Coming.....

NEW LOOK! NEW WORK! COMING IN HOPEFULLY AUGUST.....

Fresh to Death SHE is!

Ever since I’ve hit about 17, for my birthday my mom has bought me Barbie related
items (i seriously don't know why and honestly don’t want to ask; their sweet either way it goes.)




She found 5 Vintage Mattel Barbie Doll(s) Fashion Catalogues from the 50s-70s.



I love these things! A sweet documentation of the fashions and history of Barbie, Ken, Skipper, Midge and the rest of the gang through out the years!


I never knew there was a Twiggy Doll!


Cute fashions, layouts are pretty sweet and the illustrations are great!

Fresh from the Land of 10,000 Lakes

I checked my mail today and got a sweet surprise from REALLY GREAT Graphic Designer Miss Julie Roche.

From a past post I put a series of Postcards that I created during my Elec Pre-Press class, Julie was in that class as well.
In addition to the postcards, we also had the option to make business cards. I didn't like mine as much, but loved Julie's {I also loved her postcards} I even loved the stamped she used to mail them!



THANX JULIE!!!

Back in the Long Star State

Back at home in Houston trying to get focused once again.

After being in a big design town like Minneapolis for 3 1/2 years and having to pack my life up then leaving to to come back to a not-so design town, it’s been hard to get things going.

After getting my website up and running, I sent out a couple of emails to some industry professionals to get some advice/feedback.

I am now in the process of fixing my website

THANKS GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!


Now I have to......

1. NEW WORK!

Right now I am in the process of working with a fellow Art Director/cool cat, Taylor Snyder & Copywriter/fly chick Katie Bode on a Nissan Campaign.

I plan to also to pick up the ad work that got pushed to the side during the final weeks of preparing to graduate (J.W. Hulme & Dillard’s) and do some personal design work.



2. UNPACK!

As of right now since moving back from Minneapolis,MN my life is still in 7 boxes & 1 suitcase in the living room.



3. JOB HUNT!
(Not really #3 on my list of things to do)

Figuring out 1. Where do I want to be? Who would be a good fit? What work to show? Promos, etc....



4. NEW LAPTOP!

It’s old!! Not really working which is making things challenging.

I woke up a GRADUATE!!!

HELLLL YEAH!!! The day finally came!!! MY GRADUATION FROM MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN!!!!

For those who don't know I graduated with a B.F.A in Advertising Design (Art Direction)



Much thanks and love to all my friends who came through and my family who made the trip from Texas to see the Baby Girl graduate!!

Oh yeah, shout out to Aimeme G @ MCAD Design Works for designing the commencement invits, tickets, programs, etc... (Click here to see them)

@ Spyhouse

Assignment for my Digital Illustration class.

An illustration that represents a Spyhouse Coffee Shop experience.

Go check it out!! It's at the Spyhouse Coffee Shop @ 2451 NICOLLET AVE S (I think it's up til the 4th)

The Plight of a Soon-To-Be Graduate

Almost a month until I graduate AND THE PRESSURE IS ON!!! God where did the time go!! I have so many things on my plate to do.


1. MY SENIOR SHOW
I’ve decided on a simple display showcasing 3 projects with a simple print. Most people have described my Senior Show like a wedding.
Something Old- My American Red Cross project)
Something Borrowed- "Five Down" (Toy Concept from Illustration & Concept which I –only for this putting it into the world of marketing) and I’m making an actual doll.
Something New- An Integrated campaign I’m working on with a great Illustrator, Francesca Buchko
Something Blue- my graph paper

2. WEBSITE
After months of trying to fix my old website, sketching, finding domains, remembering how to code and what not I have decided to go through Cargo Collective.

It’s not done but I’m loading and putting stuff on there as we speak (CLICK HERE TO SEE MY WEBSITE)

3. TWEAKING WORK
Since I will not have the lovely amenities of MCAD anymore I must “use the water before the well runs dry”. Some of my work can be better, point blank.

I’ve been fixing work that has potential to be then it is right now.

4. NEW WORK
I’m an Art Director with a bulk load of Designer work in my portfolio. It’s nice/bad to hear
“You have one of the best portfolios I’ve seen in a long time… If you were a Designer.”

So 5 new Ad pieces coming your way soon!!! HOLLA!!!!
I’ve been working with a few copywriters lately, most of them I just met so it’s really refreshing to work with new people.

5. PROMOTIONALS
My short attention span, my need to always change things and never like anything has delayed this necessary project.

6. 5 CLASSES
I am a full time student with classes and homework

7. LIFE AFTER COLLEGE
I’m not from Minneapolis. And as a freelance which is good, but I would like to have a stable job with a paycheck.
So I need to figure out if I’m going to stay up here after college and if I do and if I don’t I need to…….

-Job Search
-Apartment Searching
-etc…..

Me in a Fashion Show?

September 25th I had the opportunity to be in the Eat Street Style Fashion Show hosted by Head to Toe Salon. It showcased vintage fashion from Blacklist Vintage, Lost & Found and Head to Toe all boutiques found on Nicollet Ave Minneapolis,MN.

Of course your girl was the Show Stopper, the grand finale. I wore a Steampunk outfit designed by the ladies at Blacklist Vintage, Mrs. Vanessa Messersmith & Mrs. Jennifer Sapiro. Beautiful cool outfit, but the metal corset got stuffy, but the shit non the less.

You can see some shots of me and the other fashions shown on the Digital Crush Photography website or if you my friend on Facebook my bestie Allison Welch took some for all to enjoy.

