48 hours of no sleep

This past weekend, IOPP (Institute of Packaging Professionals) held a 48 hour packaging challenge for students in the Southeast. The design heads of my school decided to make teams among all the design students and let us have at it. We had teams of 5, and were given the design brief at 7pm on Friday night. We had to have the packaging completely designed and photographed, as well as a video presentation under 2 minutes of the sales pitch. The packaging had to promote either recycling or include a secondary use of some type. We could choose from peanut butter, bottled water, cereal, or wine bottles. My team decided to take on peanut butter. Here is our presentation video as well as the final shot.

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New Nike ad for the Tiger Woods situation. Goes to show advertising doesn't always have to be funny to be rememberable. This is a recording of Woods' father speaking to him earlier in life, to give the idea of what he would say for the sex scandal. Pretty smart on Nike's part.


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Welcome to the future. Super impressive!

Take a minute and treat yourself with this video. I graduate in October, this is out in November. Great graduation gift idea, ha!

NYC, here I come!

Go back to the second post I made on this blog, back in 2007. I discussed the dream of being in the bright lights of NYC. Well friends, the time has come. I am heading to the big apple on May 3rd for a portfolio review at the Art Director's Club in Manhattan. This is an opportunity in which the top art schools in the nation send only 5 people from each department to go represent them. I was lucky enough to be chosen, and will be meeting potential employers from all over the states. I'm not going in the hopes to get hired, but really just for the practice of talking to people and figuring out what they want to be seeing to offer me a job. I started my 7th quarter meaning I am 6 short months away from exiting these Portfolio Center doors and starting my future. Its exiting, but scary too. We'll see very shortly if I'm where I need to be to make the cut. I'll keep you posted!

Traveling the southeast

For break, Megan and I traveled to a few places. One being Greenville, SC, so that Megan could meet and hang out with some of my college friends, as well as a chance for me to get to see the new house purchases of some of them. As some are getting married and buying houses, it's funny to me to think I needed to come back to school. Ha, oh well. No rush. We got to spend an entire night of the 2 nights we were there waiting on one of my friends to be let out of a detention center. Long story, not really worth discussing since all charges were dropped and he is one of the last I'd imagine to be in jail.

On the Falls Park bridge in downtown Greenville.

Then we traveled down to Augusta to visit the 'rentz. We got to get around town with Mom, including the riverwalk and catching the newly added statue of James Brown...hmm. Anyways.




After all that and a weekend in Atlanta, we headed west. All the way to the west side of Louisiana, right on the Texas border. I got to see where Megan came from, meet her friends and hang out with her parents. With drive-thru daiquiris, crawfish boils, and some of the most amazing shrimp and corn chowder I think I have ever eaten, it was definitely a different place than where I'm from. We traveled 20 minutes down the highway from her house to the Texas border to take some pictures of my home state. Well, for the birth and first 6 months of my life. I kind of thought of it as an accident, since I am as far from a true Texan as possible. Check out the pics:

Bag of soon to be eaten crawfish.
Not to appetizing looking yet, but after the boil, hell yea!
Megan house. Designed by her mom. Beautiful.


A cool pasture that caught Megan's eye on the drive back to Georgia.