I received a wonderful gift from Jessica’s sister Kerri.
It is a children’s book published by an East German publishing company, which means that all of the imagery is free from copyright restrictions!
Download the original size on flickr and use them for your own projects.
This armoire was purchased from a nice young man on craigslist for $10.
He was nice on the phone; i didn’t meet him in person. His roomate did a great job of helping me carry it downstairs.
It still smelled like his parents house. Maybe his grandparents.
I chose a flat black spray paint for the new finish. The spray paint provides even coverage; no brush strokes or roller marks.
Begin by removing all the hardware from the piece.
Don’t forget to prime the piece before applying the finish coat(s). This will give your finish coat something to grab on to, giving you a more even finish that is less likely to chip.
Don’t worry about getting complete coverage with your primer in this instance. If you can give it a light coat all over, it will be better than nothing.
There will be some rough spots on the finish after the primer dries. Sand these spots between coats to obtain a smooth, even finish. Use a medium to high grit sandpaper; this is not intense sanding.
If you forget to sand between the primer and first finish coat, like i did, you can still just do it before you add the final coat.
A happy accident, sanding after applying the black gave this once janky armoire just the character it needed. Sanded as normal and sans the third coat, this ancient witch’s closet now has a story.
The hardware even looks good.
Tagged with armoire, craigslist, DIY, furniture, haunted, janky, refinishing
Yes, i sometimes use a smiley in lieu of a period :]
And that is ok.
To use both would be redundant, creating an uncomfortably long pause between sentences. Not to mention the potential confusion created by the period hanging out above the smiley.
. :]
Is it a mole? An off center bindi?
There are some things a period just can’t say.
I’ll see what i can do, but it is generally considered sacrilegious to design wedding invitations for a friend.
I’ll see what i can do, but it is generally considered sacrilegious to design wedding invitations for a friend :p
Admittedly, i profusely exact the power of emoticons in combination with variations of lolz in casual conversation.
id b riting this blog n lol speak rite now if wuldn’t strip my credibility ^_^
That is where the problem arises.
It is not generally considered professional or best practice to smiley with a client. Especially not before the third date. Forget all rofls.
Increasingly, business interactions can be handled without ever exchanging so much as a voice conversation. I have to choose who to be: bitch or teenager. Where is the middle road?
Tagged with clients, emoticons, language, telecommuting
Yelp has an incentive program called Yelp Elite.
Chosen somewhat subjectively by a National Elite Committee, Yelp Elite is Yelp’s “way of recognizing some of our most active and influential members.”
What about the long tail?
Yelp’s attempt to establish leadership in their community presents the potential to ostracize casual users. The promise: “Real People. Real Reviews.” relies on the power of the collective voice. There exists no power in a hand-picked group of super-users if they are the only users willing to write reviews on a regular basis.
These incentives would be better directed toward users who review less or not at all. The super-users are not going anywhere. If they are the only ones that stay, then everyone else will move on.
Ninth Letter is an award-winning literary journal produced by the School of Art and Design in conjunction with the Department of English at the University of Illinois.
Where We’re At segments are brief narrative profiles concerning happenings in central Illinois. Where We’re At segments can be found at www.ninthletter.com. note: this segment was not published.
Featured Artist segments are brief interpretive works about relevant contemporary artists. Featured artist segments can be found at www.ninthletter.com
Chapter 10: The visual metaphors in this chapter emphasize feelings of loneliness, isolation, and frustration.
Chapter 12: More surrealistic in nature, this chapter’s symbols focus on anonymity and speak with color. The impermanence the girl detective feels in her life is represented by the question: what is home?.
role: conceptualization, videography, sound design, editing, production. collaboration with Samuel Copeland, Fabiola Elias, Mark Hauge, Andrew Nguyen and Brett Tabolt
Where We’re At segments are brief narrative profiles concerning happenings in central Illinois. Where We’re At segments can be found at www.ninthletter.com
role: sound design, editing, production. collaboration with Borami Kang
Tagged with bitch and the exciting conclusion, kelly link, ninth letter, the woodbox gang, Video
The former identity for Champaign, IL cupcake bar Cakes on Walnut. This identity and its accompanying collateral exemplify the sophisticated whimsy around which the business model is centered.
role: conceptualization, design, production. collaboration with rebecca nasadowski
My identity for this wholistic wellnesscenter, a mark reminiscent of a tandem bike, is about teamwork.
