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08/11

Collaboration: what I have been up to

As I mentioned in my last post, I have been collaborating a lot with different people in the last year- and these have proven to be awesome experiences for me. Collaboration is great at an artist- because it can really push you artistically to create even better work. I find that when I collaborate with my clients even- really take into account their view and artistic vision, that is can also push me in my own work.

That being said- here is a little bit of what I have been up to:

1. Tryangle Labs

I formed this company with three friends: Alma Loveland, Angie Anderson, and Darren Turetzky. We are creating children’s apps and are about to release our firt app next Monday called Make it Pop. We have been working on it for quite a few months now, and we are really excited to launch it and move forward on all of the other apps we have planned. It has been a wonderful mix because it has pushed all of us to make even better work and push each other.

2. Bijou

This year for Bijou, I teamed up with my good friend Bri to create some wrapping paper and gift tags. This has been super fun because I would have never thought of creating wrapping paper on my own, and again- it has been so nice to work with someone in creating, editing, and finally producing our final work. I can give you a tiny sneak peak of it here, but we will be posting more pictures in the next as we get ready for Bijou on the 18th.

3. Creative Collaborative

After I met Alma at Alt in January, I realized how many amazing artists lived near to me. A group of five of us: Alma Loveland, Justin Hackworth, Sarah Jane, and Susan Petersen and I started creating a monthly meeting to get together and talk about things that mattered to us. That has been the most wonderful thing! It has almost felt like a monthly therapy session- to get with other artists and see what we are each doing, and talk about our problems, solutions, and endeavors. It has been one of my most favorite things. Our next meeting is in two days- and we are hearing from a intellectual properties lawyer who will talk about artist rights and property.

Anyways, thats what I have been up to in collaborations. What types of collaborations have worked for you?

 

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06/05

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Well last night was an extremely successful creative collaborative. It went even better then I could have imagined! I will be blogging about who was there and what was said later today- the speakers were phenominal, and I am so excited that it is going to be a monthly thing, yay!

Anyhow, I am guest posting at Collected today. Go and check out what I collect…. (typefaces… duh.) It will make you realize just how nerdy I am!

And here is the answer key for the typeface quiz over on that blog: (Can you recognize any of these typefaces?)


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05/05

Creative Collaborative

About a year ago I remember working late one night, and looking at some other graphic designers blogs, after awhile I began to feel well… jealous. I felt like my work wasn’t as good, and that these other artists were doing a better job. After wallowing in self pity and discouragement for a few minutes I Suddenly realized that I needed snap out of it. I spent a lot of time wondering why I did this, and what I could do to NEVER do that again. I decided to think of these designers as people, and as my friends. This changed everything! I diligently started trying to reach out to other artists around me, and you know what? That changed everything.

These artists around me became friends. And soon instead of feeling jealous when I looked through other blogs- I started to think- Good for them! I started to learn from other artists. Then, I started to collaborate with them. And when I started collaborating- I started getting better as an artist. And then I started getting more business.

I think this is a success story for any artist. Oftentimes as artists we work too much alone. I have found that as I work with other artists, as I collaborate, I learn and grow. I find answers to my questions, and my quality of art increases. And not only do I improve, but I can give back and help others around me. And as I help others, they help me… its a never ending circle.

The past year has become the best “art year” for me. I owe all of that to collaboration.

For this reason I have started, with the help of some other dear artists- Alma Loveland, Sarah Jane, and Justin Hackworth, the Creative Collaborative. This is an effort to help our artistic community here in Utah come together and network and collaborate. The artistic community is unbelievable talented: we have renown photographers, interior designers, graphic designers, bloggers, seamstress, illustrators, painters, sculptors, etc. . . And we need to come together- I am sure that there are untapped partnerships that could really reap some great benefits.

So here is the plan: once a month, the first or second Thursday of each month, we will meet as an artistic community. It is free. We will have some short speakers that talk about topics that can inspire and help all artists. Then we will have Q&A and discussion time, and an opportunity to talk and get to know other artists.

So please come, and please spread the word- the first one is tonight at 7. Kirsten Krason, Dave Broberg, and Diana Palmer are speaking. It will be on 1 East Center Street #214 here in Provo, Utah. (same buidling as Gondolfos) Bring a chair, bring a friend. But come ready to collaborate.

I can’t wait to meet you!

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