Article by L’etoile magazine about the show. (SHE SAID I ROCKED THE LOOK)

Peter Seitz: Designing a Life Social Media Project

So Tuesday and Thursday of this week I have been busy working with others (Megan Baxter and Ben Wood) from my Futures of Advertising class and Tim Brunelle working on a social media foundation to promote the book “Peter Seitz: Designing a Life” published by MCAD in 2007.

Social media project encompass everything from making a Facebook Fan Page, Peter Seitz his on Wikipedia Page, and more.


READ MORE ABOUT WHAT WE DID HERE


QUICK BIO OF PETER SEITZ
Peter Seitz (1931-Present) is a legendary graphic designer, author, teacher and business owner who served as the first Design Director at The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN), helped establish the graphic design curriculum at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and took out the very first listing as a Graphic Designer in the Twin Cities Yellow Pages

JOIN THE PETER SEITZ: DESIGNING A LIFE FACEBOOK FAN PAGE

PETER SEITZ WIKIPEDIA PAGE

PETER SEITZ: DESIGNING A LIFE FLICKR PAGE

PETER SEITZ: DESIGNING A LIFE on MCAD DESIGN CLUB BLOG

PETER SEITZ: DESIGNING A LIFE DELIOUS ACCOUNT

PETER SEITZ: DESIGNING A LIFE EXTENDR.COM PAGE

PETER SEITZ: DESIGNING A LIFE AMAZON.COM PAGE

My work spotted

Here's one of my print Ad from my American Red Cross Campaign, seen on some blog. NICE
click for that blog

CHRISTO COLLINS

CHRISTO COLLINS a fucking good photographer took some photos of me for my promotional stuff this Spring. I truly love what he did, very 90s (and I mean that in a great way). Check his stuff out! Click here

Dear Mr. President Exhibition

Voting is over and OBAMA regions supreme!!!

This semester we had a school wide project called "Dear Mr. President". The objective was to write a letter to the next President of the Free World. (Please note this project was due in September)

Anyway it's on display at MCAD right now (open Oct 31) and will be taken down November 12th, and mailed to the White House.

This is mine

My Artist Statement

I’ve always been able to show better than I could tell. Every time I had a project in elementary, middle school and even when I could get away with it in high school I would always draw it. One of my personal experiences I can remember was in third grade. My elementary school and the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E) program had a drug poster contest. The rules were that the class that could come up with the best D.A.R.E poster would have an ice-cream, pizza, and soda party and their poster would be on display at a local grocery store. Since I was known as “the class artist”, my teacher put me in charge of coming up with an idea for the poster. Of course the poster had to have something about drugs, being drug free, and how doing drugs is bad for you and since it was October the class wanted to put a little Halloween influence in the poster as well. By working with the class and the teacher we came up with a poster that infused everything suggested. It had a dark blue background, black crows flying around with cigarettes (the ones flying low to the ground and smashing into things) and some without cigarettes (the ones flying higher in the air), a scarecrow and orange and black lettering across the top. Our class won the poster contest and got to have an ice-cream, pizza, and soda party. I guess you could say that was my first experience at being an Art Director.

To be able to draw, sketch, or paint what you see or imagine I believe sharpens your skills in any career. As a designer/artist I am constantly pushed to see myself and the world around me differently, and to persuade others to see it differently as well. The profession of Advertising Design requires you, to have the desire to connect with people, but it’s also what you as an individual can bring to the profession that sets you apart. These few years at MCAD I have not only been taking ad and design, but I have also taken classes in fine art and illustration. The first reason for this is to become more comfortable with my drawing style and to go further in my founded love for illustration. Secondly, it is so I can take what I’ve learned and done in these classes back to my ad classes. I also feel these classes will help me in my future goal of being an Art Director.

As Art Directors we must be both artists and designers to reach people. I find that we, future Art Directors and even current Art Directors tend to forget that we (at one point) were artist ourselves. By forgetting this we fail to see the value in how a conceptual artist helps to bring a fresh approach to a visual communication and the end result being better work.

Most of my work in Advertising up to this point uses Illustration as the visual component. This comes from a desire to rebel against photography, as well as to develop work that hasn’t been seen, and a scripture in the bible that henders me, but at the same time pushes me, “there is nothing new under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9). Look at photography. How is one photo different from the next except in subject? Now look at illustration. Different approaches taken, different mediums used and you see the artist’s individual statements all within the same subject a lot of the times. There’s nothing wrong with photography, and I understand why clients usually go with what they know and something they can understand right away. But to show that there is something else out there (like illustration) to a client that can get their message out in ways they aren’t considereing is something to fight for.

MnDot Radio Spot

Early this July I produced a 30 sec radio spot for the Minnesota Department of Transportation or MnDot. I finally figured out how to put the mp3 on my blog so here it is.

I put it on my unfinished site, but that page is good I promise. I also put the "scratch track" on there too so anybody who wanted to hear the orginal could take a listen. So listen to it and enjoy!

Introducing "Happy Death Jingle". Big Thanks to Seri Johnson, the voice actress on this spot. She did a great job.

CLICK HERE TO HEAR THE SPOT!!


CLICK HERE TO HEAR IT AND OTHERS ON MnDot's website

Good News

This last semester I took CopyWriting for Broadcast (CopyWriting 2), which is a class we make commercials for radio. Anyway one assignment for the class was to make a spot for the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDot) geared towards teenagers to be cautious driving around Work-Zone areas. Fri, June 13 the teacher informed me that the Government of the State of Minnesota has selected my spot for production. Meaning it will be made into an actual commercial with professional voice actors, and the whole 9 yards and heard on the radio!

Happy!!!