CLASS OF 2KX

The Adrian Strikes Again

2011-09-14T11:31:00.003-06:00

Really you're surprised?

Things did not get any clearer

2011-06-22T12:46:00.000-06:00

...

2011-06-22T12:43:00.001-06:00

....................wow

Thoughts on an Adrianism

2011-06-22T11:54:00.003-06:00

It would be more honest if he replaced the phrase "that is so pedestrian" with "that is so proletarian".

midget olivia

2011-06-11T10:07:00.002-06:00

my family saw this photo and asked why everyone in my class was so tall.
i was crouching, ok? you know, like you do when you get in front of a whole group. except i forgot i'm already 5'2" anyway.
it was so great to see you on such late notice! sad i didn't get to see the rest of you.

Communicating boring ideas through story

2011-05-19T18:25:00.006-06:00

This is my new favorite music video! You should watch it in HD on Youtube with the volume up full.

The sincerest form of flattery....

2011-04-27T11:20:00.003-06:00

You guys saw these right? They're all over facebook. It kinda makes me want to puke but not in a bad way...

My BFA show

2011-04-24T23:28:00.008-06:00

I need a few more likes to get my own facebook domain. If you would like me here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Paradigms-and-Politics/201913859830572

Also check out the website associated with my show. You can find the link here:
gavinjensen.com

This was one year ago.

2011-04-20T11:43:00.003-06:00

My BFA Show

2011-04-15T23:52:00.006-06:00

If you are in Utah, I hope that you can stop by and see my BFA show.

More pictures and video coming soon.
Check out the blog associated with the show:
paradigmsandpolitics.com

NTA 2011

2011-02-28T18:54:00.000-07:00

Congrats guys!

christmas is only 10 months away.

2011-02-24T17:07:00.003-07:00

I can think of someone who might find a use for these.

I accidentally created this post and I don't know how to remove it.

2011-02-24T11:44:00.004-07:00

How embarrassing.

Regan's Show

2011-01-30T16:04:00.003-07:00

MY STAR-SIGHTING

2010-10-25T17:37:00.001-06:00

Can someone please confirm

that I really did see Stefan Sagmeister
waiting for/looking for someone with a single-stem flower

at the Union Square Farmer's Market on Friday???

if we were all in the studio watching videos, i'd show you all this one and one of you would've probably already seen it

2010-10-19T13:41:00.000-06:00

MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON from Dean Fleischer-Camp on Vimeo.

How Graphic Design Can Save The World

2010-10-15T11:20:00.003-06:00

Check out this article about how powerpoint is actually doing evil.

My apologies to those of you that believe CNN is an appendage of big brother.

New Blog on Design and Innovation

2010-09-15T00:43:00.003-06:00

I have a brand new Blog on design and innovation.

It is at:

gavinomics.com

I want the content to be good and useful. Send me feedback.

....strange

2010-07-12T12:21:00.001-06:00

So I recently sent out an email to family and friends about how Meet Your Type is on the fontshop website and they can see something I worked on. Moms like that you know. The two responses I got back were along the lines of "wow you're sure getting busy on page 28"

This is page 28

I guess I can only be flattered that (1) I apparently look good enough to be confused with Drew's gorgeous wife. (2) I have good enough taste in men that my husband can be sometimes confused with someone who looks like Drew.

Drew: If you do happen to read this please just take that as a complement.

Missing Missy.

2010-07-03T12:48:00.001-06:00

Good design humor. Especially since it deals with cats.

Logical Reasons for Emotional Appeal

2010-06-09T21:42:00.004-06:00

At my work I have had to defend my position about branding a lot. Here is a list of reasons that I have written on why it is important to invest in a brand:

1. People make decisions from emotion. Emotion does not necessarily mean the decision is impulsive or demonstrative. A good brand provides the emotional support that reason cannot. A good brand can and should communicate to both the left and right sides of the brain.

