Sub/Conscious Meanderings

This beau­ti­ful home has been added to the wish list. All you rich peo­ple who have money to throw around, please send some my way.

Unfor­tu­nately this is not a report of some debil­i­tat­ing dis­ease from a lab test gone bad that spreads through the pop­u­la­tion like wild­fire, turn­ing peo­ple into zom­bies. This is just me tak­ing account of my inabil­ity to write a blog post. Kinda pathetic really. But it’s a turn­ing point, even though it’s taken me a few days shy of a month to post the results of the begin­ning of my 29th year.

I’ve decided that New Year’s day is no longer Jan­u­ary 1st, it’s Sep­tem­ber 29th. Tech­ni­cally (at 8:01 p.m. MST), that day is when a new year of my life begins. The num­ber 29, for some rea­son or other has taken on a level of impor­tance that other advents have not. Per­haps it is because I turned 29 on the 29th dur­ing 2(00)9. Regard­less of the rea­son, I’ve selected 29 goals that I’m call­ing my Prime Objec­tives. (Cheesy and lame, I know. Make sure to com­ment about that. Lol)

In the end, I plan on improv­ing the qual­ity of my life over the next year, and the Prime Objec­tives are the means.

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.

In the most recent issue of The Atlantic, there’s an inter­est­ing arti­cle about typog­ra­phy. I never thought that the topic of typog­ra­phy would be so widely dis­cussed among non-designers, but with the preva­lence of the do-it-yourself men­tal­ity that has soft­ware devel­op­ers and Martha Stew­art rak­ing in the dough, it’s prob­a­bly about time.

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.