To Infinity!

So I’m almost through the first semester at CCA; there’s just a few weeks left, and we’ve begun work on our final projects in most classes. This is what my schedule this term looks like:

Mon/Wed

• 12-3pm: Intro to Graphic Design

Tue/Thu

• 9:30-11am: English 1
• 1:45-3:15pm: Intro to the Arts
• 4-7pm: Drawing 1

Fri

• 10am-4pm: 4D Visual Dynamics

All in all, I’m pretty happy with all my classes, despite 4D being a bit of a bore, and Intro to the Arts being pretty challenging. History classes has never been my forte. My favorite class by far is Intro to GD, which makes sense considering it’s what I’m here to do. The intro class is pretty basic though, and I’m excited to be done with the core year so I get started with actual GD classes.

Our first graphic design project was to create a monogram using six predefined typefaces, without changing the letterforms. The second was to style a word using typography, while still limited to the six typefaces and black/white. Next we were allowed to use both shapes and color, but no images, to design an album cover for a song. For our most recent project, we had to design a book cover, and this time around we could use images as well.

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I’m laughing at my inability to update this blog through almost an entire year. Yeah, great job, Christine!

I see the header up there needs a little update, too – I’m almost nineteen years old now, unlike when this blog was created (and last updated). I’m not going to go much into what has happened the last year, because even though it represented huge steps for me personally, it is nothing particularly out of the ordinary. I wanted to write a little about what I’ll be doing in the future, though.

15 days from now, I’m moving 5,100 miles from Oslo to San Francisco, to attend California College of the Arts. I’m majoring in graphic design, and I’m nervous, excited, scared, and absolutely thrilled.

I was accepted into three schools total, out of the four I applied to; my application to School of Visual Arts in NYC fell through because I didn’t include enough observational drawings. Of California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CCA, and Savannah College of Art and Design, the hardest choice to make was between the two former.

Fuck, I pondered the pros and cons for a month and a half, before I finally decided on CCA. The decision was based mostly on money and location. I’m still not sure I’ve made the right choice. I guess I’ll find out soon enough.

I’m hoping to get more use out of this blog over the next few months (years?) as I adjust to life on the other side of the pond. More to come.

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So something is using a lot of my bandwidth! I can’t find anything in particular though, and it’s freaking me out. I suspected that I could be the Sparkle Generator, which has seen it’s heavy share of use at ONTD, but it consists solely of like a couple 5kb gif animations. I just can’t imagine that eating 14gb.

In other news, I’m finally working on a new layout for my portfolio. I’m so fucking sick of the one I have at the moment.

P.S.: Hi!

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So you’re designing something fancy – a webpage, a poster, a brochure – and suddenly you realize that “shit, I need a texture” or “hmm, I could really use a good body text font here.” Normally, this is when you’d go to http://google.com and scour the web for what you’re looking for, whether it be stock images or tutorials. A friend of me compiled a huge zip file with tons of useful resources for design. It includes textures, manuals, tips, photos, fonts and vectors, and I know it’s definitely something I’ll be saving for later. So I’m just, y’know, passing it on. Helping you narrow down the never-ending search for good material. http://designinterface.net/resources/

Post-script: Yes, I really do kick ass at this updating-blog-frequently thing. Lets do a 5 minute catch up: I got a new job. I aced my exams. I have summer vacation and am leaving for Greece on Wednesday. Seeya in mid-July!

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Love you too, babe. ;)

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