Team Building Day - October 22, 2015

For our Print Team Building Day, we went to lunch at Village Tavern, then we decided to go to Inks & Drinks to paint. We took an image of a fish, and divided it into eight pieces. We numbered the pieces, drew names and everyone was assigned to one square, with one "community" square that we all would paint on. The idea was to use the square as a rough guide, and creatively interpret it any way you want.

Erik Wogen adding to the Community Piece

Anthony Toddy

Dayne Pillow painting the all important fish eye.

Dayne Pillow, Ryan Moorhead, Kim Wright

Iveth Gomez, Dayne Pillow

Kim Wright

And now for the finished pieces. Each stand alone as wonderful works of art.

By Ryan Moorhead

By Dayne Pillow

By Anthony Toddy

By Iveth Gomez

By Erik Wogen

By Linda Cranston

By Kim Wright

Community Piece

Put them all together, and you get the big picture!

Print Media Team: (L to R) Anthony Toddy, Kim Wright, Ryan Moorhead, 

Iveth Gomez, Erik Wogen, Linda Cranston and Dayne Pillow (lower right).

As seen displayed in the office.

Design Challenge #5

This was a design project from 99Designs. It was a logo design for a company named Markata.

The logo was to include the company name and an image of a “whimsical” owl. Also, they liked the color blue. We originally had only 30 minutes to complete the logo. People got excited about the competition, so after the meeting, more time was put in and a couple of us even submitted our finished logos to 99Designs. Also, multiple solutions were presented. Well, none of our designs won that competition, but we enlisted our talented temp Layna Marvin to do the judging. And the winner is . . .

Dayne Pillow!

Design by Iveth Gomez

Design by Ryan Moorhead

Design by Linda Cranston

Design by Dayne Pillow

Design by Linda Cranston

Design by Linda Cranston

Design Challenge #4

For this challenge, the staff was asked to design a logo for a homemade soap making business named Soap Sisters. It is a two woman operation based in San Diego. The timeframe was 6 weeks. Many options were presented. Everyone on the print media staff were asked to vote.

The winner by unanimous decision was this design by Linda Cranston, which featured two applications.

Five designs were submitted by Erik Wogan.

By Ryan Moorhead.

By Iveth Gomez.

Here is the final submission by Dayne Pillow.

Thank you to all who participated!

Design Challenge #3

January 13, 2015. The winners of each Showdown Challenge will be rewarded with a trophy bottle. For this challenge, we were asked to design the side of the six-pack package that will hold the bottles. It will be considered a great honor to "earn a six-pack." We were required to use the Showdown logo in the design--fonts, color choices and any slogans were open. Time limit was 30 minutes. The selected judge for this challenge was Iveth Gomez, who is currently on maternity leave.

And the winner is. . . 

Erik Wogan!

Erik had this to say about his win . . .

"I’d like to thank the Academy for giving small-time designers like myself such an incredible platform of free expression. I’d also like to thank my fellow nominees. The challenge was wrought with struggle and fierce competition, but really, in the end, we all win don’t we?"

Here are the other entries. . .

By Ryan Moorhead

By Linda Cranston

By Dayne Pillow

Thanks to all who participated!

Design Challenge #2

October 15, 2014. The challenge was to typeset a quote. Everyone was given the same quote and 30 minutes to complete. The artist could choose any typeface, graphic or photograph to enhance the design. John Bennett served as judge for this challenge.

By Dayne Pillow

By Anthony Toddy

By Ryan Moorhead

By Iveth Gomez

And the winning design . . .

By Linda Cranston