OCR Text |
Show 015 WEDNESDAY, OCTOSER 28, 2015 D IxTeSJU NN E W s C 0 M . ) I BY EMILY HAVENS EmilyHavensDSN He commanded the NBAs attention by simply doing something he loves redesigning logos. Addison Foote, a Dixie State University alumnus and graphic designer, landed a contract with the NBA by redesigning all 30 J teams logos in 30 days. His designs are modem and simple while also staying true to the teams traditional colors and imagery. Foote's first redesign was the Utah Jazzs logo. I started (redesigning) one logo, and it was fun, so I tried another one, Foote said. I started pumping them out, and it got to the point where I thought to myself, What if I did all 30 teams in 30 days? Foote said this challenge paid off after several sports blogs heard about his endeavor, and he gained more publicity. The NBA ended up seeing his portfolio and contacted him to do more design work. Since basketball season has begun, Foote said hes going to be much busier creating images for the NBA. Hes worked on a few social media post images for the 'S ps his - Foote, a Dixie State University alumnus, redesigned all 30 NBA logos in 30 days Sports bloggers shared his work and through social media, and Foote landed a contract with the NBA creating various design work Addison :a- - online vely rip with cannabis popular among teens E-c- programs at a young age, so he felt like he was already well versed in what he would have learned as a graphic design major because the visual technologies degree also taught him about programming and IT. Had I done a more focused degree on design, I may not have ended up where I am now, Foote said. Ron Woodland, an associate professor of visual technology, said he has known Foote since he was bom because he worked with his father. Foote enrolled in a few of Woodlands classes when he was a student. I wish I could teach a classroom frill of students like Foote every semester, Woodland said. The NBA team logo project, which was done simply as an typical of lence. Footes drive for excel- visual technologies degree. Graphic design wasnt a degree option Foote said aspiring graphic designers should find their passion and work from there. I found something I was passionate about, which was the NBA, he said. If youre working on things youre passionate about, I think the quality of work will until the year after he graduated, show through. Wi3?ir mb) V7fp: i$ website administrator. Foote said he grew up learning Adobe exercise to satisfy his curiosity and to demonstrate his design skills, is I get paid for doing what I would do for free, he said. I really enjoy it. Its not work to me. Foote graduated in 2013 with a 10 but the hodgepodge of topics covered in the visual technologies degree helped him land his day job working as The Piano Guys gn association so far. jjXP) vjrCUQQ AfeTt-1- - j' 'i "M L I; F 4 AjtX ft l 3 jy by DAVID TEMPLETON TNS :nts increas- being used as less detectable way mgly are the a to n 5 - 9 or inhale cannabis, the ingredient in Psychoactive marijuana. According to a rec, nt study, 16 percent of high school students, with percentages expected to rise, are to using VaPonze hash infused with oil or wax tetrahydroc- annabinol or THC, the constituent chemical in cannabis that causes psyeffects. Nearly ne in four students now uses THC regularly. An August study from Berlin College in Ohio and published in the Journal of Adolescent health found adolescents iearn the health risks of Clgarettes from multiple sources, but receive much less and often Incrrect information rearding marijuana and e'Cigarettes. That helps exPlain their positive and often ambivalent percep-tl0r- s of marijuana and Cigarettes. Rates of vapor chological izing cannabis using were high, the Oberlin study states. These findings raise concerns about the lack of regulations and the potential use of for purposes other than vaping nicotine. Another study published in August in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health says recreational cannabis users can discreetly vape deodorized cannabis extracts with minimal annoyance to the people around them and less chance of detection. But there are notable drawbacks. Manufacturing commercial cannabis-infuse- d liquids is a long, complex process, but such products are readily available on the Internet. However, they lack quality control, expiration dates and preservation methods without any toxicological or clinical assessment, it reports. A Google search produces a long list of websites explaining how to create containing THC. According to the University of Michigans annual Monitoring the Future report issued Aug. 3 1 , marijuana use among the nations college students surpassed cigarette smoking for the first time in 2014. One in every 17 college students is smoking marijuana daily or on a near-dail- y basis, with 21 percent of college students having smoked marijuana in the past 30 days, compared with 17 percent in 2006, it says. Thirty-fou- r percent used marijuana sometime during 2014. Only a third of all adolescents and young adults consider marijuana use to be dangerous, down from 55 percent in 2006, with 41 percent of all college students in 2013 having used an illicit drug in the previous year. Its clear that for the past seven or eight years there has been an increase in marijuana use among the nations college students, said Lloyd Johnston, the principal investigator of the Michigan study. And this largely parallels an increase we have been seeing among high school seniors. U . 1 J A j f i Ip t - A u " p V.'. - c i . r.- ) ' i . k , a -- ' w ? AvYLyLUlXrTL' AX TP . - : .j tKt ( : " j -- j?- tih Ci'Ars ;ii Awi utii isnm xnta-iA BIS IJ ;S ?. Fife iBa4.il - n. nit m ki i Will iff U 8AV CdjOSOOk --- m 0iQ80t j |