frowder chowder

things that look crazy

2009-04-09T12:39:00.001-07:00

about to take this to get chromatec'ed (screenprint-looking rub on ink...thing) for paint packaging! almost at the end!

box city

2009-04-03T21:31:00.000-07:00

<3 packaging

photo a day

2009-03-21T17:27:00.000-07:00

a new section of stephaniekuga.com: photo a day!

based on scholarship review comments, i need to work on sketching and integrating my own photo imagery into my work. nancy does this already (http://untitledpieces.com/pblog/), i thought it would be a cool way to get me to take more photos and start building a photo library.

desk sickness

2009-03-15T14:40:00.000-07:00

it threw up

more whimsy

2009-03-13T00:43:00.000-07:00

more editorial type explorations:

santa's village article:

i love the colors!

editorial

2009-02-19T20:21:00.000-08:00

making a mess.

pretty things

2009-02-02T15:26:00.001-08:00

the california weather has fooled this tree into thinking its spring
i get to see this right outside my window every morning :)

winchester mystery house! oh so full of mystery...

lighted type signage at the griffith observatory, i <3 space

the beginnings

2009-02-02T15:14:00.000-08:00

packaging 2: redesign this heinousness

mindmapping for paint:

graphic design 2: redesign a person to be beneficial to society
image/concept wall

will post editorial soon :)

a little bit of panic

2008-12-08T00:02:00.001-08:00

2 more to make, all 5 to assemble.

xactos

2008-12-06T17:31:00.000-08:00

new items up at crowswithbows

manly letterpress

2008-12-06T17:29:00.000-08:00

14+ hours letterpressing for my immigration project. probably the least girly thing i've ever made

girly letterpress

2008-12-06T17:27:00.000-08:00

archetype director hates it. whatever, she said i could make anything i want so i did

things that are taking forever

2008-11-23T20:57:00.000-08:00

only liver, kidney, intestine, pancreas, & lungs to go!

Oh Deer...

2008-11-23T20:54:00.000-08:00

... and ampersands!

scholarship

2008-11-23T20:50:00.000-08:00

why were we so cramped!?

love it

2008-11-22T09:39:00.001-08:00

Ecoresins!

2008-11-21T19:51:00.000-08:00

new items for crowswithbows out this weekend!
earth friendly and pretty :)

FIRE!

2008-11-17T20:38:00.000-08:00

Vanessa's fireball in the dining room

Plaid Day

2008-11-17T20:34:00.000-08:00

Outfit inspired graphic

I Love Clarendon

2008-11-17T20:31:00.001-08:00

Meals on Wheels

2008-11-17T20:28:00.000-08:00

The only thing I've done for this project in the past two weeks:

... at least it was fun.

Inspiration/Experimentation

2008-11-12T23:51:00.000-08:00

I made a mess trying to find inspiration for my long form immigration project:

some results:

I'm mixing old photos with letterpress in a modern way. Luckily my printer started crapping out and I was able to get some really cool effects on the photos.

Plastic Food Gradient

2008-11-12T23:50:00.000-08:00

more design nerdery

Gardening Handtools Blank Forms

2008-11-11T08:05:00.000-08:00

3 tools packaged together:

Rolls up for display

Will post graphics later :)

New!: Organ Transplant Info Project

2008-11-09T14:59:00.000-08:00

Just started this editorial project to get people to sign up to be donors.
Since my teacher totally didn't get "Organ Trail" (because he had no idea what the computer Oregon Trail game was!), I'm sewing pillow organs that will be delivered in the official organ transplant box.

Here's a heart from UNOS, since you'll eventually be giving yours away.

House Industries

2008-11-09T14:56:00.000-08:00

House Industries Letters & Ligatures Gallery opening:

We are such design nerds!

No on H8te!

2008-11-09T14:52:00.000-08:00

I can't believe Prop 8 passed in California... I will proudly say I voted NO!

Last night we drove right into the huge protest at Sunset Junction, it was amazing.

Ridiculous amounts of police cars and policemen in riot gear.

LA Times reported over 15,000 people at the protest, I really hope something can be done about this!

Information Design Project

2008-10-25T10:24:00.000-07:00

Less than 1% of ACCD students carpool to school, and there are 544 more students than parking spaces! We're killing the grass in the sculpture garden!

