Wednesday, October 27, 2010

AIGA Movie Night Poster

Now that we have all renewed our memberships, it is time to party! Our first AIGA Student Group Movie Night! November 10th!

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Behind the Golden Curtain





So, I have rediscovered the circus this past weekend. I went to the Ringling Brother's famous circus as a kid (I was 5), and it was a fascinating experience. As of today, at 21 years old, I am working on an exhibit design project that involves the circus on rails. Before the motion picture, towns turned to the circus as their form of entertainment. When rail lines became accessible, circus owners saw an opportunity to expand the reach of their audience by making themselves mobile.

I found these photographs in my research, and I love the romanticism, and the harsh realities of the lives of the circus animals and performers in these stills.

I want to make things that make people happy .. like this!

I saw this on ffffound tonight. It reminds me of all those times I went to restaurants as a kid and they provided the coloring books with the little crayon box (but this is nicer because you don't have that annoying little box to fuss with). Looking back on those days, the coloring books served as a beautiful distraction from all of the adult conversations that were going on, like war and politics, and family disagreements. All I remember are the crayons and the chicken fingers. I guess the magic worked.