graceless

My pet fish died today. He was sick with an ich-y disease and unfortunately I only noticed yesterday when he completely stopped eating. I tried medicine, but it was too late.

Clifford, named after the friendly Big Red Dog he resembled, was a pretty great fish. One of our favorite pastimes was watching movies together. When I would watch movies on my computer, I would look over at his bowl on my desk next to me and he would be watching with me — in fisheye view. He was a sneaky little guy, too. His favorite game was splashing his water and when I’d look over, panicked that he had jumped out of his bowl, he’d be floating very still in the middle of the bowl and I’m pretty sure he was stifling a giggle.

Thanks for being my friend. Say hi to Goldie for me.

Waterfront in Georgetown. Pretty sunset tonight.

They drained a portion of the canal to work on the bridge.
Now it stinks more than ever.

Today Abduzeedo featured comics by Bob-Rz that are hilarious and so well done. Here are some of my favorites:

The Affair

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This week is crazy. In class we’re preparing our portfolios for review by local art directors on Friday and it’s pretty stressful. I didn’t think printing out my projects and sticking them in a book would be so hard. I ended up completely redesigning some things, which ate up a lot of time and then there was the printing…

Printing things back-to-back is already a headache, but then I decided to saddle-stitch (staple in the middle) my magazine and brochures and that called for rearranging InDesign pages! And sharing three printers with 17 other people. I thought my heart was going to beat out of my chest by the end of the day.

What has been great about the last week and a half was looking back at some of my first projects and realizing how ugly they are. And I think that means I probably learned a thing or two over the summer. I’ve redone most of those since last week. This is our last week of the graphic design program and next week we start on the web program. I’ve been looking forward to the web portion because my goal is to be a web designer, but I’ve really enjoyed these last couple of months and will honestly miss working in InDesign (when I want to insert pictures into this blog I keep hitting command+D and accidentally bookmarking this page).

I’ll upload better versions of my portfolio pieces, possibly this weekend, but for now, here’s a sneak peek. Thanks to Brian Zitzelman, Brad Pearson, Rachel Carrier and Kat Hess for lending me their talents for the magazine (my favorite project to date). The magazine still isn’t complete. Ideally, I’ll have a couple more sections and I’d design my own ads.

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I love this song.