The Deadline Scramble!

Not the deadline which looms so inspiring and haunting over the horizon of each project. No, I mean the deadline to update your portfolio before an interview cause you never updated it after that false alarm hard drive crash. Thankfully it wasn't the hard drive that died in January; it was the start-up program. A good friend graciously fixed it so I was able to retrieve and back up EVERYTHING only I never organized, updated or tweaked my portfolios or resume until getting an interview request yesterday.

'Cause that's totally how I roll when I lose track of time under too many hours of odd jobs and too few hours of art.

I've racked my brain wondering how to reflect the past few months and rearranged the portfolio according to direction from a wonderful art-friend. This time around I'm able to include a few physical samples like the program from my wedding, the dust jacket from Honest Lewis's Parasites and a few birthday and baby shower invitations.

My favorite addition is a project from this year for a friend's nursing graduation gift. A friend surprised his wife (another friend) with her favorite double-red home brew craft beer and named it after her recent accomplishment of becoming a nurse, Nurse Rachel's Flatline IPA. It was an amazing beer and her reaction to realizing her face was on the bottle was priceless!

Little mockup to show full label

Lined up and ready to celebrate her graduation!

"Is that my face!? :squee!:

I wanted to use a healthy heartbeat which flowed into the flatlining, not any of that cartoony randomness. My heartline was approved by the nursing grad herself!
I also rewrote the "Consumer Warning" on the edge to read: "EDUCATED GUESS: Consuption of alcoholic bererages impairs your ability to stress the small shit and enhances freedrom felt once graduating nursing school. WHOOHOOOO - LET’S DANCE!"*

*typos to illustrate the amazing time you'll have.





Her husband had ordered the waterproof labels for us to print at the local shop and stick on ourselves. Note to fellow labelmakers: keep your eye on whether you're getting laser or ink jet self adhesive labels. 90% of the local shops won't put laser paper in their machines. But we found one that saved the day by doing it!







Look at that face! That's the face of a woman who's gone through the hell and high water of nursing school to hang out with friends when.....hold a second, this is a damn big beer. What kind is it? ME?!














Now. Here's to hoping I land a regular gig and can cut some odd-jobs out in order to make regular room in my schedule for all this art again!

0_0 has it truly been a year and a half since the last post?!!!

And, yes, it has. So much has changed, evolved and flipped but honestly my hands don't have the time to clack it out all in interwebs fashion.

Let's do bullet points!

Worked in the screen printing industry all of 2012 until a sudden layout January 2013. Did the usual scramble waltz looking for work until I landed a marketing/event coordinator in July 2013 and felt so at home with the team. I helped them cut many unnecessary costs, especially with my design skills. But, no matter the hard work you put into a sinking ship, you may get thrown a life-raft as they remove your position; which they did just a few days ago.

I've added a part time gig to my list working doors at local events. I've also contacted the temp agency and the design company I do mockup for in times like this. I've also signed on my previous employer as a regular freelance client and plan to land their parent company.

In the hopes of increasing a more cohesive online presence I'm going to make a point to post something interesting more often, 2-5 times a week at least. Among other things.

Unfortunately my old hard drive died in December so I'm building everything from the ground up until a friend can confirm it's dead-dead or recover files in February.

Anything more, including revamping this blog, will have to wait til hours between working.

Remember, sketch, write, make notes and observe your world.