Business Today

                         

So looks like my first college extra-curricular is officially set. I just got an email saying I have been accepted into Business Today, a student-run business organization that "tries to build relationships between executives and students." They run a magazine, and online journal, hold big international conferences, and hold guest speaker seminars on campus; all while macking on fortune 500 executives (they write articles in the magazine, come to the conferences, and are the guest speakers). Due to the groups insane corporate sponsor list, they're annual budget is between $500k and $750k. I sent in a portfolio of Lion's Roar stuff, my photo stuff, and some random design work, and got accepted to work on the magazine and the seminar team (getting fancy people to come talk). The magazine is the most widely circulated publication in the country. There was also some rumbling of creating a design team to coordinate design and the organizations "image" which would be awesome. Anyway, thought I'd let you guys know I've continued the whole student-run publication path! 

businesstoday.org if you want to check it out.

-AJ

My digital finals (read below post)

Computer Art assignment

One of my first art assignments has been in my class "Visual Form and Communication." Right now, we're focusing on using the building blocks of visual communication to send a message. In order to practice this, we were told to pick one major abstract theme. From this theme, we were to pick three sub-themes. For each sub-theme, we would create four representations. One theme all in points, one all in straight lines, and one using only curves. Then, recreate two drawings from each category digitally. Here's mine (my overall theme is "unintentional beauty"):

My Sketches

Curves- Grand beauty

Points- Minuscule beauty

Lines- Man Made Beauty

Concordia grad

(he took this picture, not the guy in it)

For Julia, 

Found this guy who went to Concordia. He has some pretty cool photographs:

check him out

and here's a link to a video he made: arctic surf film

Thomas Campbell profile

Thomas Campbell, one of my favorite artists, makes amazing paintings/drawings that look like an interesting mix of computer graphic design and doodles. He also makes super cool surf movies that focus less on the most famous surfers on the professional circuit and more on people who are doing interesting things more on the fringes of the surf world. His most recent movie, The Present has a part about a growing number of people riding surfboards that are essentially just a thin plank of wood with no fins on the bottom.

The website/blog www.woolwoodandwhiskey.com writes a good entry about him leading up to a local showing of The Present.

http://woolwoodandwhiskey.com/index.php?s=thomas+campbell

For another feature on Campbell and to see more of his work...

http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/checking-in-with-iconic-california-artist-filmmaker-photographer-on-his-newest-work-art-gallery-thomas-campbel_20538/photos/1/

Yard Sale Poster

I think both Clara and I were feeling the effects of going too long without some sort of CS4 experience. So we used a joint pre-college yard sale as an excuse to go all out designing a poster. We made it using only illustrator and we spent far longer playing on the computer than setting up the items for the sale. With the help of the nice people at Kinko's on route 9 we got some badass posters to hang around newton centre. I've decided that the posters were the direct cause of our $160 profit. 

Sea Surfboards

Sea Surfboards is a surf company from Byron Bay in Australia. They get different artists to do amazing designs on the boards.