Weird attitude.

Migraine. Ugh.

Yet music is the only thing that soothes it ironically enough.

Well it's been ten years, and a thousand tears
And look at the mess I'm in-
A broken nose and a broken heart,
An empty bottle of gin

Well I sit and I pray
In my broken down Chevrolet-
While I'm singin' to myself
There's got to be another way


Good things and bad things going on this week.
My tortoise is sick :(
I know I have to take her to the vet, but I'm dreading the bill. Oh exotic animals.

I'm getting a lot of work done though, which is always a plus.
Although, I don't want to know what the last two or three weeks of this quarter are going to be like...including preview.



Can you believe it's February next week?

Who doesn't want this?

Helvetica cookie cutters! Beverly Hsu came up with a graphic designer/baker's dream! Once these are mass produced I'm getting on that bandwagon. I mean, seriously, what isn't better than eating the one thing that frustrates a designer?

Time for life lessons.
Had an interesting past weekend. Finally got my trunk finished even though I was in gut-wrenching pain. I just wanted it done to get rid of the jig saw.
Met up with the ex to give the saw back, I pretty much just wanted to drop it off in the mail box, but I knew he had unfinished business.

Here's the thing: don't fuck with me. Once you've hurt me over and over again I have nothing left to do with you, and yet you still try to argue.
The only nice thing that came out of the meeting is that I was reassured that I made the right decision.
I've heard it all before, "I'm sorry," "It won't happen again," "I'm different now," "I'm going through a lot of shit," it's nothing new to me. And frankly, it doesn't ever work. It always ends up being the same story and I hate being repetitive. Made that mistake too many times in the past and ended completely beat down.

I wasn't going to let it happen again.

Okay, last one for now.

I found another package design. Pinky's Cupcakes. 3 packages: individual cupcakes box (found the most badass dieline ever) which is on the far left. Top middle and the white one is a cupcake mix gift set. The white box goes inside the 2 sleeves that pull apart. The middle is a gift card box that has a ribbon. Once again...photos needed. There is also a menu as collateral. The pinks came out way too bright in the jpegs, they're much more subtle. It's okay for now...but I think it's going to need reworking.

Oh well.

I love cupcakes. This project made me find The Atlanta Cupcakes Factory which is amazing. So worth it making the trip downtown for a damn cupcake. I mean, they have chocolate salted pretzel!! YUM.

Corporate Identity.

I fly kites. Not cheesy shitty little kites. Big kites. 3.3 meter parafoils to be exact. Them bitches will lift you off the ground and drag you down the beach. Tried a little kite boarding (sand not sea) too but ate dirt lol.

This type of kite. In case you're wondering.

Haven't done it since I went to St. Augustine last (one of my fav places by the way!) but I'll do it again.

Anyway, so I created a kite company selling both those little kites and stunt, sport, and kiteboarding kites and accessories.

There's also a brand standards manual. Once again, I need to take pictures.

2 different business cards depending on your level in the company.

2 different letterheads. The one on an angle is external mail to help develop the brand. The straight is for quick internal mail.

Direct Mail Piece.

This looks like shit on paper. But trust me it's pretty cool. The way the mailer folds out is actually like a flower. I really need to photograph it for preview to show it. Anyway, it's an invitational for a summer jazz series, nothing special, just a fold I liked. It goes into a transparent vellum envelope, and I designed it so that the white areas are what show under where USPS regulation needs to go so there is no problem mailing it.

Pasta Brochure.

This started as a 3-color project. Frankly, I don't know what it was (well I do but I'm just going to leave it out) but I completely hated Intermediate Layout. It sucked. And so did this project at first. Everything is based on a modular grid. I ended up breaking the grid, because I understand baseline grids and everything but come on who the fuck wants to be that structured!

Probably one of my favorites.

Catalog design. I decided to go with Christmas ornaments, unique ones. Who doesn't love ornaments?

All of these are ones my mom has collected over the years, mainly from Poland. Everything is original photography except the photographs in boxes.

I like how clean the layout came out without being too cheesy.

And I picked the best ornaments to go in here.

Polish heritage on the cover. Totally. Hehe.