Student Zone Facebook Response

Unexpectedly, there was quite a big response over our project on Facebook. People took different sides as to what the project was about. Hate it or love it there was one thing you couldn't deny, you couldn't walk past the Student Zones without looking at them.

Putting the Fun in Art Center

An unexpected result was that the Fun Zone turned out to be an interactive project. We put a Rubix cube in the taped off area and a student solved the Rubix cube and placed it back in the Fun Zone. We also put a box of condoms in the Fun Zone. Over the course of 4 days, all of the condoms were gone.

Student Zones Extra Shots

Students Zone

Without a doubt, the funnest time I had working on a project while at Art Center. Environmental graphics can be more than just big type on a wall. How can you do something to the school in a unique way?

For this project, me and my partner Grace Park, decided to do something you would never see at Art Center. As an Art Center student, it is popular belief that we don’t have time to have fun or sleep, or like to read. We wanted to show how each of these things can actually benefit you as a designer. We also wanted to bring a sense of humor to campus. Most of the time we carry ourselves a little too seriously as Art school students. This is the time we should be experimenting and having as much fun as possible with each project. This project consisted of: a Fun Zone, Sleep Zone, and Reading Zone.

Fun Zone:

Contrary to popular Art school belief, having fun or aka a Social Life

is not as Bobby Boucher’s mom would say “the Devil.” Moments of fun

lead to different experiences. Having parts of yourself in your work

leads to original work. Original work leads to standing out. Standing

out leads to big checks and pinky rings.

Sleep Zone:

A wise man once said, “I can sleep when I’m dead.” A wiser man

said,“Fuck that I gotta have my beauty sleep.” Before you wind

up hitting a parked car after your eleventeenth all–nighter, it is wise

to actually sleep from time to time. Sleep improves creative ability

to generate aha! moments and to uncover novel connections among

seemingly unrelated ideas.

Reading Zone:

Student read a book with little or no pictures in it (I believe at

normal colleges they call that “book learnin’.”) She proceeded

to be inquisitive of the world around her. Little did she know it

would lead to a great idea. We’re supposed to be the people

that make culture, not decorate culture.

Comedy Posters

For each show that I do, I try to do a poster for it. Each was a lot of fun to

work on.

Museum of Photographic Arts

The new direction for the Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA)

can be described as: Active, Vibrant, and Controlled Chaos. The design is

focused on using these states to present a fresh and new view to our viewers.

The new logo for the Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA) reflects a lively

viewpoint on the art of photography. It does this by drawing on the

photographic fundamentals of focus, connect, and reveal.

For this project designed materials included:

posters, tickets, show ideas, phone app, website,

t-shirts, gift shop items and environmental components.

Have you ever looked at a photo and thought, "Hey I can do that?"

Well now's your chance. The relationship of amateur and professional

has blurred a lot more in photography than in other art mediums.

But the one thing that truly makes for a great photograph is an image

that stops you dead in your tracks. The YouShow is an opportunity

for the visitors of the museum to be the featured artists. It works by

people sending submissions through the YouShow app in response to

that show's theme. Viewers can see all submitted images in the Viewers

gallery. The images selected by the jurors panel will make it into

the actual show.

Some exciting news, my logo for the Museum
of Photographic Arts (MOPA) was selected to be in

CMYK 50's "Top Creatives" issue.

I'm Back

It's been over a year since my last post. Bad I know, but things have been pretty busy for me lately with school and life in general. Some notable changes since the last time I was on include: taking up Stand-up Comedy, getting a girlfriend, getting set to graduate from Art Center in the summer, and my mom getting Breast Cancer.

As you can see it's been a year full of ups and downs, but I have been truly blessed. They discovered my mom's Breast Cancer early and were able to remove it. She's doing a lot better. During my term off from Art Center I decided to so something I'd never do in a million years, do Stand-up Comedy. I took part in Bobbie Oliver's Stand-Up Academy and have had a blast performing in shows in Pasadena and Hollywood. Having a relationship while going to Art Center can be a little bit on the difficult side, but it's been fun. People that have gone through Art School know what I'm talking about (Sometimes we forget to have this crazy thing called a social life). It's nice to have someone around that doesn't get obsessed about design like I do and to just get away from design at times. Lastly, on August 20th I will official be graduating from Art Center. It's been a crazy 3 years there but I've learned so much and it was inspiring working in such a talented environment.