Updates: Coming Back Home

We Moved!

John and I drove a UHaul full of stuff 800 miles from Seattle to Oakland this weekend, officially closing the chapter of our lives in Seattle. The change was bittersweet: We were both so excited to come back home, but also so sad to leave all of the amazing people we met while living there. I know that we will have a lot of life-long friends from that experience.

For now, I'll be working as a part-time Creative Sales Associate at Paper Source, and hopefully picking up some freelance work. I'm also planning to contact some florists to see if I can apprentice with them and help set up weddings. Excited to try my hand at it!

Letterpress: Inspiration Broadside

Last week marked the close of my letterpress class with Jenny Wilkson at the School of Visual Concepts. I'm hoping I'll be able to find the funds to take a class again soon, but for now I can only dream about it.

snOMG!

It snowed in Seattle! The first time it's ever snowed in a place I've lived.

Process: Sufjan Stevens Poster

Into the Woods seems to have motivated me into hi-speed productivity, because this week has flown by! I was just talking to one of the people I met at the conference about how I wanted to design music posters (and I was also inspired by the Screenprinting workshop I took with Jon Smith), so imagine my delight when I came across a weekly challenge to design a music poster (posted on the Imprint blog). The only criteria was to use torn paper, which is right up my alley!

Into the Woods {and out of the woods...}

This weekend, I had the privilege of attending AIGA's Into the Woods design conference in Leavenworth, Washington (thanks Kristine!). And it was not only fun, but amazingly inspirational.

For the love of Letterpress

I've been having trouble adjusting to non-school life, and adjusting to not being able to do anything lettepress related! So I was super excited to start my new Letterpress class with Jenny Wilkson at the School of Visual Concepts. Pictured above is the first project we completed, which was to typeset our name and print it to label our galley.

First Thursday: August

So it's official: Seattle's First Thursday kicks Oakland Art Murmur's ass. Perhaps we jumped in at a really good one, but every gallery we went to had breathtakingly amazing and inspiring art. A very nice welcome to a new city!

We've Moved!

Well, we did it! It only took a week, but we've finally moved to Seattle.

I don't think it's hit either of us yet, but we're definitely glad to be done driving. And now that all of our stuff is put away, we've realized that this new place is a lot larger than our old one. (Score!)

It's official!

We are moving to Seattle! This weekend, John and I flew up so we could find an apartment, and we saw six different places yesterday (exhausting!). Luckily, they were all mostly in the same neighborhood. But the second place we saw (pictured above, courtesy of Google Maps) we fell in love with, so we filled out the application right then, and gave him checks. He called us this morning and said we were approved, and we jumped for joy!

Home Sweet Home

Well, being in Nashville was definitely an interesting experience, and interning at Hatch was amazing! But being home is such a relief, I had no idea how much I had missed it!

Now we have one month to pack, clean, and hang out with friends before we move to Seattle in August. I'll be interning at Cognition Studio, and John will hopefully find a job in the video game industry.

For now, the only thing on my to-do list is to get rid of all this junk:

Luckily, I also have work to do for Sarah & Ezra's day-of wedding collateral, so at least I have something creative to do! (More posts about this once it's all designed and printed!)