I’m taking an extra class in Typography at Seattle’s School of Visual Concepts.  Even though I have a job and have long graduated from portfolio school, where I took many type classes- I feel that type is my biggest place for growth.  Its my designers achilles tendon- I understand it, I can use it but its my weakest skill in my designer set.  So what better way to work on it, then continue taking classes- especially with the revered Juliet Shen.  

This assignment was to design our name/nickname into a 4x6 square lino block, and set it with hand-set type.  I had a lot of iterations but ultimately landed on this design (inspired by Native).  

I just got back from the lovely white sand beaches of Cape San Blas, Florida for my dear friends Danielle and Dustin’s wedding.  It was a beautiful event for a beautiful couple and I even came back with a slight tan… that and about 40,000 bug bites.  

While I was there, I had the pleasure of meeting her photographer, Tana- who does some amazing work. (I mean- she made me look good and that’s tough!)  Here are two of her pics- one of the Save the Dates I designed and posted on here a while back and one of the wedding party.  

You can view Tana’s work at Tana Photography: http://tanaphotography.com/

Mr. Brian Cheung (a former fellow MASer) knows how to keep his desktop organized.  And now with his spiffy wallpaper mine is too.  

Get it while its hot: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2275403/productivity%20wallpaper.png

Checkout Brian’s other work: http://cargocollective.com/briangcheung

Working on making my black thumb green.  Since the death of my strawberries last year I have decided to take my gardening to the next level: by planting 20 times as many and keeping them all alive.  Bonus points if I actually cook with them. 

Invited the boss man to Amsterdam with us using some sweet new folding techniques I picked up from Paper Folding Templates for Print Design by Trish Witkowski… one of the many items I have spent my money on recently on Fab.com.  Also busted out the calligraphy pen- classy shit. 

My Design Director thought it would be a good idea to take a break (but not from the computer) to do the silly, random Wikipedia/Flickr/Album art. This is mine. You should totes come to our show, we are like so hip. 

Allison, Brandon & I are representing PBJS in the Nederlands!  We won an MSLGroup internal competition back in February and got to pick any one of 89 cities/offices in the group.  We chose to do MSL Amsterdam and this art is from our PBJS deck & request for time off.  And good news:  I found my passport!  So excited to go!  

Concepting ideas for yearly internal awards led to this: music-esque posters of the year and something (even vaguely) related to it.  For example: 2002 was the year of the Black Horse according to some sketchy Chinese Astrology website  I landed on. 

Idea = killed. 

First round/draft of identity designs for my friend Stephen Tyler Guglielmo’s new start up called Guglielmo’s Woodworks.  He makes some awesome wood lamps and other hand-crafted wood items and is ready to start selling them.  Coming soon to an Etsy near you!  

An oldie for VA.  Not sure if this one ran or not- I left NY before the project was completed.  

Initial draft of monogram designs for my friend Danielle’s upcoming wedding.  For use in her save the dates, invites and other wedding designs/functions. 

Creighton & I’s Holiday Card 2011!  Cheers!  

1.) An app called Forager that would work like Instagram + Yelp + Notes, where you’d review your home made meals, restaurant meals, friends meals, etc., take a picture of it, note the recipe and share it with your followers and social networks.  Basically an online/mobile personal rolodex of recipes (ie Pinterest).  Dead.  Killed. No more. 

2.) An accompanying website for Forager and other apps coming from Companion Apps.  

*Forager & Companion apps belong to my friend Jeremy (@jeremyperonto).  DM him for any questions.  

These are the Save the Dates I made for one of my best friends, Danielle and her fiance Dustin.  We ordered them as postcards from Moo.com, so she was able to have many different options (same color theme, same back-side image).  The beautiful photography was done by Tana Photography in Boise, Idaho.