Tag: Print

2012 Annual Report

2012AnnualReport-011Last year I discovered Nicholas Felton’s personal infographics. You can read all about that in my 2011 Annual Report blog post. Since then I have been tracking a few things about me throughout the year.

It is very interesting to look back and see a brief data set about my life and compare it to the previous year. It has been fun working on this and seeing that somehow I watched exactly 100 movies (including repeats) and exactly 100 different eating locations (includes picnics, restaurants and other’s homes). Click here to view the PDF version so you can actually read it.

Italy Book


In July 2010 I ended my study abroad in Switzerland and traveled down to Italy where I met up with my sisters, Joella and Natalia, to take a 2 week giro d’Italia. While there we decided we should make a book of our pictures so we can remember it. Here we are almost two years later and I have finally done it (thanks to a little bit of a push from my sister). It was a fun trip down memory lane and I can’t wait to go back to Italy again. My wife also decided that we need to make a book about our memories of Switzerland together. So that will be another project coming up that is two years late. Here are a few samples of the photos and layout for the Italy book.

Weekly Design Project – Retro Poster

Last week Dora and I went to Salt Lake Design Week. I decided I need to design more outside of work to keep my creativity up and to improve my skills. I figure the more I’m designing, the stronger my weaknesses will become.

We bought a book earlier this year that has 80 or so different design projects to help keep you creative. So we decided to set a goal to do one of these projects a week. And we will do it together and make it a sort of friendly competition.

This first project we did was to take a vintage ad and make it modern. Well, I kinda strayed from this one a little and decided to mix a modern ad/poster design and incorporate a vintage album cover design. I love the Coke Side of Life posters and decided to create one similar to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album cover. I had fun with this and think there is room for improvement but the overall concept fit together nicely. It was a fun quick project.

Military Collage

This is an image I created for a layout at work. I had a lot of fun creating this because Photoshop is my favorite and I pretty much went to town with it. It took quite a while to make but I feel it turned out well. I’ve included some of the pictures that I used to create this. Thanks to the USU Research Foundation image library, navy.mil, and army.mil for the images.