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.

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.

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?