From: Bragging, Design, Personal By Bevans on Monday, October 29, 2007

Here's a little something I did for another class project. It's done entirely in InDesign, which is to MS Word as Photoshop is to Paintbrush.



I just took a screenshot from the movie 300 and duplicated it using nothing but text. It was pretty fun to throw together.

I'll probably be posting more projects here in the coming months, providing of course that I have something worth showing.

From: Bragging, Design, Money, Personal By Bevans on Monday, October 01, 2007

Double-Click Geek Ale: The best way to drink yourself unconscious playing video games in your parents' basement.

Well, here's the new design I was talking about last week. I made it for one of my classes (assigment: create a product label) and I think it's definitely some of my best work. I was partially inspired by the Summit logo (my dad has a t-shirt of it), which I've always really liked.

I was thinking about how currently-existing beers are always marketed as the perfect companions for watching your favorite sporting event, and since I'm not really interested in most sports, I decided to come up with something that might appeal to me. If I drank.

As always, I've slapped it on t-shirts, sweatshirts, mousepads, mugs, bags, and most of the other stuff that's available at CafePress.

From: Bragging, Personal, Technology By Bevans on Friday, July 13, 2007

I'm really excited. I just ordered a new laptop.

"But Bevans," you may say, "you're broke as fuck. How can you afford a $2,600 laptop?" The answer: student loans. No, really. Now that I'll be attending Brown College (starting next week) I need a laptop, because they require them there. So everything works out: I fulfill a requirement AND get a kick-ass laptop.

I got the best one that I could find for $2,600. I chose Dell, because they seem to make great laptops, and also because they seem to be the only ones selling laptops powerful enough for my needs (besides people like Alienware and Voodoo, who happen to sell them for crazy prices).

I'm really glad I'm in a Graphic Design program, because that means that I can satisfy both my professional and leisure needs with one machine without having to give one or the other precedence. It'll process large graphics and high-res video AND make my games look amazing with high framerates.

So here are the stats. They're not the best that Dell had to offer, but for $2,600, they're pretty good.

• Model: XPS M1710 (Black)
• Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7400 (2.16GHz/667MHz/4MB)
• Memory: 2GB DDR2 SDRAM 677MHZ
• Video Card: 256MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900
• Screen: 17 inch UltraSharp TrueLife Wide-screen WUXGA
• Hard Drive: 80GB 7200RPM SATA (I know this is kinda small, but I intend to upgrade it later)
• Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium Edition
• Other: 8X DVD+/-RW, Built-in Bluetooth, Wireless ethernet, etc.

Now, the hardest part will be waiting for it. It isn't set to arrive until about the 30th.

UPDATE: Now it's looking like it'll be here by the 25th. Woot.