Sub/Conscious Meanderings

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.

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 would have been halfway through the semester. I was taking Identity Design, Photography, C.S. Lewis, Doctrine and Covenants and preparing to leave on a trip to New York with the Graphic Design department. Looking back, it was a time of change; serious change.

After that semester, I withdrew from BYU-Idaho and moved to Salt Lake. I started working nights at Albertson’s, secured an internship at Skogen Group, and worked part time at EXPRESS. (It seems that my life was as busy then as it is now.)

Four years later, I’m in a similar situation of change. I’m preparing to finish my last semester at BYU, an occasion I have to admit I’m very excited about. The semester is half over. I have an exhibition next week, with my BFA exhibition coming up at the end of April.

Now the interesting thing will be to see if in the next four years I’m wrapping up my masters degree program. Who knows?