home is.

I'm back to the snow and cold of the Midwest united states. I already miss London terribly. I know I will back to that city someday. Now its time to enjoy the holidays and see friends and family. I'm hanging around this quiet city until I find an apartment in Minneapolis and start classes on the 21st of January.

final goodbyes.

Its come to en end, my time in London is wrapping up. I went out to the Red Lion for a few drinks with some friends and said some final goodbyes. More like a good bye for now, I know I will be back and see them again. I loved London and really enjoyed my time here. I see myself moving into a bigger city in the future or holding a position in a company where I get to travel. I hope my work for Article 13 gives me a good recommendation for the future when I may be looking for a position in London. I know I will have them on future resumes and have connections based in London.

So tomorrow I leave, get on my plane at 7pm and fly to Toronto have a night in the airport and fly to Minneapolis. Scheduled to arrive back in Minneapolis at 10:30am. I hope the weather is good and I get no delays. There have been delays all over the UK due to snow and bad weather, its more to the north so I should be fine. OK, be home soon.
Cheers.

trip to Bath Spa.

I stole this picture form Jillian of the three of us on our two day excursion out of London. I have some great memories and good laughs from this trip.

final campaign.

we have finished up our Apple ic Campaign and turned it all in, I think it came out pretty nice. I liked what we have done for it and our seminar teachers liked our concept for it a lot. He was really into our ideas of a mysterious superheros based campaign. here are a few shots of the finals.

trips in the UK.

pulteney bridge
Mike and Jillian
Roman Baths

Cresent

Its been a wild adventure, from back packing Europe to living a semester in London. I have done so much while here. I just got back from a two night bus trip to Bath spa. Bath is know for its Roman baths located in the town center. Its small town with a university about three hours away from London. We stayed in the backpackers hostel right near the town center, it took us about ten minutes to walk across the town and see the major sights, but it was nice and relaxing to get out of London and see the countryside of the UK. Bath has some of the finest architectural in Europe such as the royal crescent, the circus and pulteney bridge. Of course we checked out the thermal spas and toured the museum with the history on it. It was very relaxed and casual, a change from london life. Our trip back consisted of breaking down once, waiting a hour for a new bus, snow falling on the motor way the whole way home and getting back to freezing temperatures. Sounds a lot like Wisconsin, where I will be back to in six days.

buyer behavior campaign.

This is what our final campaign came out as for my buyer behavior course, we are proposing the idea of raising pencisl in grade schools as a competition to raise money. There were just a few posters i mocked up for it. We have to present the campaign on friday. Firday is also my last day at LCC.

apple iC

making progress on our Apple iC campaign and laying out some ideas for some print Ad's. The creative brief is at about 20 pages and Abbey is making an animation. Its coming along nicely and is due Friday! My time in London is almost done.

london to paris.

Went to the screening of London to Paris tonight behind the Trumen Brewery building on Brick lane. The location for the screening could not have been any better, it was the old loading dock for the warehouse and had plenty of space for some bikers to throw down some tricks. They also had some free food and red bull, what a deal. There was a good 200 people who turned up for the screening of the film that featured a few locals from London. The biking community here is amazing, so many kids involved and everyone helping out to get events like this together. The documentary was pretty good, it has some alright production. it was more just inspiration and made me want to get on my bike so bad.

Is took these two images off London fixed gears blog (londonfixedgear)to show how cool the set up was at the screening. They had three bikes hooked up to generators to produce the electricity needed to power the laptop and projector for the film. Such a good idea. The image below is from behind the venue and shows how many people turned up for it even though it was about 5 degrees Celsius.

last thing.

Here is something I never thought I would see in my indesign for! Its my final project for Resource Management, a wonderful document filled with account management, margins of safety, random ratios and investment planning. Never doing math again. I'm glad this project is done and over with.

woodgrain.

If i could trow some wood grain on just about everything I would be content.

quick ideas

I mocked this poster up for my buyer behavior class for a presentation later this week. Needs some work, but its something done in a few hours to get some ideas flowing.

the places you will go

One month from today I will be back in my home state of Wisconsin. It just goes to show how time fly's by. I was thinking how warm is was three months ago in Rome, which feels like just the other week. I have had so many amazing experiences and got the opportunity to see a whole other world. Then living in the UK for three months and finally returning to the cold winters of Minneapolis and Wisconsin. With classes coming to a close in a few short weeks and my work experience with Article 13, I have been keeping busy. I hope to get out a bit more in the coming weeks and see some more sights, check out some gallery spaces and maybe get down to Brighton to visit Friends. My time is running out and I need to enjoy what I have left.

branding.

Its been some time since I tried laying out a logo for something. I have been spending the afternoon doing research for my design proposal for Article 13. After hours of in design and aligning text I switched gears to make these. First rounds and only ideas.

new job.