2. It can reflect the image of the corporation that it wants the public to know of.

3. It helps public relations because it shows an awareness for a need for public awareness and approval

4. It shows financial stability and shows the direction of the corporation

5. It helps distinguish our company from competitors

6. It sets a favorable image for prospective emloyees

7. It saves a lot of time and money through consolidation and unification of graphic applications

8. Companies without a strong brand disappear among all of the competitors

9. Brand is a manifestation of excellence that is visible.

10. Over time it can encourage superior performance across the boards

11. It creates interest so that people will want to know more

12. Brands make it easy for the customer to buy

13. Brands make it easy for the salesforce to sell

14. A brand, or companies reputation is one of the most valuable company assets. —Stocks with largest gains in Brand equity saw their stock return average 30% those with losses in brand equity saw stock return average a negative 10%

15. Brands set expectations in the minds of the consumers. If the brand is dull, people will expect it to be dull

16. Provides visual communication that can be sustained through time (verbal communication cannot be)

—Please add your ideas.

good for a giggle

2010-06-04T11:33:00.002-06:00

...strangely familiar

Portfolio update

2010-05-21T17:41:00.003-06:00

Hi all.

My portfolio has been updated. So what do you all think? Anything weird or I should do differently?

Goodbye Friends...

2010-05-18T08:13:00.006-06:00

Bye to all (except John and Manasseh!) When you miss me you can just watch An Affair to Remember and say hi to my building. Hopefully we will all get back together some day...hey whatever happened to that class picture of all of us?

GOODBYE JESSI TODAY, AND... DID THEY BEAT US TO IT?

2010-05-10T12:01:00.003-06:00

Norway's version of Meet Your Type.

And get this—it was designed by 15 graphic design students.

Glorious—do you know when our 'online' version goes live?

For all you letterpress junkies

2010-04-28T10:37:00.001-06:00

Letterpress website.

FINAL WORD: Design as Cheesecake

2010-04-23T00:08:00.020-06:00

THERE IS NO TRUTH IN GRAPHIC DESIGN! — A LOGICAL MANIFESTO

I must first commend Colin on his talk that he gave. That was a difficult thing to do and he pulled it off in a way that was satisfying to everyone including me. Though y'all may disagree, this post on an alternative view of design might reveal that it is not just mindless or trendy blather, but a well thought out philosophy.

1. Designing in the sense of adding balance, contrast, cohesion etc. to a composition is pleasing to humans because it pushes the pleasure buttons in our brains. The pleasure is universal to humans because our brains evolved the same way. Designing is no different from adding chemicals together to make cheesecake. Cheesecake pushes the pleasure buttons in our brains too, but there is no truth in cheesecake. This may seem to degrade design in a way because it takes it out of a "divine realm" but it also glorifies design in another way by revealing the awe and complexity of our brains as it reacts to pleasurable designs that contain geometry and decoration.

2. Designing in the sense of communicating is simply a technology for spreading information. There is no inherent truth in technology, though there may be truth in the message it is communicating. If design is communicating something valuable like the gospel, then design can help change the world. But, most designers are too afraid to communicate the gospel through design outright. Designers spend their time designing, which means that they did not use that time to get trained in economics, politics, philosophy, and the law. This tends to make designers who make political statements look silly to those who were trained in those areas just as an economist would look silly if he tried to design something. My critique is that designers are good at invoking emotion but they leave out the logic in their "social commentary".

3. Good design has no inherent truth in it. Good design is simply design that fulfills it's purpose, whatever that purpose may be. There may be objectively good or bad purposes such as spiritual purposes vs. carnal purposes.

4. Design can be pleasurable as it interacts with our innate human nature (our minds). But, it can also be subjective to the viewer as it may invoke different associations or symbols that relate to the unique memories and experiences of the viewer. Basically, although we are born with the same pleasure buttons in our brains, some tastes can be acquired and are therefore subjective (or relative).

