Graduation Season

The following months unfolding ahead of us will mark one of the biggest achievements academically for a large number of graduates. Whether high school or college – I’d like to congratulate everyone walking that aisle. I remember clearly the excitement, fear, anxiousness and all the unknowns going through my head. All the uncertainties at the time have now become a fear of the past, thanks to the commencement speech given by Steve Jobs at Stanford’s class of 2005 graduation. Although given years ago, I find the things he says here are very relevant today. Moving forward after graduation I’d like you all to continue to think about these words given by Jobs:

“It was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college, but it was very- very clear looking back 10 years later. Again you can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future, you have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma whatever. Cause believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even if it leads you off the well worn path and that will make all the difference.

Congratulations AGAIN. Be optimistic and excited for the future.

CS x Camp Pendleton x Birthday x Fun

A mini weekend trip the crew took to hang out with some friends at Camp Pendleton CA. The headliner of the event is our friend Jacqueline. Happy Birthday Jacqueline (nick name Cookie or Cooks hence the title of the video)

Enjoy the video:

Camp Pendleton CA.

Happy Monday folks, Instead of working through the weekend we broke the usual routine and headed south. Destination, Camp Pendleton, CA for a friend’s Birthday; and to take a breather from design life. Being in sunny Southern California soaking up all the vitamin D was well needed. Now we’re back, refueled, and reminded of a little quote for ya from the father of Taoism:

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
-Lao Tzu

Remember sometimes it’s perfectly normal to allow time, space & nature to take its course. We need not to rush or hurry things. Everything will be accomplished as it should. I find this relevant in design when I walk away from projects and allow my mind to be inspired and roam other venues of thought- often new or conclusive ideas arise from these detours of the mind.

Dave & Busters Fun

Surprisingly enough for as long as we’ve been living in the bay, we have not made our way out to Dave & Busters in Milpitas Ca. yest. Until this past weekend, Oh what loads of fun we had  with good company, neon lights, music and of course drinks. Be careful though the games are MAD addictive,  with a few drinks under your belt you could easily blow through some CASH MONEY trying to win a 2 dollar teddy bear. LOL

Will have to pay this place a visit again.

Fast Company Publicity

Congratulations to Anh Nguyen on being quoted in Fast Companies write up about NIKE being the number one most innovative company of 2013.

85til’ The lessons i’ve learned. Applied.

This book is dedicated to our mama and papa mostly. Also all of the wonderful people whom have inspired me along the way. My design career has transcended from lessons learned thus far. I’m excited for the years to come. – Hoang

Jasper & Peg Branding Video

Its only been a month into the New Year and I swear our schedule for 2013 is quite full already. All of which is good news, and that creative organ of ours really is paying our bills.

Most of you whom follow Creative Session’s work know, We dabble a bit into videography. We try to incorporate video work into as much of our work as possible. We’ve built quite a solid team within the last 6 months, Chris Rivera from New York is the latest addition to the crew.

As of late we’ve been working with owner of “Jasper & Peg” Breanne Bumanlag on brand identity and filming Jasper & Peg’s bio video. Here are some screen captures and a quick description of the video concept…

When we were first approached by Jasper and Peg, the first thing we noticed about the clothing line was this duality of white and black pieces, and after spit balling a few Yin/Yang concepts around, we settled on this idea that centered around the possibility of two alternate versions of oneself, and what it might be like if somehow these two versions interacted with each other in two separate but identical universes.

Anyway, we’re still pretty early on in the editing stages, but the video is coming along nicely so far, as promised here’s a few screen caps to hold you over until the video is released sometime over the next few weeks.

BREAKBREAD : Keith aka BakersSon

Keith of Creative Session has been working quite hard on his own brand “Bread” collection. Here a little something from the things he’s got made for his big launch. Doing work my man Keith.

Hats off to you Martin Luther King

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

2k MARK

Some instagram users really know how to work their social network feed. I’m amazed at the 10s of thousands of followers some users have. Unfortunately here at CreativeSession we aren’t that amazing at these things but slowly building a small genuine following of designers and artist. Today we just hit our 2000 follower mark! WHOOOOOOO

If you’ve got instagram check out our feed. I’d hate to admit it but it’s much easier to upload a photo than writing a blog. How do you all keep up with your blogs?