Can't Miss: AceJet170

The cynical, organized, dry humor side of me loves this.

 Purchase your Disappointments Diary here.

who calls people anymore.

bleak.

ugh.

story of my life.

crappe diem y'all.

its going to be a new saying of mine.

Photo inspiration

My spring break destination.
inspiring me... to get through this week.

So. close.

Burger Covers, take 2.

So! I turned in my final round of burger covers today.
here zey are.

I added a few details to make is seem more blueprint like. I played with sell lines and color and cartoon hamburgers and drawings.

but still, my design wasn't chosen. pfffft.

Great Web Portfolio inspiration

Here are some great portfolio site inspirations. 

OK, this site is seriously adorable. 

TappCandy has a great responsive site, which makes sense because they are a mobile app development company.

Great web design here.

As you scroll down the page, the letters explode!

neat!

Some more adorable illustrations here.

I love how the moving carnival scene at the bottom.

I love the style at Pointless Corp.

Giant floating pie! 

These sites are really great examples of web design, which I know might be a little advanced for our class, but still good inspiration.

Photo(s) inspiration

This weekend was moms weekend with my sorority and I had a blast with my momma! i also enjoyed hanging with my friends and their moms. We went to the winery for dinner one night and just had some great conversation about all the factors that make us the person we are.
I think my friends and family are a large influence on my design style bc they are such big agents of socialization for me, and that is what good design should be based on.
So! Here is me and my momma, and then me kallie and Kait, then all of us with our mommas.

Can't Miss: AceJet170

Over at AceJet170, she found some lovely luggage tags for sale.

I love how diverse this blog is in topics, and how she finds good design everywhere. Inspires me to keep a look out!

Burger Covers: take 1!

Thanks to double production, I had another cover due this week.

The cover story is actually from The Scene dept this week. It's going to be a burger guide for Columbia and burger bloggers are going to be the main sources for the story.

Here are my original three cover ideas!

For this one, I went with kind of a techno feel for the blogger aspect. Its supposed to represent a minimalist version of a hamburger. I think I should have added some more details, even if it is supposed to be minimal. Perhaps have the cheese in a triangle shape instead?

I also really love the tagline on this. I hope we end up using that.

These next two ideas go with the story aspect that we will show what makes certain burgers in Columbia special. We are going to break down the ingredients, or deconstruct the hamburger. So I went for a blueprint theme.

I wasn't sure if I should use color or not so I did a version of both.

I personally prefer the all blue and white version.

My last idea was that bloggers always instagram pictures of their food, so it could be kinda funny to have the cover be a photo illustration of just that. This is my poor photoshop attempt, just to express the concept. If we proceed with a photoshoot, I would know exactly how I want to execute it. 

Any suggestions of how to improve the designs for next week?