logo idea.

new vision statement. maybe I got it thees time? Feels like me! 

Driven by passion for the art of verbal and visual communication, I am an artist seeking the experience and joy of connecting with others that work towards a greater cause.

I fell in love with Victor Metron today. His Vimeo account only has 6 videos but they are all beautiful and inspiring, with natural images relaying by screen just how powerful Earth is.

Time from Metron on Vimeo.

Very inspiring cinematography. And travel log..

Senior Seminar, connecting the dots

Goals, What are my goals right now for this course/preparation for the perfect job search creeping upon me?
-identity & logo, ready for biz cards, letterheads, and branding. something that expresses my personal statement. with longevity.

personal statement: I am an artist stepping out of my comfort zone to connect with others with the intention of working towards a greater cause. I have strong values in people and nature, which leads me to live an active, hardworking lifestyle with a mindset locked on success.

-website with portfolio, contact, and professional/basic information
-resume design and card stock fully developed, ready for quick and easy updates
-prepped for bizarre interview questions and process
-proficiency in adobe cs5 & FCP (audio mixing & well-rounded understanding)
-networking options throughout semester
-internship!
-create a documentary short film about the service projects available to design/art professionals.

Community Project ideas: What can we do as a group to better our community with our skills?

-Create free Carthage event on weekends open to the community: art, design, photo tutorials for all. DIY projects. Bringing speakers, design groups, and students from the surrounding areas together. A networking block party with portfolios, music, books, speakers, etc? (More for the design community rather than Kenosha community.)
-Thrifting outreach program: urging students and the community to recycle because it is fun, cheap, artsy and unique! urge people to MAKE things rather than buy things because it is rewarding.

DESIGNER SPOTLIGHT through Shaughnessy's book 

Jessica Helfand (studied graphic design and architectural theory)-American designer and writer who defines graphic design in our book::: A visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is also an idiomatic language, a language of cues and puns and symbols and allusions, of cultural references and perceptual inferences that challenge both the intellect and the eye.:::
jobs: design consultant in New York concentrating on editorial design.
a founding writer for the Design Observer w/ Michael Bierut, William Drenttel and Rick Poynor.
speaker! speaks about engaging multiple disciplines into design such as history, science and literature.
senior critic at Yale University
WINTERHOUSE with WIlliam Drenttel-non-profit, self-initiated projects that support design education, as well as social and political initiatives.

http://designobserver.com/author.html?author=397

DESIGNER SPOTLIGHT: NEVILLE BRODY

motivated by the energies of punk when he was a design student and was not well received by his teachers. 

-became popular for his work as Art Director for The Face magazine in 1980, also gave new directions to famous british newspapers and magazines The Observer and The Guardian.

-his designs in print and museums

-launched his own design practice called RESEARCH STUDIOS in London. now has studios worldwide. *he is best known for his ability to create new visual languages for publishing and film. also does packaging design and web design.

recently: created a new font for The Times, since 1932.
-Public Enemies font


http://www.vimeo.com/7704058/  (video interview w/ work)


http://www.researchstudios.com/neville-brody/ (Brody's design practice)

Logo Process:

I am an artist stepping out of my comfort zone to connect with others with the intention of working towards a greater cause. I have strong values in people and nature, which leads me to live an active, hardworking lifestyle with a mindset locked on success.
Media Trumpet 

Share Media 

Roots Media
Media Nest

Wheels

colors: EARTH TONES
type: serifs! take me seriously. Caps.
images? PHOTOS/stillshots? nature/people/inspiration

http://www.flickr.com/photos/erikaphotoshare/sets/

"Once Zhuang Zhou dreamt that he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Zhuang Zhou. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Zhuang Zhou. But he didn't know if he was Zhuang Zhou who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Zhuang Zhou."

Zhuangzi

"If a man were to regard the states of others as they regarded their own, then who would raise up his state to attack the state of another? It would be like attacking his own...If men were to regard the families of others as they regard their own, then who would raise up his family to overthrow that of another? It would be like overthrowing his own. Now when states and cities do not attack or injure one another, is this harm or a benefit to the world? Surely it is a benefit."
-Mozi (Mo Di) 470-391 BCE

Mozi reminds me of the memoir of Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone. A boy soldier in Sierra Leone who committed, witnessed, and recovered from a time of hatred within his own country.
I like thinking that in 470 BC, we understood humanity's ruthlessness. I do not understand how we lose sight of it so frequently throughout history.