Opening: Popstars and Cokeheads at Kai Lin tomorrow

Hands On Atlanta ReBrand: Phase I

step 1: DEFINE.

1. What do you offer? Define the qualities of this.

FROM SITE: "A wide assortment of flexible volunteer opportunities for individuals, families, corporate and community groups."

2.What are the core values of what you offer? What are the core values of your company?

Service, individual's potential, partnerships, diversity, civic engagement, volunteer leadership, volunteer innovation.

3.What is your mission?

FROM SITE:

"Hands On Atlanta builds community and meets critical needs through volunteer service and civic engagement."

"...building community and meeting critical needs in schools, parks, senior homes, food banks, pet shelters, low-income neighborhoods and more."

4. Any Specializations within your company?

Volunteer placement.

5. Target audience market?

People in Metro Atlanta healthy enough to volunteer.

6. Existing tagline or slogan? What message is it sending?

"Do Something Good" Provides a call to action, encouraging people to actively make a positive impact on the world.

7. From the answers you've gathered so far, what is a personality/character that could represent you? (Celebrity, car, etc.)

Elton John

What qualities about this character stand out? Is the personality innovative, creative, energetic, or sophisticated?

As a knighted, gay man, with a flamboyant fashion sense, he represents some of the company's core values; diversity, service, and individual potential.

8. How does this personality interact with your target audience? Which qualities get the attention of your audience?

He is a local at times (he has a condo in Buckhead) and very well known. His accent and fashion sense gets him noticed by the general public, and of course his fame will get him noticed.

9. Review your answers, create a profile, describe the personality with words just as if you were writing a personal ad. be creative.

Non Profit Company for Special App

Hands On Atlanta is basically a volunteer placement program for local organizations/schools/etc. People who want to volunteer can go to Hands On and find out wthe details of how and where to volunteer.

I chose them because I love what they do, but they need help. For example.

Tutorial I'm Using for Flash Music Video

I am going to speed up the fade and overall movement so it creates quick transitions that react nicely to the tempo of the song.

The tutorial is here

Atlanta Printmaker's Studio Open House

APS Open House was good this year, food, wine, education, and tons of awesome art for sale.

I bought this print:

It was part of a series they did last year called, "The Art of Democracy." I added it to my slow growing poster wall:

My Self Portrait

SAVOR & SWILL

The header/logo for my spread:

Since I made up my own recipe for the turkey burgers, I wanted to pair it with a great beverage to support it's unique taste. Michelle and I had a sake bloody mary when we were in Brooklyn-it was the best thing I've ever drank, so I thought it would make my burger look really good.

Photo from Michelle's Facebook

Cooking w Jobekel - Turkey Burgers

1 lb ground turkey

1/3 c olive oil

6 grape tomatoes, sliced

1/2 c diced onions

1 chopped garlic clove

1/2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley

Heat garlic, onions, & olive oil in skillet over med-lo 4-5 min.

In bowl, mix garlic, oil, & onions with turkey & tomatoes..

Divide final mixture into four equal, circular parts.

Cook in same pan over medium-lo heat.

Finished when crisp on both sides.

Self Portrait

Since school is my life right now, I want my portrait to express how it makes me feel. The feeling of not knowing where I'll be after graduation, a sort of lost feeling that it gives me. And even though there are those feelings of being sort of lost, I am also excited and ready to get out there and be scared, ready to start looking for a job, a place in the design world that is not as a college student anymore. I want this to look very graphic designy, yes that's a word.

GSU Student Media Poster

Camp MODA Revision - Opening up the Space

T-Shirts Didn't Fly...

But that's okay, b/c they've been made before apparently...

http://www.zazzle.com/shell_yeah_blue_tshirt-235860986418275105

Idea for GSU Night at the Aquarium Shirt

3 Posters and a Mailer

Mailer: Back. Last years mailer seemed like it had the back upside down, I chose to correct it so it reads more like a greeting card on both sides.

Mailer: Front

Posters:

Corrected Photos

The original pictures are on the left, corrected on the right.

As you can see, I chose to leave the pastel color on the blocks. By adjusting the levels though, the color isn't so faded, also the natural state on the wood is really highlighted, making it much more interesting to look at.

In the edited photo, I put three M's in a row to add depth and perspective. This is meant to simply add more interest in the photo.

As with all the photos, I tilted the letter to add perspective, this again, makes it much more interesting to look at.

Some of these photos can still use some work with the clone stamping, but overall, you can see where I'm going with the treatment. Some of the edges look a little jagged because they are screenshots form Illustrator, and you know how photos look in illustrator, not as crisp until they print.

Camp MODA Photo Shoot

Still playing with settings on my camera. I was planning on shooting with GRD's light box and DA's D80 in class today, but since the deadline got moved up, I had to use my resources. I was going to come in on sunday, bc our wonderful teacher (shout out to Stan the man) was going to let me do that, but scheduling was problematic... Anwyay, I did the best I could, and with some color correcting of the photos below, I will be able to come up with better pics.

Designing with Legos

Photography: Chia Lin Wong

Lego Design: Justin Godbey

Model: Mario Segarra

Logo for JFRS

Here is the black and white version for the Jewish Federation for Research Science

Accidental Logos

Maybe these fake companies will form out of thin air and hire me to do their logo...

Beadtoberfest

I've come to terms with losing the legos in my poster. Because I am not using legos, I will not use the building blocks either. The next concept is "CAMP" out of beads. I would like to think of a way to incorporate environmental Coke, but I'm no really sure what activities are involved in that. For some reason I chose to start with the last letter. P is done, I would like to knock out the other letters soon so I can photograph them and get working on poster designs. I also need to work on a secondary idea in case this one doesn't work out. A type poster probably.

My Weekend at the Lake

Bloody mary, beads, blocks, legos, a macbook, and a lake. What more could you ask for?

I just read though, that Camp MODA will not have legos as an activity. That is not good news for my poster design because I wanted to spell "Camp" out of different objects. See above, the lego M, I was going to do a learning blocks A and a cool beads P. Maybe I will do it all out of beads now??

Damn...

An Odd Connection

The Sunil's Home website, that John Milam and I designed, was featurd on Perez Hilton's blog this morning. A very odd connection, but great exposure for the charity.

Check out the comments, they are very interesting

Wine & Roses Gala 2010 : A Benefit for the Cystic Fibrosis Cure

The Wine and Roses Gala is an event that happens once a year. It is a black tie event with dinner, a silent auction, and of course, wine and roses. I believe the roses are used as part of the silent auction and as an overall elegant theme to the event. It raises a lot of money that goes towards the cure of Cystic Fibrosis. YOU can be part of the silent auction! If you would like to put your out into the world, get a line on your resume, and raise some money by doing something you enjoy, you should consider donating a piece to the auction. Painting, drawing, ceramics, a basket of one-of-a-kind pieces (including maybe a 13month typographical calendar). If you ar eintersted please contact me, so many would appreciate your support-and spread the word!

Anyway, below are 4 uses of the logo I created for the event. Shauna, Michelle, John, and Nathan helped me with color choice, so thanks for that guys! I think these will look grat on signs, auction forms, etc. I hope it is clear what it is, but in case it's not, it's a wine glass/rose.