#november12

F&L Through the Years: 454/??

birthday is tomorrow!!🎈 #14 #hopefullyipasspermittest #november12 #soexcited #itsmybirthday #birthday

november 12.

I’ll be playing the Sunday Showcase at @puckettsgrocery this Sunday! Show starts at 7pm! ✨ - - - - #nashville #puckettsgrocery #sundayshowcase #music #musician #liveentertainment #november12 #nashvillemusician #singersongwriter #wrenfione #musiccity #show #writer #photography #selfportrait (at Puckett's 5th & Church)

F&L Through the Years: 168/??

Botanophobia: the fear of plants. 

This semester I have done artistic explorations into mental illness as well as phobias and I think that it is so fascinating to see the way in which humans take the sad or disorderly or confusing or scary and try and transform it into something beautiful and reassuring. In my print class, I am doing an alphabetical series of prints on the shape that mental disorder takes. So i think that this project of turning a phobia into a typographical image is a very fun arch of that collection of prints I am making.  

I love branding. I think it was probably the first element of graphic design that I fell in love with. In particular, I love branding that takes the norm and twists it; the kind that ends up with concoctions like Greetabl (the sweet little foldable gift box made out of polaroid type photos and filled with treats that you can send to your friends). I think that branding is like a first impression. It can either be great, so-so, or really, really bad. Branding is the personality of a product. If executed well, your customer will fall in love with the culture that the branding promotes as well as the product. You get the initial oomph that draws customers in so that you product can keep them coming back. I know that personally when in doubt, if I do not know which product to choose, I typically go with the one whose branding speaks to me the most. Wine, deodorant, salad dressing, you name it and I’ve probably narrowed down my selection based on the branding choices. My favorite coffee shops and breweries are the ones whose product is not only delicious but the branding is done in such a way that I want to share it with everyone.