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2010 Calendar Cover Design For Mick Guzman Photography

I just designed the cover for Mick Guzman Photography’s 2010 Brooklyn Bridge Calendar. Two design directions were presented with three variations for design #2. The third variation was chosen as the final design. Final Design (Third variation of design two) Second variation of design two. Design Two Design One © 2009 Ayana Baltrip Balagas and…More

La Mission

I had the great pleasure of seeing Peter and Benjamin Bratt’s latest movie and collaboration, La Mission this past Saturday, 7 November 2009 at the American Indian Film Festival (See link at the end of this post). I highly recommend that you see this film wherever it is playing. The film actually premiered at this…More

Architect David Adjaye: A Star Whose Time Is Now

I just finished reading Fast Company Magazine’s article on David Adjaye, a London-based architect. He’s quite good designing Denver, Colorado’s Museum of Contemporary Art, and this fall, the Moscow School of Management complex he designed opens. In addition, he has designed the homes of noted actors like Ewan McGregor. Now he’s slated to design the…More

Jimmy Bosch Solo At The Spanish Harlem Orchestra Show/10-20-09 in San Francisco

Reliving my days as a photographer of so many great musicians. Two of my shots of Jimmy Bosch doing what he does, oh so well. That’s Mitch Frohman in the background. More of my musician shots can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ayanabaltrip/, © 2009 Ayana Baltrip Balagas-All Rights Reserved © 2009 Ayana Baltrip Balagas-All Rights ReservedMore

Industrial, architectural and found typographic studies

The studies were part of a typographic assignment from Steve Jones’ typography class at San Francisco State University I took as part of my Master’s curriculum. Can you guess the letters?More

Noted: An advertising agency has come up with a campaign to promote a forthcoming food festival – Telegraph

An advertising agency has come up with a campaign to promote a forthcoming food festival – Telegraph I became aware of this article via two folks on Twitter: Jordie Welles and chetan. A truly interesting graphic approach to advertising. Posted using ShareThisMore

Noted: Eggs and Sausage by Jackie Lay

Sharing a great find from the mehallo blog. Big thanks to Steve Mehallo Eggs and Sausage by Jackie LayMore

Expressive Sentence Exercise Was A Great Success

The MMSP 125 students assembled in teams of 2-4 and had to typographically design/illustrate their given sentence. Part of this exercise required the students to collaborate and reach a consensus on the design and design parameters. The concepts that evolved were quite good. The students shared that the collaborative process went smooth in some instances,…More

Noted: MIT’s Next Lab Course/Project

I inadvertently stumbled upon MIT’s Next Lab project’s web site as I was trying to correct an incorrect link a friend sent. What an interesting project. Their mission partly states: “. . . believing that the global dissemination of knowledge will rapidly bring well-being to those who need it most. . .The Next Lab project…More