The U-B Did It Again

Edit (29 March 07, 9:44PM PDT): The U-B printed a correction in today’s paper. After I emailed the editor about it. (It probably would have helped if the photographer had had a notebook on hand at the event.)

They have a knack for messing things up. They tell the wrong people’s names in local sports photos, and now this.

In case you can’t read the text, it says:

“…above the winning t-shirt design for the stampede was designed by Walla Walla High School student Andrew Bell. Below, Assumption fourth-grader Kristopher Arellano had the winning design for the Nite Glow T-shirt.”

They mixed it up. The forth grader did the one in the above image, and I did the Niteglow (which they officially spelled wrong.)

First Look

So here they are. Your first look at the Walla Walla Balloon Stampede Wildhorse Niteglow Show 2007 logos (with protective watermark added). It is on navy officially, but it looks particularly striking against black. I’ll tell how it was done with only Inkscape and Paint.NET tomorow!

Tomorrow

I just got a huge item on my “I WANT IT!!!!11!!!” list. Adobe CS3 is going to be announce tomorrow. It now encompasses Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, and much more! If only I had $1000 (for the student discount version).

In other news tomorrow or (more likely) Thursday, I will be doing a ginormous blog post about how I made the niteglow logo. Plus it will have it’s internet debut.

P.S. I got a mention on the balloon stampede website!!! Hooray! I’ll upload the logo tomorrow just before leaving for the Kick Off party, so I have it first (hopefully). I’ll also have some exclusive other background color versions. (All niteglow logos are copyright 2007 Walla Walla Valley Chamber of Commerce. Used by permission of them [sort of].)

Quick edit: added the url for the stampede.

Portfolio

I haven’t blogged in over two months. But I haven’t had much to say. I haven’t been doing nothing though. I was building a portfolio. As in: I have created a logo that will actually be published. I made the Walla Walla Balloon Stampede Niteglow Show 2007 (Sponsored by Wildhorse Resort and Casino) Logo.

For the geeks out there: I created it using only Inkscape and Paint.NET.

After the unveil later this month I’ll put it up and write a detailed post on the process I went through to create it.

By the way: buy the shirts!