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I know it has been a while since I've trolled the blogs around here, I finished up school and moved back to Chicago to start an internship in the last few months, which has kept me pretty busy. This Monday I start as a full time salaried Graphic Designer for Pepper Global, a marketing firm in downtown Chicago. I am looking forward to hanging out with everyone at the September meetup.

Now that you are all caught up with me, how have you all been? What is new around threadland? Did Alvin and Dee get married yet?]]> Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:31:30 -0600
I used lightbox2, but videos don't seems to be supported. Shadowbox is fucking awesome and works great, but it is impossible to add an image description.

/// Code updates will be tested on Friday, I will let you all know how it goes! ///

Hey all I could use some help trouble shooting my code, as I have a fairly simple problem that I have sunk 2 hours into trying to fix. I know I am missing something really obvious here.

I am trying to make the current page of the navigation feature a different background color. The problem is that I cannot get the new color attribute to display.

My HTML:

<div>
<img src="KTF_Logo_Final-01.png" width="195" height="195" />

<ul>
<li class="current"><a href="#about me">about me</a></li>
<li><a href="#logo & identity">logo & identity</a></li>
<li><a href="#print & publication">print & publication</a></li>
<li><a href="#web & motion">web & motion</a></li>
<li class ="last-item"><a href="mailto:kevinfolk@gmail.com">contact me</a></li>
</ul>
</div>


My CSS:

#navigation {
margin:40px;
position:absolute;}

#navigation ul {
list-style-type:none;
margin:40px 0 0 0;
padding:0;
width:195px;}

#navigation li a {
color:#fff;
background-color:#333;
display: block;
font-weight:500;
font-family:"Museo Slab 500";
height:20px;
margin-bottom: 15px;
padding:6px 0 4px 10px;
font-size:11pt;
text-decoration:none;
text-transform:lowercase;
width:185px;}

#navigation li a:hover {
background:#000;}

#navigation li a:active {
background:#00aeef;}

#navigation li.last-item {
margin-top:255px;}

#navigation li.current {
background:#00aaef}

This issue is that the #navigation li.current { background:#00aaef} wont cause the "about" link to display in the blue color (#00aaef).

It is driving me nuts.]]> Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:25:05 -0600


are going to be protesting at the High school in our town, East Lansing, Michigan Tomorrow.

No one is completely sure why. Apparently a student might have emailed their organization and told them they were stupid or something.

What the fuck?]]> Sat, 23 Oct 2010 23:36:45 -0500
Emptees Love!


Emptees Love!


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Emptees Love!


Emptees Love!

I've always wanted to mess with the idea of Picasso's Blue-period and the blues. So I was thinking, what if I jazzed up his famous blue-guitarist?

This is just a rough sketch over the top of it right now. But I figure I can give him a pin-stripe suite, tie, Italian shoes, a Gibson half-body, sun glasses, and sweet hat.



First Step today, roughing out the anatomy. I am sticking pretty close to picasso's but altering it where necessary to fit the new items. Started a guitar (a 1959 Gibson 335), got the first step of a pork-pie hat going. Also, rough colors, but they are bound to change.


Started vectoring, added some block color. Been messing around with shading systems.



Lots more shading. Going to move onto the line work soon.



Got a bunch of work done on the guitar. At this point only have the hands, detail work (stitching, buttons, shoes). I want to go back and redo the neck/beard so they feel a bit better and more like the original. Also get a background going.






On a real shirt color, more details, fixed anatomical issues.
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I had an internship lined up as an interactive designer with Mcgraw-Hill, but unfortunately they got impatient while I was in Italy, and it fell through. So now I am filling imaginary internet e-boxes with my resumes and hoping for the best. Really was hoping to pick up some type of design internship, but at this point, anything would be nice.

Hopefully many of you are having better luck. Any interesting internships or jobs lined up?]]> Sat, 15 May 2010 01:00:57 -0500
**Hey guys, I am going to submit some of these pictures to a study abroad photo competition. I could use help picking a few.

If you guys want to let me know what your favorites are from above or from my flickr page (there are more there), I would really appreciate it.**
Flickr Study Abroad set

Here is a short sampling:










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On page 118 of Print Magazine's Design Annual.

Way to go murraymullet... aka Phil Jones!]]>