Guest Speaker at our office

Justin Ahrens of rule29 visited our office on October 4. Jason Robinson met him at a past HOW Conference and kept in contact. Jason made arrangements for our company to bring Justin here, to Utah, and speak to us. He first spent the morning reviewing and critiquing every one's portfolio—best portfolio review I have ever witnessed. He had some excellent tips of dos and don’ts, plus excellent comments of the work itself.

I was last to go and by that time I thought,"Man, my book sucks! I wish I could redo it." It obviously needed some work in the presentation, but he was excited by the work and the accounts that I had worked on over the years and told me I needed to express that when presenting. It was an ego boost I needed, made me feel proud of my work.

I hope we can do more events like this, plus it would be great to bring in the other designers from our international offices too.

Neways—Boo Run T-shirt, final design

I got another t-shirt design selected, seems to be the only thing that I do lately that gets approvals. Maybe I should open up a t-shirt shop? Steve Keele and Jason Robinson also submitted some designs, very cool—I hope they post their designs on their blogs. Our office is sponsoring a Halloween run for the employees, with my bad knees I only signed up for the 1K.

Here's a close up of the sleeve art, the bat illustration is a combination of Celt, Myan, and Māori styles. Steve came up with calling the event the Boo Run Run.

These are other concepts that I submitted.