New Project Who Dis

Hello my lil chicken nuggets.  It's me, your friendly neighborhood art nerd, Riley.  Now that I'm all finished with my senior thesis project, I have another project.

AND IT'S TEAMWORK TIME, CHICKEN NUGGETS.

This is very different from what I normally do, so I'm pretty excited to work in different circumstances.  I haven't done graphic design in ages, but apparently I'm good enough at it that my teacher (the muggle art school version of Professor McGonagall tbh) put me on a team in charge of handling several senior class projects, including the Academy theater production, the senior art show, and Academy graduation.  So that's impressive.  Additionally, I'm working with the quiet-but-#GotArtSkillsForDays kids in my class, and I admit, I was really intimidated by their talent (and eerie lack of chatter at first...).  Turns out they're all pretty chill, but they just tend to be very straightforward, which is one heck of a relief.  I have ADHD, and if I'm gonna get anything done, I need to sit with other people who also want to get stuff done.  Sitting with the non-ADHD nerds makes that 2000% easier, lemme tell you.  Plus, I get to work with one of my best friends, who doesn't have ADHD but knows me well enough to know how to keep me focused while we're working.

Anyway, I sadly wasn't paying attention during the planning process for one of the projects I mentioned - the Academy Senior Art Show - so I didn't have much say in the design decisions the team made.  But the final aesthetic is really cool.  It's like vaporwave meets old-TV-error-screen with a little bit of Roaring Twenties.  I'm not too familiar with it (I'm more into the flower child thing), but I'm honestly pretty hype for the opportunity to learn about it.  For those who are as unfamiliar with it as I was, here's a link to an image search for it.  The show is called Long Story Short, and we're using a television as the main imagery - pretty clever considering the movie version of a book is usually way shorter than the actual book.

One of my teammates, who will go unnamed for security reasons, sort of took over most of the projects we need to do, so there isn't much on my plate.  For that reason, I offered my services as King of the Typefaces, and so far I've done the lettering for the posters, programs, and tickets for Long Story Short and the Academy theater show, and I'm currently working on the Academy graduation program.  Most of the lettering has been in Soerjaputera, a Twenties-inspired typeface designed by Adien Gunarta, and the rest has been in Adobe Garamond and Palatino.

Sorry for such a short post, but well it's dinner time and I gotta eat.  Talk at yall later!