My dream home is much more simple than the average American. I dream of a clean space with modern accents and color, very open to the outside world. I want it to inspire thought and social dynamic. I want it to retain a style of wealth but yet use little resources in my day to day life. This is my dream pad. Where my pad will rest is a complete mystery, but the city has to be full of diversity, arts, and of course with the open minded society.

Da Dream Pad: http://www.contemporist.com/2009/11/28/my-life-in-80m%C2%B2-by-poliform/

I cannot name one song that I am not fond of out of Lily Allen‘s two albums. She sings from the heart and relates to current events more than any other musical artist I know. If there was one artist I would love to meet it would be this woman. She is amazingly in sync with my creative and personal life and is largely responsible for my creative punch. I think Lily tries to run from any style hole that most artists dive into, but if she were to have one it really is the “fu#$! you it’s my life” style. I adore her.

This song/mvideo was just released and is her latest studio work. It’s a duet with Professor Green (rapping isn’t really my thing btw) and unfortunately she has made no plans yet for another album.

This is the most recent project I have completed at Hotbed Creative, a design firm I’m currently interning with. Once printed, this design will serve as fliers that will appear throughout Hubbard Street Dance in Chicago.

I remember loving her hit “Do You Know” in 1996 back when I was still kissing girls and terribly clueless what I wanted to be when I grew up. My latest obsession came from her 2008 album Robyn with hits like “Cobrastyle” and “Bum Like You”. This year she is releasing an amazing THREE albums and has already begun to deliver eargasms around the world. Here is her latest, “Dancing On My Own”.

To think that we are entering the end of May seems crazy to me. So much has happened this year and it’s all a blur. The first week of May I said farewell to my Junior year at Herron School of Art & Design with a very proud 4.0. I was very pleased with my outcomes throughout the semester and acknowledge my academic achievements.

Throughout the last semester, the Junior VC department split our course into groups of four as each group would be assigned a private organization to spend the semester designing for. These groups were chosen by the professors evaluation on our personality and diversity of artistic skills. I was very fortunate to be assigned with three motivated designers which made the semester a much easier ride. As a group, we were assigned with Community Heights Neighborhood Association, a not-for-profit organization that works at attracting residents into their community on the Eastside of Indianapolis while grouping the neighborhood together for gardening, food drives and monthly meetings. Their branding and online sources were extremely lacking. Below is a comparison of what was there when we came in and what we had left them in the end.

The art direction behind the new site was something that could connect to what makes this community unique. Community Heights is a community born out of the late 40′s where a lot of ex-military settled with their families after war. These homes were mostly ranch styled, but some businesses shared the 40′s flare. It was very important that we took this concept and flew with it. Transferring the extreme amounts of content that Community Heights wanted to store online was a headache, but in the end very organized content and navigation was delivered.

On May 5th, I began my internship at Hotbed Creative where I work with four other designers to excel at creative design. I’m loving it there already and have already begun working specifically with Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (iMOCA) and Minnesota Orchestra. I believe this experience will certainly further enhance my strengths as a designer. On top of the internship, I’m also designing a new album cover for The Freaky Afronaut, a website and logo. Stay tuned as I will soon have a lot to share with the world.