I hate Mae. She inspired me to be productive this Christmas by posting her new Deviant Art drawing stuff. It’s pretty cute actually and you can find it HERE. So I took one of my old doodles in school and colored it in Photoshop.

So here’s a before and after pic. It’s pretty much the same except no freckles. Yes, I do take notes. Those are guidelines for testing your prototype with test subjects. I drew the girl laughing because the prof mentioned to ‘look at user’s reactions’. The girl on the left is doing a WTF reaction.

I’m at home in Manila for the holidays and my friends are MIA so this is what I’ve been working on late at night when I should have been partying or something. Am I that pathetic? Do I have to beg someone to take me out?

The only reason I haven’t been writing is because I wanted to do this thing chronologically. I didn’t want to do anything until I posted everything from my trip. Now that it has been months since I haven’t done it, I don’t think I’m going to be getting at it anytime soon. SO THERE.

Proof that I didn’t get scammed from getting a contract job on craigslist.

The downside to freelancing? Working from home is UBER distracting. And since I make my own hours, I tend to make my own sleeping/waking hours too. Getting up at 2pm is the opposite of awesome. It’s non-awesome. Although, being home all day means eating in which has been great for my figure. Goodbye jelly belly.

Now where’s my boyfriend?

Ugh. That was a bad pun. I’m going to Seattle in a few hours for a good ol’ girly shopping trip. I’m thinking shoes, hopefully a cute pair of Nike Dunks or those lemony colored Vans with laces that I’ve been eying. Also, we’re going into the city so if the outlet fails to be a success (which I doubt), there’s always Goods in Capitol Hill for some sneakers or some design books from Peter Miller.

For this month’s desktop, I wanted to try the new/old trend with the vintage, geometric, rainbow gradient look. Thanks to PSDtuts for the cheat sheet. I added some bling cuz it’s no fun without some diamonds. I think I’m slightly blind now thanks to a month of hot pink April.

Steffi, Tina and I went to get our haircuts today @ the Chop Shop on Granville Street. Downtown East Side! Here’s me with long, messy hair and now with still messy hair!

And here’s all of us in Mae’s place at UBC with shades!!! Summer’s here…not.

Now that I’m a freelance designer (who? me? gosh…) I get to live one of my fantasies of getting paid while sitting in bed.

Well, it’s more that just that. I have to do work work, which is fine since I like what I do. Sitting in front of the computer playing with Photoshop and Illustrator is a dream. This week, I’ve done 9 hours of work for Patrick and his TOP SECRET project (that’s why I haven’t posted any drafts or samples of this). It’s been a flurry of font tests, icon making and color swatches. Am I there yet? Possibly. One thing’s for sure, I now have $135! Giggles.

As for Virginie’s cards, shes going to send me a contract in the mail soon with a couple of my cards printed out. I’m going to do the cliche graphic designer picture of me holding up my work with my fingers and put it up on my portfolio. Oh yes.

And here’s a picture of me taking a call from a client in my office.

So I’ve been going through my photobooth folder and I’ve decided to be a copycat and put it out for the world to see. Here’s a few of the events that went on this semester. It’s over, by the way. It’s over.

That’s Paula pretending to write on our imaginary invention for IAT 333. It’s a tablet as our fake interface and she’s our fake mom writing an event on her digital calendar thing.

This is Morgan on a sunny day in the hot tub. Why? It’s one of the few places on campus where they didn’t shut down the power. Why? They don’t want us studying in the study areas. Why? They’re fucktards. Check out Morgan’s Mac/PC!

We also drink in school! Here’s wine tasting day! I couldn’t stay long because of work so I didn’t really participate…officially. There’s the wines with the bottle openers from Alessi. Guess who has the giant scar on his arm.

Derek and I ideating like the smart people that we are. We like to write to organize our thoughts and draw relationships between all the research that we do. Plus it makes us feel extra intelligent. Good thing this room has wall to wall whiteboard.

Here’s Manuel and I working on IAT 404. Manuel likes to procrastinate and he gets easily distracted. That’s why I quit.

This is what Manuel likes to do: make things pretty. Doesn’t it look super after Photoshop? This is the final prototype for our concept, Sustain-a-Stack. Derek and Manuel made the website. We made a glorified plant box with lights and watering controlled by a widget… but not really since it didn’t fully work. Whatever, the teachers love us.

Nothing eventful here. My face just looks nice and my bangs are where they’re supposed to be. Say hi to Derek and Karen!

There you have it, me in school. I’m was there almost everyday more than I was at home. I go home to shower so those pictures with my hair down means I went home and those with my hair up means I didn’t. Gross huh?

Finals week is finally here and as interaction design students, we don’t need to do exams. As a replacement, we get to do final projects or portfolios that sum up the whole design process of the entire semester. Woohoo. There’s 333 due tonight at midnight(tuesday), 404 due thursday, 391 presentation on friday and Italian exam on saturday.

I quit a long time ago. I’ve stopped to care. After I do my part, I stand back and watch. Not a very good thing to do but it’s already officially summer in my opinion. So today while waiting for Azmina and Paula to finish up the documents, I completed my mother’s day card. I took off the wings since Virginie was worried that they wouldn’t fit in 5×5. She was right.

It’s now 12:29am and Derek is still in front of me finishing off his own project. Poor Derek.

Yes, mom. I got the job.

Well, sort of. For Patrick’s consulting company, he wanted to hire someone to do branding and a whole functional community-based website thing. I wouldn’t be doing any of the coding but that kind of things was out of my league. Website-making is not my forte. He hired another guy for that job but he hired me too just for the branding stuff and logo. Yay? Yay!

We had a meeting yesterday (Sunday) at his super awesome office downtown on Richard’s Street, a block away from Waterfront station. The place was an old original building with exposed brick and old school radiator (the one that coils up like a snake). He furnished the place with Wassily chairs and other stuff from Yaletown Sofa and Koolhaus. Now I kinda wish that this job was an office job instead of a contract work-from-home deal. Boo. After the meeting we had a nice lunch at a sushi place which he paid for as a “business meeting”. Free meals are always more delicious.

Virginie, a nice girl who wants to start her own card business, also let me do some of the designs. Totally up to me whether I want to do it. No pressure, which is nice. It’s not much pay but I didn’t really expect that anyway. So here’s what I’ve been working on for mother’s day. She wanted a tattoo style “I love mom” design since she saw the stuff I did for my website. Honestly, I’m getting a bit tired of those. I like cute, colorful, Tokidoki stuff. Whatev.

If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again
The only thing I’ll ever ask of you
You’ve got to promise not to stop when I say when

Stuff I’ve done/thought recently:

• My new desktop wallpaper!
• I suck at making website layouts
• Still fat (f*ck)
• School stuff
• New hot guy at school: Shawn Desmond (white guy, tall, shaved head, muscle-y, hotttt)
• Looking for new sneakers
• Saw Foo Fighters <3
• Just came up from a game of DDR with Andrew at the mez
• Need a haircut soon