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Saturday, January 31, 2004
UPDATE...
I went in to my SOHO office today and got to open the production model for the 2004 Christmas Packaging designs I did for M&M...
These were the first few test production models made...
Don't you love those cute chocolate characters... turned out really well...
For any designer, it is that sweet couple of seconds that we enjoy most when get to see that sucker you've design in a production model...
Knowing that you've been sitting your ass designing for days and weeks and sometimes even a year.
And for this design for M&M...
It was like Christmas Day again while I rip and shead away the FedEx package to get the production model sent from M&M...
and you know...
Everything pays off in that 2 ~ 8 seconds, when you stand back and go.. ahhhhhh....
and you forget all those hours sitting on your ass for hours on Photoshop hacking at those M&M suckers...
even though I get to try out their many different M&M samples and test sample products...
I'm glad I got such a fun interesting project to work on though...
Now I'm apart of a M&M characters legacy...
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Production Model
M&M Character
Anyways...
I'm back and as busy as usual..
2 jobs and full time school...
School is pretty good this year, I'm happy with the courses I'm taking..
One is Advance Product, it focuses upon the design development cycle and advances design phases... while interfacing with the latest production methods, technologies, operations and management.
Second one is the Advance Alias StudioTools... basically a 3D design program... gotta love Alias...
Third is the Three Dimensional Study and Analysis... and continuation study of form, lines, surfaces, space...
Forth is a Direct Research, this course covers from angles of anthropology and ethnography, to ergonomics and bio mimicry … pretty intense class…
And last course is a production method course, specializing in Plastics, learning from the chemically properties and structures to production applications and material engineering… It’s pretty much back to the days of organic chemistry classes… except it’s all on the polymerization processes…
Work is hectic…
Have to start working at the Manhattan SOHO office again..
And work back home with my company is getting busy also…
Not much time to slow down or turning off my brain…
When I’m not in class, I’m working, when I’m not working I’m in the studio…
And when I’m walking to class or going to work,
I think of all the projects in my head, and sketch them in my head while I’m not sitting down, and when I’m sitting down for lunch or subway, I’ll be sketching them down in my sketch pad…
The only free time for my head is when I go unconscious…
Good thing I don’t dream, or else I’d be screwed…
Life in NY is ‘life on the fast lane’…
I’m not really for it, but at this stage of my life,
I guess I have to be as aggressive as possible,
And stack as much beef under my resume…
What if I write ‘capable of surviving New York’ as one of the work proficiency?
I should get some kind of acknowledgment for that..
You think?
1/31/2004 01:38:00 AM
Sunday, January 25, 2004
Picture of Mars landscape
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1/25/2004 01:00:00 AM
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