Check out the new sticks! and check out RTB.

Tyler and I designed the deer and cow  stickers for windells! We have been cutting stickers day and night! …about 7000! Almost done!

So, I have been designing the poster and ads for the Love for the Ladies breast cancer benefit rail jam. Check it out and join in the fun! lovefortheladies.com

Zach assisted me with printing some Ride the Beav stickers (and some of my own) the other night. They turned out AWESOME!

So I have been sketching a lot lately. I finally finished up a sketch for Hidden. Took a long time. I added some color and created some ipod cases. check em out.

I finally updated/re-designed my website. It’s been up for about a week now, but for those of you who haven’t checked it out, have a look.

we did some vinyl art the other day. it was fun. we cut a bunch of random stuff that we drew in a bunch of random colors and then compiled it together.

Another low-key weekend here. Found out my family is going to Jamaica this spring break. I am pretty pumped. Other than that, I have been drawing a lot and have been trying to finish up the landsted signs. I have all the smaller signs done, now its the big ones i have to conquer. they are 3×4 feet! The hardest thing aobut making these signs was coming up with the material. I have decided to use plywood…(primed, painted and smooth). I did a vinyl test the other day and I think it will work great for the signs.

vinyl test

So, the vinyl cutter finally came today. Exciting. I got it all put together and it’s now up and  running on the PC desktop. I couldn’t hook it up my mac cause (1) I need a copy of CS2…(I have CS3, too new for the cutter) and (2) my powerbook has a long list of problems and is being sent to apple in a couple days. The last couple days I have been designing signs for Landsted, and working on a new portfolio site. It’s pretty simple. I just took the spreads from my book and put em on a web page - so check it out HERE. Lemme know what you think.

hmm. We found a cool screen printer in Duluth yesterday. I think we will be getting some shirts printed there. I am excited. We ordered some blanks yesterday. wooho! today has been boring so far…class and work. I found this cool website yesterday - check it out if you want to improve your design work. (watch the vid). haha. click [here] I am going to wok on some t shirt designs later today at the viz lab. and thats all i got for now. oh, and here is some take out I drew. I made some vinyl stickers of them and they work well. ha.

meh. boring weekend and now back to school. designed this funny poster for the VIZ I LAB the other day though.

I have been working on a poster for the ‘Collapse and Recovery’ project through AIGA. The posters were due yesterday…I finished just in time. Yesterday was an alright day. I am really having trouble coming up with my ’self identity’. It is so hard! Anyway… today I hope to print some cyanotypes on photo class. Gotta go now.

recieved a scholarship last semester to attend design camp and it was this weekend, in Nisswa, MN. It was a great time! We learned a lot and had fun. The keynote speaker on friday, Jason Munn, was very interesting to listen to. He grew up in WI and now lives in California. He designs posters for bands like the shins, the books, nouvelle vague, against me…etc. The cool thing about his posters is that they are all screen printed…up to editions of 500. I also went to book-binding workshop and learned how to bind a couple simple kinds of books. I ended up getting a free ‘food stamp’ on my card, which was cool…but I guess costs $80 a day to have. I only took advantage of it once and the food was not the greatest. We also had a good time hot tubing at the hotel. On saturday, we were at camp all day long, and wegot dinner at a place called Zorbaz, where every ’s’ was a ‘z’. They had pizzaz, enchaladaz, paztaz…etc. the ‘z’ thing gets real annoying. After dinner, we went back to camp with some ‘beverages’ and enjoyed the brass band,(who were awesome) and we mingled with fellow designers and design professionals. Oh, and I forgot to say,we got pounds and pounds of paper samples!

design camp!!!

nametag

paper samples

It was homecoming week at school and the VIZ l LAB decided to participate by having a ‘name our betta fish contest’. Phil and I collaborated and came up with a poster and a box. Phil set up the web cam on the fish’s tank so he could be played swimming on the big screen. This weekend has been pretty lazy. My roomies, (steve and meg) and myself went up to the dollar store to get some candy, then bought some movies and we have been veggin out all day. we watched knocked up and teenage mutant ninja turtles and made a heaping plate of nachos. good time.

betta!!!