40 different facts about carpooling, benefits of grass, and the ACCD parking situation on a little more than 250 flowers.

Some process

Alice in Wonderland

2008-10-24T13:15:00.000-07:00

fully lined, 3 piece costume! so ready for michael's party tonight :)
construction time: 11 hours

Sometimes I get bored

2008-10-23T15:19:00.000-07:00

imigracion

2008-10-23T11:22:00.001-07:00

tryptic of the evolution of the american dream:
meant to viewed together!

newspaper spread:

half page:

SERIOUSLY!?

2008-10-21T23:57:00.000-07:00

die die die

i'm glad i spent 20+ hours on this project this week.

Please don't run over my midterm!

2008-10-21T23:07:00.000-07:00

It took forever to make hundreds of paper flowers.
And it will be in your way when you try to park at school tomorrow.
Thanks :)

Back to my old ways

2008-10-20T20:43:00.000-07:00

Mood board collage for packaging gardening hand tools. Yay, collage!

Hello, I go to

2008-10-14T18:59:00.000-07:00

...it's apparently some really good design school.

found this on my desk last week.

knit kit

2008-10-14T18:56:00.000-07:00

pull-top packaging project: "Knit Kit"- a beginner's knitting kit

thread yarn through the hole in the top, and your yarn wont roll around while you knit!

Feather Photoshooooot

2008-10-13T19:14:00.000-07:00

family portrait

headbands! oh so awkward :)
feather headbands soon posted on my etsy site

currently, i want to kill epson!:

Grass People

2008-10-07T19:50:00.001-07:00

This project is getting ridiculous!!

Ideally, there will be hundreds of these, and people will have to run them over in order to park in the sculpture garden.

Butterfly :)

2008-10-07T19:48:00.000-07:00

New earring stand for Etsy

It is done...

2008-10-06T19:48:00.001-07:00

I loved all the gasps in the hair salon when it happened... I'm so happy to have it over with.

Redrawing street signs

2008-10-05T10:57:00.000-07:00

apparently live trace in illustrator thinks illegal immigrants wear flared bell dresses and mc hammer pants

The American Daydream

2008-10-03T00:49:00.000-07:00

Type project about race and ethnicity in the US. Project will include 2 large environmental pieces, and 2 advertisements/PSAs.

Desperately in need of editing+hierarchy! Final pieces will be letterpressed
more to come soon! (hopefully)

More Grass

2008-09-30T19:58:00.000-07:00

I like Grass

2008-09-29T19:21:00.001-07:00

Only a couple hundred more blades to scan

Donkey | Elephant

2008-09-29T19:10:00.002-07:00

Recycled Birdfeeders

2008-09-28T23:07:00.000-07:00

Boat birdfeeders, so the birds can eat and bathe in one place!

base = packing foam
hull = plastic bottles
silos = boba straws
connectors = plastic bags and skewers

Custom shaped funnels for easy refilling

Test run resulted in birdseed disaster. One sank. I'm too scared to test them again, so hopefully they will work correctly for Tuesday!

highs and lows

2008-09-27T10:10:00.000-07:00

highs: the best show EVER (thursday night!) love the suits

& lows: the most painful hour i've ever had to sit through (friday)

i wish i could see you both forever and ever

arts&crafts time

2008-09-22T13:03:00.001-07:00

I made curtains!

Melissa got really ugly chairs for free, and we decided to design*sponge it and do a makeover:

i want to cut my hair off!

2008-09-22T10:10:00.000-07:00

!t's long enough! Much longer than the 10" required for Locks of Love. I'm thinking of cutting on my birthday... what a great new start to being 24! :)

grass, letters, and fabric, oh my

2008-09-21T22:48:00.000-07:00

Hello,
Today I counted grass in a 2x2" square for info design. There were 83 blades, in case you were wondering.

I also spent the morning in archetype! eEveryone there is so friendly. An instructor was there teaching an art center at night class, and he let me print!

Backwards and brayered:

This metal type will be printed on top of the donkey|elephant (nov 4, 2008 PARTY TIME!)

Melissa moved in yesterday! All 3 of us are now at the Balmer house :)
My totally cluttered and unedited room:

Living space!

Workspace!

Fabric im using to make curtains. I'm halfway done, final product coming soon!

