Wednesday, April 27, 2011

17 days, 14 hours, 5 minutes, and counting....

17 days, 14 hours, 5 minutes, and counting until I walk across that stage with a piece of paper that says I'm officially a Columbia graduate! Wow! I can't believe how crazy everything is right now, which is why I haven't been able to post a blog for a while. But today is a significant day. I'm done with my portfolio! That's right, I just sent it off to the printers....now I just hope that the express shipping I paid for gets it here before Monday when I have to present it to my professors. Wishful thinking I know...but I was waiting for this little guy to be finished.
He was my last addition to my portfolio. This was a project is for my Type as Illustration class. The assignment was to make a masthead for one of the exhibits at the Brookfield Zoo. I pickedPinniped Point...Pinniped means "fin-footed", hence the sea lion. I named him Sandy. :) The rest of the assignment was to take the masthead and incorporate it into an announcement of some sort of an event taking place at the exhibit.Ta Da! My poster!I had lots of fun with this...but it took FOREVER! So this is what I've been working on lately.
Back to life, Wedding plans have been put on hold because of the busyness of school. But it's OK, that's why I did all the major wedding planning at the beginning of the semester...I had a feelings things wold be crazy when April and May rolled around. Which they have! I've been juggling my projects for school, my portfolio, applying for jobs, and preparing for this "Industry Night" I have on my last day of school where a bunch of professionals are invited to come check out the graduating seniors. SCARY!!! Then there's a babysitting job there, a graphic design job here just for some cash-flow, and wedding details try and sneak in every once in a while. So a little busy.... but hopefully things will simmer down in a couple of weeks.
So, as I just said, I've starting applying for full time jobs. It's been nerve racking...I'm sure anyone who's had to go through this can relate to how much job searches sucks! I'll think I'll save my rant about that for the next blog post. Thanks for checkin in with me! I'll be posting again soon. And if anyone is curious about whats in my portfolio you can check outwww.karinhenley.com. :)