Porcelain Clink Clink
Cut Crinkle Crinkle Crinkle
Fold Bend Crease Fold Fold
Yes, my haiku is so esoteric. You’ll have to order the The World’s Greatest Mug to decode it’s meaning. As of today, they are ready to be shipped!
A day full of firsts
My firsts included using Keynote, dusting, and meeting Ann from Hemlock Printers.
Christopher informed me that I was the first person to dust the cabinets. For some reason, I feel a little proud about that fact. But as you can see, I was desperately seeking something to do at the moment. Today was a little slow around here. We’re waiting for client feedback on a few projects so that we can proceed with them. It’s just the normal ebb and flow of things.
I like feeling useful.
Yesterday I left work feeling a little bummed because, I didn’t come up with a logo concept that was presentable to our client. So bummed that I couldn’t shake it until I went home and created a moodboard for it. So I came to work prepared with that, and spoke to Christopher about yesterday’s attempts and the moodboard. (He laughed because it was full of references to beer and guns, and our client works in education). From all the useless stuff yesterday and Tim and Christopher’s suggestions, we were able to come up with a new direction for me to take. I worked on it all day, and ended up with something that will be thrown into the mix of logos that will be sent to the client today. It wasn’t world changing stuff, but it feels good to be able to contribute.
Hello, Estonia!
So I am completely obsessed with Google Analytics. I am big in Japan! Well, at least one person in Tokyo has checked out the blog. I think that counts.
If any of you out in the world want to comment and say hi to me, that would be awesome. It would be like a virtual handshake. Especially you, Estonian. I feel funny being obsessed with you as a statistic and not as a person. (Other places that are totally into me: South Africa, Sweden, Portugal, United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Czech Republic, Austria, Russia, Dominican Republic, Australia, Cyprus, and Lebanon. I would love to hear from you as well.)
As per usual, we were working on the Good Design Book which included more photographing and more Photoshopping. Tim had to give me a little lesson on color correction. Not knowing how to do things in Photoshop makes me feel inadequate as a human being sometimes. But Tim was gracious and helpful, so I only felt slightly inadequate.
Other than work talk, the three of us also discussed the passing of Alexander McQueen (sad emoticon), Bollywood, and the number of ways to say “behind” in a hip hop song.
My Parents are Super Cute
One of the outcomes of my intern blog is that my parents suddenly know way more about me than they have since I was 10. Or at least they’re proving to me that they have an idea of what I do now.
I asked my mom to send me some ski gear from home. When I opened the box, not only did I find an airless vacuumed plastic pack of clothes, I also found a newspaper clipping and a small note in a plastic bag sandwich bag.
start of the week.
Tim is back from Mexico, and everything here at MINE™ is humming along nicely. I arrived 20 minutes early to the office today, as I continue to figure out my East Bay commute and how coffee fits into it¹.
Today was a little busier day than I’ve been used to thus far. Here’s a quick recap:
1. Filed. A small mound of design office miscellany collected on my desk since Friday.
2. Mailed. Using the famous canning machine, I put together and shipped three Everything Is OK cans.
3. Packed. I put together a package using press sheets² of the Stern Grove poster.
4. I worked on the logo a bit more.
5. PowerPoint to poster. I converted four PowerPoint slides to 24×36″ posters.
6. First guest. A designer stopped by the studio today to meet with Christopher and show some work.
7. Second guest. A former MINE™ intern, Kate Earhart dropped in to deliver her wedding reception invites.
¹Ritual Coffee was great this morning, but I didn’t think it was quite worth the 8 block walk to and from BART.
²More about press sheets tomorrow.