This week has brought two new addi­tions to the house­hold. Mira and The Boy (yet to be named) are sugar glid­ers and hap­pen to be the cutest lit­tle ani­mals ever. Austin and I adopted them from a friend who couldn’t take care of them. Just thought I’d post a cou­ple pictures.

Seems a bru­tal title for a new post, but the inspi­ra­tion was drawn from a com­ment on the pre­vi­ous post. As the semes­ter has already started, my time gets spread pretty thin. I’m reg­is­tered for 17 cred­its (which, in the Graphic Design pro­gram, equates more closely to 20) in my last semes­ter. So far the load has live […]

It’s 3:11 a.m. and I just fin­ished post­ing the new site at www​.arlovance​.com. I’ve neglected most of the projects I should have been work­ing on to get it where it is now. With the loss of all my files, it might take a lit­tle while to get every­thing up and run­ning, but for now, this is a major step […]

Okay, so there really weren’t any deaths; almost a sui­cide though. Over the Thanksgiving hol­i­day, my iPod decided it was going to fail, and take all of my most impor­tant doc­u­ments with it. Casualties are still being dis­cov­ered, but so far all of my school doc­u­ments from this semes­ter, my fonts, my image col­lec­tions, my research […]

I found this great lit­tle clip by Hillman Curtis on Paula Scher. She talks about type as image and idea gen­er­a­tion. Definitely an inspi­ra­tion of mine.

Enough time has lapsed since I decided to take the job with Hint for me to know that it was a smart deci­sion. Since I’ve started it’s been unbe­liev­able what kind of accounts I have been work­ing on. American Eagle has prob­a­bly been the largest, with work on a new credit card launch com­ing this fall as well as […]

As part of my goal to take time and enjoy, I cre­ated this amaz­ingly life­like rep­re­sen­ta­tion of myself at the Simpson’s movie site.Enjoy.

After work­ing for less than a week, things at Hint are going swim­mingly well. We just got news of being pub­lished in the next Type Directors Club annual for the AIGA Design M/​​W Poster. Also we have been work­ing on a new project for American Eagle Outfitters, which has allowed for some engag­ing cre­ative expres­sion. I am hoping […]

As time goes by, change inevitably gets cho­sen or forced upon every­one. A recent series of events seems to be a com­bi­na­tion of the two. At the end of April, I received an email from a fac­ulty mem­ber at BYU sug­gest­ing that a design firm in Salt Lake needed a new designer or an intern. I responded to the email, think­ing it […]