Semester Portfolio Review

Hey everybody,

This semester is officially over for me, as i have just written the last few words of my last philosophy paper.  It is a good feeling.  This morning i had an 8 AM final, which consisted of writing 3 essays that i completed in 35 minutes.  I was worried about having enough time to finish because i had a portfolio review at 10...silly me...i should just listen to Amber when she that i would be fine on time and stop fretting about silly things.  So, after finishing my final, i burned off about 45 minutes sitting in Kaldi's playing games on my iphone.  I then moved over to the art building and set up the display for my portfolio review.  I was never nervous about this semester's review because i knew i had done some pretty good work over the past few months.  The review consisted of the four directors of the graphic design/interactive design department at maryville walking in, looking at all my work, and telling me what they thought was good about it and what was bad about it.  To my surprise, they had no bad things to say about any of my work.  My graphic design and web design teachers both proceeded to say that I probably produced the best work of anyone in both of those classes.  I really do try to push myself to set the curve in my classes, and i guess that does actually pay off if it's a genuine effort.  It was a huge confidence booster and refresher to keep pushing my abilities to what they can be.  A very good day, overall.  Very happy.

Jacob.

Sorry...

orry for the long break everyone...i got engaged monday night.  In case any one that reads this didn't know.  I can't think of a more exciting time of my life than the last week.  Amber is an incredible person and i can't think of spending the rest of my life on earth with anyone else.  All that being said...I've been working on invitations since we started talking about marriage.  I have been working on one the past 3 days and i showed Amber and we both decided we loved it, so it will be the one we are printing.

As always, the quality is a really low on here, but you get the picture.  She likes the idea of it folding in from both ends into kind of a square.  I really like the characters and the idea for the dress.  Being that it is my own wedding, i have been pretty over the top picky about all the graphic stuff and colors and such.  I really like how this is going so far.  I may add some more stuff to it besides text, but we'll just have to see about.  This is all i have time to write tonight though.  I'll be updating again the next few days.

Thanks for reading,

Jacob

Poster Design

So, our final project in my graphic design class was to design a poster with a theme of "respect."  It could be respect for pretty much anything (human rights, animal rights, etc.).  Posters are easy to look at and say "wow that looks neat." and then move on, without actually thinking more about how much thought and time went into the concept and creation of the work.  I'm pretty proud of this design and really liked going through the struggle of coming up with a good concept behind this one.  It still feels a bit unfinished to me, but i like what i have so far.

Hey again,

A crest I've been working on for myself.  I might start putting it on my work when it is still under development.  Started as a sketch in philosophy.

- Jacob.

Old memories...

I was just looking through some of my older stuff and came across this shirt design I did for Cindy Wells last summer.  I started looking at it and i think it is one of my favorite things i have ever done.  I drew the hand in photoshop WITHOUT  a tablet (drew it with my mouse) and exported it to illustrator.  I thought it held some really powerful imagery from what Christ did for us at the cross.  She sent one of the printed shirts home with my mom for me, but unfortunately it's about 3 sizes too big :(  Oh well.  Still a job well done, in my opinion.

Happy Birthday to me.

Hey everyone,

Yes, it is my birthday.  No, i didn't do much of anything.  Went to lunch with my brother and ruined Amber's surprise lunch for me.  Woops.  I still love her more than anyone i know.  So, no bigs.

I apparently didn't know that my work was in such high demand.  I arrived at church last night only to be slammed by my new readers comments on my lack of material for this blog thus far.  Who knew?  Just like that "Pink" song.  I think.

Anyway...this will probably be a really long, elaborate post, which most likely won't happen very often, but i have a lot of stuff i'd like to put up in this post.  I'll start off with a logo i've been working on for a lady i met at work one day.  She is a small business owner.  Her and her husband are management consultants.  They resolve systematic conflicts within a corporation and give a direction toward a brighter future for a business.  Like i said, i met her at apple one day and she e-mailed me a few weeks later and things got rolling.  I've been working on this logo for about a

 month now and i feel like I'm actually earning the $700 I'll make from it eventually :).  I guess they like me enough that they want me to put to

gether their web presence as well after we finish up the logo.  I guess only time will tell on all that.  Here goes:

This was the first round of development.  This was after five or six pages of sketches in my sketchbook.  I was a particular fan of the very first one in the burnt orange and black.

I just realized how low quality this are.  Sorry...in the name of loading the page somewhat quickly i reduced the jpg quality way down.  Deal with it.  I'm not a fan of how i'm having to upload these pictures either.  Maybe i'm doing it wrong too...i'll ask my wonderful sister-in-law Beth how she does it sometimes...furthermore, more of the first round of developements.

I just found out i'm missing one of the pages of the development.  Anyways...after the first set, she picked one she liked and i put a few different spins on it.  Typically enough, the one she picked is a custom typeface.  Meaning, i didn't just type the words 

from a font on my computer... i drew them all with my mouse.  Fortunately, typography is probably my favorite thing about design, so i am really enjoying reworking this and seeing how many ways it can work.

Round 4:

And in the end....

Like i said, this probably wouldn't have been my pick for the identity of her business, but in the end, i guess it's not as much about what i want as it is what she wants for her money.  For the final polished version, we will probably combine a bit from both of the last ones on here, but you get an overall idea.

As i expected, i've become exhausted from this long entry, so i will retire for the evening.  Sorry if this was too long to enjoy, but i really would like this blog to be maybe a bit more than just something i write in every once in a while.  Art is inspiring, creative, unique, personal, whatever you want it to be, so feel free to comment on the work i've done.  Also, check back in the next few days for another update and you SHOULD not be disappointed.

Thanks for reading,

Jacob.

A new beginning.

Hey everyone...first post ever.  I've kind of thought about having something like this for the art I've currently got going, whether it be for school or for fun.  It may take me a bit to get some things up and posted, sometime....i will.  So check back for the good news and i'll try to get it to you!

Thanks,

jacob.