tongue in cheek

just might be the best way to acknowledge being a graphic designer in today's economy. (something from because studio.)

let it snow, let it snow.

because it's important every once in a while to make something just for yourself, solely for fun. i wanted indoor snowflakes to compensate for the real stuff i'm missing in michigan. (i made them with old mica letterhead.)

can you tell that my dream side job would be making window displays for anthropologie?

a night of fun and games

another one of those "only at mica" gems of an activity. end scene.

(thought i'd note my inspiration for the circle stickers. the taco bell hot sauce packets. give me no credit for the rhymes, though. that's all google.)

almost done...

aids awareness week 2008 comes to a close tonight with "safely scandalous." should be a fun conclusion to a week of festivities that were much more intensive that i could have imagined...

cap journal

after that last post, i thought i'd share some pages from my cap journal. (my community arts partnership internship this semester is at eutaw marshburn elementary.) you'll probably have to zoom in to actually read it, but there have been some interesting eye openers along the way.

robots!

we made robots today in ms. winfield's fourth grade class. what else would you do with an insanely large supply of metallic paper and tape in the cap storeroom? it was pretty fun.

"only children really see. and so wise adults spend the rest of their lives, from the onset of the blindness, until they die, trying ot see again. and the unwise accept the darkness as light."
-from t.p. luce's "propers" in "tha bloc."

on (enter word here)

i'm feeling good about this one. i finally settled on an idea for my book arts final. and it feels like a good next step. initially i thought i'd do some sort of "desk set" of books. my mid term was a 3 inch binder of found color paper squares, and i was on the verge of doing some out of control indexing. all the elements were ready. i saw a cheap faux-wood plywood desk at the thrift store for $9.90 that i thought i could display them on. i figured i'd finish my rolodex visual dictionary that i started last year. and i wanted to explore doing a perfect bound stack of paper to fit into one of those "page a day" desk calendar holders.

but something wasn't feeling right. the pieces didn't seem motivated. and i put off working on anything for a good two weeks.

after a rejuvinating thanksgiving break, and a huge shopping spree at arnies in houghton lake, i finally came to an idea that i could move forward with. it builds off of a lot of what i've been scratching at with my books so far. one of the books i made (for post binding) was a "slices of life" collection of sketchbook pages and notes and other random ephemera. the thought there was that all of these ah-ha moments sometimes get lost in journals and notebooks, never to be seen again. but if you were to start tearing pages out and compiling them all in one place, you would see common threads that keep coming up. so i went back to this book and pulled words out that kept reappearing. i ended up with at least 30 post-it notes cluttering my desk with them written on it. i then narrowed it down to nine. (for no particular reason.)

now for the key component: i'm going to organize other people's notes and thoughts about those words into individual books. (an "on" series. "on ideas, on lessons, on growth, etc.) the biggest part of that all? doing a final project that depends on people other than myself. and when all is said and done i get to bind them in colored foam covers. (so the color spectrum lover in me is happy.) my move now is to start collecting these notes from people, just handwritten on little sheets of paper to scan and print in black and white for the pages.