still in the first phase of design as I’ve just barely digitized the characters. I’ll still have several rounds of changes before i settle on a final design. But here’s a quick image of where things stand so far.

As an addendum to the last post, here is some more information about the exhibit itself. A couple designers put together a website with artist statements and more information. Water/Politics/ and Hope The site will be updated within the next week to include photography of the exhibit. I’m pretty impressed with the whole thing. Let me know what you think.

The first exhibition of the semester is now under way. I officially had my piece hung at 12:32 p.m. today. As part of a week long audit of my water usage, I produced a newspaper called ‘The Tributary’ outlining interesting facts about worldwide water consumption. After two sleepless nights and nearly 12 hours printing, I was finally able to get a copy good enough to hang. I’m planning on having several printed copies laying out during the exhibit so people can read the paper. Here are some quick shots of the piece. I’ll update my website to include more details (Although I’m not sure when that update will take place.) Enjoy.