A few weeks ago I started part-time at Accuraty Solutions in downtown Champaign. It’s been going well, although many days fluctuate between “wondering what I should be doing” and “frustration with the usability of our CMS” as I learn how to help with updating our web projects. Thankfully the senior designer actually likes web programming [...]
Wed, Jun 15, 2011 – 19:11
Recently I got hired by a local web shop for some part time web design and programming work. It’s not as glamorous as some things in the industry, but it will help me pay the bills, get web experience in an office (since apparently even with a reasonable portfolio, you still need office experience), and [...]
Thu, Apr 28, 2011 – 10:19
So now that Patrick’s birthday present arrived, I can show it off here! ^_^ Sorry the photos are bad, I had to hurry and get it in the mail right away so it wouldn’t be any later than it already was. I put a lot of time into learning Illustrator CS5′s awesome new Stroke Width [...]
Thu, Mar 17, 2011 – 12:55
Work recently has involved photoshopping a LOT of photos of people for our clients’ publications, but somewhere in there I did a project to create a little callout “Störer” thing for an office supply catalogue’s eco-friendly products. It was kind of fun to make lots of shiny buttons, although there was a certain amount of [...]
Fri, Mar 11, 2011 – 13:40
I had a quiet morning at work recently and spent a certain amount of it doing abstract desktop wallpapers in Illustrator based on assorted lyrics I like. These are completely vector-based in Adobe Illustrator – I’m finally figuring out vector gradients! 1024×768 1280×800 1920×1200 1024×768 1280×800 1920×1200
Thu, Feb 10, 2011 – 22:04
A number of Germans have been asking me what stereotypes Americans have of this country, and after trying to design a simple letterhead for TEAMGOLD, I have to say that DIN and their absolutely absurd quantity of standards (see the Wikipedia list of standards which include things like “hexagon weld nuts” and “scaling ladder; made [...]
A couple of things I worked on have gone to print in the last couple of weeks and I finally got a chance to take some photos! My initial project from the start of my internship – composing the cover photograph for this magazine (including photoshopping the store photos within the photo to look like [...]
Sat, Jan 29, 2011 – 09:20
One of our recent projects at the office has been designing the trade show paraphernalia for a big office supply distribution company. Our theme was “networking” (in German) and I really enjoyed the idea I had for how to show this (which I totally think was more applicable than some other versions we presented, but [...]
Thu, Jan 13, 2011 – 08:03
We’ve been using the quiet time around the new year to update Aclewe’s portfolio, studio presentation, etc, and I’ve been assigned to photograph our print work. Here are my favorites. And yes, maybe I did go a little overboard using the macro… but it’s so much fun! SQS is one of our heaviest-workload clients and [...]
Mon, Dec 13, 2010 – 21:50
Friday was an exciting day! In the morning Svenja and Claudia and I took a trip to a print shop outside of town. That was quite interesting because I know so little about the way the print process works in reality. I saw the huge printers that they print RIT’s magazine on and of course [...]
