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.

no shave

Its November and that can mean only one thing, NO SHAVE NOVEMBER, right? Hence Novembeard. During the month of November a man can participate in Novembeard, all a man has to do is not shave for the month of November. Why? why not. Well in the UK do it a little different and just grow the mustache and call it Movember. I found a nice article in the magazine about growing the November facial hair.

model

I helped my flatmate with a photo shoot for one of her assignments and I found this stuck under my door this morning with a note on the back. It turned out pretty cool. Its a sequence of photos that describe someone. I like it.

info graphics

A few ideas for a visual comparison charts between Apples new touch tablet and its competition. Info graphics all day long.

then I find this

Much cooler then my header.

novemeber has arrived in london

October came and went. My time in London has been flying by. From keeping up with course work to getting out and enjoying the city it makes sense the days are flying by. I finally found some of Banksy's work over near Bethnal Green the other day. The piece is a few years old now and has been tagged over, but it was still cool to see. Then just today I got done with uni around one and took a walk up to Angel. It was a cool autumn day in London. I stumbled around a antique street market and found a nice cafe that I plan on returning to.

happy halloween

My flat and a few others dressed up a bit and went out in London for Halloween. A odd group, but fun. I don't think the English are as into Halloween as people are back in the states. I saw very few children out and about knocking door to door getting candy. There were themed parties and pub nights everywhere, but not as many people dressed up as I thought. I cant even by candy corn over here.

saw these kids

Amazing, one year later I get to meet up with Millie, Alice and Niccolo!
It was really great getting to catch up with these three over some spicy food and a cold pint. It almost felt like we were all back in Minneapolis again.

LCC

London College of Communication.
My university is massive. A hub for around 9000 students. The university is very diverse with a huge range of students from all over the world. Its great to have the opportunity to collaborate with people on a global level and get there ideas and feedback on work. The students in my course are very vocal and class discussion go on for a while. There is a more participation from students in most of my classes here. The tower block is where i spend the majority of my time. I don't get into the print shop area of studios at all. My web design course is the only time I get in the design studios. The college used to be split into three separate buildings till about five years ago, when the college changed its name from the London College of Printing.