1st Day

So it's sort of the first day of my attempt at finishing one of my own projects. I am committed to doing this but I also have a paying job that has to be done by tomorrow and since I spent the Holidays without my computer I'm doing it all tonight. This of course puts a bit of a crimp in the whole "working on my own stuff thing." But I have decided on what I'm going to work on which is the last project I was working on before I became so busy.

About 4 months or so ago my Mac that I have had since I was 18, named Glitter Baby (named so based on my belief that all computers are Drag Queen drama mongers), refused to turn on. This had happened before and usually when I set him in front of the air conditioner and left him off over night he was fine the next day. This was not the case though since he refused to turn on. He was sent down to Dan the computer guy and he gave me the bad news that he was busted. My baby died and while waiting for my new baby to come in I was left without a computer, internet and basically my drug of choice. Instead of going a bit stir crazy like the last time the computer broke I decided to go feed my other drug habit which is that of Copic markers. I marched myself down to T-Square spent a good 30-45 mins. picking out 4 Copic markers. This process takes time you have to test them out and see if they are the right fit for you and since I was on a gray color kick you can imagine that picking out the right gray did take some time. I eventually ended up with Cadmium Red, Neutral Gray No.8, Black, and a Colorless Blender and while expensive was completely worth it.

Now that I had the colors I had to come up with an idea. At the time I was going through my computer loss I was reading a lot of books that I had started and never finished and noticed that every single one was marked with bits of paper or post-its where I left off. Somewhere in my apartment I have a stash of really nice bookmarks but I have no idea where that is and I figured looking for said bookmarks would only cause me to tear my room up so instead I decided to create my own and with that my own book store.

I haven't attempted something like this since college when you would create an entire business and do their whole look. So I created Rainy Day Books located in New York. I wanted it to be simple and sleek and of course come in gray. So here are the first two attempts at logo designs.So far I'm leaning towards expanding on the second one but I still do like that bit of red in the middle of the first one. But here you have it hopefully the beginning of something usable for my portfolio and now back to working for money and listening to Rancid's …And Out Come the Wolves Album which I'm happy to say is quite possibly annoying the redneck who wanted to feed the the stray cat anti-freeze. It's the little things that make me smile.