I’ve been really busy lately with class and what-not lately, so I haven’t really had a chance to post. Now I’m on my spring break and spending it working…Nice. However, I really like working here, (Media Genesis, a place where I can spread my graphic design wings). Below is a video featuring it, and below that is another piece from the local news in Detroit talking about their expansion that happened while I was an intern here over the summer. (And I’m seen working in it a few times).

Unfortunately I didn’t have time to take a good picture of the final before submission, I had overestimated rubber cements mounting credentials on foam core, and spent a great deal of time mounting the squares with pins. I took a picture on my cell phone which you can imagine, isn’t the best quality. However, I was able to replicate the final with some Photoshop trickery. Below is the final, or click here to see the the full size. (In case you were wondering, the white square on the right, is a dry erase board so that people can constantly change the things going on in that particular month.)

Here I will show a simplified version of my process on my current project. The project is to create a calendar for the year 2010 using a particular typeface assigned to use, (mine was Adobe Caslon), and make this calendar in an unconventional way. I will show a quick sketch of the idea and how it evolves to typography experimentation, possible Photoshop comps, all the way to the actual document setup, and the final product. For this particular project I will post the final picture of it at a later time.

I’m sure you’ve all heard about Parallels for mac one way or another. (It gives mac users the opportunity to run windows simultaneously with the mac OS) I’ve always used Boot Camp which allows you to boot up into windows, and was skeptical about the performance issues running both operating systems can cause. I finally decided to give Parallels a whirl and was very happy with the results. Above you can see my mac desktop running Parallels in Coherence mode, a mode in which the windows tool bar is ran and completely functional. This is really conveniant when testing a new site on multiple browsers.

Here you can see Parallels running in a window so that you can see the entire windows operating system, and simply click inside the window to use the fully operational os. Overall, pretty nice program that I would recommend for anyone in web design, or anyone that wishes to run windows on the mac os. So do your self a favor and go get parallels, it’s worth it.  As a side note, you may wonder why the toolbar isn’t a traditional one, this IS windows XP, I just use WindowBlinds skins.

AFTER WATCHING HIS PRESENTATION ON CONTROL; It was primarily a comparison between print and web design, as well as the comparison and importance of becoming more web savvy. I feel that as a beginning designer I have always understood a great difference between print and web design, however I couldn’t explain the differences without telling you the obvious typeface restrictions, and other novice statements. I now see the specifics into the differences of control, and the perspective a designer can take on it.

I was intrigued by the commentary on conversation, and how primarily it can be seen as a teacher/student relationship as far as the dialog goes, but Vinh’s statement on how the conversation comes between the generalists, with the addition of the ‘teacher’ figure, and I feel that it creates a perfect blend for communication. The ’subordinate roll’ for traditional designers was interesting as well, as I can see a difficulty in a designer who’s seemingly being stripped of their control. However, I see web design as being multiple levels of print, with multiple states to consider. The 2-d print page is now a living breathing thing, with numerous considerations to make.

WHILE WORKING OVER THE SUMMER AT MY INTERNSHIP I did a two-page spread for a nuclear company to go into an annual magazine for companies like them to post adds. It was published in the August 2007 magazine, and here it is.