Since the show...

The last post was after the show in March...so yes, it's been awhile.

Lately I have been working hard at my freelance work. Between part-time jobs I am working on a website for a womens cycling magazine, designing logos for start-up companies and lacrosse teams, and have started to design admin UI for a software company...fun stuff!

I also completely revamped my website, making it more web 2.0...and basically teaching myself a lot more with html and css.

Links of interest:

shePedals: The Journal of Women in Cycling


Redd-Design

Will be posting more as I get client work out the door.

- Ashley

Show and Moving On

So the show's been over for a few weeks. Looking back I think it was a success, there were a few things that I could've done better but overall it was a learning experience. Crazily enough I'd almost like to be in another exhibition, besides just at school. I really enjoy the business-like, print design aspect where I'm working for clients, but in the future I'd almost like to do more work for myself based on my ideas.

Regardless, here are some pictures from the show:

Overall


Large Accordion






Medium Accordion






Small Piece






Fire Book


Mobile Pics


Here's the text from the label on my work:

Ashley Hill
On the Road

My project is based on the various road trips I have taken, as well as the photographs, experiences, memories and stories gained from each adventure.

Being the first show we had a number of people show up, and overall I'm very happy with how it turned out.

The big question now is "now what?" I'm being pushed into working more on my book series, refining it and also working on more book ideas using the same format. However, something I've started working on is a book based on the mobile pics I've taken. I've since added quite a few since I take photos of everything, and I want to use the random comments and captions that friends and such have posted. I have the format figured out, I just need to sit and organize and do the tedious work. I need to gather comments and put them in with the photos.

More photos from the show are located here:
Facebook Album

If anyone would like the high-res version of any of the pics please send an email (from a non-Montserrat address) to me.

Off and running...

The show is up.

Let me say that again...the show is up.

People I was a bit worried about pulled through in the clutch, and everyone's...repeat, everyone's, work looks great.

As a group everyone's parts are independent, yet cohesive.

This weekend was a grueling test of emotions...YES my work is done, NO now I need to hang it, YES everything's up, NO there's still work to do.

I'm also happy how the front came out...cohesive yet independent.

Tomorrow night (6 PM) is the opening, if you're somehow reading this and is not in the show, I encourage you to go.

I crossed off everything in my past post that was listed, except for sleep. Absolutely going to crash now, so I'll leave off with some links to websites depicting the show:

http://studio.montserrat.edu/gd/

http://www.montserrat.edu/galleries/301/?PHPSESSID=9be774860e33987b48e246f8c1ed967d