Roach Encroach Part 3

So I had decided to break this post into 3 parts. One part description, one part process, and finally my final products! I'm excited that the photos I took turned out pretty well! There were about 15 parts to this project in this kit, so be patient with my photos! I tried to trim them down to the basics!

Foam Dough - 3 white, 1 brown

Craft Sticks

16 Binder Clips

3 Stacks of 2" Post it notes

Rubber Bands

Push Pins

Tape

T Pins

Embroidery Floss

Pipe Cleaners

Instruction Book

Sitting in the kit

Back of Kit 

If you have any questions about this project feel free to ask! I'm happy to explain/talk about any of my ideas!

Roach Encroach Part 2

Here we are to part 2! The most crucial part of anything that happens in my life: ideas and planning. If there's anything I love, it's making a plan. Just don't ask me how often I stick to it haha 

This ended up being our amusement park ride. 

Obviously since we had to make packaging and branding all the supplies there were quite a few things in the ride. 

• Foam Craft Dough
• Binder Clip
• Push Pins
• T pins
• Rubber bands
• Craft Sticks
• Embroidery Floss
• Post it notes

hopefully I didn't miss anything!

so onto the planning! 

I started out with my 50s style Idea and automatically my favorite thing to decide is color. 

Trials

From there I tried different combinations of colors and different ways to incorporate the office element to it. Needless to say my final definitely improved from these. 

Final Logo

Then I made a logo for the kit itself. 

Final

Sketch

Here are some sketches: 

Sketch of Ride

And some final illustrations

 

The ones in the circles are on the side of the box

 That's mainly it on this side of the board! Feel free to leave any comments or feed back on these! I'd love to know what everyone thinks!

Roach Encroach Part 1

Hello! It's been a CRAZY week. Not to mention all the news and tweets and status posts going up tonight for a great man. {I'm honestly afraid my apple will be extinct in the next few years and when I go to get a new one the choices will have severely gone down hill}. 

In the craziness of the week I did get my projects from my Branding Project back! I actually got my pillow back too, but that's a post for next time. I was pretty proud of my result (and my grade reflects it). 

The basis of the project was to create an amusement park ride for a bug using only office supplies. Then we had to take all the office supplies we used for the "ride" and make a kit to sell it.

So an overview of what all we had to do: 

• Create an amusment park ride
• Create an office supply company from scratch
• Come up with a concept for that company
• Brand the Company
• Create packaging for every supply we used in the ride
• Create a cohesive kit to be sold from the office supply brand
• Create packaging for that kit
• Create an instruction booklet to show how to put the ride together

Sounds easy right? Ha yeahhh about that.... 

Our amusement park ride was for a roach, so I went with a 50s style approach focusing on how roaches are thought to be able to outlast a nuke {50s = Atomic Era, by the way}, meaning they're durable. It relates back to the office supplies because they would be super durable. 

Basically, I got an awesome grade on this, and although the box has been though A LOT of being thrown around it's still in pretty good shape!

The Entire Kit...
It's a ton of stuff

I'll have more pics of my process and Individual looks at all the packaging I had. It's a ton of stuff, too much for one post!

Bjork Dork

Is it just me or should the fangs in the photo be flipped over? It would make the cupcakes look like they have fangs instead of just being plopped on there!

Mmmm cupcakes.
I definitely got these in excitement for October. 

I'm kind of stoked about halloween! Every year the day after halloween is over I have magnificent ideas of what funny/ironic/awesome thing that I want to be. This year, I remember one of my favorite ones. I just don't know how I'm gonna pull it off... In reality it isn't that hard, but it requires sewing (which I've had my fill of the last week or so) and money. Hello dilemma of my life.... 

I want to be Bjork! Swan dress included. It's been on my halloween potential list every year for like 4 years, I think it's time.... I've done my number one flapper girl last year (which I sewed as well).

We'll see how this goes...

The fall is coming, the fall is coming!

