Photo inspiration

So I know some people are really into monograms, and I never really have been. Probably because I see the same design everywhere, and it looks so sorority. A friend of mine found this in a restaurant and sent it to me. Holy monogram, Batman! I am considering this a challenge to design my own monogram, and am using this as inspiration.

Photo... inspiration?

So I had a pretty scary moment on saturday evening. A group of friends and I went to this country store restaurant out in Ashland (south of Columbia, halfway to Jeff City on 63). It was a fantastic restaurant and a great time until the drive back to CoMo. On the drive home we hit a deer on the highway. Everyone was ok, but my friend Katherine's car was totaled. It was a really scary thing for me, I've never been in any kind of car accident before! Just got me thinking about life.

her totaled car.

sorry for the depressing post. : /

Check out my awesome designer friend!

Hey, if you're looking for a good example of a cargo collective portfolio site, check out my roomie and pal Emily's porfolio. She's a senior in the graphic design program here at Mizzou.

My favorite project of hers? These fashion playing cards.

Makes me wish I had been an art major instead of journalism!

Drunkorexia covers

This past week I had covers due, and the story was Drunkorexia. Basically it was about girls who don't eat/eat less calories during they day so they can consume more calories in liquor form later.

I can't decide if designing all of these alcohol related stories is driving me to drink, or if I never want to look at another bottle of liquor ever again.

I really loved this look so there are several versions of it.

this idea just didn't quite pan out like i thought it would.

slight improvement.

i really liked this one best, i wish i would have used the hed of "you are what you drink" instead.

this was created because i am out of other ideas.

i was a little surprised that this was chosen as the one for me to keep working on. 

but also, this feature was moved to a later week so i have a bit more time to work on it. which is good, i'll need the extra time.

Attn: typography lovers!

A video you might enjoy.

I knew I first wanted to be a designer when..

This interesting post from AceJet posed a good question: when did you first decide you wanted to be a designer?
I thought it would be an interesting conversation topic. SO COMMENT YO.
I first realized I wanted to become a designer way back in high school.
I joined the newspaper staff in high school not really knowing what I was getting into. For lack of dedicated staffers, I was immediately made an editor. I crash coursed through InDesign and never looked back. I knew I could live my life creating things in this program and never grow tired of it.
How about you all?

Books Redesign

So when I was on spring break I've noticed a lot of book cover redesigns. I'm all about this, as it combines my live of reading and design.

I am, however, an advocate of content driven design. So when I see a book cover and I don't immediately "get" where the concept is from, I have an issue with that.

There's so much to draw inspiration from, so many visual things from the story I just don't understand why you would use a random pattern.

Maybe I'll do some redesigns of my own. MAYBE I WILL.

Alice in Wonderland literally has so many FANTASTIC visual elements to draw from, it inspires designers everywhere. I don't see the point of just polka dots.

Feathers? Pride and Prejudice? Are there birds a big thing in this book and I don't remember?

....yes.

you're starting to lose me, anthropologie.

.... don't. i can't even.

YES. TEAPOTS. WE ARE GETTING THERE. GOOD JOB.

ABBIE STAMP OF APPROVAL.