Every year the 2nd year class puts out a handy-dandy “DON’T PANIC” guide for the incoming class. This year I was asked to do the cover and decided to go with something way different from the previous year (which was a ominous looking stethoscope). I thought, of course, that the most important thing is to have DON’T PANIC written in large, friendly letters. And you can’t getting larger or friendlier (or Britishier) than good old Gill Sans.

I’ll post the actual cover later though, once all of the changes have been made. I doubt that it will really give anything away to the next year’s class (except maybe Mike) but I’d rather wait until the writers of the book tell me what changes I need to make and how I really can’t spell and should mostly just avoid putting text in any of my designs.

So for now here is one of the 4 icons I made for the cover. This one is for “money issues” as in lines of credit and just how crazy in debt we will all be in 4 years.

I just wanted to let everyone know that I’m now accepting custom logo work requests on Etsy! My Etsy shop has been revamped and I’m rearing to design up a storm!

The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) released a font called “Coming Together” just a little while ago as part of Font Aid. It’s entirely ampersands (this character: &) contributed by many different artists. It’s only 20$ US and all of the funds go directly to MSF (Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders). It’s such a cute idea and a great cause and it shows that no matter what you’re good at, you can always lend a hand (not everyone needs to be a doctor/foreign aid worker).

So lend a hand and get a cool font in the process! It’ll probably be the best 20$ you spend in a while!

Is it bad that I want a Pogo Printer? I know that they’re pretty lame in the sense that they’re poor quality without the vintage appeal and after somewhere around a year of Polaroid saying “naw, we’re not going to make our classic film anymore” they’ve changed their minds and are totally still making film (which means I technically could just get a “real” Polaroid camera). But at 50$ (probably more here since that’s the American price) and for 30 little prints for just over 10$, it seems like a pretty cool idea.

I was thinking it would be especially cool to have when Mike and I go to San Franciscon this summer because we got a little Moleskine City Notebook and I think that the little Pogo stickers might fit in it better than “real” polaroids. We shall see and regardless, the technology is so nifty (and I’m a sucker for those sorts of things).

I’m designing a shirt for a post-exam adventure that my class is having after out Pathology-Immunology-Microbiology exam. I figured that since the powers that be are decided that it would be ingenious to switch to computer based exams, pixel art might be appropriate. I wish that we were printing in more than one colour, since it would be fun to colour these. I might do that anyways, just for my own fun.

PS I’m watching the Oscars. I hope Up wins everything.

I saw Wilco last night. The show was amazing! Mike and I also got a poster, we shall add this to our (growing) collection of screen printed posters. I’ll take a photo of them sometime. Wilco always has amazing, amazing posters. Check them out!

Bahamas opened, and he (plus drummer) was excellent too. Listen! (courtesy  of CBC3)

This is the first poster I’ve done in a while (or at least it feels like it). The people on the Humanities Committee love bright, primary colours, so that’s what I went for.