eat, sleep, repeat

This semester I've been really into making books, I'm trying to think of ideas for my senior thesis next year and what I can do in it, and most of my ideas go back to either screen printing or book making, since thats what i'm most interested in right now, maybe i'll combine the two. Here are some books I made this semester, the first one "red book" is a process book I made for my Information design class, only a few pages are pictured but its a pretty thick process book, I bought an old book from the salvation army and took the cover off and beat it up alot, then used it for the cover of my process book.
2nd is a day planner I made for information design class, I dont really like it, but heres a picture of the cover.
3rd is a book wich has been on my blog before, its my process book for last semester, but last week I made another one of the same book so I could have one for myself since my teacher keeps one copy of it and I only made one copy last semester since it took so long to make.

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.

website number two

I designed another website for my web design class, the assignment was to make a website linking to 10 favorite things, or just 10 things, and have it with the buttons or whatever we may have chose to link to the different things, always on the page, i forget what its called when you do that.
So i chose to do my 10 favorite album covers and booklets.
i'm pretty happy with the website layout and the way or showing the booklets. i love the backround and the way it looks. its a very basic website but i wanted to focus on the way it looked and runs. I'm always attracted to well put together websites even if they dont have alot of flashy things on them. i'm also attracted to websites such as www.misprintedtype.com which is kind of how my last website was based from. i'm hoping for the next assignment in this class to combine the two and have it be a well working website. "website was taken down but here are some photos of the basic layout."

the hawk and the sun

These are some sketches i just did, i want to do something with them eventually but i figured i'd put something up on here, i think i might make a little book and use drawings like these, with really grainy paper.

for an up coming project in information design, i need to display how something works, I have an idea of maybe showing how birds wings work, or something else animal related, i think it will make the project alot more interesting that showing how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
I think i would make it in little book form, like an instruction booklet, but it would tell something new on each page with a little illustration on the next page. maybe like 3 inches by 3 inches would be the size of the book. but who knows, lets see if i change my mind.

oh and sorry if i;m typing weird its very late and in in the computer lab and i have class at 9am. goodnight.

t shirt designs

So I had an assignment at my work, and it was to design around 12 finalized images for tshirts and placement for each of them. I only had about 4 days to work on these because of school, homework, and still working at the shop at rogues. so these are most of the designs I came up with. I definetly like the drawn out ones better than the other photoshop looking ones, and i was told that they look alot better by everyone to. so i'm going to keep working with that kind of sketching and hopefully go more detailed, maybe drawing the out bigger to because i usually work on a smaller scale.
the drawings had to be rogues galleryish style, siince it was for them. and 3 other words I had to work from were...nautical, winter and astronomy. I started out working on wilderness looking ones, looking into hunting, moose and deer. even though I HATE hunting, but i'm really into the imagery right now.
so ya here are most of the images, there all one color prints.

deer poster

This is a design I just worked on, not to much to say about it, i was just playing around trying to come up with ideas and this is what came out. alot is drawn out by hand then scanned in and the color is added in photoshop.

posters!!!

So me and my friend Tami have decided to design some posters together, this came about because I have been working on a map for my information design class about shipwrecks in New England, and mapping out where they have occurred, having alot of trouble finding already existing maps though. Tami is working on somewhat of a similiar project in her print making classes, making pieces about shipwrecks in new england and trying to tell a story in her pieces, and doing alot of research!
So we're going to try and colaborate on hopefully a few posters, new england themed mostly but we dont have any set regulations for ourselves, hopefully soon I will begin to design some and then we'll get back together and hopefully figure out some thing. Tis is at the very begining stages, but I really hope we get our shit together and have enough time to do these cus i'm pretty excited about it.

bell the cat

For my web design class we are starting to design web pages, for this one we were given a part of a story and had to design a page for it, its only one page and is suppose to link to everyone Else's in the class. Everything is hang drawn except for the white mice and the tree which was put through some filters in photo shop, the back round was originally going to stay as canvas or some type of fabric but I didn't like it after seeing it , so I changed it to black and white and messed with it a little so it just gave it a dirty look and fit more with the black and white look. the top image is basically the finished piece, except for the linking and the black birds which turn pink. so go look at the finished piece HERE.