fashion156

I saw these pictures from fashion156 on Spray Glue. They make me want to go out and do a photo shoot.

it's been a while... NYC

So it's been a while since my last post... but I wanted to write about our VCNY trip last week. It was definitely a good trip, with Food & Wine in the morning and then a talk with Steven Heller in the afternoon at SVA- it doesn't get much better than that. My classmate's cousin Fredrika Stjarne is the Director of Photography at Food & Wine, who we met with. She gave us a really great tour of the place and presentation of what it is that she does. It's hard to even fathom everything that goes into just the photographs used in the magazine, everything to do with organizing the shoot, hiring a photographer, a food stylist and prop stylist (two jobs I didn't know existed), planning flights and hotels, working around weather, working with chefs and their food, deciding what to shoot, etc etc etc. The best part of their office was the test kitchen where they try out all of their recipes for the magazine :) It was so nice of her to take time out of her day and show us around, I really learned soo much. After the visit, Jessie had an interview with Vogue and Alex had an interview with Rolling Stone, so we hung around and shopped while they had their interviews. Then we had the talk at SVA with Steven Heller. I've been fortunate enough to have heard him talk at Delaware my sophmore year, although everything was much more relevant this time now that I am a senior. It's amazing to see someone so successful in the design world whose success has come mainly from writing about design, not actually being a designer himself. I would be interested in sitting in on one of his classes/lectures that he does at SVA and learn more. It was great to have him talk to us for 45min.

a bday present

For my birthday this past Wednesday, I treated myself to a bday present yesterday at best buy. The Office, Season 3!! I'm very excited to sit down and watch it all, I'm so behinddd...

CA design annual

My favorite issue of comm arts came today, the design annual! It was kind of perfect timing because I have been struggling for an idea for my next project. Last week, I went to Barnes & Noble and sat down with the Print regional design annual and soaked it in for a good 45 minutes, I was so close to buying it but I couldn't come to terms with spending $35 on a magazine (but really its more than just a magazine...) Anyways, some of the highlights in the CA for me are the Backseat Driver's Manual for Volkswagen by Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Yonder Mountain poster by FarmBarn Art Co., the integrated branding program for Cellar Rat Wine Merchants by Berkley, packaging for Thymes Ltd. by Duffy & Partners, Spoetzl Brewery- Shiner Beer by Chaos Concept Manufacturing, sake2me packaging by Michael Osbourne Design, Pentagram's Saks Fifth Avenue packaging, Sid Lee Collective's Self Promotion posters, and the Museum of Sex poster by Lowe New York. I could probably name 20 more, but I figured I'd throw a few out there. I'm still in the process of figuring out what it is that I like to do, I am interested in pursuing one of the following for my next project: packaging, intergrated branding program, letterheads, logos, books, or environmental graphics.