DIY Summit

First of all, a huge thanks goes out to Environments for Humans and all of the talkers for letting us experience the DIY Summit.

The DIY Summit was for the most part, a welcoming change of pace from all of our recent brainstorming and printing madness. I say “for the most part” simply because a lot of the content in the DIY Summit was way beyond my understanding, such as using WordPress for Content Management or using Ruby on Rails to program my own blog. I like Ruby programming, but I’m not quite that good enough to design any sites with it yet!

Kelly Goto’s presentation, Getting Unstuck, was, on the other hand, very understandable and also relative to everything we have been struggling with. I, along with my classmates, do get stuck in the design process a lot, and her way of looking at it as Stuck vs. Unstuck was a pretty simple way of figuring out what to do when we did get ‘stuck’.

All of the presentations in the DIY Summit can be found here

Annual Juried Student Exhibition Entry – “Alec”

For the student exhibition, as suggested by David Young, I turned in my final project from Drawing III. Lucky for me, I did win a merit award and received a shiny plaque with my name on it.

em’press Promotions

I had the honor of helping a friend with her business.
She’s planning on redesigning the website for a new look, and we’ve been trying hard to see what we could accomplish.

This is the first draft we came up with.

I’ve never had a web design class or any previous experience with it at all, so I can’t really tell if it’s good or bad, but I thought that it might be worth noting in the blog.

Update: We did end up deciding not to go with this design. I remembered some things about the book cover designs we had done, and so it wasn’t such a good idea to box things in.

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