living on credit

Four new projects on my website and I am calling it done. No more working on it, I forbid it. Next step is to line up interviews and find a place for Willy and Myself to live for relatively cheap. emphasis on relative. Willy is interning at J Crew at Astor Place in Manhattan (pretty sure of the location) which he seems to be enjoying. My friends Dylan and Derek moved in together (Platonic) recently, Derek i believe is taking an internship with Method and Dylan is freelancing and helping put together the music magazine Self Titled. Oh and Lydia is working at Graham (cracker) Hanson design. I feel like a slob.

This is a poster i designed and send to the people who run the Brooklyn Pool Parties. They liked the poster but already had one (which i knew) and had two staff designers (which i did not know.)

This is a sort of harassment poster in the works i think. well i am off to have lots and lots of fun.

V

Back In New York, Stuck in Moline, Back in Iowa, Bought a Sweatshirt

Pointless waste of resources and time. If I wanted to see a slash I would draw a diagonal line on a page. I dont need to open a book to get my fix. Thanks anyways.

After being back in New York I realized I cant really imagine moving anywhere else. At least at this point in time. I need to fix up my portfolio. I just finished up a series of wallpapers for the new iPhones. If you are Richy Rich iPhone owner, you can download the designs here.

New Zine in the works, check back soon.

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uk thinks im cool.

http://www.dirtymouse.co.uk/design/ian-vens/

So I made the blogs yesterday! The design blogs are a staple in every designers daily browsing with new posts promoting the work of swell designers and I appeared on my very first one. Smart, cool. Take a look.

Ian

bird bird bird

So the summer has allowed me to become attached to the internet and in doing so, I have decided I want to win at least one design competition before I die. (I actually did win a contest when i was in preschool for drawing the best Iowa City Public Library related drawing. Cant remember what the prize was.) Anyways.

I entered a threadless competition so if the judges think it isnt crap it will be in the running for getting printed. I will keep you updated and let you know when you HAVE TO VOTE FOR IT.



kidding. But not about you having to vote for it.

v

BACK INTO IT

I just found out that a national contest i entered last year declared me Honorable Mention and NOBODY decided to tell me about it. I found out by the superstar act of googling your own name.
Every student on the list of winners was from Iowa State was pretty cool, just wish i would have been informed i was on it.

http://www.design.iastate.edu/GD/happenings.php



My good friend Dylan is in NYC for the summer getting all the big jobs and I hate him for that. I plan on visiting in July and moving out there in August to find a home for my work. Speaking of which, I have super finalized my website at ianvens.com. Hopefully it will land me some sort of adult person job I enjoy.

Oh, and two of my friends are featured on the blog Form Fifty Five today. You should check them out here and here. Working hard to get ISU back on the map in the design world.

have a nice day! Ill try to keep the blog a little more up to date than it has been in the past...sorry.


Ian

not much sleeping

i dont really know for sure what to write about, school is ending in four weeks and that is a real strange thing seeing as how i remember the first week of college like it happened a month ago. and now its over and i have to get a job that doesnt suck. a peer of mine got a job already and when i heard that instead of being happy for them i felt relieved that it wasnt me. i think a regular design job may be a terrible thing. but i dont know i suppose.

my new website is up at www.ianvens.com.



I found this photo the other day that Mike Perry took. Its the only evidence that I was actually there over the summer. Priceless! Im sittng on the floor, Jim Stoten is in the chair and Katy Levy is in the far space. Swell.

Tomorrow I model clothes for judging day of the fashion show followed by a preparty at club element. Hopefully i dont collapse or explode. fingers crossed.

I had a mug with rabbits on it until an hour ago when Franklin the cat jumped on the cabinet and smashed it on the ground.

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how long has it been, really.

The semester came and now is halfway done. I feel like time is moving fast and excruciatingly slow right now. The days and minutes alternate which one is the tortoise and which is the hare. My african american literature class is by far my favorite and philosophy 201 is the most pathetically slow-moving class ive had in a very long time.

Im trying to figure out where to go after school and right now Minneapolis isnt sounding as good as it once did. Im thinking more and more about New York, I mean I have friends there and some contacts I suppose. The field I used to lie on at night during the summer is now a giant hole with a box building starting to poke out. Cranes, steel, and garbage, ugh.

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