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Ugh blogger just deleted my huge post about my trip that I just spent two hours on.

So nevermind. Will... try.. again.. later.. >(

EDIT: oh thank god, it saved.

An update from Mexico

Just a quick update while I have internet:

Things have been going really well. Finding resources all over the place, started by my first advisor. She had a lot of great suggestions, and it will kind of change the direction of my posters a bit, but I like where we're going. She had a ton of resources available; let me take pictures of the books she had, then let me and Erick go to her house to see her personal library where I took even more pictures. She gave me a book (!!) on Posada's stuff, I bought a book on post-revolutionary Mexican imagery/posters that is SUPER interesting even if it might be more modern than I want, and then she arranged for me to get this really awesome book that is illustrations in Mexico 1920-1950 that will be awesome as well.

SUPER thrilled to have all this new info, but I'm going to really have to get going on my posters in order to have them mostly finished by April 5th, my 11th week review. I hope they don't mind that I don't have the other stuff done (30 second spot, packaging, process book) but there should be time for that afterwards.

Due to personal interferences, I wasn't able to meet up with my second advisor, the designer of the Lagarto font, but hopefully I'll be able to skype him before 11th week reviews so that I can get his opinion before I get the final word for the review.

I'm 98% sure that Dr. Marina will be able to skype, but I'm not entirely sure about Gabriel, since I wasn't to meet up with him and he seems suuuuuper busy with his design business. But I guess if I have one advisor, then I won't fail. I also am supposed to ask Heather in the library to be another advisor.

Also, Natalia, if you read this, I haven't been able to update my blog daily because I'm in Mexico and haven't had internet! I promise I'll make up for it when I get back! So many new things to add to my DP...

HAPPY!!!

An excitement

Natalia is excited about my poster, so I am excited about my poster.

Just need to finalize it, and start on four more. And finish before 11th week review, preferably.

Hopefully my advisors are excited about my poster too.

Dear God, I am officially on spring break now!

A little quote

Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well you can do a bigger thing well too. —Storey 

I've had my confidence issues about my designing, especially after coming to Cornish where everyone is so gosh darn good! However I was lucky enough to have two great classes last semester that helped to bolster me up and feel like I can really do this. And an internship this semester that makes me feel pretty professional.

The BFA exhibition is a big thing. And we can do it. Because we are so gosh darn good!

A week before spring break

So, an update.

I'm hoping to confirm exact times for meeting with my advisors next week in Mexico City... looks like next Monday, and it will have to be a morning and afternoon appointment because they are in different parts of a very large city.

I'm hoping to have a couple finals (sketches) of a couple of my posters to show them--I went out and bought a sketchbook with the right dimensions (18x24 scaled down to 12x18) and will cart that around with me to Mexico. I figure since my in-law's house doesn't have internet, I will be able to get a lot of work done.

Otherwise, I've been bad. I never work on the weekends, I have been avoiding my posters in favor of other projects, etc etc. I'm hoping that I will get them done in one beautiful blast, and then leisurely figure out the rest: 30 second spot, packaging, process book, etc.

A picture

O_O

Oh, God. One of my advisors has agreed to meet with me in person when I go to Mexico City.

This is good good good, but my (self-diagnosed) social anxiety disorder is going "GAAAH!"

I need a lobotomy to get rid of the gringa accent I have when I speak Spanish... STAT!