5. Design as art is useless to human progress just as cheesecake is practically useless except you can eat cheesecake. ( But, useless things, paradoxically, can be highly useful for a certain purpose—appraising the assets of the bearer of useless things. Rich people buy art and inaccessible design to show off their status. Universal tastes that are liked by most people such as realistic decorations of plants and animals, are generally disdained by the elite. As Adrian says, "It is just fluff...pedestrian...mere decoration... color is nothing but an embellishment.." But, universally, "the masses" prefer decoration, organic embellishment, and color. (Probably because it is reflective of the environment that our ancestors evolved in—the savannah) Most graphic designers in my experience are elitist. Their connoisseurship of difficult and inaccessible works of culture serves as a badge in society's upper strata. Therefore, design as art has done more to fragment people into classes, than to unify them.

I am sympathetic to these ideas because they are logical and useful. I would change my view upon better arguments to the contrary, but I have not found them. When I asked Adrian directly about truth in design, he tried to explain but didn't make any sense to me. If you remove the emotions (that we have invested so much of our time in design), does it really make logical sense to you?

Book Covers

2010-04-20T16:01:00.000-06:00

Oh, they're just SO good.

We're Nocturnal

2010-04-12T23:14:00.003-06:00

No surprises here but it made me smile all the same.
11PM Monday night and everybody's just warming up.

Just when I thought I had good ideas...

2010-03-30T13:56:00.001-06:00

I just can't compete.

Quote of the day

2010-03-30T09:21:00.002-06:00

Gavin: ...and I like that castle of type!

Joey: You have not had one useful comment all day!

Adobe CS5, content aware fill.

2010-03-25T01:34:00.002-06:00

If you thought the content aware scale was awesome, check out the content aware fill.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0aEp1oDOI#t=2m48s

2010-03-23T12:25:00.001-06:00

During the reception I walked by just in time to hear a couple as they gushed over Rory's piece. "This is why we need art in the world," she said.

QUOTES OF THE DAY BEFORE PHILANTHRO

2010-03-21T13:41:00.002-06:00

"I don't usually drink carbonation but. . .

. . . I don't usually hang a show."
—Regan

". . . and skinny little Rory's poster."

—Michelle

Joe Duffy's Poor Little Logo

2010-03-20T11:20:00.000-06:00

"Pity the poor logo, called upon to do so much, in oh so little space, in brevity of line, in never enough time. Expectations at impossible levels, minimal, miniature, minute, expressing evertything that is known about a product, a service, a company, an earth-altering idea, a country? We want logos that change the face of time, reverse men's forutnes, and erase national debts for crying out oud—all in the blink of an eye." -- Joe Duffy, Duffy & Partners

Worlds 27 Most Influential Designers

2010-03-11T20:31:00.002-07:00

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/10/02/0201_worlds_most_influential_designers/1.htm

Wierd Chess Sets

2010-03-10T19:34:00.000-07:00

More Here.

MAKE IT BIGGER!

2010-03-07T16:50:00.001-07:00

http://www.makemylogobiggercream.com/

next week in the studio...

2010-03-06T14:22:00.002-07:00

i will be sporting these.
believe it.

LXD

2010-03-06T11:44:00.001-07:00

Just came across this today. It is so exciting. Globalization, capitalism, and the internet are worth it just for this.

3.4.10

2010-02-19T23:49:00.005-07:00

And your all invited :)

Michelle Stuhl

2010-02-18T10:44:00.002-07:00

"You can have the greatest portfolio in the world, but you're not going to get the job if you are creepy."

Titles

2010-02-17T11:07:00.002-07:00

We need to do this.

2010-02-16T09:36:00.002-07:00

Costumes + typography + soccer

The Chutzpah!

2010-02-03T10:00:00.012-07:00

My ward calling is to design the Sunday programs. I try to make them look nice and use some nice type. They're not masterpieces, but I think they're at least better than some of the comic sans versions you occasionally see in our chapels. However, this morning I received a lovely email from I guy I've never met. It reads as follows:

Laura Tait,

Hi, my name is Jesse Daily. I am a student here at BYU and I do a lot of typesetting for my job. I came across your program last sunday and I critiqued it. Don't get me wrong... you have done a great job, but I did have some comments on it. Now I understand that you don't know me, and we will probably never meet. So, if you think that all my comments are garbage, it won't offend me because I realize I am not a professional, I am an amateur. But I hope you do find them useful.

Regards,

Jesse Daily

All I have to say is—who does this?!?

