Hi, I’m Jessi. I’m a freelance graphic designer living and working in beautiful Chattanooga, Tennessee. Read more »
Thanks to everyone who made it out to the Senior Show at UTC Tuesday night. Your support of the show means a lot to our class. For all of you that couldn’t make it out, I thought I would post some images of how the show turned out. There is more to see than what [...]
A few people have mentioned that they would have liked to have seen my presentation of Conflicted. So here are a few of my more explanatory slides and my complete artist’s statement for you to view at your convenience. Conflicted Everyday we make inconsequential choices: milk or orange juice? black shoes or brown shoes? Usually [...]
I know there are several of you who can’t make it to the show before the work is taken down on April 28th. So, here are some images of the completed sculpture. Enjoy!
Here is a hint of the mixed media sculpture that I’m showing tomorrow night at the Cress Gallery of Art at UTC and a sample from my Artist Statement: This sculpture is a physical representation of an internal conflict. The ring of ivy represents a need for simplicity, a pared down existence outside of obligation. [...]
There has been a lot of activity in the last 36 hours revolving around the Cress Gallery of Art at UTC (The Univeristy of Tennessee at Chattanooga). It’s nearly time for the opening of the second installment of the Senior Exhibition, which means, tomorrow night is my big night! April 14th at 5:30 PM, I [...]
About a year ago now I took a professional practice course and was tasked with creating my own brand. The result was something like this: Looking back, I still like the ideas behind the visuals, but it doesn’t fit as well as it used to. First of all, I wanted to get away from the [...]
The thought of the senior thesis project is what keeps junior design students up at night. At least, that’s how it was for me. I began thinking/worrying about this project long before I had any idea what I was going to do, which, by the way, was about 90% of the cause of my worry. [...]
My class of Senior Visual Arts students read an article called “Against Competition” by Marc Fischer and a discussion centered around competition amongst artists, artists’ collectives and the impossibility of a “new” idea. These are my thoughts on the article: Competition is inevitable, it’s a survival instinct. It’s the reason I cried louder than my [...]
I have been looking forward to this, finally, not just designing but building my own personal website! Since creating my personal brand last semester, I have been thinking about how to translate my designs for the web. As always, my design process went in several directions, allowing me to flush out all the undesirable ideas [...]
A week after ending the spring semester I am back in class! I am really excited and (I’ll admit) intimidated, to be taking Web Design. Before taking this class I had heard about Web Standards and Accessibility, but other than knowing that they were good & important I was in the dark on what [...]