Las Vegas/Helvetica

As a last hoorah of college and to relieve some stress before finals, freshman suitemate buddies Angie, Hilary, Graham and I went to Las Vegas. We stayed at the Monte Carlo for a weekend of debauchery. It's already about a million degrees in Las Vegas. We sat by the pool during the day which isn't always my favorite activity because I don't like to feel too hot. I'd prefer to be cold and cozy up, but it was nice to get my mind away from graduation and life and sit around making sketches. I went to the M&M store and bought about 10 pounds of different colors. I have no clue what I'll use them for, but I couldn't resist all the different colors. We got to check out the clubs/bars Rum Jungle and Tabu. They were having rock night at Tabu but there was no dance floor so everyone was just dancing in the aisles. And some drunk guy had his shirt off and was harassing all the girls in the club by slapping them on the butts with his belt. He was eventually dragged from the club. Overall, good times and I think my liver needs a few weeks to recover.


Rum Jungle


An endless sea of colored candies

The Helvetica screening went really well! My job was to sell the buttons that we all made and they were very popular. A lot of people bought my "Helvetica girl" and "Helvetica boy" buttons so I was really happy. Yes, I know I'm a design nerd. I've embraced it. Anyway, the film was interesting. I can't believe nobody's made it before. And all the big designers in LA were there. We had giant cakes that we ordered from violets that spelled out Helvetica, but we overestimated how much people would actually eat so our teachers made us take the leftovers home, so I had about 20 pounds of cake sitting in my fridge. The following morning was the panel discussion with the filmmaker and Matthew Carter!! He's a famous type designer who made the fonts Georgia, Tahoma, and Verdana. He's super classy and British. I was so starstruck. What's nice about being starstruck as a designer is that they're not celebrities to anyone else, so they're actually accessable to talk to. I spoke with him about Yale, because he teaches there and now I'm kind of bouncing back to the idea of Yale for grad school. sigh.





Delicious cakes from Violet's bakery. Each one was a different flavor.



After your fifth slice of Helvetica cake, the sugar high makes you do crazy things. Thanks to Candice for giving me a crown in this picture.


Me and Matthew Carter and his classy british-ness