Hell's Kitchen Flea Market

Hell's Kitchen Flea Market is 2 blocks away from our apartment, open every Saturday and Sunday! We are lucky girls.

RICH TU @ Apple Store: guest Justin Weber YOYO!

My art director and 2010 Young Gun, Rich Tu is giving an Apple Talk on Monday! If you are in New York come out to hear him, get merch and meet other creatives in our field! Not to mention special guest yoyo performance my Justin Weber!!

http://richtu.com/

http://www.apple.com/retail/soho/

The Real Deal: Meeting the Client

Yesterday our client came in and we presented all the explorations we did for the Aids Global Action logo. He was such a funny man, he brought us brownies and was so silent as we presented I thought he was hating everything. Then all of the sudden he said, "I'm just blown away. You are all so creative. You have a great team!" We definitely impressed him with our knowledge of designing logos and the craft of what we presented. I was just excited to be there and see a real client presentation. I was also glad because the way we learned to work and talk in VC is the way it actually goes down. I'm feeling prepared for this! He picked one of You's logos finally and now we will proceed to color and typeface.

After work I followed an ad I found in JUXTAPOZ and went to Jennifer Murray's "Displaced Fables / Damaged Dreams" show. I thought it was just "okay" but I am glad I took the detour.

i have an idea.

Dagr-Nott has a great studio space but everything is very bare and off white because it is a new space. The bathroom is so dull so today I snuck in there before everyone arrived through the snow and set up a little guerrilla installation! It is a little portrait of my creative directors.

This is Rajan.

This is David

Here they are with their crazy big ideas!

The moment you fall asleep.

This is the art of You Byun. She is a creative here at Dagr Nott. She is an amazingly talented illustrator who went to grad school at SVA. She is so kind to me, and as the only girl at Dagr Nott she is my big sister. We spent today beginning a rebrand of Aids Global Action. It was just like good old VC projects doing research, sketches, and critique. It's exciting to learn that I gained a real process from my professors. We had a great afternoon drinking tea and speaking of the wonders of boys, childhood, and africa.

Meanwhile, the snow is pouring down making New York City a gray-lavender whirlwind. Salina is crossing her fingers for a day off, but I've heard this city never sleeps.

a case of the mondays.

Monday: Clay's work to society of illustrators/pet shop/graphic design tasks at Dagr/a parting gift from Justin!

The Weekend.

The weekend was very eventful and fun! Friday Night University of Delaware was in the national championships. We went to a bar that some UD alum own and there were alum of all ages from people in their 50s down to us who were still in college. We ended up losing by 1 point! We decided the next morning we were going to try to go for SNL. The process is tiring, tickets are free and handed out at 7am so you have to line up as early as possible if you want a chance. Many people camp out overnight, and as the host was Jim Carrey, people went all out. We hadn't chanced to bring our camping equipment to NYC so we went out at 5am. It was pretty cold at times but we had a lot of fun meeting people and dancing around to keep warm. Chock Full o' Nuts had a truck out there giving away free breakfast and hot drinks. We had our choice of a ticket for the dress rehearsal or the show. More people get accepted to the rehearsal and sometimes funnier things happen so we opted for that. After a McDonald's second breakfast we all slept for a few hours. When I awoke, Kelsey and I went to FIT to see the Japan fashion now exhibition. It was great! The Japanese innovate like no others. We headed back to NBC in the evening to await our fate. They always accept a different number of people each week. Our tickets were in the 70s. In the end they only took about 45-50 people so we got rejected! We were pretty bummed but it was so fun and we are going to try again.

On Sunday, Justin came to the city and visited! We spent the morning shopping in Greenwich Village at American Apparel then had crepes for brunch. That evening we cooked an awesome dinner and visited our friend Sid Seed who works in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at Lifelong Friendship Society.

Japan Fashion Now @ FIT

Awaiting our fate with Jim Carey!

Some great duck items in a Greenwich shop.

Justin's garlic bread. Yum!