From the Krayon Box

Shiny, new resume

thekrayonbox — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:12:04 +0000

Hi friends,

Sorry that I haven’t posted in so long. I got a real job and it takes time away from fun stuff. Well, a couple weeks ago I started dinking around with my old resume and got carried away. You know how it goes. After some input from a few trusted advisors, here’s my latest resume. What do you think?

KMichael-Resume

I’m generally pleased. I added a “Specialties” column in my ‘Skills’ section. I’m also breaking the rules by using multiple fonts, but Gil Sans Light (my body text and title text) looks kinda crappy for headers. General thoughts, comments, and criticisms are appreciated.

Updated Paddytime logo

thekrayonbox — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:00:47 +0000

The new and improved paddytime logo.

Loco for logos

thekrayonbox — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:05:35 +0000

Client: Paddytime, Inc

Paddytime is a social media production company, among other things. The design primarily alludes to a clock symbol, with the ‘t’ of Paddytime forming clock hands. I like how the hour markers become excitement lines! The logo is shown below with a black background. I’m not sure how I feel about the text. I like the font (Bauhaus medium) but the ‘y’ is a little awkward. I played with putting a circle around the whole thing but it made Paddytime feel contained or in the box, rather than exuding creativity and breaking the mold. Thoughts?

Pin-up 1.5: Logo

thekrayonbox — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:22:01 +0000

Hey guys,

The assignment for next Tuesday is a logo. Pick a real or fake company, or yourself perhaps? See justcreativedesign.com for tons of logo designing tips and resources. Let me know if you’re participating so i can put your design up for comments. So psyched!

For inspiration:

Stamp project

thekrayonbox — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:38:52 +0000

This week’s project was to design a stamp according to the guidelines set by the U.S. Postal Service. Some of these guidelines really surprised me – only dead American subjects, no religious figures, only subjects with national appeal, etc. Starting a project/picking a subject is always the hardest part for me. Last night I was thinking of Alexander Calder, because I was really moved by an exhibit of his work at the Centre Pompidou this summer. But I wasn’t quite sold on it. This morning I watched Mister Rogers’ neighborhood and I knew I’d found the right guy. That show was my favorite as a child, and it was still really great to watch today as a twenty-four year old. In addition to a visionary creative genius, Mister Rogers was also a musician, pastor, and vegetarian. Here’s the stamp I designed:

This was a fun and interesting assignment. When I was Photoshop-ing the main photograph for the stamp, I wondered if my design was really adding anything to such a great photo. I stuck to primary colors – the blue is a variation on the color of his living room walls on the show. Layout was probably the hardest and most serendipitous part. You never know what elements fit where until you try. What do you all think?