Great Find

At a hip vintage store in Federal Hill I found a stack of old Fortune magazines from the late 50s early 60s. Loving the masthead on this thing. It’s filled with some great gems, like this guy.

Monster: Transformation

One great thing about RISD is Winter Session. After fall semester ends we get six weeks to explore something outside of our major. We’re encouraged to take studios outside of what we would normally tackle in our curriculum. One of the benefits of being an incoming transfer student is that I get higher pick priority [...]

Twenty Ten

I have a feeling next year will be great.

Digital SLR Remote

I have a lot more to show with this project. While I’m very happy with the result, I think I’m most happy with my process to arrive to this result.
I was given the advice to try some typefaces I’m not comfortable with and I pushed myself to go outside my box here, and I [...]

Connecticut

Repetition

I got better today.

Late, into the Night

I love the feeling of going to far with something, where I get entirely distracted by something productive and instead of budgeting my time wisely, I throw everything away in the name of progress. Today I stayed up until 7am working on my new blog layout. What started as a simple layout project turned into [...]

Observation

It goes without saying that my skills in observation have increased as a result of being in school. Lately I’ve been seeing little faces here and there, but I think this is the best example of me looking harder at things without necessarily trying to. Thanks RISD.

The 500

I was given 7 days to do 500 thumbnails based on two objects. An S hook and a woodworkers biscuit. I had 5 sheets full of 100 1″ x 1″ squares. Each page had a theme to explore. Anomaly, balance, contrast, rhythm and texture were my cues. I got it done, carpal tunnel be damned. [...]

Repetition

Digesting letterforms through making them by hand. Lots of patience and lots of starting over. It’s really good for me.