I still get to do some design work with my Americorps job. I appreciate having design experience and training as a tool that feels familiar and easy to use. It also feels good to be free of so much pressure with my designs. Yesterday I made this poster, today I got to lead an elementary [...]
Archive for the ‘Work’ Category
April 3, 2010
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Dear Diary
By Alisa in Arizona, Crumbs, Life, Lists, UofA, WorkToday someone broke into my house. Today I collected a burglar’s footprint and will now look at all Nike wearers as though they are burglars. Today I thought it would be fun to be a set photographer for a film. I wonder how that works. Today I ate five cookies, two rice crispy treats, a [...]
February 14, 2010
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All I’ve got
By Alisa in Art, Crumbs, School, UofA, WorkIf Larry Busbea can condense Adolf Loos’s essay “Ornament and Crime” to “Everyone who likes decorations is a sissy-baby,” then I can make my design history essay’s outline look like this: Rise of Industrial Revolution Eminem (Marx + Morris) Loos bein’ a hater.
January 13, 2010
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Today
By Alisa in Art, Crumbs, Photography, UofA, WorkThings I did today: Researched and took notes on banks’ websites at my internship. Went to classes. Thought it was neat that I know everyone in my classes. Read about typographic history in “Graphic Design: A New History”. Said hello to my roommate. Chatted with Adam. Ate potato salad, coleslaw, and fries at a BBQ [...]
January 11, 2010
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P.S. I went to Idaho, Colorado and Oklahoma. It was good.
By Alisa in Art, Life, Photography, School, UofA, WorkMy internship with The Caliber Group starts tomorrow. I feel like I don’t know how to do as much as they think I know how to do. I guess we’ll get to know each other. School starts Wednesday. Courses include: Design II, Typography II, Contemporary Drawing, Design History, and Contemporary Art History. Today I spent [...]
December 10, 2008
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My life is like NASCAR, I walk around in circles, accomplishing nothing, just for the fun of it.
By Alisa in UofA, WorkIn the last podcast of the semester, Arizona Daily Wildcat podcaster Kate Saavedra explains that the Arizona Board of Regents is forcing Arizona’s public universities to increase class sizes or face budget cuts. This is resulting in lower standards for SAT scores. Start the podcast at 01:54 to witness evidence of the dumbing down of [...]
March 29, 2008
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Friday, March 28, 2008
By Alisa in Life, UofA, WorkNote: This is really long, and a type-out of a journal entry. It’s not extremely interesting, and there are no photos, charts, or graphs. Just a day in the life. Note #2: Normally, my journal entries don’t look anything like the following. I blame it on the changing of the seasons. 0600 Wake up 0630 [...]
September 17, 2007
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Changes
By Alisa in Life, School, UofA, WorkI am no longer a Journalism major. A couple weeks ago I was looking over the classes that I would be taking for journalism, and I realized that the only classes that interested me were Photojournalism and Advanced Photojournalism. Ethics and Law? Boooooring! I mean, I’ve only heard good things about the J-school here at [...]
August 29, 2007
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Work dialogue
By Alisa in Crumbs, Photography, Work[Phone transcription]Â Me: How would you like me to get these photos to you? Photo Editor: Could you email them to me? M: I shoot in RAW. P: So can you email RAW? M: That would be kind of hard. Each picture is like 3 MB. P: … oh. Well, can you shrink them? M: [...]