Pair of BED grads designing
their way across the country

Two May 2009 graduates from Texas A&M’s College of Architecture who are designing their way across America were profiled in The Battalion’s July 13 issue.

"We travel around the country doing design work to get gas and food money to continue traveling and at the same time we meet with larger ad and design firms," said Martin Hooper, who along with Gavin Braman make up the design team they’re calling Drifting Creatives.

"The hardest part is probably calling," Braman said. "When we plan to go to other towns, we try to call the businesses there to try to get them to understand we can help them for cheap, but we have to call and call and call. We've had some hard times with the car too. Sometimes it just won't start. And we'll be on the east coast somewhere with no money."

During the past month, reported The Battalioin’s Megan Ryan, Hooper and Braman traveled to Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Kentucky, South Carolina and Florida.

They’ve been documenting their adventures on a blog, www.driftingcreatives.com. The duo is planning to begin Round 2 of their quest August 1.

For Ryan’s story on the Drifting Creatives, visit www.thebatt.com