Funky Promolios

It is getting crazier and crazier everyday at the illustration studio. Everybody's studio space is piling up with boxes of promotional postcards, business cards, portfolios, prints of artwork, funky promotional items and all the galore. PATZO!

We have couple of upcoming events for us.

Next Wednesday, we have our Open House Portfolio Day. All the design students are going to get together at the Warehouse and display our portfolios to the visiting art directors and alumni. It's really more of a test run for Lubin House. Lubin House will take place May 10th & 11th in NYC. It's the same thing except it's going to be bigger and more people will show up to see our work.

Last night I finished making a calendar for my promotional item. In addition to that, my professor Roger suggested that I make business cards in the shape of the glasses I wear to class every week. I bought these cheap plastic red frames at San Lorenzo in Florence last year. I punched out the lenses and wore them to all my critiques. I started to wear them on Wednesdays here at SU, which happens to be the day I have Roger's class. To be honest, I don't know why I wore them. Roger fell in LOVE with them and told me to wear them all the time. Now he wants me get them die cut at the warehouse with my information on it. At first, I thought it was a bit absurd but now I think it's very different but more importantly, me! It may be a hassle to get it done but I'm sure it'll be worth it. Now I just have to think of a catch phrase to go with it.

I'm getting food coma. peace.


-g

Poster Project

Hey yall,

Here's a follow up on the haiku poster project I wrote about last semester. Some of my classmates and I won the contest and will get our posters displayed on the poster panels of downtown Syracuse. This is really a community project where we get local poets and artists to collaborate their talents together and bring visual awareness of the history and present time Syracuse. Last Thursday, we had an opening day where we invited local Syracuse townsmen to celebrate this years poster. I was really excited to meet my poet, Wendy Moleski. She was such a sweet woman and we got a chance to talk about her haiku, our interest in art, and her childhood growing up in Syracuse. One of the poet's name is U.V. Ray. How freakin cool is that?!
Anyway, I was a pleasant evening and a great time to take a break from working on our portfolios and appreciate art with other people.

Here is a link to my poster:
http://blog.syracuse.com/cny/2010/04/the_syracuse_poster_project_haiku_challenge_day_6.html

Mine is the one on the bottom called, The Last Dish.


I gotta get going.
Lator Gator!


-g

I Can't Go to Work Because...

For my research illustration class, we are going an alphabet series with a theme of our choice. Some of the themes mentioned in class were: animals, celebrities, myths and urban legends, alice in wonderland, etc. Initially I wanted to do benign childhood diseases... wait for it.... I know it sounds disturbing but I wanted to make it whimsical and silly so that kids won't be afraid to go to the doctor. But let's be real now, it is exactly the way it sounds-- sick and depressing. That and I couldn't find a disease for every letter.

So instead, I made up my own diseases that sound like the ones we know. Some of them have the actual names but different symptoms. Technically we only need to do 4-5 paintings but I decided to do the whole alphabet so that I can make a lulu book out of it.

Here is my list of made up diseases:


I can't go to work because I have...
Artsy-ritis: So artsy to the point your bones look like art
Bronc-hitis: I look like a broncosaur... my cankles won't let me walk.
Chicken Box: I saw a box shaped chicken and got too distracted.
Dye-arrhea- I dyed my hair too many times with weekend and my head looks like a waterfall.
Ear Infection- I eat an infected corn.
Fever... Night Fever: You know how to do it.
Gone- arrhea:
Hemophobic: Team Jacob
Influence-ya: I'm bound to influence too many people at work today
Jaw Pop & Lock: My jaw is doing some sick dance moves
King Kongiritis: I'm kind in the inside, but I will destroy you.
Lice-nse Mania: I got caught for selling too many fake ID's this weekend.
Men-in-tight-ous: I took me an hour getting into my pants. Now I can't get out.
Narcasiritismanirrhea. Same thing as Narcissism
O
Pnemon-ica: I was playing the harmonica and now I don't know how to use pnemonics.
Q-Fever
R
S
T
U
V
Whopping Dance Moves: Whoppa!
Xenaphobia: On saturday, I watched a xena marathon and now I want to punch her in the face.
Yellow Bieber: I have bieber fever and now I'm turning yellow.
Zoolandiritis: See N.

I forgot O and R-V. I have them in my sketchbook at my studio.



Enjoy.

-g

Not Much of a Blog

I got a pocket, got a pocketful of sunshine.

I got a love, and I know that it's all mine.

Oh....................ooo WUH oh.



What a terrible song...
but I'm feeling the weather here at Syracuse.


I'm letting my urge, to prance around the quad, out in about 2 minutes.

see ya there :)


-g