For a recent celebratory dinner, that would be hosted for our clientele, my supervisor approached me with a small job, to design two signs for recycling bins. One of the recycling bins would be for plastic bottles and the other would be for aluminum cans and each sign would go with its bin respectively. I had to act fast as the day was nearing its end, as was my creative output. The University Printing Press has recently become a green business by Printing with water based inks, increased paper and plate recycling, and implementing awareness all across the building and their website about being green. With this progressive and contemporary implementation on business, I decided to use a “progressive and contemporary” style for the signs. I loosely illustrated a bottle and can and integrated it into the signs. I exported the final pdf’s clocking the project in at about an hour and fifteen minutes….I was thinking, “not my greatest work, but it’ll do.”
The dinner was a success, and apparently so were the signs. About a week later a representative from AT&T, who is one of our good clients, contacted our rep. and wanted to place an order for my signs that were to go up all around their building. Currently, I am in the process of sprucing up the design and having it look more professional. Also, there has been talk of the signs going up campus wide. This is very exciting for me, I love people seeing my work and having the work be of use for more than aesthetic purposes.
-Julio
