Here’s a photo of the faces during Artscape.

For our senior show, Justin, Tami, Sam and I scanned and tiled our faces on the side of MICA’s Brown Center. Two months later they’re still there, I haven’t photographed it but I’ll probably do that during Artscape if they’re still there.

This was a t-shirt design I did for our Nada bike project…

One of the projects that I’m still working on from school is for the MICA/JHU coalition class. We’ve been helping Ted Sutton brand himself and come up with some sort of collateral he can use to raise donations and recruit volunteers for his organization. Mr. Sutton is a former gang member who now works to help keep kids out of gangs. Although this has been attempted many times before by cities and organizations, Mr. Sutton’s experiences are what makes him so successful at what he does. Bryan and I have been designing a small newsprint booklet telling Mr. Sutton’s story and highlighting the positive things he does in the community. We’re almost finished with the booklet but here’s a picture of a printout I did to see if the format would work with what we’re trying to do.

I love sneakers and modernism. So I needed these!

Today was graduation, it was a long day! We got to meet Paula Scher before the ceremony. She gave us some great insight on how she operates and how things work in the real world. It was great having a designer for our commencement speaker, for her speech to the graduating class she definitely was able to relate to everybody whether they were designers or not. So now with everything over it’s time to take a break and start looking for places to work. I have no idea where I’m heading but I’ll be looking for some place that I’d be comfortable at. Ms. Scher talked about she only hires people who will be “good company”, so I’ll take that advice and look for some place that feels right with good people. For now, I’m going to take the time to do some projects for myself and learn some things that I missed out on in school.

Done! But senior show is this weekend so I’m working to get my stuff ready for that. I’m designing a website to go along with my printed thesis piece. I’m also using this as an opportunity to get back in to flash. The senior show is May 15th to 19th at the MICA Brown Center (1301 Mount Royale Avenue, Baltimore MD) on the third floor in one of the media rooms over looking Mt. Royal Ave. Here’s a screenshot of where I’m at right now with it.

Just messing around with cutting out halftone patterns to make letters.

Inspired by the nada project, I started building my own fixed gear bike. I bought it off of craigslist, we stripped the parts, I sanded and painted it, and now I’m trying to put it back together with some new parts. I painted it burgundy, I plan on painting the white stripes gold for my favorite team the Redskins. Hopefully it’ll be done this week, too bad it’s raining.

We were given a tagline promoting the new Center for Design Practice being run by Mike Weikert here at MICA. We have to come up with a poster based around it. It’s a brand new program focused on teaching students how to be responsible designers and leaders working on real world projects. One of the initial projects that I’m working on is for NADA bikes, it’s being run by John Bielenberg and the goal is to promote fixed gear bikes as an alternative to cars to 20-somethings. My concept is focusing on the organic nature of the class, it’s not structured like the typical design course. This is the first round of design for mine. I’m definitely influenced by new wave design and deconstruction. It’s something we don’t see much around here at school.