Sunday, November 16, 2008

Workshop Information Sheet

Psych Workshop Flyer

Preparing for GS Workshop Flyer


This one was my favorite for sure. I loved doing it, and still love my idea.

Career Pathway Workshop Flyer


I finally got to work in color. This was exciting for me.

Life Work Workshop Flyer

This was last minute, but enjoyable.

GSF Table Tent


This is a table tent that I reformatted so its readable on the web. This was first table tent! haha

Graduate School Fair Flier

Graduate School Fair Ad for the CPJ

This was my first real go in Publisher.

Week 6

Week 5 project (personal website) is on hold right now because of some technical difficulties. So instead of holding off I'm going to keep posting as I work out the bugs of my website.

For week 6 I'm posting the work I've been doing at the Career Development Center over this quarter. I build all of the following in Microsoft Publisher. Yeah, you heard me right, publisher! It's been quite a challenge using this program that is not intuitive if you've any other graphic design software. But, I suppose you never know what knowledge you might need down the road.

Lynda Barry

I decided my next graphic artist profile should be on Lynda Barry because she came to Evergreen a week ago. (which was sold out, grr) I had seen a little bit of her work in my Sequential Narrative class, but thats about all I knew about her.


Well it turns out that she actually went to Evergreen, along with Matt Groening. Apparently Groening published her comic "Ernie Pook's Comeek" in the CPJ. This was exciting to me, because I've had some stuff in the CPJ. (not like it was hard). So after Evergreen she moved to Seattle and was picked up by the Chicago Reader.


Barry has published over five books, one of which, "The Good Times are Killing me" was turned into an off-Broadway musical. Barry often does writing workshops. Barry used to draw her comics with a pen, but began using a paint brush on account of her wrists hurting. I think the brush gives Barry's work a beautifully strange style that reads as more real and emotional.


From her book "What It Is", Barry writes "Paper and Ink have a conjuring abilities of their own. Arrangements of lines and shapes of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in." This quote really stuck out to me; I think its because Ba
rry said what I knew was true and had felt before, but never been able to articulate that well.

I really enjoyed reading Lynda Barry's comics and learning about her. The
most important thing that Lynda Barry illuminated for me is to have fun and develop your own style/voice, which is something that I'm working on, though I feel I still need work in that area.