First image is my original program, and the second is the program with Jesse's wonderful comments:

NOT MARK'S QUOTE

2010-02-01T22:58:00.004-07:00

"When I got into the BFA,
I thought,
'I'm gonna get crushed by everybody!' "

-Laura

feltron.com/

2010-01-26T13:29:00.002-07:00

I think there may be a few students in our group that are into this kind of design.

DID YOU WATCH THIS ONE TOO?

2010-01-20T10:25:00.001-07:00

I was so on time for my "appointment" yesterday, that I was late to class. So I don't know if you saw this one too, but I thought it was funny. And lame. A funny kind of lame.

quote of the day

2010-01-20T08:40:00.002-07:00

Laura: Are you saying you want to be like Edward Cullen?

Michelle: Yeah, I think about that A LOT actually.

2010-01-15T12:40:00.003-07:00

"Don't give them up so easily, your fertile years."

-Laura Tait

First day with Mark

2010-01-04T08:27:00.001-07:00

"I JUST WANTED
TO CRUSH EVERYBODY"

SELF CONTROL IN 2KX

2010-01-03T14:18:00.002-07:00

If only we had all known about this last semester.

THREATS YOUR SOUL

2009-12-27T09:54:00.002-07:00

My father-in-law found this in Korea.

Congrats, friends: we're all in the business of saving souls.

Seriously.

CHRISTMAS MIRACLE

2009-12-11T03:04:00.004-07:00

"...And Bless Mommy
and Bless Daddy
and Bless Hamburgler
for the Christmas Miracle...

AMEN."

-Robert Cowan

REMEMBER QUOTES OF THE DAY?

2009-12-11T02:56:00.002-07:00

"On my mission, I got chunky and trunky. Which came first?

I will never tell."

--Colin

Holiday Cheer

2009-11-30T11:52:00.004-07:00

My dear class—

It's crunch time everyone! The review is next Friday, and if you're stressing out, just type "Vince Guaraldi Trio Holiday" into Pandora for a holiday music treat that is sure to brighten your spirits. Good luck to you all!

Client Horror Stories

2009-11-20T18:37:00.000-07:00

These may bring you a few laughs!

http://clientsfromhell.tumblr.com/

Quotes of the Day

2009-11-17T10:05:00.003-07:00

"Herpes is kinda cute." —Gloria

"Handcuffs, whips, we got all that." —Manasseh

(what is Fontshop doing to us?)

Finally we get some recognition

2009-11-13T11:36:00.001-07:00

TO GAVIN AND THE REST OF YOU

2009-11-12T23:09:00.005-07:00

This is who we've used to get die cuts.
(Also linked to the side under Resources) ------------->

They were cheap, but the issue was that it we basically did all our communication by email. So it was kind of hard to explain/ask advice for the best way to make a sort of complicated die, and in the end, we got something that wouldn't work for the project and now we haven't used the dies. :( But the guy is really nice. (Dave?) I'd just suggest going up there if your die is any kind of complicated. Otherwise, just email your vector file to the email listed at the bottom of their site.

(Anyone wanna redesign their logo please?)

Ooo, pretty colors

2009-11-12T22:57:00.002-07:00

I am hypnotized...

100 year anniversary of the Vandercook.

2009-11-08T17:36:00.001-07:00

This year marks the 100 year anniversary of the Vandercook printing press. Vandercook presses are sometimes called the “Cadillacs” of letterpress. These are beautiful, lumbering machines, and are highly sought after. They haven’t been manufactured in decades, and there are only about 2,000 that remain in operating condition.

From:
http://blackeiffel.blogspot.com/2009/11/vandercook-centennial-by-guest-eva.html

Awesome or gross? or maybe grossly awesome.

2009-11-04T14:46:00.000-07:00

Eichborn - Banners on flies (for real) - ambient, Germany

50 most talked about brands on twitter

2009-10-31T12:45:00.000-06:00

Tweet!

Late Nights

2009-10-28T23:53:00.001-06:00

In case you were asleep:

Type camp!

2009-10-27T21:42:00.002-06:00

Who wants to go with me?

