New pot for my plants
I’m not usually a shopper of finished products, but a few weekends ago I found myself down on Whidbey Island in Washington, and decided to take a stroll down a rather windy but quaint little street. On that street I happened upon a great antique store. Not one of those overpriced Vancouver stores filled with ...
Olives, and rosemary, and sundried tomatoes… oh my!
Well, it doesn’t have as nice of a ring to it as lions and tiger and bears, oh my! But I was just about as impressed with myself when I made gluten free, egg free bread with those ingredients last weekend. I’m not usually a foodie, and this isn’t a blog about food anyway. Don’t ...
I want to be a fashion designer – comments?
Since grade 7, I’ve wanted to be a fashion designer. One of the first collections I remember is one from Dolce and Gabbana where they used a slick metalic plastic fabric, and all the models had black lipstick. I covered all four walls and my ceiling in a grid of fashion magazine ads during highschool. ...
Float
This past weekend I spent on a 2 day night shoot for a short film called Float. I got involved with the project through the director of Growing Up Julianne, who also happened to be the director on this short film as well. It was written by Adam Warren, and when the project was in ...
Maybe it’s the moonlight
I’ve been hit or miss on the blogging since I graduated from school. It seems a bit harder to figure out what to write when you don’t have a new project that you can talk about every week on the go. But I’ve been slacking, and now I’ve got some new stuff to show. While ...
We take our jobs seriously
During the fall, I was working on a short film alongside Sandra Rojas Gonzalez called Growing Up Julianne. We’ve successfully finished that project, Sandra’s graduated with flying colours from the Entertainment and Business management program at VFS, and we’re now working on turning that short film into a webisodes series. While the first project seemed ...
Spec work in different industries
In the wonderful world of print, web and motion design (which is where I’ve been trained and have worked) spec work is a four letter word. To be part of any design organization, one must not engage in it. I’m an advocate for ridding the industry of spec work. It devalues designers work, it creates ...
Nokia N8 film making competition
Mid December I was contacted by a representative at Nokia to create a one minute film on their new N8 phone over the holiday season. This little device boasts a 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and Xenon flash, HD-quality video recording, and Dolby surround sound. Needless to say, I thought it a great ...
Hello, my name is Amanda & I’m a designer
I haven’t really been posting a lot lately, but luckily, the creative stream hasn’t stopped, just my blog documentation. I’ve had my fingers in a few different pots lately and I couldn’t be happier (or busier). My fulltime 9 to 5 job is as a game designer at Microsoft and I love it. The people ...
A quick gesture in the park
I took a break from the computer this afternoon and went to Deer Lake Park to enjoy the great outdoors. I haven’t really drawn anything in ages, but I took my sketchbook along. I sat down on a park bench tucked away in a forgotten corner and sketched this real quick. It felt good, scratching ...