The print piece that accompanies it uses the same ideas of partnership to make the audience comfortable with a sometimes confusing and frustrating topic. Nostalgic imagery is used to further that concept of comfort with the material.
role: conceptualization, design, production
In his lecture, Dr. Raghavan discussed the importance of collaborations between social and mathematical sciences in order to move beyond the current notion of web 2.0.
The imagery used here communicates that concept by depicting a world in which the city is the motherboard, and vice-versa. The lines that separate the two realms are increasingly unclear. As Dr. Raghavan argued, the most influential research in the future of the web will “require heavy interaction between these “hard” and “soft” sciences.”
The typography helps to further iterate the metaphor by interesecting the planes of the landscape, much in the same way the landscapes intersect each other.
role: conceptualization, design, production.
Ninth Letter is an award-winning literary journal produced by the School of Art and Design in conjunction with the Department of English at the University of Illinois. www.ninthletter.com
Henry Fiol emobodies the charisma, attitude, and most of all, music of its title character.
Pages appear in the Fall 2007 issue of Ninth Letter.
role: design, production. collaboration with Jessica Mullen
Natural’s Not In It is comprised of layers of information that reveal and build upon themselves.
Spreads appear in the Fall 2007 issue of Ninth Letter.
role: design, production. collaboration with Jessica Mullen
Conceptually exploring the fine line between reality and fantasy, the figures give the audience a sense of being watched. The typographic illustration enables the cover to speak both about the journal’s design and literary content.
role: design, production
Tagged with ninth letter, publication design
Developed for an audience of potential undergraduates, this brochure folds out into a poster that can be hung as a constant reminder of the wonders of studying Computer Science at the University of Illinois. This piece also gives a more human dimension to the identity of the department by utilizing hand-made elements and tactile paper.
The 8-bit bytes that comprise the poster spell “subliminal message” in binary code.
role: conceptualization, design, production
This piece introduces subtle human elements to the University of Illinois Department of Computer Science’s otherwise stark identity system. A technical landscape is established and then accented throughout with metaphors for growth, connection and rebirth, all concepts relevant to the audience of friends and alumni of the department.
role: conceptualization, design, production
Looking to solidify its image as a leader of innovation in the field, the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois sought a bold and modern newsletter for the spring of 2008. This piece establishes the department as a no-holds-barred, ahead of the curve, force to be reckoned with with its intense palette, atypical typography, and lush photography.
role: conceptualization, design, production
Tagged with alumni newsletter, Print
ITI’s redesign uses dynamic information graphics to aid navigation. Each rectangle next to a navigation item represents an item in the sub-navigation. Rolling over these items presents a preview of the breadcrumb trail associated with that sub-nav item. This site communicates with its audience, mostly engineers, analytically to create a rich user experience with fewer clicks.
role: design. collaboration with Jessica Mullen. developed by Jeff Merrick.
Redesigned existing website to be accessible, organized, and easy to update. Implemented a content management system.
role: design. collaboration with Jessica Mullen and Jeff Merrick
This site is currently in development.
The site creates a dynamic, informative and engaging web presence that clearly illustrates leadership in computer science education and research. By incorporating a tag cloud in the site navigation and showing a preview of content when rolling over a link, the site visit is quicker and allows the user to browse faster with less clicks.
The background imagery is a dynamic data visualization that is driven by data collected in the living laboratory that is the Thomas M. Siebel Center
role: design. collaboration with Jessica Mullen
Tagged with counseling center, department of computer science, illinois, information trust institute, uiuc, uofi, Web Design