Twitter

2009-10-27T13:37:00.001-06:00

http://twitter.com/Gavinomics

I LIKE IT!

GOT 19/20 ON THE HELVARIAL QUIZ

2009-10-01T11:35:00.000-06:00

BEAT MY SCORE HERE

Enchanted

2009-09-20T21:43:00.002-06:00

Ok, probably no one will think this is cool, except for me, so please try not to laugh at me! In this clip from Enchanted, at 0:54, she runs right past the EXACT SAME rock where we played croquet in Central Park! I think that is cool!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRYU4cqUAUs

Here's a photo to compare:

Lingering Food thoughts

2009-09-14T22:51:00.002-06:00

This 10 min. video just came out today from Penn and Teller about food. I don't agree with everything they say, but they talk about Norman Borlaug who won the nobel prize for saving 1 Billion people through genetically modifying food. Gordon B. Hinckley praised him at a BYU devotional last year:

http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2009/09/greatest-human-being-you-never-heard-of.html

Warning: Strong language in the video. At exactly 10:00 minutes turn off the sound to avoid the F-Bomb. Unfortunately, focusing on the message is hard since the messengers are so arrogant and emotionally charge the argument. If you are emotional about this topic then don't watch it.

Type Love

2009-09-14T11:42:00.003-06:00

I took a trip to the BYU Maps department today. Here's a sampling of what I found. Pretty cool stuff down there!

Let us emulate

2009-09-14T02:25:00.003-06:00

Cassandra Jones: BFA envy.

Thoughts related to envy: depression. Am I even capable of doing/making cool things anymore? It's been too long. Whatever happened to the button party Joey was talking about?

Gavin's Notes Condensed

2009-09-11T23:40:00.003-06:00

No More Subsidies!

They are just as harmful as tariffs.

Gavin’s Random Notes on Food Inc.

2009-09-11T00:08:00.005-06:00

I know people have better things to do but I feel like it is expected of me to give a response to Food Inc. since I was singled out as the one that "should watch the film".
Beware. This was written very fast. It has poor sentence structure! they are random thoughts...

It is funny. My very first post on my blog was about food...

1. Spoiled?: Only a rich country can produce a film like this. The farming practices have their costs but they produce high quantity of product. Cambodia would praise Tyson if it could bring its products to Cambodia. The production process is much cleaner and provides more food than traditional Cambodian methods. Fewer people would die each year from malnutrition in places like Cambodia if Tyson came to town. A poor country would never think to criticize a company that produces so much food at low cost because it does real good for the poor.

2. Myths about Health: Statistics on health show that people have been getting healthier for centuries all across the world. It is especially clear if you measure overall life expectancy from country to country. The interesting correlation is that the countries that have improved the most with regards to life expectancy have also been the most capitalistic and open to free trade. We can’t make choices if we think there is a gun to our head. We must realize that things are getting better. We can make them even better still, but the urgency goes away when the facts are more apparent. The environment is also getting better by the way especially in capitalist countries.

3. Economics: This movie used economic language such as unintended consequences and hidden costs but basic economics just wasn't there. One of the authors implied that it is wrong to patent crops. Patents might last too long, but they are essential for protecting the intellectual capital of companies. If the law did not protect this capital then no one would have the incentive to produce new technologies that bring more options to the public. The film says in one part that the companies have so much power to produce things the way they want, and in another part of the film an interviewee said that the market determines what kind of product, consumers want so it was giving inconsistent messages. The information of what the consumers want is communicated in the form of prices even though consumers might say that they want higher quality food. This is why all the food shortage predictions of the past have all been wrong.Also, the movie kept saying that the food companies have so much power. They would only have monopoly power because the government helped them get it. Decrease government and you will decrease this problem. Don't expand government like the movie suggests.

4. Trade-offs: Too often added rights lead to bad outcomes. Consumer rights try to increase quality or producer liability, both of which have costs. Too often there is no empirical evidence of whether or not the costs of increased prices are more or less than the increased value created by the rights. If the increased quality or enlarged responsibility of the seller were worth it, there would be profit incentives for the producer to raise his quality, responsibility, and price together without consumer protection laws.

