The letter A

Ok yes it is Monday...but I'm not doing wedding pictures yet.... on account of the bride and groom need to fully look at them first... so instead I'm revealing my latest and greatest project, or I should say exercise. I have always been very interested in type but I feel like its an area of improvement for me.

I'm not the kind of person that can just read about it and fully understand or appreciate typefaces. I need to actually attempt to make them which is what I am doing. I am going to for the next 26 days have 26 different letters with 26 different typefaces that I have made. They are going to be a little rough around the edges on account I have never made a typeface before so this is a whole new ball game. So more or less blog spot I am using this as my sketch book... because I am not taking significant amount of time on these they are done in about hour to get my ideas out there and in motion... and to inspire me. I have been so bored with my real job projects that I need to keep getting better as a designer and I need to really push myself and work hard to get where I want to go ... and being a lazy ass (excuse my language) isn't going to get me anywhere but on the couch and fat. End of Rant.

So enough of my babble here is the letter A. The name of the this typeface is called "The beginning" and not just for the obvious reasons that its the beginning of the alphabet but but its the start of this project... the start of new chapter in my design study, and well the letter form doesn't make a lot of sense and its hard to tell where it begins, its partly 3d partly not... anywhere could be the beginning.

Who knows what B will be? Until B

-A

Monday Preview

They are coming soon... wedding photos that me and Shanna took..... here is a sneak peek thanks to Shanna :)

A

I'm Sorry!

I am sorry for being a terrible blogger and not keeping things updated. I know you were all dying to see my pumpkin carvings... but fret not fellow readers because I will not let you down... too much anyway. This weekend my brother Orry aka Orrwhore aka Oreo is getting married and I'm the photographer and those pictures will be posted!!!! So stay tuned and stay with me.... I will be a better blogger/tweeter/everything/ pumpkin carver.... Until the next post (which will be sooner then later)

-A

Happy PB&J Monday

Since I have been doing nothing but working, and not on the fun projects, but rather projects that pay the bills, I have nothing new to post at the moment. However I am carving pumpkins tonight and Cody (the bf) has designed a pumpkin titled "baby pumpkin who woke up from a nap." I'll be sure to post those pictures soon. However there is something that is pretty exciting that I came across today and if you click here you will see how fricken sweet this is! So hint hint everybody for my birthday next September.... :) Happy Monday!

Turning of a new...expensive page

Yesterday was a big day for me... I made my first adult purchase and signed my name on the title of a brand new car, or should I say a tonka truck. Of course I was super excited but at the same time it was a little bittersweet because I had to sign off on my bug. My VW Bug was my first car and I LOVED that car. I had so many great memories with my friends from high school and college in "Todd". So I decided to share a few memories... When we were 16 we went to our friend's Grandma's house to go to her pool and whenever we went there we had this stupid ass ritual that we did. To get to this pool there was a dirt road we had to take that had a huge hill on it so we came up with the safe and brilliant idea to put my car in neutral... push it down the hill and run and try to jump in the moving car oh and of course while playing some Ozzy Osbourne. Amazingly nobody got seriously hurt ... some bruises but we thought it was awesome and hilarious!!! Looking back now I realized wow.... that was beyond stupid (Sorry Mom). Through all my crazy high school shenanigans the bug was always there. The boys in my class use to often steal my keys and park it blocks away... so sweet, or the day I burnt the clutch out on main street before school and I blocked one of the main roads in Eaton... which there are only so many to choose from. That phone call to my dad was an interesting one. I can't wait to see what happens with my new car.... hopefully a lot more wiser decisions then the ones with the bug.

Mustache Ride 5cents!?! That's pretty reasonable

I finally have some time to upload my much anticipated prints from my screen printing class!!! YEA!!! My class was fantastical! Nicky and Stu at the Ink Lounge in Denver are seriously the nicest people I think I've met...Things have been beyond crazy! I also attended Bordo Bello and even participated and painted a board.. sadly no one bought him but thats ok next year I'm going all out :) Oh gosh the things I've been up too... mustache ride posters, squids, poop logs, and scuba diving... and throw in a t-shirt here and there. With all of this craziness I seriously have had major problems remembering my passwords for things. Cheese and rice balls we need a password for fricken everything and my ADD brain can not remember them all!!! But back to the main point of my post... the epic mustache ride poster.... let me explain the story behind this creation... and no pervs its not what you think. While we were waiting in line for Johnny Cupcakes we came across a sticker that said Mustache ride 5 cents.... and as casual as can be my friend Alex said " That seems pretty reasonable." Apparently he didn't think it was as funny as we all did because it stuck with me :) I have new goals to become a better blogger and so we shall see my two follwers... we shall see :)

xoxo

Manda

Screen Printing class......

This weekend I'm so excited I'm taking a screen printing class..... Pictures on Monday!