FAST FORWARD >> meanwhile... back in cali

i dont think i've posted anything my last year at art school but here is what i remember:

- i got my BFA studying graphic design and received the design excellence award (only one person per year gets this award)
- for my senior show in a gallery i made stickers of my bomber bunnies and they are all over boston (thank you to all who contributed)
- have my website lindsaygarber.com
- my boston room mate and former class mate came back with me to cali and we kicked it for a week
- watched every episode of 1992 x-men and 4 seasons of x-men evolution

...so lots has happened and i feel like i want to continue to write in this blog... HELLO AGAIN!

yesterday i went sketching at an informal figure drawing session with the theme of "Fall Leaves" (see attached image). It felt so good to draw again. being able to really look at the figure is a lot different from drawing from the television or trying to sneakishly draw people from behind my sketchbook. Its hard to to explain this feeling i get when i'm making art that i really want to make.

tomorrow is my day of birth ...day and i've been given so many awesome gifts already. My grandma paid for my sketching session admission, my dad made another great meal saturday with my moms cleaning and today i had thai food with my friend delphine who also gave me a sketchbook. THANK YOU!

currently I'm working at Moonscoop doing graphic layout design for marketing and promotions which is so great and i'm loving it! I'm also going to Fantasy Factory tomorrow for a meeting. Maybe Rob Dyrdek will let me jump in the foam pit?

here i am!

its been so long and i've gone so far being in the same place. all i do is work 12 hours a day at school, 7 days a week. i'm getting farther in work but it never feels like anything is every complete. where is all my time going? its been about 3 months since my last post and it has felt like 3 years. i'm not going to try to remember the things that have happened in this absent time, so lets move on. currently and right now i'm doing a south park marathon and its almost at an end. i have just about seen every south park episode, this show is brilliant. the past 2 days, and probably tomorrow too, i've just been geeking out. i didnt do any design yesterday and just read a lot of blogs and comics. I'm reading the Marvel Zombies series and i love it way more than the original series. its so interesting seeing "good guys" resort to this evil life of blood sucking and brain eating for survival with their powers. today i worked on my resume a bit and studied about the grid system in design. its quite interesting and still a little bit of a mystery to me so i downloaded some classic grids and started dissecting them so i could understand it better. the more i explore the more i see my style of design changing and getting better so its important that i take days off to relax and explore.

i've been working on design so much. i know i need to write more.
the geeking out continues...

just workin it

"rock the sneaks"
acrylic and ink
3.5 x 5 inches
mounted in a frame

break is coming to an end but not the winter. its so snowy out and it snowed again just the other day. today is so beautiful and blue with the earth covered in white powdery frosting. I have a slight cold and the dayquil is giving me a slight light headed feeling that i'm really enjoying right now. the past few days i've been working till up to 3 in the morning and one night till 6 in the morning working on freelance for Kabillion. They have power point (PPT) presentations that they have mocked up and depending on who they are pitching and their budget they need new illustrative designs for their pitch. so far i did Tys Toy Box, Monsters Vs. Aliens (upcoming movie), General Mills (1 for trix, 1 for reeces puffs, 1 for lucky charms), 3 for Pokemon Platinum, and Sketchers. I also did another small freelance for a one-sheet for the same company, different person and also i work at the school library 10 hours a week. i havent really had a day to just breathe until just recently.

i'm seeing that as a designer its okay not to be BEST illustrator but i think it is extremely important to be able to draw. i dont really know the exact words that i'm trying to say but being able to be INSPIRED by EVERYTHING around you, art or not, it will only help you be INFLUENCED. for these projects for kabillion they already had a template for their PPTs, i just had to illustrate and design the missing pieces. so in this freelance i was not really a designer, but and ILLUSTRATIVE-designer. i was able to draw influences from what kabillion is as a company and be inspired by their style and mimic it and apply it to the company they are pitching to and come up with the right equation of what the illustrations need to look like to be able to fit in with their proposal.

its very important to draw.
to be influenced.

so now i'm relaxing, enjoying this rare moment where i have nothing pressing to do and i am okay with it...

going to make some more art.

snowboard break

i completely lost track of the days. i went from spending 3 days over at my neighbors place making a sculpture then 4 days by myself not going outside or seeing the light of day and made more artworks then packing up clothes and my snowboard stuff and hopped on a greyhound to New Haven, Conneticut leaving my computer at home. I spent a few days with my friend going twice snowboarding and saw Chris Brown 5th row center at the Mohegan. From there I was picked up by Amelia and Brooklyn and went to NY for new years eve and didnt sleep at all. Brookyln and I later went to Saratoga, NY and met up at a cabin with a bunch of her friends and partied and went snowboarding on one of the biggest mountains i've seen, Mt. Killington in Vermont.

