Hello again! I am officially done with classes as of yesterday and to celebrate I feel it is time for a definition of my favorite design term "macrap".You've all been subjected to it, fliers on bulletin boards, posters for concerts, emailed brochures, and tv commercials...now, you know what to call it.Macrap is design created including all or some of the following:wordart. Wordart simply put needs to go away. Your rainbow effect type on a beveled

Here is a photo I forgot I had. I always am on the look out for good designs, well placed people friendly signage, and concepts that make me go wow!Here on campus we have all sorts of signs, being tobacco free there are no smoking signs every 30 feet, pistol pete posters, building wayfinding and street signage. This sign is my favorite. I will precurse this photo with over the past few years OSU has seemed to become less than enthused with the non-sidewalk

Well Bush and Quetzalcoatl made it...did you?Ok, well actually they were on my wall, but this afternoon was so exciting to show everyone my work! I was incharge of the food for our show. Being that we used a playdoh theme I decided best to go all out and use kid foods too!On the menu: alphabet shaped sugar cookies, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches shaped like animals, ants on a log, and Koolaide Bursts! I think it was not only a record breaking

This week I am getting ready for the design show. As such, I feel now is the time to look back and think of all the things I've learned about the two staples of being a designer.Spray Adhesive and Exacto BladesWhen it comes to spray adhesive I do not know what kind would be the 'best'. They all smell, they all stick to everything...and anything around everything. Such as carpet, walls, fingers, clothes and so forth. I can tell you that the Krylon

It's the Senior Design Show! I'm so excited that all my pieces are up and that all the work everyone has done the past few years will be on display. This morning it rained and rained as we brought in our pieces. It seems to always rain when I hand in my work...hmm...Anyways, I found it quite amusing to watch the mannequin come across the parking lot in a trench coat, it was like a headless trench coat person out to get all the designers on their

Clear as mud...no longer just a saying. Nope, it has been upgraded to my resume book. Today I learned that I have no aim when it comes to "flinging" mud. I'm trying to fling mud onto a large sheet of paper in interesting patterns to photograph and, not going to lie, most of it ended up on the porch.After taking photos of mud on paper an idea hit me. How cool would it be to put mud on me? I mean, I am after all a "Mudroch". This progressed from mud

I won two awards at the ECO-OSU festival today. I created this piece to educate about global warming in a non-traditional and more humorous light. Created in classic russian propaganda colors, this piece shows our own Bush and a little speech I made up for him, complete with new bushism "transformationing". I have to admit, that both while the piece was up at Theta Pond numerous people thought that the speech was really from W himself. *dances* successful

So I was driving today and I came across this truck...forgive me if the picture isn't the best, it is from my cell phone. But I couldn't help to think...what on earth would anyone do with this much bread?Some ideas I've thought up so far...1. feed hundreds and hundreds of birds2. make a bread igloo3. make a bread castle4. smash all the loaves into one combined pile of 10"x10"5. create a mold pile...perhaps start a compost?6. trying to literally live

Our tale begins yesterday afternoon at Walmart where Nick and I discovered in the produce area 'Flesh Melon'.Flesh Melon!?? Sweet!! At which point I began my list of 3 yr old humor. I'm going to eat flesh tonight! Woo woo flesh melon I wonder what flesh tastes like. I then think I should call my brother, Robbie, he'll find this HILARIOUS!It is from here things go downhill. May the "unfortunate events" begin.I look in my phone and dial Robbie.ME:

So, I've decided to join the list of super-awesome people who are bloggers. For my first post...Is it really graffiti if all you do is copy a piece of art onto a wall?Exhibit A: Found on the graffiti wall off Bethnal Green Road. Exhibit B: Roy Lichtenstein's Drowning Girl.I admit the graffiti is a piece of art yada yada yada...however, it has a striking similarity to the Drowning Girl. I guess for anyone to really answer this question of "is art