Riley J. Briggs //creative design for pixels + print

12Oct/091

Finally

I got a job in down­town Des Moines at Gan­nett. I am cur­rently get­ting trained to tone images for the Des Moines Reg­is­ter and other pub­li­ca­tions. I plan to do some free­lance design in the morn­ing, since I have late shifts at Gan­nett. It is pretty excit­ing to have a steady income now. I plan to buy an imac when­ever Apple updates them. Also, I am going to buy CS4, so expect a lot more posts of cool stuff I will be work­ing on.

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8Sep/090

Lake of the Ozarks

I went down to the Ozarks to stay at a friend’s lake house. I did some tub­ing… with­out falling off. We ate a bunch of food and did fire­works. I didn’t do any lake pho­tos, but here are some from around the house. Enjoy

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12Aug/090

Snowman

This is a clay snow­man that I made in high school. It took for­ever.
It is also a cookie jar, the head and hat come off.

Snowman

Snow­man

Maybe some­day I will make a page for all my 3D works of art.
I do not have enough good ones at the moment.

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5Aug/090

Crystal Cave

Last week­end I went to a wed­ding in Wis­con­sin and on the way home to Iowa I stopped and took a tour of Crys­tal Cave.  I learned a lot about caves and I got some pretty neat pho­tos. Check em out!

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31Jul/090

Cleghorn Photo-shoot

A cou­ple week­ends ago I went on a photo-shoot in Cleghorn, Iowa for the web­site that I do for them. I still have some more pho­tos to upload, but here are a select few from around the town.

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17Jul/092

Sidebar

I am cur­rently work­ing on mov­ing the info from my about page to the side­bar. I think it will help out a bit with my nav­i­ga­tion. I don’t know much about code, but I am learning.

In other news, I am still look­ing for a job. I have applied for about 10 other jobs since my last post. I have only had one inter­view. I guess it didn’t go well. haha.

With so much time on my hands I just sit around and find bad logos and try to make them a lit­tle bet­ter. I was get­ting my oil changed yes­ter­day and I saw the Inter­state Bat­ter­ies logo. I stared at it for a cou­ple min­utes and then I decided that I was going to update it. Heres what I came up with in about half an hour.

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25Jun/090

Revenge of the Fallen

The movie was great. I saw it at the mid­night pre­miere. I had to sit in the 2nd row though. It was packed. Sit­ting so close to the action made my eyes hurt, but it was worth it. The movie inspired me to make a trans­form­ers style logo for myself.
i found a tuto­r­ial to sim­u­late the blend­ing modes at hongkiat.com

Rileybot logo

Riley­bot logo

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18Jun/091

my current situation

I am work­ing a lot more at Cell City now. I am mak­ing all the stuff for their new satel­lite com­pany. So it’s kind of a part time job, which has led me to another pos­si­ble part time job. Hope­fully, these 2 jobs will work together.

I need to start get­ting money to save up for when I move in with my girl­friend. We have every­thing we need for mov­ing in day. I just need to have a steady job to sign a lease. I also need to build my credit up, because I don’t have any.

My girl­friend is on a cruise right now. I never thought i could miss any­one this much. Time flows dif­fer­ently with­out her.

While her and her fam­ily are gone, I am watch­ing their cat. I watched 2 other cats last week­end. So I guess I am a cat sit­ter now. If you have any pets that need fed while you’re gone and you live in or around Des Moines, Iowa, I am the man.

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15May/090

Monster

monster.com sucks. I can’t upload my nicely designed resume, because they don’t allow pdfs, so I had to make a crappy one in Word… how is that sup­posed to get me a job?

Mon­ster energy drink is tasty. I don’t drink it that much, because I try to eat healthy. I love the orange juice one.

Also, there is a game called Mon­sters by Pix­elJunk that I used to play on PS3. It rocks, I beat the 1st island with my girl­friend. Now we’re almost done with the 2nd island but its really hard.

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12May/090

24 is my favorite show

This is why…

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