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BOOK: CREATIVITY

Posted by Call Me Amaesing | Posted in | Posted on 9:26 PM

It's been a while since I have made any posts to this blog. It will slowly but surely come back!

I've been trying to be more well-rounded with what's going on in the advertising world, especially in the creative field. So, I have decided to spend at least a few hours a day per week in the basement of the Communications library, looking through old One Shows and Lurzers. Last week, I found this book on the shelf, and it blew me away.

CREATIVITY 37

As I opened it, it was filled with so much inspiration, wonder, curiosity, and excitement. I literally spent 2 hours in awe with each page I flipped.



So tonight, to keep my excitement level up, I purchased this book online, ALONG WITH Creativity 38. A $60 purchase well spent.



sleep well my friends. Sleep well.

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Art and Copy

Posted by Call Me Amaesing | Posted in | Posted on 10:28 AM

So I decided this morning that I was going to catch up on my advertising skills and look up things at the One Show website, but after one minute of searching, I came across this site, a MOVIE dedicated to the advertising industry and strategic thinking. It's called "Art and Copy" and will be shown at the music box theatre this coming fall!!!



Excerpt from site:

ART & COPY is a powerful new film about advertising and inspiration. Directed by Doug Pray (SURFWISE, SCRATCH, HYPE!), it reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time — people who’ve profoundly impacted our culture, yet are virtually unknown outside their industry. Exploding forth from advertising’s “creative revolution” of the 1960s, these artists and writers all brought a surprisingly rebellious spirit to their work in a business more often associated with mediocrity or manipulation.

http://www.musicboxtheatre.com/features/art-copy/

Showtimes from August 21

Friday, August 21
5:45pm · 7:45pm · 9:45pm ·
Saturday, August 22
1:50pm · 3:45pm · 5:45pm · 7:45pm · 9:45pm ·
Sunday, August 23
1:50pm · 3:45pm · 5:45pm · 7:45pm · 9:45pm ·
Monday, August 24
5:45pm · 7:45pm · 9:45pm ·
Tuesday, August 25
5:45pm · 7:45pm · 9:45pm ·
Wednesday, August 26
5:45pm · 7:45pm · 9:45pm ·
Thursday, August 27
5:45pm · 7:45pm · 9:45pm ·



anyone wanna go?

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It's Time to Refresh

Posted by Call Me Amaesing | Posted in | Posted on 10:06 PM

Hey folks. It's Diana here.

I figured since this summer's over and I need to get back on my feet about getting on top of things, I'm going to get cracking with things that I need to get done. This is just one of the few things that I have to do. I'm surprised that I haven't done much blogging this summer since I didn't really work that much, and I had a LOT of free time.
... But that time was spent basking in the sun, downing beer, and hanging out in front of the welcoming television that I do not acquire at school.

But now I'm back in my dorm room getting ready for a new school year, a new set of classes, and a lot of exciting and fun things to look forward to. (However, NOT excited about being in 95 degree weather with no AC).

I have a lot of things to write about that I don't have time for right now.. but here's a brainstorm.

- transit advertising in Chicago
- dorm decorating
- summer photoshop/illustrator tutorials
- Internship advertisements
- tea
- beta
- paintings

.. more to come. stay posted

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Guerrilla Marketing

Posted by Call Me Amaesing | Posted in | Posted on 10:38 PM




Brilliant. Easy. Effective.

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Summer List pt. 1

Posted by Call Me Amaesing | Posted in | Posted on 12:05 AM

This summer is going to rock it.

  • I'm canceling my marketing interview for Tuesday.
  • I'm planning on booking a trip to Austria and backpacking Europe with three of my closest friends.
  • I'm going to take an online course to learn how to make a website!
- buy domain name. get cousin to host for me :) Design. design. design
  • I'm going to sign up for an online TEFL course to get my certificate, then job hunt after my senior year.
which leads to.. I might end up teaching an ESL class over the summer!
  • I'm going to register to take classes (in photoshop, illustrator, and Java). AND if the classes fall through, I have the full Creative Suite tutorials from Lynda, which I will watch, practice, practice, practice, till I'm a pro. This will totally give me an upper hand when ADV 452 comes around. Which, by the way.. imsopumpedfor.

