waiting...

The last few days I've been waiting for my monograph/Thesis process book to come back from lulu.com, its the 160 page book I've been working on the past 2 weeks, and it was suppose to be here last wednesday, so hopefully tomorrow "monday" it will be here. I just want to be able to see how it printed out.
meanwhile as I sit at the computer where it seems like every key is sticking down as I write, here is the cover I created for the book. I designed my cd booklet to match the book design, or maybe it was the other way around, I dont remember which one I made first.

make the clocks move

I made this clock tonight, its a park clock/part notebook with pages in the back of it, i know its not very practical, but thats not really the point. i'm pretty pleased with how it turned out.
and i finally got my This I Believe book back from lulu.com, the colors are alittle off and the printing isent to great, but its pretty cool to see it printed in hardcover, i also printed 2 nice jackets for the book the other day, as you can see.

6:43AM

Its 6:40 am right now as I write this, I just made a mock-up of my portfolio with my work that I have so far displayed in it, its not finished, but wanted to put up some pictures of it because I'm pretty proud of the craft and time i put into this book, its 100% made by hand by me, and has 2 fold outs in it. its 13''-14.5'', made mostly of thick chipboard and medium size chipboard with binding tape and some glue, then print outs of my work.

light pollution

For my Design class one of our projects we're currently working on is a "leave behind piece", which I guess is something you would leave behind at a studio or a job interview after you go to one, or you would send it to the company shortly after your interview to remind them of you. or could just be something you use for an example of your work, which is basically what it is.
My whole idea is to base it off of cd packaging, which is what first inspired me to be a designer, it is 5''-5.5'', and folds out. this is not the final piece and does not have all of the art on it, the black squares will have more design work on them. one side of the foldout will have my more organic work on it, like drawings, sketches and more hand done pieces. and the other side will be more technical design stuff. that side is still to come. Oh and I put up a current picture of my studio. i just cleaned it up a bit.



V this cover is going to have the tree i used on my business card, possibly a bare tree with no leaves on the cover, and then when you un-velcro the cover it will be the tree with all the leaves filling it.

How to screen print book

This is a book i made for my Information Design class. The project was to show how something worked, or how to do something using information design, which pretty much means that getting the message across is the most important thing, and its not so much about your own style and design. I kind of chose to go away from that though and wanted to make a book right from the beginning, and went with one of my initial ideas to show how to do basic screen printing, I based it alittle off of a screen printing pamphlet i have, which is very cartooney. I wanted to go away from the cartoon aspect and try to make it a very professional looking book, even though when you think of screen printing, you don't usually think of professional, but its my book and that's the way i wanted to make it because I didn't want to just make a shitty book like the one I was basing it off of.
I'm pretty proud of the way it turned out, I love the paper and the colors. If I had more time to spend on the actual layout of the book and the text it would of came out alot better, but time is something i don't have lately to spend large amounts of time on a project. But i guess thas how things go in college, a lot of half ass'ed projects.
All and all I like the book though, i enjoy the actual making of the books more than i do laying them out most of the time.