Sub/Conscious Meanderings

After six years of school, I finally par­tic­i­pated in the pomp and cer­e­mony of grad­u­a­tion. My Mom and Dad flew in so it had to be a spe­cial occa­sion. Thurs­day night, after commencement—which I did not attend—the graphic design depart­ment hosted a lit­tle party for all the seniors, most of whom won’t actu­ally grad­u­ate for another 6 to 10 months. As part of the pre-dinner events, a slide show was pre­pared. It was sched­uled for the begin­ning of the night, but was finally shown at the end. At the request of my par­ents, here are a cou­ple of the pho­tographs that were included.

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.

Now that school is wrap­ping up, I decided to redesign the blog. I’m now using Word­Press, which I like much bet­ter already. I imag­ine that things will con­tinue to be updated and changed just to finesse what’s here, but I’m pretty happy with how things are arranged. Please let me know your thoughts on the changes.

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.

Here’s a dif­fer­ent kind of project I’ve been work­ing on for my motion design class. I’m pretty happy with the results and my final project, a 30 sec­ond ad for Pink Pearl Erasers will have a sim­i­lar style. Enjoy. (The video will appear to be miss­ing, but if you click on it, it should load.)

Well it looks like the Water, Pol­i­tics and Hope show got some pretty big atten­tion. Linda Sul­li­van, the Graphic Design Depart­ment Chair, wants to have the show travel to sev­eral gal­leries in Salt Lake. It is going to be fea­tured in an upcom­ing issue of BYU Mag­a­zine as well. One of the most excit­ing parts is that my piece might be printed for dis­tri­b­u­tion and/or sale. We already have one gallery that is pretty inter­ested. Another might be in the works.