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Welcome to the world of Shawn and Octoberson Design!
I'm a graphic designer who's finally starting to branch out into other areas of art and interests. I've been a graphic designer/production manager/graphic/production director for a local magazine. While I like designing ads and helping to produce a magazine every month, I also love to draw.
My hope for this blog is to post all sorts of new things that I've created, from sketches to finished works. I want to put my name and my work out into cyberspace, maybe it will end up making more creations to put into my digital portfolio! Please feel free to contact me if my design skills could be of use to you.
This is my third month for the Zeitgeist column/page in Harrisburg Magazine. While I've been fighting off a creative slump in the last couple weeks since the last issue went to press, I did manage to put some things together and make something of it. This time around I got to illustrate Batman when talking about how the IMAX sales of this summer's Dark Knight Rises are already sold out in certain markets. Looking at that in the middle of January when the film's due out in July is nuts to me. This summer is going to be very nuts with Dark Knight Rises and Avengers hitting. Geek heaven!
As I've posted in previous blog posts, I've been asked by the publisher of the magazine I work for to do a page each issue about random pop culture news and factoids I might find. So far I have two published columns under my belt, but a third one was created yet never printed. Unfortunately for that third column it had to be canned due to space, so I thought I'd post it here just so my work can see the light of day as intended. Maybe next issue of Lehigh Valley Magazine it will work out and my column can debut as intended...
Also included in this post is the first column I got to work on, from the December 2011 issue of 717 Magazine, just in case anyone out there might have missed it. Now it's off to figure out what sort of stuff to write about for my February page!
