My illustration for this week’s PSU Vanguard opinion piece about diversity in college. To read the article, visit PSU Vanguard. Enjoy!
–EHT 01/31/12
Just holding a mirror up to society, man.
-EHT 01/28/12
I stayed up last night making patterns and textures for my project in 321, a branding system for the Ethiopian restaurant Enat Kitchen in Portland. I love it when I get to do stuff like this for projects! my favorite one is this one that looks woven.
-EHT 01/28/12
My illustration for this weeks opinion piece about the hidden fees from Verizon, Bank of America and other companies. To read the full article, go here
-EHT 01/26/12
This is my illustration for an opinion piece about the “Bystander Effect”. I tried to make the people seem like huge jerks, and they are! The article was reacting to a recent attack of a 14-year-old girl on the Max in Portland by a group of teenage girls. That she was attacked for no reason is bad enough, but apparently no one could be bothered to help her or tell her attackers to stop. For the full article, visit PSU Vanguard.
–EHT 01/24/12
I’ve been doing a lot more illustrations for the Vanguard newspaper on PSU campus, which is awesome because it forces me to get back into drawing all the time! Here is a recent illustration, for an Opinion piece about the Winter Farmer’s market in Portland. Enjoy!
Go here to read the article.
-EHT 01/23/12
The Pearl district location of Patagonia is located in the Ecotrust building, which showcases sustainable solutions and community building. To visit Patagonia, I walked through the Ecotrust building past Hot Lips pizza and Laughing Planet Cafe. The whole place has a trendy, urban, environmentally friendly feel.
The store Patagonia makes use of large windows for lots of natural light, with additional track lighting on the ceiling. The store is clean and well organized. Old bicycle and auto parts have been repurposed and are used throughout the store as displays and as decoration. This gives the store a unique, hip, urban feel. It is artistic and masculine. There was also a large sculpture of a fish that was interesting.
Other than the wood and metal, I noticed predominantly black, tan, gray, and green colors. Yellows, oranges, magentas and reds also showed up in some of the clothes. The only example of typography that I noticed other than their logo was a booklet about reducing their environmental footprint, which used a bold, hip sans-serif.
The store had unique chairs that looked repurposed and modern, possibly custom made. They looked comfortable. A bookcase filled with hiking guides and books about the outdoors was also nice– it made the store feel comfortable.
Sound–I noticed music but it was very quiet. It sounded like indie rock.
Smell–The store smelled clean, like new shoes and clothes.
Touch– The store is full of wood and metal as displays, which are hard and cold, but the clothes are soft and warm. I think that contrast must have been intentional, to make the clothes stand out.
Memory– the location of Patagonia influenced the space because the Ecotrust building is full of symbolism. It symbolizes being concious about the environment and the future of the community and world, being fashionable and finding sustainable solutions. The store would have an entirely different feel in a strip mall, and I don’t know that they would be able to charge as much for the clothes.
I felt interested when I entered the space because there were so many non-traditional displays. I would have wanted to linger longer. I was greeted when I walked in and once when I was walking around, but I didn’t feel pressured to buy anything. I got the feeling that the people working there aren’t pressured to sell, just to be friendly and people shop.
The most memorable aspect of the visit was the displays, because they came from repurposed materials and it was fun to figure out where they were from. I expected the visit to be less engaging and was surprised.
-EHT 01/11/12
I’m working on a project right now that is all about eating well on a budget, and finding alternatives to processed foods. While I was looking around for inspiration I found the blog simply breakfast, and discovered photographer Jen Causey. Her photos of her breakfasts are beautiful!
Just looking at her photos makes me want to cook up a storm, and then run out and buy a professional camera and take tons of photos. To see more inspiring/delicious photos of breakfasts, visit simply breakfast.
The holiday guide is out! I love this cover design, a collaboration between Katie West and Laken Wright, photographed by Adam Wickham.
This was my centerfold illustration- Holiday Dress up with PSU president Wim Wiewel. Be sure to pick up a copy of the Vanguard so you can cut him out and dress him up!
-EHT
In these last few months, I’ve kept very busy- perhaps too busy, because now I’m stuck in bed with the flu. I’m taking things slow today while I get better and I realized that this is the perfect opportunity to post an update about my recent projects:
As a part of my communication design class with Kate Bingaman-Burt, I got together with three other students and interviewed the owners of food carts near where I live in downtown Portland. I was inspired by the different type and color going on everywhere- all of the carts competing for attention. I took some photos of the ones I liked most.
We asked them questions about their lives: what a typical day is like for them, when their last vacation was, and what their dreams for the future were. We found that many of them enjoyed their work, had a good working schedule and wanted to stay in the business.
We created a zine and trading cards with profiles of the owners, which all fit into a little bag that we could share with them. The zine was full of the information that we gathered about the foodcart owner’s lives.
pages from our zine… The infographics show information about the foodcart owner’s lives.
The logo I made for the carts <3 -EHT 11/17/11