Crazy backyard down the street from us. So pretty at night!

Currently working on my birdfeeder made out of trash.

new items in store!

2008-09-16T17:26:00.000-07:00

click here to visit store!

I'm contemplating participating in Pasadena's "Open Market" in Oct... we'll see how much free time I can find.

driving on the freeway

2008-09-11T20:14:00.001-07:00

i saw this amazing billboard while driving home today:

i REALLY want to go to the la county fair!

four!

2008-09-10T19:08:00.000-07:00

term 4! today i made:
my first letterpressed piece. this class is awesome, i will be very sad if my section is cancelled.

i also used my sorting skillz. good thing i got lots of practice with rocks on the beach! we were supposed to find 25 pieces of waste that are the same thing, and arrange them based on a characteristic for info design.

i am quite excited for this term, and very happy to be in my new house! photos to come soon.
<3

earrings!

2008-08-29T19:58:00.000-07:00

i can't believe i've only had my ears pierced for 1.5 yrs... look at me now!:

i want to make a matching bracelet for this one:

inspired by carol... they are little + cute :):

mmmm waffles. probably inspired by roscoe's:

the crows will be happy with this one:

i miss my lazersss

Lots of Etsy lately

2008-08-25T23:14:00.000-07:00

Not sure what I'm going to do with these yet,

necklaces, bookends, knick knacks?

at a total loss when i saw this title, whyyyyy:

Until this link is removed

2008-08-23T03:38:00.001-07:00

and i figure out how to upload to stephaniekuga.com:

http://bast.artcenter.edu/chambers/students/t7/skuga/final/

i know it slides around, please let me know if you find anything else blaringly wrong!

Absurd

2008-08-19T18:49:00.000-07:00

making mini chairs in the backyard.

The "With" Collective...

2008-08-16T22:33:00.000-07:00

presents treeswithknees!

by my future roommate/lazer friend/coolest graphic designer in our class (yeah, i said it)

wood jackalope, $60

leather billfolds, $30

prints, $25

and while you're on etsy, don't forget to visit me, crowswithbows

where are you, birdswithturds and deerswithbeers!?

Silly Log

2008-08-10T10:48:00.000-07:00

What I spent my weekend making... a totally ridiculously happy log!

I cut a slice out of the log, made a silicon mold, and cast it in resin:

Under the sea inside the log!

I made these out of wood dowels and wood beads, then they were cast in bronze:

I painted the tips of the mushrooms and flowers to give a hint of the ocean inside:

<3 blogs

2008-08-09T02:16:00.001-07:00

My ampersand was featured on this nice lady's design blog: mixedplateblog
She even sent me this nice "as seen on" image to put on my press page... too bad i don't really what a press page is or where to find mine:

ANd my ampersand sold today! I will miss it, but sometime next week I'm going lazer crazy happy and will make another. When my final projects are done, of course.

George!

2008-08-05T10:49:00.000-07:00

I've managed to use George Washington in a project every term!

Comm Design 1: Architectural News Magazine Cover

Comm Design 2: Pineapple Fandeck

Type 3: Art Center Viewbook

Kooky!

2008-08-04T13:21:00.000-07:00

graves called me kooky. whatever, i like.

type assignment+color+more curiosities.

The return

2008-08-02T22:36:00.000-07:00

of the most annoying project ever.

comp comp comp

2008-08-02T15:39:00.000-07:00

<3 work

2008-08-02T12:47:00.000-07:00

just kidding, i don't. comp#2, one more to go

Long Days

2008-08-02T00:07:00.000-07:00

Week 13 = 12+ hours on campus... workin it out

Attempt at "going crazy" for food project:

Layout for stephaniekuga.com

Designing into the wee hours

2008-07-29T03:45:00.000-07:00

Usually my stuff is pretty weird, but it gets SUPER weird when I'm tiiiiiired! Here's what I'm showing for tmw! (omggggg)

crazy cover #1

"i has design skillz"

talking to myself!

love it.

happy foods

2008-07-29T03:42:00.000-07:00

Oh projects,

2008-07-27T11:28:00.000-07:00

Three weeks to go! Status updates on projects...

