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My 2011 Annual Report

Recently I learned about a man who tracks various things of his life throughout the year then creates an infographical annual report of his year. You can find all of his annual reports at feltron.com. They are really interesting to look at and well designed. I of course thought this was a great idea and decided to do the same thing. Just not quite as in depth as he does.

Here is a look at what I was able to put together for this last year. It was pretty limited since I wasn’t gathering information to use for this. This year I have started out keeping track of a few various things. Some are things that I think will just be interesting to see the statistics at the end of the year, like what movies I watch or types of meals I eat. While others are actually things to help me with my new year’s resolutions. You can see some of my statistics I’m tracking at daytum.com/keldenpeterson. If I haven’t updated things for awhile on there, then I’m probably failing my new year’s resolution to track things for next years annual report. I have three resolutions I’m trying to stick to. They are:

Track certain things for 2012 Annual Report
Do a personal design project once a week
Get better at waking up on time

Hopefully tracking and reporting these (even if nobody looks at them) will help me accomplish my goals. Good luck to you all with your resolutions this year too. Click here to view the PDF version.

The Wedding

A few weeks ago I got married. My sister in law took our original engagement pictures and they turned out great. But they just didn’t match the style we were going for. So Dora and I decided to go take some pictures on our own. So we went a few places and I set the camera up on a tripod and snapped our photos with a wireless camera remote. This was the image we used for our invites.

I also made a video to display during our reception. Most of the filming was done by me. And some was done by my sister when we went to visit her in Washington.

To see more photos and information about us visit dora.keldenpeterson.com

Wind Turbine Design

This is a poster I did for work. Pretty simple design. But I really wanted to portray wind flowing through the landscape. To do this I created a graphic form that flows between the turbines. Then I decided to blur the blades of the turbines to help show motion on that.

Over all, I think I got it to work out well. I think the color of the image also turned out pretty well. The original image had a lot stronger contrast and saturation, but I like the calmer blues and greens and don’t feel like it’s overly flat without the higher contrast.