bike packaging.

tyler and i fixed our bikes up the other weekend, which included a couple trips to Art's Cyclery. got some new tires for Ty and some break cables for me. we were in the shop for quite a bit while they put the new tires and tubes on for us, but that gave me a bunch of time to look around. of course i was drawn to bright colors and cool packaging and this was one of my favorites. simple design, but good graphics/color, good display of the product, and fun type. i almost bought the bike light just for the packaging, how nerdy am i?!?!


(taken w/ my iPhone = why the pictures aren't super sharp.)

the "sweetness" of iPhone.

actually maybe not I went to upload the pics and I couldn't so I guess I need to find an app for that. Lame. Well I'll down load my doodles when I get home that I wanted to post. Till then join twitter!

big news! But not really.

so currently I am doing something a little strange, but cool at the same time! I'm posting this from my snazzy new iPhone! Eekkk soo fun. (mom forgive me now for typos, I'll go back and fix them) so it was a good day yesterday a new toy which is helping me communicate better with everything going on here at i've gone graphic. I never thought they were something you really really needed, but I've now had it like 24 hours and would be extremely sad if I it was taken from me. Haha.

anyways enough about the dumb phone, I know.
So yesterday night I saw john mayor live at the midstate fair! so amazing. I'll try and post a video, I was very impressed with my little digital camera. after that long day of fun I worked a lot and also was able to finish the Berserker Cycle Design logo. still not sure about the snot green Adam, haha. anyways it's been a good week check back for pictures.

green things.

i didnt intentional pick these images because they both have a lot of green, but funny how that worked. anyways this post is just to share some fun things to look at. first off is the restaurant front made of old windows. almost every rectangular shape has a different style of old window, all come together to makes for very catchy curb appeal. (images taken in Sebastopol, CA of West Country Grill) the next set are off these really cool looking caterpillars that are found sometimes on tomato plants, known as "tomato hornworm." they look neat with the pattern and they can get really large, (found two really big ones today) but you want to get rid of them because they will eat your tomatos.... sooo not cool! so yeah we put ours in the green waste bin :(. *if you haven't noticed, we are growing tomatoes! tyler and i have 4 tomato plants (big ones) growing in the backyard.

maybe ill have to start having color theme'd posts?

an end to the swag.

hello all.

i know i have been away again for good amount of time. the sad part is i currently return with nothing. i learned first had the hardships of being a freelance designer since i was last here. i found out just because you design things for a client, (getting deep into the process aka almost having the whole identity completed) doesn't mean they can't say, "nah we changed our minds we are going to go with something else." meaning my fun designs i created ( posted in my previous post for "swag" ) aren't being used. which i am totally cool with cause i can use the ideas/styles another time, the coolest one wasn't even posted, but it will be eventually I am gonna rework it a little and maybe make some shirts with the mark. ill post it once i finish it up. so as that door closed i got a cool chance to work with a friend on a project he is working on. he has a company, Berserker Cycle Design, that i am designing the logo for and maybe some other stuff. will see. i will also post those once the design gets finalized. check back soon, i should have some fun stuff up in a week or sooo. its summer soo posting is a little slower, sorry design'y friends who read this expecting more.

a little SWAG...

this summer got off to a slow start, aka i wasn't design' much outta the gates, but everything is moving along now.

im working on a little fun project, for some swag at a conference. below are just some ideas, all a little different. they all look a little me so my goal is now to figure out how to make them appeal more to a little older generation. soo off to do some more exploration, but thought it would be nice to share because i haven't posted in a while. ill try and post some more progress as i go.

its june?!?

so, i took a little "vaycay" from this place. not on purpose but more because i have been designing less this quarter. meaning there wasn't much to post about. as for a recap... i saw the last of the posters i designed while at ASI. i should be starting with iiidesign soon, i have two more finals and then i am done with this year. i learned i suck at chemistry and i can't wait to get started on my way crazy idea for a hot pink alumminum potfolio case. will see how it goes, but i have a game plan.

as for the way this blog thing is gonna work from now on is gonna change a bit, for the better i think. haha.
i have been told (far to many times) that i like to talk... a lot. at least it isn't about dumb stuff, but i really have become interested in the design world in search of inspiration, see what others are doing, im also interested in the enviromental part of our world, so i like to talk about that. so those things might make an appearence from time to time. if you know me or are a regular buddy on iChat you know most likely know i surf the net a lot and find things. so i am going to share them with you here, on my blog. i like sharing, cause i am always up to learn something knew. so you are more then welcome to share anything you find with me too.

so i am off to enjoy the good weather before work tonight and then its a study weekend for me. ill try and post something this weekend though i have a few little things that i finally finished to show off. toodles.