Happy Holidays!

I recently worked with a company called Sincerely, an app company that specializes in greeting cards. They recently announced their new app, Sincerely Ink: Christmas & Holiday Cards, for which I did a few designs. I think it's cool because you can customize the cards with photos you take with your phone, then the company will print real postcards of your design which you can send out as holiday cards. Pretty cool!

The app is available soon and once it's out I'll post some of the designs I did! Stay tuned!

ABC Monday Night Movie

I totally forgot to post this forever ago. So in my last semester, while doing my independent study with Dan Krall, he had me and his Lifestyle class design three faces/hairstyles/make-up ideas based off special themes. Mine was the best! And it was the Monday Night Movie theme from ABC.

It's amazing. Check it out:

Trees and Sun collection

I developed this collection as a bedding set, trying to make sure I'm practicing my own designs outside work. I didn't do a bed mock up because I'm getting sick of using the same photos over and over. I'll have to figure out a better way to display them.

Mad Men - Don Draper

I haven't done portraits in so long it's upsetting. I'm trying to take 10-30 minutes everyday to draw and hopefully update. Here is a representation of the beautiful Don Draper from Mad Men. He's nice to look at. Enjoy!

Happy Birthday Mom

The 8th was my mother's birthday, happy birthday mom!! A good excuse to practice florals.

Gah

Nothing is more discouraging than when you go to hit update on your first entry in months and an error pops up, deleting the whole thing.

Here is what I can recap

I'm giving a go at stationary, something I've never expressed much interest in. It must be my recent visits to papersource and the influence of companies like rifle co. The beautiful Rachel Beckman has recently written me some letters that have inspired me to write again. I used to keep a regular journal freshman year of college, and a pretty regular one sophomore year, two gems that I find hilarious now.

I've been trying to get the new etsy shop going, but deciding on the name along with the look and feel have held me back. However, Pinterest has been a great tool in helping me nail down what exactly I'm interested in. I highly recommend it to everyone. It's also a great place to store your recipes!

Whoa! Holy update!

I was talking to a few co-workers and realized how neglected my poor blog has been! Last semester went very well but was hectic as hell (cool sentence). One of the reasons I never posted progress photos was because it never really came together until the very end. Also, I couldn't get very good pictures. Anyway, before I could upload the good ones it was time to pack up my stuff in Baltimore and move to Minneapolis to start my new job at Target! I've been working as Assistant Designer in the adult bedding department and it's been great. The company is so amazing. Anyway, I don't want to talk too much about it but keep your eyes peeled for new updates! Now that I'm all settled in the new apartment there should lots of fun projects to come. Especially decorating ones!