  • Creating Summer Calendar soon!
  • Madison Street
  • Michael comes back from Phili. Watch out.
  • Gay Pride Parade
  • Bon Fires
  • Hanging out with people who matter
  • Warren Dunes
  • Tanning
  • Hitting the Bike Trails
  • Grant Park Film Festival
  • OH MY GOD. CHICAGO.
  • Sox Games
  • Real Pho
  • Real Chinese Food
  • El Milagro Tortillas
  • A piano! (out of tune, but I'll deal)
  • Making springrolls.greenonionpancakes.congee
  • I'm learning how to make pad thai and pad see ewe
  • Driving and yelling and people
  • Lake Street and Khyber Pass
  • Museums, the zoo, Art Institute
  • Dillo Day
  • A real sewing machine
  • I can't even explain

http://www.thisoldnewhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/firepit.jpg Lite. Add Friends. Enjoy



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Starbucks: Don't Be Seduced by Lower Prices

Posted by Call Me Amaesing | Posted in , | Posted on 6:55 PM

Oh dear.

"The high-end coffee retailer is breaking a series of long form, full-page newspaper ads Sunday, designed to tell the brand's "story" while warning consumers about the dangers of trading down. It's all part of its effort to combat consumer perception about its prices and separate itself from McDonald's expected mass-market assault for its McCafe launch." - AdAge

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My Mosaic

Posted by Call Me Amaesing | Posted in | Posted on 11:50 PM

How It Works:
A. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search: (http://www.flickr.com/).
B. Using ONLY the first page, pick an image.
C. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into Mosaic Maker: (http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php).
D. Change rows to 3 and columns to 3.

The Questions:
1. What is your first name? Diana
2. What is your favorite food? Spring Rolls
3. What is your favorite color? Mustard Yellow
4. Favorite drink? Long Island
5. Dream vacation? Dehli, India
6. Favorite hobby? Scrapbooking
7. What you want to be when you grow up? Art Director for Ad Agency
8. What do you love most in life? Moments of Inspiration
9. One word to describe you? Whoa


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Easter Calling

Posted by Call Me Amaesing | Posted in , , | Posted on 12:08 AM



Every year, I make it a tradition to make Spring eggs for my staff and fill it with YUMMY CHOCOLATE. It's a long two-day endeavor filled with hot glue gun burns and tangled ribbon.

But here are the end results:






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Billboard

Posted by Call Me Amaesing | Posted in | Posted on 12:05 AM

Assignment 8: Outdoor
(aka: Billboard)

Make a billboard for a travel destination. Everyone did something out of the country. "Experience this, or take the challenge, or sight see" that.

I went with Brookfield Zoo. My trusty loyal buddy who've I've known for such a long time.

Strategy?: connect mothers and their family to the zoo, and remind them of the fun facts that they learn at the park as an engaging and learning experience.


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Duchamp Grice

Posted by Call Me Amaesing | Posted in | Posted on 3:52 PM

So me and my friends grew up together taking four years of visual arts in highschool. Since our art teacher was new when we were freshman, we all bonded very very very well.

Our art teacher, we called him Grice (or G-ride).

We painted murals for the Veterans Hospital
We painted snow plow murals, and also skipped school to attend the snow plow contest (which we are not allowed to talk about)
We did backdrops for the school TV studio.
We made art CDs and brought them to class, which Grice would often tell us to skip to the next song due to profanity.
We had Junk Yard Wars
We took a trip to NIU to take a life drawing class (which we had a 9-month old pregnant woman as our model)
We had pumpkin painting contests
We learned how to use Photoshop!
We tasted the famous Grice guacamole.
We made April Fools faculty photos and put them on display in the front of the school, which turned into a big commotion.