For example: In the 80s the government started to mandate that car companies make cars safer. They had parents who had lost children testify in congress that cars were unsafe too. This made the price of new cars rise which meant that people held onto older cars for a longer time. This made the roads less safe. When people eventually bought the safer cars accidents increased substantially because a safer car means less risk when one gets in an accident. Deaths per accident went down so the health of drivers evened out. However pedestrian deaths went way up in the 80s as an unintended consequence of the safety laws. But, since the causal effects are so subtle, you don't get people testifying in court when their child was hit by a car. The surest way to promote safer driving is not to make cars safer but less safe by doing something like welding a knife to the steering wheel pointed at the drivers heart. That would surely make driving much safer than it is today. Food will have the same story. When the government forces companies to make food safer, self control and responsibility further decline.
Bans on trans fats in NY most likely going to make consumers less healthy by creating the idea that the government will do their homework for them.

5. Regulation: It usually helps big business the most. Why? because only big business can handle the increased cost of production caused by regulation. This puts smaller companies out of business and decreases competition for the big corporations. Big businesses love government oversight because it keeps them in business. The meat companies were the biggest supporters of the FDA in the early 1900s. There was never a substantial monopoly without the help of the government.

6. FDA: There is good evidence to strongly suggest that the FDA does more harm than good. Studies show that the FDA not only raises costs to drug providers which costs get passed on to the consumer as higher prices, but also because they wait far too long to release drugs that would save the lives of millions. Corporations don’t self regulate themselves in the absence of government oversight. The market does. As long as you have a working market consumers will buy from competitors if they think a company is providing unsafe products. Companies have in their own self interest to not harm their customers. Unfortunately the government has not allowed the market to work properly creating huge distortions. The film makers wanted more oversight from the FDA which means more centralized power. But the FDA gets filled with people, not angels. People are corruptible. Even if we could put an angel in office with all the power to regulate the industry, what will happen when he resigns or dies. By then the hype will be gone and a new administrator will get into office who has the desire for power and he will help special interests with the most money.

7. Subsidies: Why do we give subsidies to farmers? It is because the farmers have convinced us that they are poor and wouldn't survive global competition. Protectionism is why farmers have convinced government that they should steal our tax dollars and give it to them. We hear the bleeding hearts of farmers whose children would starve if it were not for subsidies. Subsidies distort the market. The only justified subsidies are in wartime. But even then, once we give subsidies to one industry it is hard to take it away during peacetime. Subsidies produce surpluses which we either must destroy or dump on other countries. We usually do the latter which destroys the farming in those countries, often in africa, which causes more poverty. Subsidies are very bad for the economy as a whole but great for those receiving them. The subsidization of sugar for example costs the average american family $1000s of dollars/year so that the sugar companies can stay in business for millions. We could essentially double the pay of all sugar workers including CEOs to do nothing, and we would save money. So I agree wholeheartedly with the film that we need to eliminate subsidies. I just hope that Big Organic won’t be subsidized also.

8. Good Guys and Bad Guys: I believe that the people in the movie are totally sincere and genuinely want to make a difference. The creators of the film however do not grant sincerity to those who they are opposing. Ancient tribes would see the leaves move and believed that the spirits made it happen. Similarly, the writers see things happening that they don’t like and imagine that it is fowl play with evil motives behind the results. They are only looking at half of the equation. The open air farmer that was interviewed said that if one “wrongly” exploited a creature would likely exploit other cultures, and peoples. He has no basis for this claim. He cannot look into the hearts of the owners of the food companies who probably sincerely believe that there way of farming.

Basically, the movie contradicts itself by saying that the regulatory agencies are not doing their job and that they are corrupted. Then they say that we need to grant them more power and replace the bad guys with the good guys to solve all our food problems. It is a pipe dream. The surest way to promote health is to limit the power of government, preach about the health costs to consumers, and let competition bring the consumers what they want and are willing to pay for. You cannot promote health by trying to impose your own standards as a 3rd party observer on other people who are making choices within their own set of constraints and incentives.

