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 […]

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 phở­tog­ra­phy of the exhibit. I’m pretty impressed with the whole thing. Let me know […]

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 […]

I thought it would be inter­est­ing to do a ret­ro­spec­tive of the last Leap Day. Although I don’t have the most accu­rate records of what I did on that day, I do have sketch­books to put me in the gen­eral direc­tions. So this post will have heavy design con­tent. Four years ago I was liv­ing in Idaho, going to BYU-​​​​Idaho. It […]

Okay, i hate to brag, but I was a cute kid. (Well, maybe I don’t hate to brag, or per­haps it’s just that I’m hold­ing a cuter lit­tle sis­ter.) When I opened the mail­box today, I saw a CD mailer box and thought to myself “Oh, Austin’s par­ents must have sent another CD of pic­tures.” Then I looked at the return address and noticed […]

As another piece of my BFA I’m brand­ing a type foundry that I’m plan­ning on oper­at­ing under in the next cou­ple years. I’ve got the logo com­pleted and a land­ing page for the web­site. I prob­a­bly will have to farm out the pro­gram­ming on the site itself because I don’t have the time to do it myself. Typecaste

This has been the first week­end I’ve been able to get some decent work done on my BFA project. I have the low­er­case drawn and pretty close to the final draw­ing. The phở­tos show only a few char­ac­ters that have the most char­ac­ter. My goal is to have the reg­u­lar weight com­plete (mean­ing pro­grammed for actual use) […]

Okay, so first of all I can’t believe I’m actu­ally post­ing this, but I found the site hilar­i­ous (as only a type nerd can). So, if you don’t really get it I under­stand, cause not every­body can love type as much as me.

Here’s another Paula Scher moment with Monocle Magazine about the rebrand­ing of America. It was inter­est­ing to hear one of the pre­mier graphic design­ers in America talk about inter­na­tional per­cep­tion prob­lems as a brand­ing issue and not always a polit­i­cal one. Take a peek if you’re interested.

Yesterday began a major over­haul of my port­fo­lio. Michelle Stuhl, a top head-​​​​hunter from New York will be vis­it­ing with the seniors in the graphic design pro­gram next Friday. Every year she makes a con­tri­bu­tion to the schol­ar­ship pro­gram and has placed sev­eral BYU grad­u­ates in high pro­file design posi­tions. I’m excited to have her as a con­tact. We’ll […]