Bridgette Goes to College

              Ah, the elegant form of a…form.               Ok, there really is nothing elegant or “high art” about paperwork, but efficient and concise forms are necessary. How many times have you had to fill out a form and you take one look and are completely overwhelmed by the sheer amount of stuff on it? To be fair there are a lot of things that are unavoidable, and I don’t know if it’s more intimidating to be confronted with one over-crowded piece of paper or a stack of less-crowded papers.               I deal with a lot of paperwork at my job. I work at a theatre and we have forms for all kinds of things. Season ticket orders, auditions, class registration, waivers upon waivers…all to keep track of contact info for our patrons and volunteers and to make sure our volunteers won’t bully other cast members or sue us...

“Make me wonder, make me understand. Spark the light of doubt and a newborn mind. Bring the vast unthinkable down to earth,”               These are lyrics from a song by my favorite band, Nightwish. It’s called Sagan, after the famous astronomer Carl Sagan. I was going to make that blog post about designing forms today, but seeing as it’s Carl Sagan Day apparently, I thought it would be more fitting to talk about last week’s project. The project was to turn a song into a poster based on feelings. Not the title, not the lyrics, but the feeling of the song and how it makes me feel. I regularly belt this song in the car and prance around the house while it plays, either in my head or on my phone. I regularly do this with a number of Nightwish songs.               I was, at first, overwhelmed by the possibilities. There are so many songs that would have bee...

The tale continues! See part one if you’ve missed it: Bortbyting Part 1 I had a lot of fun writing and illustrating this story, and then piecing all of it together in InDesign. When I think about all the different kinds of careers and jobs I could have pertaining to Graphic Design, working with page layout and books still holds my interest more than anything else. Not even necessarily illustrating or designing covers, just putting the pieces together and arranging it so that it makes sense. At least it’s vaguely more interesting than designing forms, which I will get into at a later date. I feel like that seems too mundane for the vibes I give off (ah, yes, the person with the bright red and orange hair, who listens to metal, and has an ever-growing doll collection likes designing forms of all things), but maybe I’m just too interesting to be doing interesting things all of the time. “It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.” J. R. R. Tolkien