Ahhh. Memories of Italy.

For the full effect, click on the picture to see just exactly what the beaches of Cinqueterre have to offer.

Apple: Bean Counter

MAC ATTACK!

book covers and cd packaging!

CD Packaging: "Who's that Girl?" A compilation of great ladies of Jazz (Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Billie Holliday) The packaging is designed as a vintage jewelry box made of red velvet, gold silk and lace- like Billie Holliday's usual dress. Inside in a golden envelope is the lyrics folded together like a love letter. Actual box is an old cigar box.

Book Covers: Series of books by Douglas Coupland about life, love and death through the eyes of generation X. Inspired by old tatoo artwork and their representations (i.e. mermaids represent love lost, roses represent the idea that not all is what it appears). Winner of Bronze award at Creative Circus Student Show.

For all my fellow catholics....

Jesus has returned. In the form of a shark in Virginia.

If I marry an Italian, here's my wedding cake.

Back in the day, when I did some art...

1st picture: Made all out of doodles. Oodles of doodles.
2nd: "Hurricane Isabel" ebony pencil. Drawn live after the hurricane of a mom protecting her baby at Virginia Beach.
3rd: watercolor My view from where I lived in Firenze, Italy
4th: Oil Painting Illustration style

While home in Maine, I found some of my art work and just popped it up online for a little variety.

the extremely labourous music poster

ahhhh took forever. Just was a lot of detail. But very worth it for such a great band. My dream? That G Love sees this... contacts me to make their official poster, invites me their concert and we sing peace, love and happiness on stage together. I've thought about this.

OPI

So with these ads, the nails are stickers that you can peel off and try on the color. The idea was that because OPI had really crazy names for their nail polish, you can adapt or "try on" a new lifestyle with a new nail color.

TV Land campaign

Loved this campaign and I'm glad to see how it has come along. Let me know what you think!

a few good links...

http://ffffound.com/-images for some inspiration
creativity online- ideas shideas
the one club lalala best of the best
a bunch of visual solves a few winners.
create your own obama logo hahaha. fun procrastination.
Speak up opinions about design/ talking about whats out there.
McCain rips off Obama's Logo
PC campaign created with Macs

just a few places where I get some inspiration... I thought about giving away some of the places I find fonts, images and what not... and then I realized most of the pictures I use are taken by myself or friends/photographers... and most of the fonts I used the past 3 months are hand done... so yeah. I'd say look inside my brain, but that's messy.

So One day I got bored and Made a video.

I was working on a shark week campaign and needed to figure out how to make shark week fun yet creepy. What fits that? claymation. Here goes.

Reading Rainbowwwwwwww

Happy Labor Day.

Happy labor day! It's my first week off in two weeks! Yea!

And just so everyone knows, the whole "No white after labor day" is ridiculous. Wear your creams and ivories with pride. I'm officially ending the rule. And because I think this "fashion" rule is lame, I'm wearing a white dress today in celebration.

Um, hi? Can I have your number? I lost mine.

Speed dating posters! They can't all be bad!
I got on a hand done illustration kick. Started with the robot. The themes are what women think of guys from bad dates: "he's like a robot, boring, " "he thinks he's god's gift to women," and "he's such a tool."

Panel is coming up....

Writer's block?

How long should writer's block for a copywriter last? Two days, two weeks? A month? Three months? How long???

Some people sing in the shower....

Post Secret! is coming!

Post Secret is coming to Mercer University October 27th! Huge fan here. I love any way that people can tap into their creativity. I think that everyone is innately creative but some are just more capable of expressing their creativity. Some of the most innovative and creative people I know look like an average joe and don't have to dye their hair ten different colors and wear their art work. And that's what I like about Post secret.

Website decisions

I've got my concept down, and I've figured out a few more details. But, I'm torn between two different color schemes and fonts. Here are the two finalists (and when I say finalists, I mean what will probably be changed again.) These will be on the opening page of the site and when you click the travel suitcase, it will open up. Travel stickers will be on the inside of the suitcase and when clicked, will lead to things like my work, resume and fun useless facts about me. But like I said, I'm torn.

Where's the work?

Where's the work, you ask? Well more is coming, I promise. And I also promise to get that website going. For real this time.

Art Directors/Copywriters are not work horses.

I'm glad that my teams instructor brought this up today. When you work with someone, you concept, come up with new ideas and let your mind explore new ideas. You do not say, "attach some lines here" or "just art direct this up." It's a TEAM effort. At this point, you are working with your partner, not your creative director and not your junior. It's not black and white and there is no complete vetoing. So we are not work horses.