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TEAM BUNNYBEAR

Posted on September 23rd, 2011 by Aimee

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A few weeks ago I did the Pointless Pursuit with my friend Meredith. If you haven’t heard of this local event, it’s kind of like the Amazing Race. It’s a journey through Columbus’s High Five districts and takes 2-5 hours to complete. We picked the team name BUNNYBEAR because it combined our nicknames from when worked together. BUNNYBEAR sounded too soft so I created the design above for the front of our team t-shirts. We didn’t come close to winning, but it was really fun to solve the puzzles and complete the challenges. The best part was that all proceeds went to charity.

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Fun at Igloo Letterpress

Posted on September 11th, 2011 by Aimee

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A few months ago I attended an Intro to Letterpress class at Igloo LetterPress in Worthington. The shop is cute and packed full of old and new wood type, lead type and beautiful paper. It’s a print designers dream. Allison Chapman (owner) was a great teacher and host. She really opened up her studio to the class and let us look around while providing insightful historical facts and tricks of the trade throughout the projects. The class was small (only 4 people) enough for everyone to easily see the demos and spend a fair amount of time on the press. We set our own type for some stationary without the help of a computer. My stationary said I LOVE BANJO. We also printed covers for our own notebook and learned a binding technique.

The greatest part of the class was seeing how much passion Allison had for printing. As she talked about her education and past projects, I really got the sense that she cared for her clients work as much as they did. As a designer here in Columbus it is great to know that I have access to such a fabulous place and great people to work with. I will defiantly be using them on some projects in the future.

Check them out for yourself, online or in person. I highly recommend one of their classes.

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It’s been too long

Posted on September 9th, 2011 by Aimee

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The good news is the time spent away from this blog was not wasted.

In fact, the last six months have been extremely productive for me. Teaching a web design at the Columbus College of Art & Design and remodeling my studio were the biggest time commitments, but I have also been attending a drawing class, taking banjo lessons, and putting many hours in on contract web work. These are all things I should share instead of keeping my experiences and learnings to myself.

I really do believe in the reason I started writing this blog, although you would not agree based on the limited number of non-consecutive posts. I tend to start a lot of new things while letting other things slip to the bottom of my list. Today I start again. Look for more posts about what I have done the last six months and timely posts of things to come.

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September, 2011

TEAM BUNNYBEAR

Fun at Igloo Letterpress

It’s been too long