Wearing Whitman's Words

On Saturday I went to Wearing Whitman's Words: A Typographic Exploration at the Lucky Gallery. As explained on the site:
These designers were asked to make selections from Leaves of Grass to visually explore letter forms. The designed words will be displayed on the front of t-shirts with the selected text written on the back in a font consistent across each of the shirts. This contrast will highlight how the shape of letters can add meaning to the words we read.
There was some great design here so if you're in the area you should definitely go check it out. If not, you can always have a look at the websites of the designers involved. Thanks Lucky Gallery, for the free t-shirt and the beers!

Whitney Museum of American Art

This weekend we went to Whitney Museum of American Art. Here are some of my favorites.

Charles Demuth My Egypt 1927

Gerald Murphy Cocktail 1927

Edward Hopper Early Sunday Morning 1930

John Currin Skinny Woman 1992

Georgia O' Keefe Music, Pink and Blue No. 2 1918

Stuart Davis Egg Beater No. 1 1927

Sol Lewitt Scribbles (Whitney) 2007

Mark Rothko Four Darks in Red 1958

Swiss Miss speaks at Parsons School of Design

Today I went to see Swiss Miss designer Tina Roth Eisenberg speak at Parsons School of Design. She talked about her journey from Switzerland to try to find a design internship in New York with hardley any contacts at all (sounds very familiar). She also gave us access to a killer online to-do list that I'm planning on filling up this week! Thanks SwissMiss!

I pick Blick!

A girl from work gave me a tip about a great art supplies shop in Greenwich Village. It's called Artists pick Blick and has 2 floors filled with everything you ever could wish for in an art shop. It's quite a bit cheaper than regular retail prices PLUS there's a big holiday sale going on until Dec 24th PLUS you get a 10 % student discount. They also have free greeting card and ornament making workshops going on until Christmas. I've fallen in love with this place.
My new work supplies.

Four free student design contests and one cheap one!

Being a graphic design student looking for work right now is not an all too uplifting thought. So. I've collected some design competitions that are going on right now, all (but one) free to enter!

Dorset Cereals short film

The Brief: Make a short film that sums up our belief: ‘simple, but then the best things in life usually are’. We are looking for innovative storytelling and all formats are considered including mobile phones. Once you’ve made your video and uploaded it here on our website, it’s over to the great British public (and your friends and family) to vote for their favourites.

Entry fee: Free!

Prize: £5000 and a week’s work experience at a top film production company, and the two runners up will receive £2000 each.

Deadline: February 26th 2010

A Design Mafia - Visualize Brainstorm

Brief: Participants are asked to visually interpret the word “Brainstorm” using any medium available that won’t get you arrested (paint, ink, graphite, video, computer, macaroni, a bedazzler, etc). Please submit your work (or photographs of your work) in jpg, gif or png format to: adesignmafia@gmail.com(or send links to videos when appropriate). Please try and keep the images at 500px maximum and under 1mb. *UPDATE* We would like to limit the number of entries per person to two (2).

Entry fee: Free!

Prize: The winner gets the opportunity to collaborate with the founders of Brainstorm and A Design Mafia on a limited edition print. Not only will the winner receive the print that they helped create, but the print will also be sold in the Brainstorm online store…but WAIT THERE’S MORE!!! Not only will the winner receive a print, not only will it be sold in the Brainstorm store, but 20% of the proceeds will go to Friends of the Earth (http://www.foe.org) !!! So the proceeds of YOUR print will go to this awesome cause!!

Deadline: December 31st 2009

The Perfect Bottle

Brief: The creation of a unique/ideal bottle for the Aqua Carpatica brand. Aqua Carpatica is a top premium product with the naturally sparkling natural mineral water. We ask for a design solution for the ideal bottle of the Aqua Carpatica brand. The brand is to be launched on the market in 2010.

Entry fee: Free!

Prize: First Prize 30 000 euro in cash! Second Prize 10 000 euro and third prize 5 000 euro.

Deadline: January 10th 2010

2010 Semi-Permanent book

Brief: Submit your work to be included in the 2010 Semi-Permanent book.

Entry fee: Free!

Prize: Your work shown in the new Semi Permanent book

Deadline: January 10th 2010

CMYK's Top 100 New Creatives.

Brief: Earn respect and recognition for yourself, your partners, your instructors, and for your school. Enter anywhere from one to 15 pieces for a flat rate - and win the undivided attention of today's most influential creative directors. Open to current students, recent graduates (nine months or less) and the self-taught.

Entry fee: $45

Prize: Published in CMYK magazine

Deadline: January 17th 2010

All I want for Christmas.

I tried shopping for Christmas presents today but all I could find were things for myself. So a few things to add to my wishlist are: a lomo camera, typography books and postcards, map magnets and to do notes. Please!

First day at work.

Welcome to MSLK in Queens, I think I'm going to like it here.