New perpetual education website

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints refreshed their Perpetual Education Fund website. The project was lead by Lead Design Manager John Dilworth.

The new website features selected stories from over 40,000 individuals who have been able to better their lives through education opportunities made available to them through PEF loans. The site also contains information about the program, and instructions for individuals who may apply for loans. The site was launched in 4 languages (English, Spanish, French and Portuguese) and will service areas around the world.”

• wade
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•  Graphic design, Web

Custom snowboard design

Jonathan Hull has posted pictures of his beautiful custom snowboard design. The detail makes the piece radiate with energy.

After a couple years remaining on the list of portfolio projects to accomplish, I’ve finally succeeded in finalizing a snowboard design and sent it to production. Between obligations to client work and a perfectionist block about making the prime design, the project crept along for some time. About a year ago I got involved playing with fermat spirals and checking out surfboard patterns (which I often find to be more interesting in their streamlined design than the cacophony that sometimes clutters snowboards). Unfortunately, by the time I got enjoying those patterns, it was well into January and paying projects took center stage well into spring. Obviously, I’m a bit late this year, but at least there’s still plenty of boardable weeks remaining in the season.”

• wade
• 2 responses
•  Graphic design, Illustration

Mormon.org refreshed

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints refreshed their mormon.org website last month with a stronger grid, typography, and video.

• wade
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•  Graphic design, Typography, Web

Voting on the finalists in the PS Print Holiday Card Design contest

The PsPrint.com $10,000 Holiday Card Contest has now been closed to submissions and the finalists have been selected and posted.

I am excited to announce that my card was fortunate enough to make it to the final round!

If you have the time, be sure to check out the finalists at:
http://blog.psprint.com/humor/

My very own card design/illustration can be viewed and voted on here:
http://blog.psprint.com/viewImage.php?src=http%3A//blog.psprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/MagenMitchell_CardSmallF.jpg

The contest winner will be selected by how many votes their design has. There is no registration or any information required to vote. You can do a quick search on PS Print to see that they are a legitimate print company and this is not a phishing scam.
Be sure to vote for your favorite design!

Thanks everyone!

Magen Mitchell

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•  News

Post to group through Google Wave

I have created a Google Group for us so that you may “wave” to everyone in the group via Google Wave. Unfortunately, we didn’t get a pretty URL or email address because they were already used and Google has a lame rule that they can only be used once, even if the previous instance has been deleted (which was by me, which makes it even more lame).

Visit the Google Group home page for more information. Join the group and then add the address “utah-graphic-arists@googlegroups.com” to your Google Contacts list. You can then add the group address to new waves and everyone will have access to it.

Note that Wave will bark that that user does not have a valid Wave account when you try to add it. Ignore that and simply strike the return key and the address will be added to your contact list.

LinkedIn group membership requests declined

Some membership requests for our LinkedIn group were accidently declined. If that was you, please resubmit your request and it will be approved. We apologize for the inconvenience.