LA Plastic Camera

Some shots I took in LA back in the spring. I never know what is going to come out of my cheap plastic Yellow Peace camera, but I sort of like these! Some things you just can't recreate in Photoshop. ••••

Crew Made

It's a slow Friday...so this happened.••••

Career Day

The past Friday, April 9th, I had the privilege of speaking at a local Austin high school for Career Day. I was surrounded by presenters from all backgrounds, lawyers, bankers, accountants, climate control specialists, radio talk show hosts, etc...

Then there was me, the 26 year old designer, only a few years out of school. Not the most experienced of the bunch but young enough that I could at least attempt to relate to the students.

I spent a few days designing a presentation for the students (ages 14-18), only to tweak it last minute when I saw first hand just how young high schoolers really are...this is very easy to forget once you are out of school.

Topics included: why design? education. misconceptions. challenges. inspiration and next steps.

I think the reason this presentation was somewhat successful was because I featured all the lovely ladies that write on this blog. We are all designers, yet we all do VERY different things at our day to day jobs.

A few of the slide highlights below:






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Crew Made, Office Edition

Call this post Crew Made, or call it self-promotion: this is about as close to celebrity status as I'm gonna get. My logo for the Anthracite Heritage Museum in the beautiful city of Scranton, PA was featured briefly on The Office the other week during the St. Patrick's Day episode! The Anthracite Heritage Museum focuses on the history of Immigrants who came to America around the Industrial Revolution to work in the coal mines and textile mills of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The generous gift Michael brought contained a lump of coal. If you're ever in Scranton, pay a visit— or, barring that, pay a visit on NBC! ••••

Crew Made

We're beginning a new series of posts at Crew Design, where we feature small creations that we have made just for kicks. The posts may be about something as minor as a doodle or a snapshot, or they be about larger projects we've devoted time and energy towards. Either way, we hope these short blog posts will help inspire us AND our readers to be creative in ways both big and small.

I'm excited to be the first member to post, and I thought I'd start it off with a little CREW SPIRIT! Recently, I decided to learn how to cross-stitch, and while I originally intended to make an alphabet sampler (see the awesome book I purchased at Michaels above), I thought maybe four letters was a good place to begin. And what better four letters to use than a C-R-E-W! As it turned out, I was lucky that I started off slow. Because I knew nothing and did no research, I thought I could just sew onto any old fabric. So I used linen instead of the gridded fabric, and did all my stitching by sight. If you've ever cross-stitched before you know that this is A) difficult B) stupid and C) going to result in some pretty inconsistent letterforms.

Well, definitely not perfect, but someday I still hope it will hang in Crew Headquarters! ••••