Babynapping

I don't want a kid. Not for the moment at least. Just not practical. But there were these two babies at Starbucks this morning and their pure, distilled, fat-cheeked cuteness had me fit to be tied. It was all I could not to take the wee youngest and raise it as my own.

Eat It Up, Fatties

Last week, in Milton Glaser's class, we were asked to design a poster that would act as a deterrant to a particular action or habit. If you hate smokers, make an anti-smoking poster. If you hate people spitting on the sidewalk, make an anti-spitting poster. You get the idea. Claire and I decided that I should tackle our number one pet peeve: child fatties. Every day I see some little obese tubbo knocking back a coke or being fed a Big Grab bag of chips by their indifferent parents. THE FATTIES MUST STOP.

We scoured the Internet for pictures of fat kids, but in the end all of my ideas seemed to cruel and not exactly effective persuasive statements to convince fatties to put down the M&M's and back away slowly. My cube mates at the studio didn't seem to think my original slogan was all that funny: "Hey fatties, maybe it's time for some diet and exercise." In the end, I abandoned childhood obesity and joined the big tent fight of diabetes and obesity in general. My idea required a 15" x 20" illustration board and about $25 of high fructose corn shit. The pictures below are a brief documentation of the construction process, the final poster and an extra goof thrown in for good measure.

Two-Timing

The MFA Designer as Author program has a blog and I'm going to start posting the occasional design thought/rant over there. You can read my first post, if you please. I'll continue to mention my posts, so no need to subscribe if you're not design-inclined.

Studio Engaged

Hello folks. I'm alive, well, married, moved and I've started school. Things have been a bit mental of late. I've started a part-time schedule at work (which I've yet to make good on, making it more of a no-time schedule these past two days) and begun classes at SVA. Hopefully over the next week, things at school will subside (at the moment I'm just sitting here, staring at the finished project that is due in an hour and wondering if I forgot to prepare an additional piece of work) and Claire and I will finish settling in at home. Once that happens, I plan to post regularly about my scholarly adventures, design projects and drop the occasional podcast or comic strip. 'Member those? Me neither.

Below, I've included a few samples of my first assignment. Two weeks ago, we were asked to prepare a 15" x 20" board that was biographical (sort-of) and shed some light on our individual visual style and language. The project is for Milton Glaser's class, so everyone has been wringing their hands and second-guessing their work. But hopefully all will unfold without much anguish. Enjoy!