This post has no purpose other than to say that the new Giant Chewy Nerds have to be the best candy ever made. Awesome Nerdsishness on the outside, jelly bean on the inside; it almost makes me willing to brave the streets of Savannah at 1:00 a.m just to have some. (Note: almost)

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SCAD is amazing when it comes to not notifying students when using their work for their web site. I guess it’s understandable because they own everything up to our spleens, but yeesh! It’s always a surprise. I went to the Illustration section of the SCAD site today to find that what I thought was one of my most mediocre drawings ever is being used as the page header for all the world to see. I think it is even in the catalogue now! Hell, I never even saved that piece to my hard drive. I guess that goes to show that a piece you don’t like could be a gem to someone else.

In other news, I just saw on the SCAD blog that Shiho Hoshino got into CMYK mag– Hooray Shiho! Her work is awesome: Go see her at http://www.shihohoshino.com!

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This is a shameless plug for my new store, but I figure that’s allowable since it’s, well, my blog. (AND FREE SHIPPING!!!!!!!!!)

I’ve been working on The Store of Jollification to sell funky stuffs, and it’s finally up and jumpin’! Now, whether anyone will want a print of Bees Shooting Honey All Over Each Other is yet to be seen.

In any case, right now there are only some prints, buttons, and Fruit Bat Stationery (which you should totally buy), but I’ll be adding more once I figure out how to properly glue a magnet to a piece of plastic.

Actually, I’m pretty freakin’ excited about the stationery. It started out as a class project last quarter so I just packaged it and it’s ready to go! I didn’t realize it would be so time-consuming and painful, though. Just to make the envelopes and paper for 20 copies was almost 200 sheets of paper to cut out!

….(AND FREE SHIPPING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

If any of the 3(?) people who read this remember my entry about Piedmont Healthcare’s Mascot contest, I’m delighted to share that the “Piedmont Pooch” was chosen as their compliancy mascot and I have since been hired to create the graphic design and illustrative work for it. (Hooray!)

My first task was to redo their Compliancy Powerpoint modules which has also given me a good reason to finally learn Illustrator without getting angry and spitting/pooping on the computer screen. Yeah!

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