The best day was our highschool graduation. As our present, we were all invited to the wedding ceremony of him and his fiance, Anna. Of course, then, we had to make him gifts! What better things than to make homemade presents! So we made him coasters for his house from moasic pieces, and presented it along with a homemade card and a gift certificate.








Cheers to Grice.






Of course, we had to semi-raid the wedding reception and take lots of pictures with the photographer. hahaa

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"Kick It Up A Notch"

Posted by Call Me Amaesing | Posted in | Posted on 1:31 PM

OK. That title was not really something I came up with. I just used it because half of my class used it as their tagline for our Lab Assignment, which was to use the Heinz KICK'RS Ketchup logo that they gave us and make a print ad.

Here's mine:We went around the classroom and each one had to vote for their favorite ad. I tied with another kid in class, which he also had pretty good art direction. I hope he's in my 452 next semester.

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Tribute to Broadway

Posted by Call Me Amaesing | Posted in | Posted on 3:28 PM

I can't stop obsessing. My inner musicals are crawling back into my skin. I've played Rent for 24 hours straight, followed by Wicked and Sweeney Todd.



I think we've found the place where we belong. Dr. Dillamond, it couldn't happen here in Oz.



Sad how I've fallen asleep to the movie several times. I've never seen it all the way through. But I love the music. I should see it.


The next time I'm in NYC, I'm heading straight to TKTS and getting myself some orchestra tickets for Gypsy!!




Also on my things to see: Spamalot. If the movie Life of Brian is funny enough, this would probably keep me on the edge of my seat.


mmmmmm . Sweeney Todd. Meatpies, anyone?


And the Gods heard her prayer.
Billy Porter is a Genius. ONTI is one of my favorites.


Les Mis.


Jersey Boys. Are you still in Chicago? You were last summer. It's all my co-workers talked about.




.. and much more. More Broadway ranting later.

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Posted by Call Me Amaesing | Posted in | Posted on 3:25 PM

I found the coolest thing today.
It's called Idee.

We extracted the colours from 10 million of the most “interesting” Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour. Also available with Alamy Stock Photography.

So you just choose any colors from the palate on the right, and it'll look on flickr for the corresponding colors, the more colors you add, the more varied your pictures will be from the spectrum!!

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IDEO does it again

Posted by Call Me Amaesing | Posted in | Posted on 4:35 PM

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Breakin' Things In the Kitchen

Posted by Call Me Amaesing | Posted in | Posted on 1:36 PM

I decided that over break that I would learn some new things in the kitchen. So I learned how to make sushi (after some inspiration from Food of Love's tempura and sushi making night). But first I had to make some cookies.




Here comes the sushi part! I went to the store cuz we didn't have avacados, imitation crab, and also a nice cucumber. At home, I was happy to have short grain rice, carrots, rice wine, and some nori.

I also learned how to make congee (juk in Chinese, or rice soup) with preserved duck eggs and thinly sliced pork.
topped with scallions

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A Trevor Filled Weekened

Posted by Call Me Amaesing | Posted in | Posted on 10:02 PM

So this blog is semi unrelated to "all things crafty" but I felt the need to post things of my adventurous weekend. Trevor hall played on Friday in Urbana at the Canopy Club, and then again at the Beat Kitchen in Chicago on Saturday. Of course, we went to both shows as crazy fans.

While on this tour, Trevor had begun a contest of who could decorate the van in each city stop the best. [click][click again]. It's usually people who drew things in the dust of his van.

Me and some people decided to take it several notches higher. We grabbed window paint, made origami cranes [click], and just went all out.











This is what Trevor had to say in his next show:



But we couldn't leave it at that. Then came caution tape in Chicago. Trev thinks we're nuts. But he did say we're on top of the contest! woot.



[He put our origami cranes on the rear-view mirror]

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Why Hello

Posted by Call Me Amaesing | Posted in | Posted on 9:04 PM


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Valentine's Cards

Posted by Call Me Amaesing | Posted in , | Posted on 7:18 PM

Every year I make homemade V-day cards for my staff. Here are the ones from this year..






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