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This is a logo project put on by the company I work for The LogoLoft. We had to makeup a company and then draw a character and vectorize it. This is what I came up with 
My Sketch
simple vector outline
With company name and lots of gradient and shading
simple flat design for more variety in final materials
One Song…One Story…different decades!!
Notice the lyric change from Julie Andrew’s and Leslie Ann Warren’s song to Brandy’s version….from ” slave in Kolkata” to “thief in Kolkata”…NICE. One discriminatory association fixed, now whata bout the small issue of little girls everywhere hearing “I’m a girl men go mad for love’s a game I can play with cool and confident kind of air” to the ever so demeaning concept of “Just as long as I stay in my own little corner All alone in my own little chair. I can be whatever I want to be.” Don’t get me wrong, I grew up hearing Leslie Ann Warren’s version (the worst of the lot in talent) and LOVED it. It’s just a shame we are all so preconditioned to think some things are “normal” and “right” vs. other things. For Instance, I get the concept of mascara…I do and I use it daily. I also like high heels…but really, do we HAVE to do these things to believe we are “normal” and “fit for society”?? Just interesting cultural beliefs I guess. I mean what little girl (woman) isn’t dreaming of the Cinderella fantasy in some way…in some version of her own? Maybe if I sit in my own little corner and my own little chair and stay quite I can be JUST LIKE Cinderella?? YAY!!!
Just thoughts…and I am sure I am only skimming the surface.
Adventures in…Floral Designing?
Last night was my first day(night) at my new second job at Michael’s…I had the BEST time!!! LOL I find everything interesting, but also humorous….so in all my mishaps (and there were a few) I genuinely enjoyed myself (until about 9pm when I started to feel the effects of not eating anything and standing for 4 hours straight).
Mishap #1: I decide I am going to be fancy and hot glue these twine balls into an arrangement. It’s going good, I figure out how to attach them securely etc.. and it looks nice. Well on ball number 5 while putting it into the arrangement the still not dried hot HOT glue drizzles down onto my hand!! The faces I made were prolly hilarious!! I was lucky I didn’t scream out it hurt so bad.
Mishap #2: A customer comes up to me wanting to know pricing for customized bows for 7 boutiners for a funeral…asking me all sorts of things I have no clue how to answer. While she is talking I scan the area to see if my MOD is around, but there is no one there. So I decide I need to call her over the intercom…(I HATE intercoms…not only can I be timid in regular conversation, but also while projecting my voice throughout an ENTIRE building over a speaker system!!) So I man up and call for Maria….as soon as I sit the phone down, I look up and she is standing right there in front of me like wtf?? I’M RIGHT HERE!!!.
Mishap #3: And the last but not least!! While trying to take out the garbage at the end of the night…(I am trying to find the compacter that has been described, but I have yet to see or figure out where it’s located) I open a random exit door in the back and set off the store alarm!! NICE
In the end I think I will like being there, but it will take time to get assimilated and to figure out what I am responsible for each night.
Here are some LOGOS:
Logos July 27th
Logos July 28th
Logos July 29th
Random Photo #4: A typical night at my place…
A typical night at my apartment consists of me sitting/laying and working/playing on my laptop with my precious (cujo-esque) pup somewhere amongst the pillows and wires. (I really need to get WIRELESS!!) As seen here:
I was just browsing some favorite blogs only to glance up and see two bulging eyes peeking over my screen at me, had to share!! HILARIOUS!
Funny Client Comments….
#1
me: (on the phone) just double click on “My Computer” and then…
client: (silence)… But your computer is at your desk and…
me: (preparing to shoot myself)
#2
Mom, “Hey, we’re watching a DVD and we need to know how to get that black stripe off the top and bottom of the screen.”
Me, “Ok, what you have there is the letterbox version of the movie. The black stripes are there on purpose. Its so you can see the whole screen like it was in the movie theater. Next time, rent the widescreen version.”
I thought I handled it very well. I didn’t laugh once.
#3
Client signed off on business card proof. I sent through the press-ready pdf file for his printer.
Client phones and complains that this isn’t the file he signed off on. He doesn’t want that bar with the squares of color and those little angled lines in the corners on his business cards…
*sigh*
#4
Me: Do you have a computer that runs Windows or Macintosh?
Customer: Uhhhh…Both
Me: SO do you have 2 computers?
Customer: Nooooo…Mine runs both. It’s Windows ME, Windows Macintosh Edition
Me: Huh?
#5
We did a website for the city District Attorney. She had just had her office decorated and wanted the background color of her website to match the color of her new drapes. Her assistant brought a swatch and we matched it.
A few days later the DA called to complain that the color was way off so we explained that colors display differently on various monitors.
In the end we went to her office, hooked a laptop up to her monitor so we could access the software through her monitor and match the color exactly.
All this so her website would coordinate with her office…
Your tax dollars at work…
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