Happy Anniversary!

This coming monday is my wife and I’s first wedding anniversary! We made it a whole year! To commemorate this joyous occasion, I did what any other graphic designer would do, create a graphic and implement that across many mediums. Ha! For real though, that’s exactly what I did!

One morning I got up super early to photograph a ring tree that Holly bought for our bathroom (CB2 online). We never had a place to put our rings, and so ring tree holder! Problem solved. She loves the thing, as do I. Upon photographing it, I played around with some fonts and settled on Ostrich Sans, which has this wonderful font weight family that has thin, condensed, double stroked, etc. I used it on the “365″ “ONE” and “YEAR”. I used Raleway for “HAPPY” and “ANNIVERSARY” for something with a bit more width and proportion. (Disclaimer, I’m a HUGE fan of The League of Movable Type, I think they do phenomenal work there!) I also added a text treatment on “YEAR” by intertwining the letters around the ring tree holder, mimicking our love for one another (cue sappy music).

I started with something of the print variety and made a card:

And then of course I designed for the iPad 2 my wife just got:

And of course I had to design for my new iPhone 4 that I recently acquired: 

And lastly, I had to design for my MacBook Pro, obviously.

Tune in next year for a revamp of the wedding anniversary design!

 

 

 

 

Day 2: Post-Grad.

Wow, I’m done. What a weird feeling. I’m not sure it has completely sunk in yet, but with time I’m sure it will. Or at least when everybody comes back from vacation to start school again. and I won’t be. How liberating, and yet weird it will be. 

Everybody keeps asking about plans? I think its totally fine not having one. I’m beginning to adopt the idea that nothing solid will be in front of me for awhile. I’m going to have to branch out and just do something different, which is something I associate this post-grad life with. I’m totally excited for this. But I’m not ready for it. Yet. 

Over break I’ll be relaxing and charging up my batteries. I’ll also be starting up my job search. I’ll also be purchasing a new laptop. I’m so tempted to buy the macbook pro, but it is totally out of my price range right now. Thought about putting it on credit and paying off as much as I can and then slowly paying it off, but I can’t justify it. Especially now during this economic downturn of our current predicament. So I might just opt for the macbook and load the crap out of it. Until I get a well paying job, I’ll buy something better. But for my purposes right now, it’ll work fine. In fact, I’ve been using my powerbook G4 for everything that I do, and it has handled (up to a certain point) well. 

I’ll be trying to keep the frequency of these posts up, but with the holidays coming, christmas cookies and cheer are going to be preoccupying me.