love.

Love this song. Sweet commercial.



M. Ward - Here Comes the Sun Again.

eat breathe design.

I want to update my blog...I really do. And I will but it will be school projects and cool things I find when I actually have a moment to get my head above water. I am scheduled for twice as many hours this week as the Bee as I will be in the coming weeks so hopefully that should be soon. Anyway, I wrote my first essay (below) and right now I am on my third, on Avant-Garde and Kitsch. Class started yesterday....anyway here it is.

What is graphic design?

Simply put, graphic design is creation. But creation, in and of itself, is nothing close to simple. Creation started with Earth on a titled axis, a large scale of environmental grandeur down to the small-scale individual workings of human souls. Graphic design, like creation, tells a story, speaks a language and understands the subconscious of humanity.

Every human, animal, object, place and company on the planet has a story. Sometimes it takes time and a little digging to find this story but often a story is written in the lines of an old man’s face or the laughing eyes of a school teacher as she watches kids act as superheroes on the playground. A story is mostly conveyed nonverbally, in picture and in action. This is true in the workings of everyday life as well as in the brand of a hardworking hardware company with a painted logo on the hanging sign over an entryway. It is a visual communication about a being’s history and identity.

Successful graphic design speaks a language of emotion, seen by the eye and interpreted by the head and deeply by the heart. It evokes feeling by grasping images in which the human mind and heart connect. In order to tell a story it must draw from images such as iconography, pictures from childhood or color schemes that communicate the intention of the image.

Much like in the recent film Inception, graphic design can reach a place in a person’s subconscious without the realization of the viewer, influencing their ideas. One could argue that hundreds of voters in the Obama campaign were won over partly by Gotham, a typeface that satisfied the senses of young people and silently urged them to support the progressive leader they represent. Graphic design is intuitive about the subconscious and conscious of the power of color, shapes and spacing on putting a mind at ease.

Graphic design is powerful; it has the power to move people to feel and then to do. Its beginnings start with the creation of the earth and the intricacies of the human mind. In order to be talented at visual communication, the designer behind a graphic image must be talented at personal communication and storytelling and understand human emotion and thought. If these are reached, the viewer will be reached and a story will be successfully told.

buuuzzzzzzzz, honey bee!

Today I got a part time at a cool little shop downtown! I am so excited to sell some honey, sustainable products and teach some girl scouts about honeybees at Savannah Bee Company!

The inside of the shop. See honey tasting bar on the left.
(via South magazine)

I am proud to work for a company that is passionate about their product and the environment. Can you believe they asked me if I was scared of bees in my first interview?! I told them I was a bit frightened after I saw My Girl but that they never seem to want to sting me! I said, bee's love me, I will go charm 'em without the gear! Then quickly asked if I will really be in contact with bees....we'll see.

Savannah, my new home.

I am all settled in to my apartment in Savannah, GA. This will be my new home for the next couple of years while I attend Savannah College of Art and Design (affectionately called SCAD). I've spent the last 5 days running around town to every Goodwill and consignment store furnishing my apartment. I am pretty pleased with the result, the bedroom being my favorite part.

I had trouble finding a headboard so I used an old broken mirror frame that I sanded and stained. I used it to frame some burlap and found the initials at the Paris Market on Broughton Street.


My greatest finds are the white dresser, pictured below, and the old tarnished vase on the dresser. I got the dresser for 25 bucks and the vase for 5! So fun.


The curtains were another fun DIY. I got the linen on sale at a bulk fabric store and just stapled it above the window. I used twine and clothes pins to hang some old book pages torn out of an old ESL textbook and used novel.


All this to say, I feel at home in my new girly room. I will update as the living room is finished :) School starts on Monday and I can hardly wait. More updates on all of that and this wonderfully charming town to come.