lol.

Ok, so I guess I shouldn't feel so inadequate when clients don't choose my designs. This is what two different clients went with:
So gross. It confuses me.

Freelance :O

Recently I've been trying to get into freelancing. Right now I'm designing handbills for an Asian American variety show at the Palace of Fine Arts in SF. They want something hip, clean, bold, sorta retro (and said something like the (r)evolutions design would work). It's all very rough right now (i.e. the text, colors, etc), this is just for the client to get an idea of the different directions I could go in.Nothing very asian american about these designs, but... not so sure how to pull that off without doing the obvious KANJI here, PAGODA there, and a lil bit of GENERIC ASIAN FONT.

I'm not charging nearly as much as people suggest that I should, but it's what I gotta do to keep the clients happy... and to keep my clients. period. It's kinda rough, but at least I'll be getting SOME form of compensation.. blahblahblahblah

im tired. time to sleep.

Progress

So within two days of my last entry, I did what I said I wanted to do. I finished tweaking my old portfolio and I applied to three jobs. Yay?

Only kind of yay. I really suspect that my old portfolio can't compete with people who actually studied/majored in graphic design. So... it's back to designing that new one. My portfolio should show what I can do and should reflect my design style. I have a new set of eyes vs. 6 months ago, so making a new portfolio makes sense. I decided to make intro pages for each section of my portfolio - graphic design, architecture, and art. These aren't done. I want to include pictures of the projects and their page numbers somewhere. I just put placeholder text there for now.
For the graphic design page, I wanted it to look like pixels or something. It looks more like plaid to me right now (which isn't a bad thing). I think it looks fine. For the architecture page, I modeled an old project from 11B in SketchUp (luls), and made an axon. Finally, for the art page, I drew the titles and such with my tablet.

New Portfolio

It has been a while.

This is my last week working at the architecture and graphic design firm I've been interning at for the Summer. I'd love to stay, but I just can't afford it. So I'll be moving back to Vallejo... until I can find a job.

I've been meaning to apply for jobs for the past two weeks or so, but progress has been slow. I've been updating and redesigning my resume. And I just decided that I would also redo my portfolio. Yikes. It didn't take me very long to dislike my old portfolio. I figure I might be able to get a better job with a better looking portfolio. So far...
...Not much. Let's just hope this doesn't take too long. And let's also hope that I won't get tired of this one in 10 seconds either.