Food consumption project:

Graphic Design Department Viewbook:

Closeups of Viewbook:
giant happy face latte waking up dude on sofa

van + matt = super awkward on spam... + scary floating andy head

oh so western

And

2008-07-22T10:48:00.000-07:00

Ampersand bookend! Made with birch, MDF, acrylic, + masonite. I might make the whole alphabet...

stephaniekuga.com

2008-07-21T22:35:00.001-07:00

It's finally going to happen!

<3 rollovers

"hey... that's not my cat!"

2008-07-20T23:48:00.000-07:00

My Venezky interpretations are always so cracked out. And I used your own damn cat this time.

Glow!

2008-07-20T19:05:00.000-07:00

Last night we spontaneously decided to go to glow in Santa Monica.

We looked for parking for an hour and had a lovely nature walk on the beach to the event.

My ferris wheel crown:

So happy to be here! ANd not working! Yay for not sleeping until 5 in the morning!

Cool inflatable machine thingies underneath the pier:

We weren't sure if this was an installation or if someone just bought a bunch of glow sticks.

Rowdy people all over the beach + pier! (this was prob around 2am)

Floatie thing in the water... we mistook it for the "poets on a boat" installation. Too bad I never found the phone to call them and get my own personal poem.

Super artsy. Super weird. Super fun :)

Stuck

2008-07-19T11:03:00.001-07:00

I am so so so stuck on this project! So stuck that I can't bring myself to work on it. :/

Clane Graves + me + information graphics = not a good scene.

I Forgot to Post About Martin Venezky Day!

2008-07-18T18:52:00.001-07:00

Last week I met with my #1 favorite graphic designer in the whole world!! Martin Venezky !

I could spot his office a block away... the windows were filled with his "discarded nostalgia"

This was so strange and wonderful.

The famous collage wall. Much smaller than shown in his book, but still just as cool.

Me + the legend. We met for twice as long as originally planned, and he gave me a lot to think about as he critiqued my work.

Not only is he the coolest designer ever, he's an amazing teacher and person. He must have lost $2238572345 in the time he spent with me, says a lot about the type of person he is to help out a measly 3rd term art center student.

Go meet your role model! It's scary and totally worth it.

Graphic Design Viewbook

2008-07-18T18:43:00.000-07:00

Working on an Art Center Graphic Design Viewbook for perspective students in Type 3. I seem to be the only one who thinks Art Center is fun...

Point of View: Diverse, Creative, Smart
"Unfolding Curiosity"

Thanks to the Archives for letting me use these AMAZING nostalgic photos! Please note lack of females and asians.

Allison Goodman's class made this is 1998:

We made fandecks :(

More to come on this project, I'm actually really excited about it!

Sorry Little Buddy

2008-07-08T00:38:00.000-07:00

Fun with Materials!

Sculpture Parade: Jo's duck, toaster, koala, Jeff's Domo, my owl+pineapple

Death by clamp:

I seriously messed up my owl :( He's missing an eyeball, half a horn, and various other body parts. I think they are stuck in the mold somewhere...

Seriously, folks.

2008-07-01T14:26:00.000-07:00

Can we add some more hours in this week? Please?

Stood up for 7 hours last night making this:

Doing edits in Photoshop:

Additional elements in AI:

Type book + Scholarship Review + life?
Seriously, folks. Watch out for those rattlesnakes.

Awesomeness in GD1

2008-06-30T10:28:00.000-07:00

David is just so... inspirational.

Today's Adventures

2008-06-26T02:03:00.000-07:00

Today I went to the beach and made this:

I was just organizing the rocks on the beach, but Jason pointed out that I made the periodic table. So nerdy!

I just scrambled to make this for type class tmw... progressively got worse as it got later!

Interactive Midterm

2008-06-24T14:29:00.000-07:00

Haven't you always wanted to know how to climb a tree?

I Don't Want to Dream Anymore

2008-06-22T09:03:00.000-07:00

This mess happens when you try to design "happy" when you aren't happy. It's so forced :/

Officially hate this project.

It Starts With a Box

2008-06-21T23:23:00.000-07:00

I made a box:

Then I made a Kappa inspired door for you:

Alfie watched while I sanded:

Then I painted you black and white (the Hives' favorite colors)

I made you some chairs:

Completed the project:

And gave you a purpose:

Stay Happy!

2008-06-20T17:40:00.000-07:00

Hairspray Raccoon

Wicked Hamster

Spring Awakening Llama

Almost Live!

