Last post but not the last you'll hear from MEEEEEEE!!!!!

We're going to have to change this soggy week thing...it's starting to get depressing,lol. I hope that everyone will take as much as I have from this class. I look forward to seeing all of you guys in the fall but not soon. I want the summer to go super-slow and good. Like a slow-roasted chicken with every minute it get's more tender, and more juicy. That actually made me a little hungry but anyway just creating a visual of my expectations for the summer. One thing I will say is that I will be using 99 design in my free time, hopefully this summer I can get my hands on a mac so I can get some of the projects done and earn some money. In closing, I just want to thank the University for accepting me back and giving me an opportunity to finish my bachelor's degree.

Count down to escaping frown town

Lol...just had to get that out from the title...I have had a genuinely great time this semester..despite my late start to the semester...one week to be exact..I am excited about the future for me and my fellow classmates in graphic design. One last task is to finish these blogs and make sure my finished product of my paper is up to par. I am pretty confident Prof. Speyers will enjoy it despite his hard grading scale, hmmmmm. So now everything is pretty much done just waiting for that oh so special day on Wednesday May, 5, 2010 when I'm off to civilization for the next 3 months.

Finishing Strong

It's coming down to the last few classes...four to be exact...and We received our last projects of the year. Unfortunately, Prof. decided to drop a paper on us for our final exam. It royally sucks but it has to get done. On the bright side we get to participate in some logo contests on 99design. If we win we can get a few hundred bucks which ain't bad. This should be fun as well as competitive unfortunately the competition is very, very, steep like 50 soggy weeks!!!!! Don't get me wrong I love competition but when the opposition has an infantry of 5,000 and all I have is a pee-shooter it's kinda hard to win unless God does a miracle.

This semester is going by fast ain't it tho

The semester is a few weeks away from coming to a close and I must say I couldn't be more excited to finish up and get the heck out of Charleston for a couple months. But first things come first and that is priority numero-uno. This week isn't special just a few tutorials that prof decided to dump on us for busy work, but it's cool. We got this cool lava lamp tutorial on adobe illustrator. The other one's looked appealing from afar but when I analyzed them they looked pretty (meh) boring. Plus I want to continue to work on my gradient tool skills. So let's strap on the seat belt and do this. I'm out with another soggy week rather be wet than dry..AYEEEE

On to the next one

Finally finished with the two logo remakes. I can honestly say that I am pleased with my finished product. I know that I will continue to get better with the frequency that we receive projects. The one thing that I wish I could have tweaked a little bit would have to be the "Hurricanes" text wrapping around the tornado. Overall I think the design was good as well as the concept but I know that as I learn more and more about the illustrator program I will have it down packed to the T. I am looking forward to the next set of projects that we will receive within the next couple of days.

New Day New Project

Today in class we are starting a couple new projects. One in which we can be very creative with. We get the opportunity to chose from a trademarked logo and if possible improve on it and make it the way we like it, pretty much. The two logo's that I chose were the XBOX logo and my favorite college team the Miami hurricanes. I am sketching ideas down in my head to come up with as well as on paper. I think I might have to really good ones. With the Miami logo I was going to create a tornado and put the famous "U" on the top in a 3dimensional slant. I am looking forward to putting it all together today. For the XBOX logo I have a few things in mind but everything has pretty much been done and puts a lot of pressure on me to come up with a new design but I accept the challenge and I know I'll come up with something special.

My presentation borderline SUCKED!!!!!

just kidding..just kidding...there were some elements that I would like to improve on but overall I held my own. The project presentation was what I expected, I kept the audiences attention, entertained them a bit, shared new information with them and surprised myself a bit. Usually I am pretty nervous when speaking in front of crowds but I felt at ease during my presentation. Once again I hope to continuously build so I can accomplish an A with the next presentation. Until next time ladies and gents, signing off for another soggy week.