Time moves at weird speeds when you're stuck in the studio...

2009-09-05T12:50:00.002-06:00

I like food, food tastes good, I like food, food tastes good.

2009-09-02T15:25:00.004-06:00

Late night?

(Hopefully not yet.) Read this, while you listen to this.

Also, I missed you all and am happy to be back together again.

Also, I made the blog public again because I won't check it if it's not on my google reader.

No offense.

I think I had a dream

2009-08-20T09:35:00.002-06:00

...you all came to the Nu Skins to work during the fall.

That's all I remember about the dream. Ha!

Happy last days to the New Yorkies.

Miss you.

Which is fine art and which is from a 4 year old?

2009-08-11T22:59:00.003-06:00

Those who know my opinion on most modern art won't be surprised why I like this simple test:

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/popup?id=527562

Along the same lines as font squirrell

2009-08-05T11:17:00.001-06:00

The League of Movable Type. Read their manifesto, you'll want to hug them.

Shatner Does Palin

2009-07-30T14:39:00.002-06:00

Video Recaps | Full Episodes | Webisodes

With love from your favorite Alaskan!

free fonts

2009-07-23T14:13:00.003-06:00

fontsquirrel.com goes through all the free font sites and picks out ones that are half decent.

huzzah.

ONE OF THE COOLEST MV CONCEPTS I'VE SEEN IN A WHILE

2009-07-16T17:28:00.005-06:00

OLIVIA!

2009-07-14T13:59:00.005-06:00

OKAY, for the record, I've been posting everything on my blog. Ironically I figured that nobody really reads it and have stopped posting so diligently, so I guess I feel your pain :) This is my favorite picture so far, probably because we've discovered that I suck at photography and somehow this one came out sweet. Sorry it's not an amazing city scene but it is our roofdeck!

Glad to see that typophile is still going strong! I'm excited to see the final product. Besides, a little leaking can only increase excitement about it right? Leak on my friend!

LO siento Amigo.

2009-07-13T22:40:00.011-06:00

dearest Olivia. Sorry for the absence~ cross my heart wasn't intentional. Honestly wish you were here! I love the pictures by the way, and the typophile project... (for lack of better words) love it!

I feel like I have been here forever an a fortnight (just learned that word from pride& prejudice :) Long enough to feel like a New Yorker? Or maybe enough to feel my west coast blood running wild...no worries I left a part of my heart in provo.

don't get me wrong~ life has been a blur of summer freedom, eating, sleeping, & scanning to my little heart's content.

some of the highlights:

despite the nature of the photograph, my deepest love for the MOMA. let's just say ny brings out the rebel in me.

central park. although this was the spot I was put to shame in my hula hoop skills, Its beauty demands forgiveness and allures me over and over again! every week since i've been here i've been to central park. ironic one of the best things of new york is it's "natural" surroundings.

next favorite: governor's island. fyi: the clouds are real. no photoshop. serious. no curves. swear.

the view from graphis. actually a little skewed. i stare at a brick wall. this view is if I stand up and look up. ( a good metaphor no?)

well in no time, we will be back. but until then...MISS YOU!

signing off. glo

YOU ARE ALL LAME-O-HEADS

2009-07-09T08:38:00.006-06:00

So yeah remember the time when you all ignored me? Thanks.

I love Provo and all, but I'm really just itching to know about your NYC. Please? Or at least just something about the internship.

Mine's still fun. Yeah, still. I'm making menus, t-shirts, and nameplates, mounting presentation boards with an amazing machine I think we should have for the studio, and moving/organizing as we just moved from floor 3 to floor 7. I don't take the stairs as often. But elevators are awkward.

Oh yeah, and Typophile is awesome, as is Brent. I'm about to make our blog private so I can post these pics without getting in trouble for leaking:

My cool-touch glue gun from Puppetry class proved a great tool for all of Typophile.

My favorite Typophile day:

*We affectionately called it the "hampersand"

Wish I was there...
Wish you would tell me what it's like there...
Wish I could read about it here...

