It's been awhile...

So, I haven't posted on here in a long time, but I was busy with finishing up college so pipe down!

As previously stated, I am now a Truman State University Allum (but they won't be getting any of my, as of right now, non-existent money for a long time)! It feels good but at the same time I am terrified. The job market looks like the Sahara desert right now. I met with Marc Chechik this past week, a fellow St. Stephen's parishioner and graphic designer and had him check out my portfolio. He said my stuff was really solid, with just a few tweaks I can make here and there. He also said I need to do one or two more complete branding projects like my Gravity stuff, since as a whole the stuff I have now is just one unit. A portfolio of just one thing won't get me very far. So I've got a lot of work ahead of me this summer.

I have another meeting this Tuesday with John Neibling, another graphic designer who works for XG-ad here in St. Louis. I really like their stuff and I am VERY exited to go and check out their studio when I visit. I hope to get some good feed back and get my name to some talented designer folks.

I need to find ideas for projects to do for myself this summer. hmmm...

Well I think that's enough for this post. More to come soon, but this weekend Cherish is coming into town so I'm not getting any work done.

Cheers!

Future thoughts

(A quick scan of some sketches during my Design History class, click for a full size)

So, over the past few weeks I've been contemplating just what I want to do when I finally get out of Truman State and go out into the real world. I feel like my drawing skills are not up to the level that they once were (and I'm sure a little practice is going to fix that). However, I really, really want to get a job where my illustrative style can be put to good use. This wasn't really an issue for me until after last weekend.

Last Saturday, I took a trip back to my home town, St. Louis, with a bunch of Viscom friends for the AIGA student conference and portfolio review. We got to have a round table discussion with Debbie Millman (and she is AWESOME by the way) and have our portfolio's critiqued by professional designers. The whole experience made me realize how much my drawings, when placed into my designs, gave life to my work. I really need to create some of my own work to place into my portfolio before I graduate that has nothing to do with school projects. As if I don't have enough to do already...

It's bloggin time.

Nothing as of right now, just posting a first... post. Back with drawings and more random tidbits later.

-Zach