i'm finally home now and watched a Mortal Kombat marathon, catching up on email, and doing little art projects. Tomorrow I start back working in the AIB Library 9-2 mondays and tuesdays to get some cash. Now i'm its time to catch up on my web comics and blogs!

good to be home!

live love learn

so much has happened.... damn it why cant i have more time! its like i blink and a month goes by. right now i finally have a chance to sit down and get some words out of my mind. i'm trying to remember what i've done these past few weeks, i know i went to my friend brooklyns place in upstate NY for a weekend and she lives on such beautiful land with horses and Richard Serra stuff in view from her house. gorgeous. I went to CT again with my room mate tiffany for thanksgiving and got a bunch of work done and did some partying to unwind from the school schedule. the AIB library has let me make a few posters for them and i just finished designing a time line for world history compared to art history. it just started snowing a lot yesterday and its still snowing today and probably forever it looks like.

so i had an epiphany. i need to get back to my roots of art. i'm really loving the work i'm creating and i had such a great semester of artwork done. BUT. the reason why i even started to do art in the first place was to express myself. if i was sad or depressed i'd make art representing that and it would make me feel better. i've been kinda stressed with all this work i'm doing for freelance, senior year at school, work at the library that i barley have time for anything. so this break i'm going back to my roots and making art in all kinds of mediums with MY style of art. Last night i made a scratchboard which can be seen on my deviant art and it was so much fun. i also got into screen printing and my friend is going to show me how to make paper so i can make paper and my own prints. i'm going to try to make some money with my own illustrations just so i can get that release and satisfaction of doing my own thing away from the computer for a minute. i love you computer, dont get me wrong. i just need to remember why i started doing art.

create creative creations

"youre good, you know that"

its just that one of my teachers told me that yesterday. it was an amazing feeling.

in my design systems class one of our final posters is a systems poster of a topic we want to immerse ourselves in. broadly i choose snowboarding. more specifically its the system which the balance of mind, body, and the elements that allow an adrenaline rush to flow through your body and experience heightened life. attached in this post is the icon that my teacher and i came up with. its crystallization of a snowflake and the adrenaline symbol merged together. he really liked it.

today is a holiday so i'm just sitting on my bed hanging out while mike makes me chocolate chip pancakes and my friend stephen is coming over at noon-thirty to play wii and watch movies and such. the lunch special will be hot dogs. well i'm going to go skate soon to get some ingredients. short post.

:D

create creative creations

prepare yourself! i am actually staying home tonight. i just need a day to stay in and be around my things in my room. i feel as if i've just been traveling around everywhere and since my friend pat just left i finally get my room back to mine, all mine. its been a really long week for some reason. hummm. well tomorrow i'm meeting up with my friend and we are going to do a personal project together, she just doesnt know what it is yet haha. i want to see what she has to say about it but basically the end result will be a tribute book to the misfit animals that no one loves in the 2d flat world so they come to the 3d world (our world) and still no one likes them. i want to make large and small scale animals on paper and get them on walls interacting with trashy urban areas. like if one animal was on the wall eating out of a dumpster and maybe throwing water on the art to get a weathered look. SO, i'm waking up early to take pictures of some urban areas to inspire the shapes and situations of creatures that barbara will create. she has the right style for this and a creative mind to make these weird creatures.

so here i sit for now, enjoying the couch potatoing.

oh, just wanted to mention a great book i got from the library today: BookDesign A comprehensive guide
sounds dry but freaking sweet! its helping me out a lot with ideas for my type book. not everything has to be stale.

yay post!

what the hell happened!?

i'm finding it harder to find time to post this year compared to last year. i'm going to have to do something about this. mostly i've been designing and partying...mostly designing. my design systems class with nathan (side note: coincidentally when i had nathan last year for visual research which ended up to be a close class has mostly the same people in this semesters design systems class with nathan ((side side note: small school))) has produced a lot of work but we are continuously revamping them for an end project which is partially a process book. i did post some works on my deviant that are considered to me 90% done because there is always new things to learn and directions i may not have taken. so these are done for the sake of my process book:

innermission.deviantart.com/art/...68319
innermission.deviantart.com/art/...67415
innermission.deviantart.com/art/...66934

hummmm starting a project in type which we design pages for an entire book called Vitruvius. maybe 10% done on that so far. we just went through one round of page designs for Prelude and round two is title page and table of contents.

