Cris Cab's "Foreword"

My fascination with album covers started a few years ago. I'm not exactly the most organized person in the world, but I am all but OCD when it comes to my itunes music library. Everytime I download a song I have to edit the info to make sure not one piece of information is missing, from the album art to the song's release date. I'm also a music junkie and add new songs all the time, so I see quite a bit of album art. Back in the day I used to listen strictly to country music, where album covers typically consist of a photo of the artist and not much else. However, when my music taste began to evolve, I took note that many artists outside the country genre have more of a design aspect to their album art. 

I discovered Cris Cab's music about a year ago (if you have never heard of him, you need to youtube his cover of "Pumped Up Kicks" like, yesterday). He has an album called Foreword with a cover that caught my eye. It's another geometric design piece with a single triangle that appears to have many more broken up shapes within it. The colors appear to be yellow, magenta, and cyan, but all with some level of transparency to create different shades where they overlap. It reminds me of looking inside a kaleidoscope, which I think is why I like it so much.

Art Director Problems and Bamboo Woes

We had our first P2 class last Friday, and things have been incredibly hectic ever since. Not that I'm complaining, I love keeping busy, especially when it's something I enjoy that is taking up my time. I've been brainstorming for my latest campaign client, Hawaiian Airlines, all day, and it occurred to me this campaign would be an excellent chance to get familiar with the Bamboo tablet and use it for the execution. The Wacom website is supposed to have lots of helpful videos for people new to the bamboo, so I took it upon myself to check them out. Honestly though, the only thing I got out of what I watched was a feeling of doom and a new song to find on Spotify ASAP.
Here's the disappointingly unhelpful link if you'd like to see for yourself.
The first video I saw was one by freelance illustrator Nancy Stahl. She does something really cool with the tablet but doesn't quite explain how you actually get it done. The second video was of some chick drawing with the tablet while an excellent song played in the background. Something tells me no amount of videos is gonna help me get used to the Bamboo. It's gonna take a lot of trial and error to master the thing. But you know what? Challenge accepted.

Remember when I had a productive break?

Remember that time I posted the best idea ever, to work on a campaign with my friend David over winter break? Yep, of course you do. Remember when it actually happened? ....yeah, that's because it didn't. However, its for a very very good reason!
Yes, to quote the aforementioned blog post, I described a winter break campaign as "the best idea EVER." It really was an excellent idea, but there was a small project David and I needed to do first- creating our websites. We thought it would be easy...... yeah, it wasn't.
I spent a majority of my winter break learning html coding and revamping my resume in order to get my website set up. You can see the final product by clicking here. Seriously go look because I'm actually really proud of it. By the time our websites were published and out there for the world to see, it was too late into the break to start and finish a campaign before the semester starts. So instead, David and I started brainstorming clients that we want to make campaigns for when we start P2. We came up with a really excellent one for our team campaign (except I won't say what because it's gonna be a surprise).
I seriously cannot wait for the semester to start so I can get to work on campaigns again. I miss it a lot. I can't say I know anyone looking forward to the work-loaded semester they have ahead of them besides me, but again, that's how you know you love your major.