create something beautiful

For my final project in Principles of Marketing & Branding this semester in grad school, we had to create a new media property and develop a marketing plan for it. We created PULP, a “green” magazine with style that’s for the general public more so than it is a stuffy little scientifically-written, difficult-to-get-through little “green”-focused magazine like the VERY few others that currently exist. Today, I made a cover for it. This is what it looks like:

I’ve decided this will also be my capstone project for next semester, the final course required for me to get my Master’s in Publishing next May, in which I basically do a far more in-depth, expanded version of what we did this week for Marketing.

I, personally, am DARN proud of this cover and am entirely in love with the idea of this magazine. Like it?

The Inside Light is a project created through collaboration between Cinco and Chris Hornbecker and it’s both beautiful and brilliant. They asked some incredibly talented artists in Portland to sum up their drive, inspiration, intuition, or whatever it was inside them that drove their work, in one word. Then, they shone the light on them in such a way that when photographed, reflected from their eyes. I wish I’d come up with it myself.

I came across these Miju jewelry pieces a couple weeks ago and have kept the link open on my firefox the entire time, going back to them every few days to yet again internally debate whether or not I should buy them… For now, I’ve decided to just post them here to remember how much I love them, and maybe someday in the next few months, that strong spending feeling will catch up with me and I’ll order one. Or someone really, really awesome will buy them for me instead (preferably one of the white necklaces thanks!).