wooooo

well, it's pretty exciting, i made it into the top 6 favorite urban forest banners. the closing event is on saturday at mica, and they are giving away 250 posters with the winning banners on them. these 250 posters i will be signing, with the others who won. when i get that banner i will post it for you all to see.

vote!

everyone, being the five people that actually look at my blog, should go to this website and vote for my urban forest banner. i guess they choose some of the banners for people to choose their favorite, which will then be a part of a poster at the final event. so vote for me!

design*sponge

i am on design*sponge! it's very exciting. you can see it here. wooooooo!

poppies

these patterns are the recent ones that i printed and put on canvas for the commencement show.

fern chair pattern

here is the pattern of the chairs i thought i would upload to have a closer view

commencement show continued

mica commencement show

this is my work for the mica commencement show which was this weekend.

family portrait

this is the center for design practice group photo. we took the photo in one of those family portrait places in the mall. it was a funny experience, they arranged us in this position, and there were a bunch of ridiculous photos they have taken of people up on the walls. like this woman posing with her cat.

before and after

these two chairs i painted blue and then recovered with my fern pattern for my senior show

setting up

these "gd" letters were huuuuge and was fun figuring out how to put them up.

soon

center for design practice

green patterns

these patterns are for this book i am making, where the patterns are the opposite page of these diagram type info graphics about my life. they are simple and one color.

abode pamphlet

these are some photos of the pamphlet for the abode ipod cases i made

urban forest project opening more

this is our GROW booth, were we had people sign up for trees and do the following.
this banner is the urban forest project logo naked, without any leaves or dots, and the idea was to show support for baltimore's tree canopy and helping trees and to sign one of the dots and put it on the tree. we then took their photograph which will be used in the closing event. below you can see a little boy putting his sticker on it.


we ended up getting quite a lot of people to sign the stickers. the tree is thriving.

urban forest project in baltimore's opening event

a group of us helped plan the urban forest project in baltimore's opening event at the johns hopkins beach. we came up with a concept for it and helped develop the graphics used. below is the main big banner that you can see from the street.

since the whole event is to about the trees and to double the tree canopy in baltimore by having the city donate about 1000 trees to city residents, we decided to use the trees as part of the event. one of the groupings is seen above. there are 5 events that urban forest is doing for the next three months in different parks around baltimore, and since this was the opening event, we decided to promote that with the tree sections. each one is in the shape of a horse shoe with the banner promoting one of the coming events at the top of it. in between the trees were various tables, and at the bottom was a stage where bands were playing.
this is a close up of the banners.
these little circles were put in all the trees and around the older, actual trees that were there. they each had different large dollar amounts, that were to show how much money people would be saving if there were more trees in baltimore. so, if people help the tree canopy grow, then they will be saving money.

urban forest project banner

here is my urban forest project banner. it is up at johns hopkins on the corner of little charles or something and art museum dr. it's a good location, i am happy about it. and it wasn't too difficult for me to photograph it, even though for the top one i was in the street.

leaves

new leaves, think of it for the spring.

colorways

this is a printed fabric of the colorways for the forest series. it was actually the piece that was up in bunting for the fab lab show.

and now for something completely different

i was going through this sketchbook i had when i was in london and traveling, and scanned some of them in for a project i am doing and thought i would upload them to the blog. i dont really draw like this that much, so they aren't really that great. i just like the trees above.