It seems like it's been burning up here forever.... Finally Saturday will mark the arrival of October, the month which everything will finally *hopefully* cool down. I miss my fall jacket and scarves. I will say I'm in dire need of a clothes overhaul (in general, but it's more dire for my fall garb). I really wish I had a ton of money to shop... Plus I need new toms.

My top 4 items that I want, but in no way can afford:

What are you guys excited most about for fall?

L - Mas Wishlist

It's never too early for a Christmas wishlist, and mine is beginning to pile up...

While I was at Hobby Lobby yesterday I found the perfect little machine. It's a letterpress machine from Lifestyle Crafts and it's beautiful. I haven't seen how it works in person, but it looks really easy!

And some of the projects I've seen on their website look awesome and like things I'd really want to try. 

Unfortunately, because I don't actually have the machine (yet) I couldn't take the pictures myself, but maybe one day... I  got them all from their website and here.

Do you guys already have stuff piling up on your wishlists too?

Photo Assignment 1

 I will not lie. My photography skills are not where I'd like them to be, being as I'd like to be a pro photographer. I wish Oklahoma had more interesting things  to photograph. I want to find a nice, beautiful wheat field. I know that seems like it would be easy, given it's Oklahoma, but it's not. At all.

UPSIDE:

• One day I will live in New York, Amsterdam, Portland, Boston, Austin, anywhere that is not Oklahoma [and has a nice, large city] 
• I'm also in a photography class, so my photos will also get better. I do think they've gotten better already though!

I have taken a few photos I like a lot :]

These photos are for my depth of field project! [Shallow and Great] - I'm pretty sure it's called great dof at least haha probably something I should for sure learn by the end of it...

Shallow [f 5, 125, ISO 100]

Great [f32, 125, ISO 100]

We also had to do Sunlit Studies of how different types of sunlight affect people's faces. This explains my boyfriend exactly. :D

And then we got to get creative. I really want to redo these, but it was a good idea in theory! We had to take a motion shot, but these fun park rides don't quite go fast enough. It was way too fun not to attempt though!  We had to have one blurry of the person, one blurry of the background, and one still shot of everything. 

And then I just had fun taking pictures of this handsome man :]

It's a littleeee dark, but I'm still learning :]

Delish.

Lately I've been trying to get into cooking a lot more. I even bought my first real cookbook. I'm not a great chef, I mean I can make a mean grilled cheese, but other than that and Stouffer's skillets I'm lost. Not to say I've not made some good things over the years, but not enough to justify being a good cook! So this weekend I've set out to cook some better, more interesting things than the usual Ramen and baked Tilapia that me and my boyfriend survive off of.

I'm probably most excited about the dinner I made last night. It's not anything super special, and sadly had no meat (I could never be a vegetarian, I've tried). The photo I took of it still looks delish though. 

Sweet Potato, homemade pasta salad, and peas!

Like I said, nothing fancy, but still so yummy!

Then this morning I had the most fantastic, unhealthy breakfast ever! Tyler made some bacon and sausage while I made orange french toast with a homemade strawberry orange syrup. So yum.

Really, I'm more excited about the fact that I've lost 3 inches on my waist from just eating better (minus the jalapeno Cheetos - hello addiction). I probably should be working out too, but thanks to my life, I have no time. But it's really not bad considering I've only had my own apartment for a month and last time I moved out I ended up gaining about 10 pounds instead of losing anything. No thanks for that happening again... 

I'm totally open to recipe suggestions though! Does anyone know of any amazing recipes they've tried out that are recommended?

VampireZombieAwesome

Oh, while I'm at it, I found these too! haha they made me laugh. We had to make 2 type crime posters as a series. My first one was about putting information in boxes and my second one was about kerning too closely [aka making it to where your type is unnaturally close]

Update to a SUPER, crazy old post.

So like a year ago I posted my vector cell shading project here. I thought it was suppppper awesome. Which, I won't lie, it kind of is... But I made it better for my portfolio. I keep wanting to post the better one, so I figured I may as well!

It still isn't as good or detailed as I want it to be, but I did improve on it!
[you should check out the previous ones]