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Spread from a graphic novel that I wrote and am in the process of designing.

Working on thesis...

 

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The latest post covers the recent talk given by the Kevin Banks, design director at The Phoenix Media Group and previous NESAD graduate student. Accompanied by DJ Mikey Mike, Kevin gave a music-filled, multi-media presentation to a packed room. Awesome presentation as always.

The blog also links up to the GAGA (Graphic Artists Graduate Association) blog.

As big as a hundred goldfish

Was working on making a typeface using only two shapes, equilateral triangles and squares, and trying to make it as consistent and legible as possible.

We'll see how that goes. Might actually make it into a usable font by the end of it.

Signal to Noise

 

Doing research on the great Dave McKean for a project.

"Vi a un tiempo cada letra de cada pàgina."

Finishing up a typeface over the weekend and trying to square away research for my first thesis presentation. 

Rebranding the corporate design class is coming along. Starting to rework the Mass Mouth identity for their upcoming season this year.

Tonight at NESAD is the opening reception for Primavera Italiana, the show for the summer watercolor course in Italy.  More infomation on the event here.

Bad things happen to good sentences

So last weekend as the annual AHTS festival, held by the City of Boston Office of Arts and Tourism, in Columbus Park by the North End. I was there with the City's Mural Crew. We do two stations to let people paint watercolor postcards in the park and we have a temporary wall for kids to paint a mural for the weekend. Good crowd of people this year. There were also performances and demonstrations by different artists from around the city.

There are two new shows going on at NESAD (New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University). One is a showcase of watercolors from one of the school's summer programs in Italy. Students go for a few weeks across Italy, visiting sites, learning how to paint watercolors and studying art history along the way. The show also has books on display which students designed and bound on the trip.

The other is in the main NESAD gallery space: Line Bruntse: Organs, Orphaned. They've been setting it up during the week, and it's been great to see it come together. The show opens today and runs through November 5th. It features installation pieces and photography.

There was also the 2011 graduate show for the Master of Arts in Interior Design program. The show was hosted at home furnishing showroom, Montage, on Friday, September 9.

Have gotten through the first week of classes so far. This semester has me taking a course in Corporate Design, which I'm pretty excited about. We choose a company to research and redesign their logo and identity and create a new system and design for collateral pieces. Plus there's the chance of actually presenting our work to the company at the end of the course.

Thesis research has also begun. I started off with the idea of doing something mural related, which is turning more towards to how we represent process, and how that relates to design, and the falsehoods of our claims in representing reality. Yeah...

I've started looking at artists and designers whose work is heavily process driven and try to include it into their works. So far I've been looking at the works of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Stefan Sagmeister, and anonymous street artist known as BLU for inspiration.

Hi there

So I guess first off: Introductions.

I'm a student in the MA in Graphic Design program at The New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University. Right now, I'm a year into the program and starting the dauting task of my thesis.

After studying Art History and Fine Arts for my undergrad (also at NESAD), I worked for a time at an art gallery doing research and cataloging. It was there that I realized I loved creating more than documenting and came back to further my design skills.

I'm also an intern at JSGD, doing web and print design work, along with petting the cutest dog ever. Besides that, I do freelance design and I also work with high school students painting murals with the City of Boston's Mural Crew, which I have been a part of for about nine years.

This year I have recently joined the Suffolk University Graduate Admission office as an Administrative Fellow. As one of the Fellows I help in the Grad Admissions office with day-to-day operation; and maybe some design stuff on the way.

Through course of the year, I'll be posting here about my experiences in the Admissions office, some of the day-to-day of my studies, and about any art and design stuff I find worth sharing.

So here we go...