Starting August 31st, I will officially be a crew of Big Spaceship as a Junior Designer!!!!! After 3 months of job searching, I’m definitely very grateful & super excited to be starting my new life as a professional designer! Brooklyn, here I come!!
I also wanted to post up some more inspirations I got over the past couple of days. I started looking at some designers / art directors, and would love to share some portfolios that I thought were absolutely mind blowing. Here goes:
{Robert Lindström} Interactive Art Director and Co-Founder of North Kingdom
{James Widegren} Creative Director of Your Majesty
{Jacob Nylund} Art Director of B-reel
{Peter Jawaroski} Art Director of Ars Thanea
{Seth Weisfeld} Art Director of B-Reel
{Perttu Murto} Graphic Designer of Työmaa
{Andreas Shabelnikov} Owner of Digital Abstracts
I recently found this site called Beast Pieces, which is a letterpress and design blog of Studio On Fire. I was so inspired by their print design, and the capabilities of letterpress prints, that it definitely made me more interested in exploring more type! Although it is an old method of printing, there’s an underlining quality that makes them look more sophisticated than normal laser printed materials. I would love to experiment using letterpress to create print works – because it looks absolutely fantastic!!
Studio On Fire is a hybrid design and letterpress workspace in Minneapolis, Minnesota.In our design services, we are committed to making distinctive work that engages the senses. In our printing, we are committed to making letterpress one of the most premium and relevant production methods for contemporary design.
I came back from FITC on Tuesday! It was an amazing experience, and it was nice to be inspired by new technology & creativity everyday! Too many things happened, so I figured I should just talk about some of the souvenirs that brought back from Toronto lol. Adobe said that they would be posting up videos of the presentation from FITC: http://www.fitc.ca/.
{Day 1}
After checking in at the FITC counter, they gave me alot of goodies!! This year FITC’s main print designs were done by Joshua Davis! Of course being a fan, I kept all the stuff of his including the pamphlets, mini schedule book, name tag, and EVEN CRAYONS. My friends and I were super excited about getting the crayons, and being a hyped up college kid who just arrived to FITC, I wanted to go crazy with them….but I felt the need of savoring these crayons, so I never ended up using them lol
{Day 2}
2nd Day of presentations, MK12 presented their creative process work of their title sequence, Quantum of Solace 007. It was definitely a worthwhile learning experience, since they went through all their process in finalizing the ideas, and creating the 3D sand effects. After the awesome presentation, I decided to greet the presentor Shaun Hamontree who is one of the owners of MK12. When I gave him my key chain business card, he got really excited and asked for a second one lol.
MK12’s business card absolutely blew my mind. It’s made out of metal with carvings of their logo, and information! On top of that, its cut in the middle so their logo pops out, and is also foldable to set on a table!! I definitely felt lucky to recieve their business card. It definitely became my favorite out of all my cool business card collections.
{Day 3 – The Bear Day}
When I was looking through the gift shop of the Hilton hotel in the morning, I found these amazingly adorable bear mittins! What did I do? Of course, I made an impulse purchase immediately!
In the afternoon, I attended a presentation called “Cool Japanese Flash – Side B” presented by two Japanese flash developers, Yoshihiro Shindo and Saqoosha, since I had heard that the “Side A” presentation was mind blowing. Now when I sat down waiting for the presentation to start, I saw a man wearing a humungous teddy bear hat with tuxedo walking up to the podium. Admittedly being a teddy bear lover, this was the most adorable thing I have ever seen in my life, and I couldn’t keep my eyes off of it. The hat literally had an enormous teddy bear head with straps on the side. This man happened to be Saqoosha, a flash developer who worked in Katamari. Of course, I later greeted him, traded business cards, and asked if I could wear his hat. It was by far the best day ever lol.
