During the month of November I was featured in Applied Arts Magazine as a student award winner. Here is the spread that my piece was featured on (top spot!). Check out the other winners here http://www.appliedartsmag.com/winners_student.php?sort=school&year=2011 . Also, congrats to Ivy Tai ( http://www.ivytai.com/ ) for her win as well! 

Hopefully I will have more to post soon! It's been quite a busy couple of months getting used to living in a new city and working at a new job. 

I recently entered a competition and voting is now open. You should vote for me! In order to vote you have to create an account with the website. It's actually a really cool site.  Here is the link to my piece http://www.nowness.com/day/2011/10/12/1671/drawing-inspiration-view-and-vote?submissionid=1072&submissionpage=1&submissionsort=votes . The challenge was to create a piece inspired by a Haruki Murakami book. I made a piece last semester inspired by "The Wind Up Bird Chronicle" so I decided to enter that. The artwork combines several disjointed scenes/images from the book that I found particularly compelling.

Things To Come

So I recently got a job as Design Assistant at Beacon Press!  I am helping out with the department and doing some book jacket designs.  Lots of fun!  Hence the incredibly long time since I have posted anything, and still I don't have anything I can post.  Everything I've been working on is to be kept under wraps until published!

Buuuut I am working on some stuff with a couple friends/on my own- products and illustrations!  Here is a sneak peak of things to come!

Going to be exploring body systems!

Applied Arts!

I recently found out that I was selected as a student winner for the Applied Arts Magazine November/December issue.  A CD design I created while at school was selected and will be featured in the magazine.  Super excited to see it in print!  This is the piece I submitted:

It's been so long!

So... I've been really bad about updating this blog recently (graduating from college and moving across the country is to blame) but I do have a piece that I haven't posted yet.  So here it is:

This is a CD packaging design for the Rihanna's album "Loud", hopefully you can tell from the first that the packaging folds together interestingly.  I wanted to create packaging that combined the book jacket with the box in an interesting way.  This is the result!    

The Devil Bird

This image is in response to an assignment called "beasts" where I was given the task to choose a beast from mythology, cryptozoology, or wherever.  I decided to illustrate a bird called the "devil bird" from cryptozoology.  It is believed to be an omen of bad luck/death because the bird's cry sounds like a human crying in agony.  Like a lot of my work the piece is interactive and the front wing moves to reveal what is underneath.  

Queens of the Stone Age Band Poster

Here is an image I created for a band poster for Queens of the Stone Age.  The album title is "Era Vulgaris," meaning "common era" in Latin.