Wow! What a week!

This week has been one of the biggest and most exciting weeks of my life, and its not even over yet!

Tuesday I had my last critique of my college career.  It went over really well, the critiquers were really impressed with my work!  Here is a picture of my final set up:

Last night was the IDSA Professional Night, where local professionals came to look at the work and hand out three awards to the top three projects.  I was so surprised and excited to learn that I was awarded the gold!  Congrats also to Ed Mangum and Chad Hodge for winning Bronze and Silver.

For those of you who don't know much about my project, it is called Bloomlife and it consists of a line of products and services for the burial of cremated remains.  This includes a burial urn, memorial seed packets, and a burial plot where the seeds can be planted.  I will probably post nicer photos later.

If you would like to see the process book for the project, click here!

Now, onto graduation (tomorrow!) and then moving to Atlanta!  I can hardly believe it!

For those of you in the Cincy area, DAAPworks is up today from 9-9, and then from 12-2 tomorrow!  There is a ton of amazing work from all of the graduating seniors on display, definitely worth checking out!

Thesis Development

Midterm Thesis crit was today, so it is full steam ahead for the next three weeks! Click HERE to view my presentation.

Thesis Concepts Take 2

Here is a link to a PDF of storyboards of the two concepts I have narrowed down to for thesis...

Download HERE!

Let me know what you think if you take a look...I am trying to narrow down to one concept so I can start refining ASAP!

Thesis Proposal

Last Friday we presented our thesis topics for our class and a few faculty. I got really good feedback from my presentation and everyone is excited to see what I come up with. Take a look at my proposal, if you like!!

Click here to download!

Sometimes I think I am crazy for choosing this topic, but I feel like there are SO MANY opportunities, and it is a very emotional problem, which I also like.

In other news, the new Gorillaz CD, Plastic Beach, is A-MAZING. Check out the video for their first single, Stylo...

They did an amazing job transposing the characters to 3D without losing any of the character of the hand drawn style. Usually, I think that some of the character of the original designs are lost in translation when going from 2D to 3D. Example: the concept art for How to Train Your Dragon that I posted last week. After watching the trailer for the movie, I don't think the 3D characters have the same quality as the hand drawn designs.

Way to go, Gorillaz animation team!

Full circle??

Wow, this is strange! I was looking back at some of my old blog posts and ran across this one...

I had forgot I even listened to a podcast on this topic! I am probably going to do my thesis project about memorializing loved ones through cremated remains, so I have been reading/thinking a lot about what happens to your body after death. (morbid, I know, but I am actually pretty exicted about where this project could go!) So strange...