Hey Everyone,

I just wanted to write a little blog about our experiences at University of Wisconsin Steven’s Point this weekend. As most of you know and few students and I attended the 4th annual NowHERE Steven’s Point conference. We had a little trouble getting up there Friday night and missed some of the festivities, but started the day early Saturday morning.

I attended a all day long workshop with Ray Fenwick called “Confessional Typography”, based mostly on the website and books called Post Secret. We were asked to bring two printed out secrets to the workshop, then we picked two at random and were asked to create two postcards using the tone of the secret, focusing more on type. I thought it was really refreshing to be able to work all day on something with my hands. Ray emphasized the power of hand drawn touches, and pushed us to start on the computer. I thought it helped with reminding us all that we do spend to much time on the computer and need to expand our mediums.

Saturday night we atteneded a halarious lecture by Will Staehle about his work. I thought he was a great artist and was surprisingly discovered by entering an Adobe contest. Kinda makes you think about entering more of those things. Overall it was a great weekend and I learned a lot. It was great to see what other AIGA chapters are doing. We must return the favor when they come down for the Wisconsin Portfolio Review!

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