I finished up my last final EVER yesterday! It feels like my birthday, I don’t feel older, but I know I am older. Of course I’m excited, but I feel like nothing has changed. I feel like I haven’t done enough work to get a degree. Silly of me, huh?

I did want to show you my last project for graphic design class. This was my first attempt to using flash. The class had the option to use either photoshop or flash to animate at 15 second animation. I gave photoshop a chance since it looked easier to use but the tweening was crappy and the animation as a whole was choppy.  I learned flash in an evening watching video tutorial on youtube. I was much happier with flash it ran much smoother. Converting it it gif was another problem on its own.

So what is going to happen after I graduate? Tim and I are moving back back to Visalia. Some people here (SJ) don’t understand why we are moving back to what they believe is a middle of nowhere town. But to us its not a middle of nowhere town. We have our family and support system there; it is so much cheaper and we able to afford the living coasts; we have connections to help us find the jobs we need; and it is home to us. I believe that we will be so much happier once we move back and start over in a different place.

We found a cute apartment that is a triplex that looks like house. Its secluded and quite, which its the noise that bothers us the most in San Jose. It has  a dishwasher, central air, back yard, and hook up for a washer and dryer. There are two bedrooms, a large kitchen and living room. We couldn’t be more excited to move to a bigger and better place for over 25% less in costs.

Right now I have to worry about getting everything packed and organized in a small space. I had to give up my desk for 2 weeks to make room for boxes. I need to get everything organized for this upcoming weekend with graduation ceremony and Fanime. And finally making sure we have everything in place and ready to go when we move in the beginning of June.

Just turned in yesterday, here is my second project of the semester for graphic design. It is an A6 envelope size folded like this:

Now on to next project of making a 3d object with the same theme. We’ll see how it turns out!

Update: sent out graduation invitations yesterday. Makes it feel so official. I need to start looking around for a job/internship!

ps please don’t steal my work, copyright Megan Berry.

So here is my second option for the poster assignment on renewable energy. The teacher likes this concept better than the gas masked earth so I thought I would try it out. I like the color scheme, I might change the orange to red if it look to traffic cone like. The out going circles seem to be a bit awkward, maybe I can mess with those. It looks better when you blow up the image to full size (20×15). This isn’t due for another week, but still get to see what he says tomorrow.

Its the start of a new semester, and hopefully they last, this also means a set of new graphic design projects all having to deal with renewable energy. The first project is a combination of two items a content map and a poster. This is my version of a content map on renewable energy. Its still a rough so don’t judge. There are so many different content maps out there and mine are not anything like them.

I was planing on redoing it after seeing everyone’s version and how they are graph like and organized different, but it ended up the teach liked it! Yay! Still a lot of work to go and 3 poster roughs due Tuesday.

ps sorry for crappy version of image

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.

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!

I’ve been working on the first project of the semester for my graphic design class. There are 3 parts to it 1 a) hand sketching of the object, b) rendering of the same object c) taking the object a step farther exploring the possibilities with the object. This couldn’t just any ol’ object we could choose from a tomatillo, yo-yo, clothes pin (wooden) or an adjustable wrench. I did the tomatillo- upside down.

I’m not going to show my drawing because it looks like crap next to the vectorized images, even though the teacher likes it. First image is part of b (actually made this morning!) and the other 2 are for part b, I need to decide which one I want to develop a little more. Which one do you like better?

All works are copyrighted and all rights go to Megan Berry

I’ve been so horrible- from a couple posts a day to BAM! none for over a month. I can’t think of any particular reason why, so I have non to give. I do plan on trying to be better about posts. To catch up on Meg’s life:

My sister had baby number 2, a girl on August 28th 8:50 am. Unfortunately I was unable to make it see my new niece but I hear that she looks like my dad and that my sister had an easy birth and short labor. I can’t wait to go back to Visalia to see her.

I present to you Haleigh Mae Fowler (pronounced Holly) with grandpa and big sis.

School started a couple of weeks ago. I hope to graduate in the spring, if everything goes right *crosses fingers* Who knows what will happen? (a rant about school comming soon)

Before school started work was scheduling me a ton of hours, not that I minded or anything I just wasn’t use to it. It seemed like things were slow for a while there and then all of a sudden we picked up! I think they would promote me there if I hadn’t have school. Damn school! Always in they way! (Just kidding) A part of me wants to get promoted so I can do better, but I know that wont spend the rest of my career there. I’m grateful and humble to have a job because I know that a lot of people out there don’t and are having troubles.

Tree of Life by meg

Man! Its been busy since Fanime getting stuff done for school, and working at the same time. At least I’m working more hours since school is out for the summer, yay more money! As for school  after I registered I had to pay for class just two days after!  Now they didn’t tell me anything about having to pay for classes just 2 days after registering, those damn money nazis! I was able to get on their payment plan for paying for school $45o a month till October. There goes my savings. . .

As you can tell I have changed the lay out, I liked the other one but not everyone was able to see the formatting. I’m hoping with this layout that people everywhere is able to see it. It does have the same basic ideas of the other, but with this one I need to change the photo size so that when you click on them you don’t get the side bar in the middle of the pic. This lay out also doesn’t show the pages that I have set up of my portfolios, links and about. So I’m trying to play around with code a bit to see if I can manually try and get some buttons on the page under the banner. I might be able to make in dreamweaver. So if you see something funny on the front page don’t be alarmed, its just me messing around. edit: disregard this paragraph, I have changed things once again.

As for the photo goes, this is lil Davenport being shy for photo so he turns his head hince making his hair look like a sauve shampoo comerical. I looks kinda cool.