I recently landed a work experience position for a sustainable design consultant Article 13 is a strategic adviser on risk associated with business responsibility, typically in the areas of governance and sustainable development. They provide an independent perspective - 'third eye' - that challenges the robustness and fitness of your company's ability to deliver against future uncertainties.

I am working on a proposal for the design of their identity. I will take my ideas to help them create a new clean brand and feel for the company. I am starting out with their printed material and presentation tools. If all goes to plan I will get to start work for them later this week. if I'm lucky I will be able to work for them once I get back to the sates. A work in progress's, but some documents that I'm revamping.

wednesday.

I meet up with form friends from class and went out around Carnaby Street. The street was bright and filled with colorful decorations. We stopped by an amazing bakery to have a look at some cupcakes. They were going for about four pounds a piece, they looked amazing but I never bought one. We finally arrived at Ronnie Scotts, a world famous London jazz club, we were meant to see a improve jam session, but decided to head out. All and all it was a good night out.

meet our super heros.

Meet our line up of super hero's for my managing creativity project. This is the first steps in bringing these characters to life for our Apple IC Marketing and Advertising campaign. They all have a background story and play different roles in the super hero team. They have lots connection with their powers over the years and the new Apple IC will help them reunite with their powers. The illustrations were done by Abbey Bently.

web page.

I have been making progress on my new site. I changed the direction I was going last week and started over entirely. I feel much better about this, but it still needs some adjustments. This is just the start.

Tuileries Park, Paris France

Tried to make a panorama of the park and fountain a few weeks ago on my trip to Paris with my Mom and Dad. It turned out alright. If printed it would be 32 inches wide, 8 inches high. (click on it and it will get a bit bigger)

barcelona.

I have to many good things to say about Barcelona, I could go on for days about it. In the four day weekend trip to the Spanish country I saw the tourist sights, went to the beach, dipped my feet in the Mediterranean sea, ate tapas drank leche de pantera, had a tortilla de patatas sandwich and got to see the city's nightlife with a friend who I meet in Goteborg, Sweden this past August. Roma meet up with Aria and I on Friday evening and said he was taking us on an adventure. He kept it all a secret and just said be ready to see Barcelona. We meet Roma at 6:30 a few stops on the metro out from plaça catalunya at a small restaurant for some traditional patatas bravas and a beer. That was only the start of our night in Barcelona. From there we went to another handful of places serving more small courses of food and home made drinks from wine to champagne. Everything we had was so full of flavor and a great unique taste to it.(much better then food in london) I would have never known of these places without Roma to guide us around feeding us amazing food, pointing out buildings and monuments while giving us the history of the city. Best tour ever. After all the food, drinks and a bit of dancing we had to get back to our hostel to get some rest for our last full day in the city on Saturday. The baest way to see any city is with someone who lives there.

We got up and decided to go down to the beach and rent bikes. Bikes were the best idea ever, we got to see so many more sights then walking everywhere. Unlike London we were once again on the right side of the road, so dealing with traffic was not a issue. Barcelona also has a nice system for citizens to use bike free of charge and drop them off at different points around the city. After seeing more sights and taking loads of photos we meet up with Roma again for yet another amazing night of delicious food and drinks. We got another nice tour of the Gothic district and stopped in a few places along the way to shop and eat. We then meet up with a few or Roma's friends who we were going to go out dancing with that night. While at their apartment we played Sign Star for a while before heading to a underground club just off of las ramblas. An amazing night filled with lots of new friends and great memories.

We had to be out of our hostel by 11 and to the airport fr our Ryan Air flight back to London at 2. We made it through with no issues, just took so long from the airport back into London. It was hard coming back to London, with the weather being cold, and rainy. I now have five more weeks of class and a extra ten days after universitys done till I come home to piles of snow.

A few of the 436 pictures I took, it was hard to narrow it down. Thank you Roma for an amzing time Friday and Saturday evenning making it one of the best weekends of my life. I will never forget it.

new beginning.

I changed the entire layout for my web site today and have completely restarted. I think this route has a better potential of something I will like. I need to figure out how to code the work page and show my work in a clean yet functional fun way. The only problem is I have none o f the original files for my past work. I will use extracted pages from the digital portfolio I have now. Back to work...

took a walk.

I took a walk the other evening to the Tate Modern and south bank side. It was only about 7pm, but it was very dark and cold. When I say cold I mean right around 5 degrees Celsius, the kind of night where you can see your breath in the air and a scarf is great. It was good to be reminded of where I was, I had been so caught up with class work that I hadn't scene much on London in a while. I revisited the London Eye and Tower Bridge. November has come up fast and is going bad even faster. I will be back in the states in 42 days.