2008-06-20T10:12:00.000-07:00

Took photos this morning, just trying to set everything up! So exciting!

Workin' On It..

2008-06-19T21:07:00.001-07:00

You've Got to Be Kidding Me

2008-06-18T14:53:00.000-07:00

Speaking of a lifetime ago...

2008-06-18T09:48:00.000-07:00

flickr gave me back my photos! my college experience in a nutshell:

Because you can can can! We're moving so fast you can't even see (moulin rouge 2006)

There's no appropriate caption for this photo (pre-college counselors, summer 2004)

Newsies! I really heart sigep

Hairspray! (sigep>>>>phikap) Twin has the biggest beehive I've ever seen. (2005)

I have the cutest little everrrr :)

We apparently thought 80's = wear as many ugly clothes as you can at once

Whoville! The cutest booth Kappa will ever make. (2004)

That f-ing dremmel, I couldn't use my hands for a week

QMQ 2003 (i think?) Mikey kept hitting me in the face... signs that QMQ was doomed before we even started!

Crew! (2003)

i heart my twin! (who better come visit this summer :D)

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I'm having lunch with you today!

jenny chan! Where are yOU? Panhel formal 2003

One Year Ago

2008-06-18T09:33:00.000-07:00

I was here! I can't believe a year has passed already... it seems like a lifetime away. So beautiful! And NOT hot... it was 97 degrees here in LA before 9am. Wish I was back there eating lobster :)

What is Postmodern?

2008-06-18T09:17:00.000-07:00

beginnings of my postmodern spread... time for some deconstructed type and 90's overlapping shapes.

dreams, pt 3

2008-06-14T16:59:00.000-07:00

so beyond sick of working on this...

Quality vs. Quantity

2008-06-11T13:09:00.000-07:00

The escalating anger and discussions about the quality of student work at Art Center is nicely summed up in this article from the LA Times.

With all this going on, it makes me wonder if I would have been admitted into Art Center if they weren't accepting more students. I had taken one Communication Design class, and was otherwise self taught. Everything in my entrance portfolio was executed in Illustrator, and the first time I ever touched Photoshop or InDesign was in Digital Design 2.

Would I be here if it wasn't for greedy administrations? That happens everywhere, right? It happened at Carnegie Mellon, where students=$ signs, the President lived in his mansion off Devonshire Rd, and I didn't even know his name or what he looked like. At least Richard Koshalek responds when the students talk.

Now that Art Center issues are being openly discussed in the public, all future employers will know that Art Center kids enrolled now are no good. Thanks guys. When it comes time to get a job and our portfolios aren't up to par, will it be because of our Art Center education, or because we have painted Art Center as a mediocre school?

Ridiculous!

2008-06-11T09:40:00.000-07:00

Can you believe this layout took me hours to make!?

Perfectly traditional (at least it better be perfect by now), right proportions, kerning, leading, spacing, alignment, blah blah blah.

dreams, pt 2

2008-06-10T14:51:00.000-07:00

new size = 8"x56"

Spirograph!

2008-06-06T21:21:00.000-07:00

My Dad's original Spirograph from 1967:

How it looks today:

Clearly, kids from the 60's were way classier than kids today.

I Wish I Could Storyboard All Day Long...

2008-06-05T12:50:00.000-07:00

I really do love storyboarding :)

Storyboards for Motion2 final. It's a box that turns into a machine animal transformer-style. Alfie and I will be stop motion riding the animal in the end :)

dreams

2008-06-01T16:27:00.000-07:00

comp 1 for the dream project, actual size = 6"x36" each side

feelings...

2008-05-30T12:46:00.000-07:00

... suck.

I need them to go away, I have work to do!

Adventures in Motion, pt 2

2008-05-29T12:05:00.000-07:00

After freaking out after last weeks class, here's screenshots of assignment 2. Made it to wk 3 of Motion 2, woohoo!

Concept: What happens when bunnies eat bad mushrooms.

Last Remaining Seats

2008-05-29T10:13:00.001-07:00

I usually hate it when people blog about their daily activities, but I did something really cool yesterday!

The LA Conservancy opens up the historic downtown theaters once a year to the public for movie screenings. Last night we saw Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at the beautiful Los Angeles Theater, built in 1931.