Ok, sometimes being yourself pays off

Wsup people I never talk to, I’m graduatin’

My extended family has no earthly idea about who I am or what I am about. So, I took this opportunity to share my story in the most appropriate way possible.

I also made it abundantly clear that this is just an announcement, not an invitation. It worked.

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Validation. HOW Self-Promotion Annual 2011

When I heard the news that this thing was going to be seen by fellow designers across the nation, it was cool…buuuuut at the same time it pandered oh so hard to the four sacred rules of award bait: Crazy typography, funny copy, fancy-ass paper, and screen printing.

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Recognition

Creative Summit 25
Certificate of Creative Excellence

HOW Self-Promotion Annual 2011
Student Merit Award

AIGA Blue Ridge Flux 2011 National Student Exhibition
Selected Entry

Where to next?