Saturday, November 28, 2009

rpInterns

I have been working on a project with the other intern at redpepper, an experiment of sorts. We're keeping a blog as a part of it. Here's our first ever post from the beginning:

"Hello and welcome. We are Lindsey Armstrong and Allison Greene, creative interns at redpepper, the fantastic advertising and strategic marketing agency in Nashville, TN. We have been extremely lucky to be chosen as interns within the creative department, The Trailer as it is known in the office.

And this is our experiment. What happens when we visually express the things we have learned while working at redpepper?

This project is an undertaking that we hope challenges us and allows us to try new things with new mediums and just create for the sake of creating. We will be using the Exquisite corpse method, where one of us will create a piece and then show only a small portion of it to the other, who will then be inspired by whatever she sees and create her own. There will be six lessons in all and we’ll show you the small images as we work, but you will have to wait to see the entire piece until it is complete! Even each of us won’t see each other’s work until then."

To date we have completed all the lessons except one and have had creative days with Stefan Sagmeister inspired typography, do it at home printmaking with erasers and photography downtown. The fun continues!

Take a look...

polaroid composites


I LOVE THESE Polaroid composites from Juan Felipe Rubio
lovely.
Check out the rest on his flickr.

diy crazy

Lately all I can think about is DIY projects. I have been searching and compiling a list of all the things I want to do for my new place and also for making Christmas gifts (and also to sell in my etsy store which has been a goal for quite awhile now).
I thought I'd post some of the sites I discovered that have the best projects:
oneprettything.com has Daily DIY
Readymade.com
designspongeonline.com
http://mayamade.blogspot.com/
http://bkids.typepad.com/bookhoucraftprojects/
http://www.i-do-it-yourself.com/
http://blairpeter.typepad.com/weblog/

LOVE IT!

the end. almost.

Again, I need to apologize for my severe lag in posting lately. As the semester has marched on, so has life and my "to-do" list. I'm currently visiting South Carolina for Thanksgiving and it has been lovely. Relaxing, delicious, and family filled, the last few days have been very enjoyable indeed. head back to Nashville tomorrow and am truly looking forward to this week because I am moving to my new townhouse! I can't wait to get organized and do some serious DIY projects and paintings! Also, starting Monday, it's the last two weeks of school. As always, everyone is asking how this snuck upon us so quickly but I am feeling good about what I have accomplished this semester. We're finishing up finals which for me include my swine flu prevention kit design for Design IV, completing my new retail website for Web Development III (which I got done before Thanksgiving!), and my complete book dummy for Illustration II. We're going to have a gallery show thanks to Dan Brawner to display our completed children's book illustrations and book dummies in the fantastic gallery space behind Neely's, LUSH Gallery. It's really a unique space and I can't wait to have the show.
I have been setting goals for myself lately, as I have many things I want to attain before the year's end and also plans to prepare for my FINAL SEMESTER!!! I am finally going to graduate and the timing feels perfect. I have set the goal to build my personal portfolio website that is easy to update over the holiday break so that it will be ready to post my final portfolio to in the Spring. I will continue interning at redpepper (which just gets better and better) and will also be taking on the main position for the work study in the Graphic Design department. I'm looking forward to this so that I can have some more work for my portfolio. Very exciting.
In other news, I'm working on a freelance project building a website for a local business here in Nashville. It's already been a great learning experience and I'm glad to have the opportunity.
In closing, the end is almost here for 2009 and the fall semester. Christmas decor is making appearances all over town and I am looking forward to more family time come December. Life is wonderful!

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hello readers! I apologize for the lack of updates this month but things have been quite busy. I am packing tonight to head home to South Carolina and I promise to write more over the holidays!

Saturday, October 17, 2009

crazy month

So my month has been crazy: I was in a hit and run auto accident over a week ago and I'm now in the market for a new car. This has been a learning experience in many ways for me, dealing with the insurance company, the police and car salesmen. It was unfortunate to be in the accident, but it was a good situation as there were 2 witnesses and many helpful people who stopped to help me. One of the witnesses even followed the guy when he drove off and found the vehicle the next day! I was suprised at his kindness and effort for a girl he'd never met before. So the police investigated and found the owner of the car lived in GA and had let a friend borrow it who then let another friend borrow it who proceeded to run a stop sign going over 40 and hit me. Thankfully I wasn't hurt, and although my car needs to be totaled I can still drive it while I'm looking for a new one.
This has been kind of a further push into adulthood. Last week it really hit me how soon I will be done with college and taking on more responsibilities. Scary and exciting.
It's fall break right now and thank goodness. I need this extra time to have a chance to relax and get ahead on schoolwork. And to be car shopping. But it is going well so far and hopefully I'll have found a great one in the next few days!

Thursday, October 1, 2009

sketches



For my Illustration II class, we have to keep a sketchbook and upload an image every week to a blog that our professor keeps. I figured I'd just place some of my sketches here for fun. The first is from my personal sketchbook and the second from my class one. They're done with different mediums, pencil, pen and ink, watercolor pencil, and some digital coloring in Photoshop. Fun stuff. (Just click on the image for a larger view.)