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This is something from my sketch book, water color and felt-tipped pen, making some patterns.

I'm really stuck with ideas for thesis, still. BUT I have been looking at a lot of work by other artists & designers, hoping for some good inspiration. I'm finding it really hard as a graphic design major to  come up with a significant thesis for a gallery setting. In my design class we are doing work with processing code, and it's really interesting, and the outcomes can be awesome, but it's so complicated to figure out. I'm hoping to  learn it well and perhaps have in interactive thesis or some type of animated information..

I really like publication designing, and  have been looking at magazine covers, articles, etc. I remembered that in Seminar in Design we read an article about Fabien Baron, and I revisited his work. It's so clean and simple but  has a strong presence. It's attractive work.  I like that he deals with letters and text with the photos, specifically his work for Harpers Bazaar. 

I think I'm going to start just taking articles I find  and redesigning them myself, or take short stories or thing's i've written and design them.

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When I was working on my resume I felt bad for myself only having one thing to put under "design experience", since Heather said not to include any in class projects on your resume. So I'm going to try to expand that area by finding freelance jobs, or doing jobs for friends or relatives, whoever! I've been pretty frustrated with producing work that could lead to something for thesis. I've been doing paper collages, and "collages" in photoshop, and small  paintings and drawings of letters, but  contorting these things into a bigger idea for thesis has been challenging.  I've been looking at the work of Eduardo Recife, specifically his collaging. His work is relevant to what I'm doing right now because he incorporates numbers and letters in his collages. I've also been peeping the paintings of Michelle Arms, which I really enjoy looking at, they seem so cheerful. Aside from paintings she makes calendars and creates designs and images on small objects.

Millennium by Michelle Arms

Eduardo Recife

interior of Elle Collections magazine, Sept. 2011

I've been on the search for interesting magazine layouts (covers, interiors, publications, advertisements inside, etc.)