This Is What Happens...

when you're alone in the print lab on a friday night, waiting for the epson 7600 to finish a job...

April 4, 2013... A Picture An Hour

...Well almost every hour. I was very busy once 1:00 rolled around, planning out my senior projects, presenting them along with past projects to my professor and discussing what I should improve upon for my final senior portfolio (YIKES!!), and running to work from class. I think I'll make this a regular thing, not that this blog has anything really, truly regular happening on it. But I'm going to try to change that. I know I keep saying that, but this time, I mean it. I REALLY mean it.

9:00 Woke Up

10:00 Grabbed Coffee and Went to Class

11:00 My Lovely MacBook

12:00 Research & Sketching

2:00 Letter of Intent Off to Austin

3:00 Workin'

4:00 Wilson Pre-Haircut

5:00 Wilson Post-Haircut

6:00 Went to the Lab

7:00 X-Files & Research in the Lab

8:00 Micron Bruises & Sketches & Research

9:00 Puddle-Ridden Walk Through Campus

note: all of these were taken with my iPhone 5 and edited with VSCO Cam

Whoops

So obviously, my new years resolution of posting on this more regularly did not work out. There's still six months for that to change though! Let me catch you (if anyone really reads this) up on what's been going on:

I finished my junior year at Western Washington University and in doing so completed junior portfolio within the Design department. This was probably one of the most stressful things I have ever been through -we (the juniors) had to create portfolios on top of our coursework, submit them for review, and anxiously awaited the news of if we passed and got into our desired concentration or any concentration for that matter. I'm happy to report that I got into my first choice: Design Production. So I will be making books, learning about printing techniques, color use, file management, packaging, design, design, design, all next year. I couldn't be more excited.

I procured not one but two internships. (Check) One is at a local music venue/bar here in Bellingham, designing show posters here and there and for the other I get to travel to my home state and live with one of my best and oldest friends for a month while I work for a ski publication. I'm excited to gain experience and to be closer to my friends and family.

I learned how to code websites. jQuery, HTML, CSS, the whole shebang. Bam!

and...

I'm about to move into my own one bedroom apartment. I CAN'T WAIT. I think I'll be a lot happier living on my own, making my own messes, noise, space, it's a very exciting prospect.

Now one of my other resolutions was to take more photos -I've been more or less successful in that but more could always be taken. One of these days I'll get an iPhone and instagram EVERYTHING. Until next time, I leave you with these bits and pieces.

Perfect Timing

Zoe

Bests

Beach Adventure

Wings for Eyes

Windy

2012

Well, it's here. 2012. The year that supposedly the world is going to end. If this is the case then I'm going to try to make this year count. I've applied for an internship and have started to pursue other internship opportunities for the summer, I'm determined to throw myself into school since this is the time when I really start to learn about design, and I'm going to make an effort to keep the people who truly matter close to me -even though the majority of those people live 1500 miles away. I don't have a list of resolutions but if I did it would probably include staying on top of classes -even the ones I think are uninteresting, drawing more, listening to more music and taking more pictures (my parents got me a BEAUTIFUL camera for Christmas so that helps with the motivation), and making time for myself as well as friends. The year is off to a good start, I had a fantastic afternoon with two of the greatest ladies I've met here at school -Grace and Celeste, you two are awesome.  I also used a gift card I received for Christmas to get myself some new sheets so I'll be slumbering soundly this evening. I'll try to post regularly... there should be a post coming up with some of my design work so keep an eye out! Here's a sigh of relief that the holidays are over. Now let's see where the year takes me... New York, perhaps? Cheers!

A photo of my bookshelf...I love how Follow Your Dreams is next to the globe.