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cindy li visits chattanooga.
Last week we were lucky enough to have Cindy Li in town for a day full of events. She spoke about networking and the internet and provided helpful tips on how to use networking sites to your advantage. Cindy Li had very interesting things to say and I definitely learned alot. She also met with [...]
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2009 senior exhibition.
Show One turned out great. The gallery looked awesome and everything went smoothly. The seven graphic designers in the first show (myself included) gave our presentations last Tuesday to a crowd of close to 100 people. Everyone did a great job, I guess all these years of art critiques and presentations paid off! At the [...]
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All of the seniors in Show One were at the gallery installing our work over the weekend. Everything went farily smoothly and it was easier than I’d expected. Overall, it was fun and exciting and I’m excited for the show to open tomorrow! I’ve never installed anything in a gallery before, so it was a [...]
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artist statement.
The gallery install for our Senior Thesis Exhibition is coming up this Saturday! Its exciting and frightening all at once. There is sooo much work to get done in the next couple of days. The show opens on Tuesday, March 31 at 5:30. One of the many MANY things I have to finish up is [...]
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uh oh.
So, due to some highly unfortunate circumstances beyond my control, my senior thesis project has taken a dramatic turn. I should’ve known trying to create art with living organisms while on a strict deadline was a recipe for disaster. Of course something would go wrong. Anyways, theres no time for crying about it or making [...]
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senior exhibition.
My senior graphic design class has been given the task of creating all of the promotional material for the 2009 Senior Thesis Exhibition. We split up into four groups and were each to come up with a poster, mailer, email, viral marketing idea, press release, the works. Within the first few minutes of meeting with [...]
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random album experiment.
I’m sure that many people have seen the “random album” posts going around on Facebook. These posts contain very specific information on how to create your own album cover: Generate a random word from Wikipedia (random). This is the name of your band. Find a random quote from quotationspage.com. The last four or 5 words [...]
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senior thesis thoughts.
“Sustainable graphic design is the application of sustainability principles to graphic design. It considers the environmental impacts of graphic design products throughout the entire life cycle. Graphic designers engaged in sustainable practice use techniques, processes, and materials that will help reduce the detrimental environmental, social, and economic impact of their designs.” -www.wikipedia.org
Environmental impact is an [...]
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power verb presentation.
The most recent assignment in my Senior Graphic Design Workshop was to create a five-minute keynote presentation based on a power verb that was assigned to me. My verb was “deploy.” Luckily, through a google search on the word I found a free web application that allows web developers to quickly create a customized project [...]
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personal branding.
Since I’ll be graduating in May, I’ve been doing A LOT of brainstorming trying to come up with ideas for my own personal brand. I designed a logo, letterhead, business card, resume, the whole nine yards for a class last year. I’m really wanting to update everything, though; come up with a whole new look [...]
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