So Perfect

I love Toothpaste for Dinner (and Married to the Sea and Natalie Dee)
They are such a creative source of relief. Daily

Crunch

Self induced piles of paper work flood in after I foolishly mailed them out to gain signatures from clients. Now I must process them all and send half the stack back to clients... it hurts me to know how many trees I'm killing! Can't wait for paperless.

Logo development hasn't strayed far from sketches in free time as dedicated creative time doesn't exist. It can't be scheduled (yet) and it isn't an obvious priority to the office yet. Still teaching them. I get to present the logos I've worked on to our client and I realized I have no cutting mat or Exacto knives to cut the illustration board that I haven't purchased yet.
That's so funny to me!

Such is life stretching the creative limits of a marketing company.

Next bold step I'm holding out for, telling them our logo sucks and showing them our stationery system needs a revamp!
Tah-tah

AIGA Elbow rubbing + Reflection on what got me here

I attended a social networking event last night at a local pub, sponsored by AIGA Indy chapter. My friend from Purdue who graduated 3 years ahead of me in VCD invited me and I had a blast, met a lot of people and got to mingle with people like me! It's kinda tough working in an office as the only creative staff. While fun at times, it's hard to completely relate. I hadn't felt like I could just exhale until I got there. Glad I went.

Having not been a member in college, I really didn't know what I was in for. Not to the discredit of my peers' efforts at Purdue, the whole organization in undergrad was a bit political and to pay dues to participate didn't make as much sense to me. Holding a full 19 credit hour semester most of the time and 2 internships on campus with 26 hours going there plus all that homework.... oh yeah and being an active member in 2 other organizations and a little marching band participation.... I valued my free time (and the rare occasion I let myself have a night at the Cactus, as short as I had to keep it because of my internship hours Friday. The Pianoman made my troubles go away for a little while). But all the that strain and stress made it worth it and I earned a job doing what I'd studied and practiced. But my class room know how would have been NOTHING if I hadn't participated in other campus activities. It helped with networking directly into my seat in my medium sized office.

You too can make it. A lot of design work, a little Pianoman, a little sleep and a lot of drive.
Aaaaaaaand this posting has become quite the Hallmark Channel presentation. Sorry.

Simple Pleasures

Yesterday, was taken to lunch to celebrate coworker's 2 year anniversary with the company.

Today, gave a presentation to a local University about developing a youth logo. Explored all the different facets to consider: stances, personality, accessories, abstract/realistic... It was fun and there's a lot of information I can take with me to further the mark now as it grows...
This is the fun part!

Half Way There

Living on a prayer...

One of the benefits of working in the collegiate industry is that work flow echoes activity on campuses. People go home the day before Thanksgiving thus work slows in the office. We might get to go home early. We even get the day after Thanksgiving off!

I'm told that winter holiday time reflects much of the same activity, with our campus contacts out of the office for more than a week. Maybe I'll get a winter break too?!

Slow times = catch up times + creative down time that lets me do REAL creative work.
As for now, I'll probably use the slow time today to go home early and clean my apartment as God only knows my later hours (6pm, sometimes 7pm) working at the office kill my ability to keep up the homestead right now- a habit that will have to change.