February 2012
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Viral...ish?
One of my friends just showed me that her friend from home reset her Blackberry picture as my art-science-wonder Venn diagram! And I’ve seen it on a few blogs now, too, not just tumblr. And it shows up in Google image searches.
WHY DIDN’T I WATERMARK IT
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Vector Drawing
[shift+c], convert points from curve to straight
[A], go to white point selection arrow
[cmd+J], join two endpoints
[C], cut a line segment
[+], add a point
[-], subtract a point
[P], go to pen tool
and countless other keyboard shortcuts that I don’t know.
Conclusion: Illustrator should just be able to read my mind.
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This is a Disease
Just spent the better part of an hour voluntarily replacing hideous lavender comic-sans drop-shadowed letters spelling out “*STUDENT*LIFE!*” with 630-point Gotham book, NYUAD-purple ones spelling “STUDENT♦LIFE”. Purely because I would have died a little inside every time I saw our brand so badly misrepresented.
Now the bulletin board is on-brand, and I have officially...
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“Printed materials bring information transfer rates in presentations up to that of everyday material in newspaper sports and financial pages, books, and internet news sites. An excellent paper size for presentation handouts is A3 [or A4]…that one piece of paper shows the content-equivalent of 50 to 240 typical powerpoint slides. Thoughtful handouts demonstrate to the audience that...
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Adolphe Mouron Cassandre
Cassandre is my new hero. He created the most iconic graphics and typefaces of the Art Deco period and, in many ways, defined the values of contemporary graphic design. Simplicity, strong shapes, powerful and previously unseen relationships between image and text—even using text as image—and the very idea of condensing an image to its purest elements and most recognizable form.
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Today I learned about the system (chemoreceptors, glomeruli, and neurons) that allows us to process smell.
Also saw this picture of the Carina Nebula.
There’s too much wonder in the universe for me to handle.
(Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology and European Southern Observatory)
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Online Portfolio! →
Starting to look for summer jobs (a little late, I know) at design firms…and now I have an online portfolio! So fancy! Not much there yet, but I’m hoping to at least double the amount by the end of this semester. It’s a little clunky because it’s a desperate attempt to make a blogging platform work like a website for me. Yay free URLs!
Now to update my CV. So...