Musings of a professional student

Last night I registered for classes for next quarter, and in doing so had the most insane realization. I am seriously close to graduation! I've been plugging away at this degree 2 to 3 classes at a time for so long now, it's started to feel like a job. Abstractly, I've understood that yes, this is a school and people occasionally graduate and go on to jobs in the design field. But, it always seemed so far away for me. My degree requires 180 credit hours, with 40 of those classes being program classes. I came into the program with all of my general education requirements complete save 1 (screw you, Physics) but 40 program classes was daunting with a full time job. My first quarter I took one class, Design Drafting 1 and then I knew that yes, this is for me. I took 4 classes my second quarter and I remember feeling so excited at the thought of being a designer, but so overwhelmed at how long this whole thing was going to take. Now here I am with only 12 classes left to finish including my internship. And they are the BEST classes too. I am really looking forward to hospitality design (hotel and restaurant design) and commercial 2. Also, I have furniture design coming up and in that class I get to design and build my own piece of furniture. Next quarter I'm taking a professional practices business class (BORING) and interior detailing and while neither of these set the world on fire for me or anything, it just brings me that much closer to my goal.

One thing I am super excited about is launching my etsy store in March. I plan on releasing my own line of tea towels and pillowcases to start. It's going to be a silkscreen factory in my garage soon! I've got a great teacher in Sean. Check out these awesome Warhol prints he did for a factory party a few years ago. Fance, right?

And because this is a post about skool, here is a project I did a few quarters ago in my commercial design class. It is layouts and concepts for a mobile health clinic for lower income children and parents. My idea was to install temporary clinics into museum and gallery space in a partnership between the artistic community and the city for temporary pop up clinics which would go from city to city on a nationwide health campaign. I used the Contemporaty Arts Museum Houston as my shell building.