Work Featured...In a magazine?

So I got contacted through coroflot from some guy claiming to be a reporter for Beijing Newlore Magazine, a design, IT, tech magazine. He saw my Compaq computer here. And they had found it through Ecofriend. This reporter, Rodean, wants high res versions of the renders so they can be printed in the magazine. This is really exciting but it is a little strange and the website he gave for the magazine, www.newlore.cn does not work. Maybe it is just down now. If the website worked I might be less hesitant about it. it probably couldn't hurt to send them.

Need some advice here, If anyone sees a potential problem with sending high res versions of my renders out to some random person, let me know.

So thats how I found out these blogs were covering it...exciting. Then I realized that those were not my original renders. My renders are not so gray and my coroflot page, where they came from has text on each image. So someone spent some time in photoshop getting rid of all that, and they did a good job too.

If anyone has thoughts or advice on this let me know.

Kind of wish we had to do blog posts as assignments

I have not done this for awhile. School has been really busy, so I have not had any opportunity to do this; and Des Comm is purely focused on sketching and rendering, not so much the communication aspect of it.
I am looking for a job right now, things are a little bleak on that front but here is my portfolio.
Everyone in my class has seen it, but for the few who read this blog and have not seen it feel free to give feedback. Thanks.

Portfolio

Enjoy.

I will give some updates on my chair later.

Had to Share a Few of These

More over at The Big Picture

Inspire #3 "Bad" Art

I only say bad because it was in MOBA (the Museum of Bad Art) in Boston and the picture is a bit blurry, but whatever, I liked it.

Inspire #2 Festivals

What is more inspiring then gigantic, multiple day parties full of sensory stimulation. More photos over at The Big Picture.

Inspire #1 Inner Courtyard at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Visited this in Boston, I was not allowed to take photos, and these photos just don't do it justice. One of the most amazing interior or courtyard I have ever seen. I could easily spend all day there. Also lots of amazing art there, but to me that was just secondary to the courtyard. It is a must see if you are in Boston.

Vacation-Part of the Job; and an introduction to a new part of my blog

I traveled to Boston this past weekend (Valentines Day) to visit the girlfriend. Had an amazing time; I was there less than 4 days but it seems like a really fun and exciting place. One of my favorite parts of design, or any creative discipline for that matter, is that almost any experience can add to our creativity or have some sort of influence for our work. Going on a trip or vacation, experiencing new places, people, culture, art, music, or any thing really can influence and inspire us. A part of our design education that will continue forever, I think it is extremely important to nourish. Experience, in a broad sense, is a part of our job.

This brings me to a new part of my blog I want to start. It will be things that I think are in some way inspiring or exciting to me. For the most part I will provide little commentary or none at all; I want them to speak for themselves. It could be anything from photography, traditional art, an object, a place, or anything else. The only limit I want to put on this is that it will not be directly design related. One of the main reasons I blog is to become better at expressing my thoughts on design related things. So when those come up, I will talk about them more in depth; they will not be in this section. I want this new "inspire" section to be more of an image based part of my blog, similar to notcot.org and Black Bunneh Sees. Since I was just in Boston, the first few will be from there. They will start with the next post.
-enjoy