Oh Kay!

Yesterday, after making several, annoying, presistant, visits to Rusty's office, he approved my "Lets Eat" layout. I didn't start it over and I finished it under budget. Who is this new Shelby girl? I think I like her...

Raman: The Food for Commoners

Well, I myself do not like to partake in any kind of Raman noodles. But, for the sake of design, I did make three versions of the low budget meal to get photographs for my "Lets Eat" spread. I took around 200 photos but I'll only post a few. Also included, yummy yummy chex mix that was also for this spread. I am not including the spread because I am hoping to blog it in joyful post once its been approved .

Breakfast: Maple Brown Sugar Raman

Lunch: Beer Noodles 

Dinner: Stir Fry Raman

Anytime: Granola MMmm

{ Hot Stuff! } hehe

Wick Fowler's 2 Alarm Chili

Well this is just the tip of the ice burg of all the stuff to do for this project but it has been approved and that is a pretty good start if you ask me. I am pretty happy with this. The objective was to make it stand out on selves and to make it seem spicy but not so much so that it would scare off skeptical buyers. I think that the label has clean colors and illustration style that will do both of those things. I like how simple the label looks even though it was anything but simple to make. I had to remake the pattern a hundred times because Rusty said my beans had nodes. Also, after printing a draft, I realized that my measurements were off and I had to resize the whole can! Also, remaking their ugly logo and the nutrition facts really tested my patients and retina strength. Now I still need to make 3 ads and 3 huge posters. Fingers Crossed!

Bon Voyage Freaks!

Well, in true Shelby fashion, I restarted this about a jilion times! Alas, the 32 page booklet has been approved. 32 pages Shelby? Really? Why, ya coulda done 20? Well, although it was expensive and a pain in the butt, I am glad that I chose to spread this out over more pages and rework all of the images. My document started off as being really image heavy (I am now addicted to National Geographic Travel Photos). But after working with it and reading the text, I realized, "Hey, this is really more about getting organized and helping students get prepared to study abroad. So, I tried to put myself in their shoes and ask myself, "what would I find helpful if it were me?" I decided that beautiful images of places that Truman may not even offer in Study Abroad probably want the best solution. So, I decided to just make the text organized and easy to follow with out being stale. Im quite pleased with how it turned out. (Even though printing a color proof cost me and arm and a leg and much anxiety) 

Ugh, finally!

I can't even begin to count how many jazz posters I've made. I know that there were about 10 versions of this one alone! After being drug out over half of the semester, Rusty finally put one of he infamous "ok's" in the corner. Its a day late, but hopefully not a dollar short, actually hopefully it was worth it and it would be like a dollar gain? Anyway, eat your heart out jazz and gumbo lovers, because this is it; the final jazz combo poster. Ahh, siiigh

Shelby, why isn't your Vis Com done?

Answer:

Well, my vis com home work may not be started and i may now have icing in tiny nooks and crannys in my new mac book, but this just probably just about the cutest darn cup cake that i ever did see :)

{ in theory }

I think it is safe to day that today was by far the most entertaining day of our little vis com lives. Rusty acted as a one man circus (will minor assistance from the only other male in the class). Acting like "a bull in a china shop", Rusty managed to fling every shred of plastic and ever wing nut in the building across the room of the lab. This made me nervous. Then, I thought, heck, if ya can't beat 'em, join 'em. So, I pulled out my camera and started to document a little of the madness. Aside from the less than graceful assembly of the very expensive camera equipment, it was fun to listen to Rusty pretend like he knew what he was talking about. This included the phrase "so, in theory, this should work"

Rusty and Corey taring stuff up

There is such thing as a boom for photography lighting. Rusty was having too  much fun

Tee Hee

How many collage professors does it take to screw in a light bulb? (BT Dubs, this light bulb blew up merely seconds after this photo was taken)

Rusty trying to fix his "oops"