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photo: factory at dawn

Meg — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:45:36 +0000

A while ago in March I took some pictures by my house behind the old Real Fresh plant. Mind you I just got off work at 5:30am from an overnight sift so I was basically taking pictures when I was half asleep. I really should have had a tripod, but it has been m.i.a. since I moved. I was paranoid somebody was going to come along and try to mug me for my camera when I was taking pictures, no such thing happened.

These were the two best that weren’t all fuzzy >.<

heineken

Meg — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:01:36 +0000

Here’s the first project I worked on for my internship! I mocked up a few hypothetical Heineken posters.

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Doodle Girl

Meg — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 22:10:52 +0000

I just made this little random doodle girl in 30 mins in illustrator. I got the inspiration from watching a cartoonist video online. I thought to myself, I can do that: draw a simple shape figure! I tryed it on paper real quick and then on the computer, the computer one came out better.

This isn’t particularly special, but at least its something creative for the day and I tried something new!

On a side note I’ve been thinking about something I could do for a project that would dead with art or just creativity. I’ve been playing with the idea of making zine, and making it available online for free. Or just now I thought about making a web comic (ie xkcd)out of these kind of figures. And I have even thought about the cliche project of taking a self portrait every day for a year. The first two I would have to seriously sit down and think through how I would execute my ideas and think about content/story ideas. While the 365 photos sounds easy to do, i just have to remember to do it.

I mostly want to do something because I’m afraid of losing my creative and artsy edge. I don’t want to lose who I am! I feel like loving art and making art is who I am. Without that then I would be just a girl floating by with no ambition, sure she went to college, sure she works in retail, but who is she really? I want to be a person who does things!

Gotta Love Flowcharts

Meg — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:19:22 +0000

Here’s Meg’s Charm’s flowchart, hopefully I can get it all finished soon so there woun’t be any 404 or wrong content pages. There is a lot to do! Since I changed the layout all of the sizes of the images have changed so there’s resizing, making image links and putting up the rest of the content. It will be nice to finish the rest of the website!

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p.s .I might not get a lot done next week due to 5 days of overnighters at work /sigh

Project 1 – final

Meg — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:57:09 +0000

Renewable Energy Content Map 11×17″

Renewable Energy Poster 15×20″

Here are my final versions for the first project in graphic design 105 this semester. I don’t mean to brag but I got an A on both! This will be the last time you see these two, promise. Now its time to work on project 2: brochure.

Project Three, finaly

Meg — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:40:11 +0000

Here we are at the end of the semester with only days left, and I haven’t yet put up the third project from graphic design class. I can’t feel to bad because the teacher hasn’t handed them back yet graded. The triangle piece was the item turned in, this did not stay 2d this was made into a 3d triangle object. This wasn’t exactly a challenging project, it just got my mind thinking in a different way. The cylinder down at the button was a runner up for this project, but it would have been harder to construct and I was taken more with the triangle form.

Here are the instructions the class used:

Use either a cylinder, rectangle or triangle in a 3d manner.
Must use words or phrases.
Must have some opposing aspect to composition whether it be with the object or text.
Must use 3 pantone colors, able to use screens and the color white.

Project 2

Meg — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:47:15 +0000

This is project 2 for graphic design, I’m running a bit behind on updating you on my projects. I’ll put up the third project soon. As you can tell this one is still with I’m still working with the tomatillo, I’ve gotten pretty close to the tomatillo, all my projects have to deal with it. Here is the project description:

Panel A: object w/ text where the text is more hierarchical than the object
Panel B: object w/ text where the object is more hierarchical than the text
Panel C: object in a composition with 3 pantone colors

I actually pretty happy with how this came out, I liked messing with the text and the object. Enjoy!

Pieces of my hand

Meg — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:14:33 +0000

Pieces of my hand by meg

So I had a little creative juice after work today, and this is what I made. There are 8 photos all together, wow I though there was more, maybe I should ad more photos. It’s probably a bit cliche, but hey, I made it! Let me know what you guys think.

Meg — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:26:18 +0000

Freya picking her strawberries photo by meg

Inverted Bookself

Meg — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:49:12 +0000

If you haven’t heard about the Instructables web site yet, you should know about it now! This site is all about instructions, just like the how to books that my dad has. They have step by step instructions for everything from cooking cakes to electronics to making a business card with mints (??), well you get the idea.

One of the project that caught my interest was the inverted bookshelf, it such an imaginative way to use a self. This way will give your walls a new look and impress your friends and family. I suggest if you are a girl to use a different kind of self, or at least paint it, and use a more decorative bracket. I was also thinking if there was any possible way to make the top of the shelf hold books too. Living in a studio has made me want to utilize all the space in the best way possible. It looks like you can add some nick-naks on top, at least.