NYC

2009-07-03T15:14:00.000-06:00

Who lives in the safest neighborhood?

Papyrus

2009-06-21T16:54:00.000-06:00

http://xkcd.com/590/

Messed up!

2009-06-17T19:50:00.002-06:00

Blue Man Group

2009-06-14T14:30:00.006-06:00

This is one of the best shows we've seen in NY. I have seen it twice. It is less than $30 with a student I.D. starting an hour before each show. The mezzanine seats are great.

Button party

2009-06-10T08:16:00.001-06:00

When we get back, I think we should have a button party, if Colin would be awesome enough to let us use his button maker. Everyone designs their own buttons, then we can trade them all around. Think of how brilliant that would be.

They could be whatever you wanted. It just had to be yours, you know?

What do you guys think?

Welcome us to New York

2009-06-05T08:58:00.004-06:00

If you missed the facebook invite:

Housewarming party this weekend at our new apartment, freshly named "Guillermo's REC Center" or "Guillermo's" for short. (586 Broadway in Williamsburg (Brooklyn). Take the J or M train to Lorimer. We're right under the subway stop above a Cozzi's Pizza.)

Please bring bread or anything that can be eaten on top of bread. It must be delicious.

ha

2009-06-03T17:16:00.000-06:00

thanks, swiss miss

First Post (for me) From NY

2009-06-03T09:31:00.001-06:00

Watch this at work and don't laugh. I dare you.

original version
artsy version

Love you all and miss you.
House-warming party soon.

GOOD infographics

2009-06-02T16:42:00.003-06:00

hey, look.

GOOD magazine has a flickr group with all their infographics.

cool.

HOLLA!

2009-05-19T12:50:00.002-06:00

So it's about the time where I'm missing our class. :( I know it's been like a month, but still.

I think it's time we each give each other a lil' spring update. Gavin beat us all to it, but how about the rest of everyone? There are some of you I know nothing about. Summer-wise, that is. What are you doing?

Olive has been:
-Finally finishing the letterpress wedding announcement designs and seeing them all done.
-Starting and then quitting Typophile 5. (Sorry Brent. Is it time for the busywork yet though? I think I can do better at that than storyboarding...)
-Walking across the street everyday to intern full-time at Nu Skin (Provo's witchcraft, as my dad calls it) and LOVING it. My day involves working with an awesome 40-something dad who's worked at Nu Skin forever and knows everything but still has his thick Mexican accent. He teaches me all about InDesign tricks for typesetting and does it while calling everything "this puppy" and "you monkeyface". (Say those outloud with the accent). When he's not helping me, he's at his desk, with a project on one monitor, and a TV show on the other. This week, it's been "Bewitched".
-Playing around with a bunch of singles-wardies that I don't know on a co-ed intramural team. Special thanks to my mission friend for inviting me.
-NOT working on Frankie nor Set no matter how much I know it will help me for when I have to keep at it next year.
-Garage Sale-ing on the scooter.
-Freelancing a logo involving an antique tool for my cuz.

Peace from Provo to you all,

-Liv

TIE—POGRAPHY

2009-05-12T23:38:00.003-06:00

This made me laugh. So PUNNY!

First day on the job & NY driving

2009-04-30T20:25:00.003-06:00

Last night I drove a car from Chinatown Manhattan to Queens to Brooklyn. Driving a car in NY is more difficult than San Francisco and L.A. combined in my experience.

This is the Boss' dog. I had to walk it today. There is a dog park right by the Flatiron Building right by where I work. I hope that this is the last day that I have to walk Griffith.

i change my mind

2009-04-24T10:08:00.006-06:00

my new best:

bbq on april 23, 2009.

the kite.
the meat.
the veggies.
the fruity-marker soda.
the frisbee.
the strawberries.
the scooter.
the obsession laura had with the scooter.
the wind.
the baby.
the kiddos.
the chatting.
the reminiscing.
the "no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no"

totally the best.

SO THIS IS GOODBYE

2009-04-23T10:37:00.002-06:00

TODAY. 3PM.

2009-04-20T21:54:00.002-06:00

What a good looking class! WE ROCK!