for art and culture of japan we went to a tea ceremony in jamaica plain called Showa. my teacher william thrasher is a tea master and has practiced for about 25 years. he shared with us a lot of knowledge and we had tea from the tea master. great experience.
illustration survey, not as many field trips... actually none but i do love that class. our term project is to show that we can be "inspired" by something so we had topics and had to draw an themed image and write how you were inspired. i'm doing the one where you pick a play and make a poster. i choose dracula the play from the 1920s and am being inspired by that eras poster design with san serif letters and flat art with not much negative space ...... and am also being inspired with the character design and colors of Rekal with a technique of Ericailcane (nickname). its just in the middle of our second critique today and then i'll have my final concept.

digital painting, from really rough sketch just starting to paint and finish concept while painting...


my personal life... ah yes.
had a pre halloween party with a keg the saturday before halloween, freaking amazing. i dressed up as grandma death (attached pic of me in our creepy basement). i had no costume. we went to good will and it smelt of grandparents so $20 later and with an added acrylic WA LA!

R.I.P. The Keg

my friend patrick watson came and visited me from wed 29th till nov 1st. we partied like rockstars, went to Cheers the bar and a few other places. 4 parties on halloween night including the library party where i dressed up as a regular nintendo game cartridge by cutting cardboard and painting it with acrylic (no picture D: )

wellllll i hope that made up for some time.

OBAMA!

design systems: living systems theory icons

i've missed posting some of my homework assignments so here is one for design systems that i actually feel that is finished.

we were given a sheet with 20 critical subsystems of a living system by dr. james greier miller and we were asked to come up with some icons to represent this. since its a LIVING system and these things communicate with each other i wanted to make icons that could communicate with their respective systems. i felt that this creature is ambiguous enough that you dont know which living system it is, it could be a human, plant, alien, animal... you dont know what it is exactly.

there are also 3 categories to the system:
sub systems which process both matter-energy and information
subsystems which process matter-energy
subsystems which process information

and there are names for each of the icons. to show this in my poster (cuz i wanted to) at the bottom i put this:

Living Systems Theory

reproducer / boundary / ingestor / distributor
converter / producer / matter-energy storage / extruder
motor / supporter / input transducer / internal transducer
channel and net / timer / decoder / associator / memory
decider / encoder / output transducer

Helvetica Neue 46 Light / Subsystems Which Process Both Matter-Energy and Information
Helvetica Neue 65 Medium / Subsystems Which Process Matter-Energy
Helvetica Neue 46 Light Italic / Subsystems Which Process Information

obviously i cant put those weights on this post so you'll have to see it on my poster enlarged. i also decided to make my poster in black and grey (grey icons because as they are the biggest thing they dont need to be the darkest as well) for ambiguity annnnnnd its cheaper for a black and white print heh.

some posts are missing :(

something weird has been going on with tribe, some of my recent posts havent survived for some reason.

it was recently my birthday on the 12th and 2 of my friends deirde and aggie kidnapped me and took me to NY to a hippie music festival. it was so amazing and very much needed. there was no school monday so we stayed there camping for a few days. the first day we got to NY at 3 am and they wouldnt let us in without paying for something ridiculous. there was no phone reception for miles and no houses either. so we slept at a country club golf course till 8 am and went back. since it was my bday they didnt want me to pay so i hid in the back seat and we cut the extra parts of their wrist band off and made me a wrist band. they never checked them anyway. i really got to shed some skin there, my mind has been cloudy and being away from work and worries and cell phones really helped, best time ever thank you girls!

i havent done much else except work which i'm fine with, i really feel like being a designer is what my mind was made for. everything i think about relates to systems in design. if only i didnt have to sacrifice drawing for it. i'm still trying to draw as much as i can but birthday gifts and occasional little doodles are the only time i get to draw.

speaking of birthdays i made my friend russell a birthday sculpture which is attached. its him as a blobby alien creature with his hair eyes and glasses. it took about 3 days and it was my first successful sculpture, my first one caught on fire cuz it was too small and too many pieces. this one is about 4 inches high and i used wire for the frame, toothpicks for the glasses, and acrylic to paint it.

i went to the mfa the other day for my art and culture of japan class to see the japanese exhibit, i think i'm going to do my project on their ceramics. so beautiful the art of wabi sabi which if you were to ask someone that is from japan what that means, they wouldnt be able to tell you, its something that they are born knowing. basically its beauty through non perfection and keeping with traditional ways of things but this can be argued.

thank you everyone for an amazing birthday, everyone who posted a note on facebook and myspace, called (but i had no reception so thanks for the voice mails), sent a text, or was amazing enough to hang out with me (daria, deirdre, aggie). without my friends and family my art would be empty.