CCA Confidential

Yup. My critique went really bad. I committed critique hara-kiri. Afterward, people told me they felt really bad for me… ugg.

I am really nervous. Critique will start in 20 mins. And it is not going to go well.

It’s been two days and I still hate my final design for my poster in Graphic Design I. Here is the final design, and the mockups that lead to them.

I like this one, sorta, but the ‘e’ really isn’t working at all. But I love the brackets I design by hand, which were shot down during my semi final critique.

This was my first digital version traced from sketches. The ‘e’ is obviously not working, but you can see the influence it had on the final design.

Something weird happened with this post. I created it, and posted it, and for some reason wordpress freaked out and unposted it and deleted half of it. I didn’t notice for two days.  Sorry everyone.

I am 30 minutes away from printing my large format poster, and I am very discouraged. I don’t feel my design is good enough, though I have spent countless hours sketching, tracing, and digitalizing my current concept.

It has consumed my life, much more than the logo project. Which is why I haven’t post much this week. No time. Tonight or tomorrow I will upload scans of drafts up to the current printed version, so everyone can see. Don’t be too harsh.

Its spring break, but the CCA professors assigned homework anyway. "Break just means you don’t have to come to class, it does mean you d …

Wired reacently interviewed Aaron Koblin on his experiment in social art. Though Wired, calls it data art, I am not a sure. When I hear data art, I think of stuff like We Feel Fine.

But back to the experiment, Aaron used Amazon’s new service Mechanical Turk to hire people to draw sheep, at 2 cents a pop. Ten thousand people contributed, and each of their sheep was recorded. Check out the video.

This obviously has buckets of potential for randomization in art. I can’t wait to see what other people come up with. If I could come up with the cash, I might even conceive a project.

My experimental type book is done. But the design bleeds on three sides, so I have to leave for school a few hours early, print it, and …