Author: Nicholas

Nervous, for what? The show went so well. I met so many industry professionals, got a couple business cards, as well as got rid of over half of my own cards! Here is a picture of my set up. It was more clean at the beginning, this picture was taken…

And I’m nervous. The nerves are starting to kick in a lot, the show is only in a couple of days. Everything is done now, my website, personal campaign, and my coffee business. Those were the main things that I needed to finish. These next couple of days will be…

Everything is starting to come to a close. After the portfolio show, it is time to find a job. But right now, all of my projects are due, and there’s nothing else after this (school-wise). It’s sad, I mean, don’t get me wrong, I am ready for my journey into…

The past couple of weeks, I have been building my website (the one you are probably looking at now). I think I am finally starting to get the hang of WordPress. I would say it was definitely a learning curve at first, only because I had zero knowledge of WordPress…

We are really gearing up for our portfolio show. This week, we have printed, cut, and stapled about 100 portfolio show books. This was a huge project that my whole class took apart of. It was fun, but time-consuming. It has to get done, but I still have a couple…

While touring JDS Industries, they gave us a couple of laserable items. There were a couple mugs and pens they gave us. This week, I choose a red cup to put my logo on. I have really started to like using a laser, and I feel more comfortable doing it.…

Through the printing process, paper can shift from one color unit to the next. Without proper, or any trapping, image shifting of misregistration will result. So make sure to always check your registration!

I have finally created my logo! I love how this turned out. I chose red because it’s my favorite color, and blue because I think it complements the red well. This was a process, many drafts and time spent researching other ideas, but this represents me well. I wanted my…

Select a color for the stroke that is a mixture of the two initial colors. Below for a Cyan letter on top of a Magenta background, we use a stroke that is made of 40% C & 100% M — notice we use more of the darker valued ink.

I have my coffee business update! I have created the logo as well as a couple of mockups. Here is the finished logo. I found the font that I wanted for both groups of words. The line around the M represents a steaming coffee cup. I think that this logo…