#creativecircus

Wednesday marked the end of my first year at the Creative Circus. Its also the point where we are supposed to evaluate all the work we’ve done since first quarter. I didn’t quite get enough time to do that in panel, but even in just gathering up all that I’ve done, its pretty amazing to see all the things I created: from websites to bags to cut paper poster to full branding suites for hotels and restaurants. Things I never would have imagined myself making while I sat on set only a year ago.

I’ve learned a lot and yet, I also know I have a long way to go. Again and again, I go back to Ira Glass’ words because everything that I’ve done doesn’t ever seemed finished. It doesn’t ever have that polish that I’m looking for.

But I think that’s part of the process. And in honor of that, but also to keep myself accountable as I now embark on a year of intense portfolio building, I decided to start posting up some work from past quarters in a series I’m going to dub, Works in Progress.

So here’s my first little project. In my first Type class, we were tasked with creating a portrait of ourselves using a singular typeface. I’m proud of this piece mostly because I know what my first draft looked like and how horrifying it was compared to what I ended up, which vaguely looks like me, right?