A bit of news (/bragging): my Plenty of Fish in the Sea poster from last semester won a Student Award in the AIGA St. Louis Design Show 2011. I’ve never won any sort of design award before, but I can now say that it’s very satisfying.
Thanks to the judges, and congrats to my fellow Sam Fox student winners—Laura, Christine, and Megan (who doesn’t have an online portfolio as far as I know)—and to my coworkers at TOKY, who cleaned up this year.
Good news on this dreary Monday morning, as I’m finally allowed to announce this: good friend/killer illustrator (killustrator?) Noah MacMillan and I have been selected to collaborate on a print from the upcoming 2011 St. Louis edition of Artcrank. Among the other 29 contributors are numerous friends and role models: Dan Zettwoch, Amy Thompson of Paper Boat, former CDes-er Sam Washburn, Alexn Inhen of NextSTL, and of course, fellow TOKYs and friends Jamie Banks-George, Katy Fischer, and Kirsten O’Loughlin. What?! That’s not even half of the lineup.
The show runs May 12th–14th at Atomic Cowboy, and supports the exceedingly wonderful St. Louis BicycleWORKS. You can bet you’ll hear from me again on this.
Anyone following this blog for a decent amount of time knows that JEFF the Brotherhood is one of my favorite bands. I just finished up some super-trippy posters for the occasion: white ink on Wausau “Rocket Red,” then laser cut.
Expect to see a lot more laser cut stuff from me. I have a growing addiction.
(it might be mine)
Here’s a poster I just finished for Word & Image.
A few spreads from my Univers book for typography class.
This past summer I was fortunate enough to intern at Spoke Marketing as part of their Sprockets program — in which three interns (including Amanda Yates) did free work for some non-profits and start-ups in the St. Louis area.
Not only was it a great experience — thankful clients, sweet offices, fun work environment, helping organizations worth helping, getting paid to do so — but now I have an excuse to stop by Whole Foods whenever I can to check out some of the collateral we made for Blessing Basket.
BB is a non-profit that sells baskets hand-made by women from villages in third world nations — Ghana, Uganda, Madagascar, Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia. However, instead of paying them the fair trade minimum (around $0.80 per basket), they pay them $4 to $7 per basket. In doing so they’re actually ending poverty on a village-to-village basis.
Read more about them and their mission, and while you’re at it, why not buy a basket? I’ve got one. The craftsmanship is remarkable, and the colors really pop.
Still needs work, but this is what I had by the time I decided that I just wanted to be done.
I’ll retool it for final crit next semester.
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Peter Bjorn and John poster for the Gargoyle
