Cold and Love

A comic I did today, and, surprise, not about stress! It's totally true that people pair up for the colder months- for holidays, and also to keep warm.

Some design work!

Whoo, today was productive, thus, I'm feelin' good.
News: I received an honorable mention for my book-collecting prize poster (yay). My comic's been on hiatus 'cause I've been slogging my way through coursework and general mid-term depression. Got a lot done in the meanwhile. For example:


Good Hair: a little found type/image book that started as a design exercise for a class, but I'm planning to spend some time with it. I was messing with different ways to bind it (it's an accordion-folded 'flutter' book (I think that's the name, meaning the inside pages aren't bound), and playing around with the ribbon added this playful little touch of the bow in the hair.



Signs of the Times: a poster project for design class, left over from the first half of the semester. The posters themselves are total crap: I showed them at a student crit session on Wednesday, had my ass chewed up. The project is about drawing attention to empty storefronts in the New Haven area. Criticisms range from 'why this spaghetti theatre? style' to 'oh, so it's just a sexy for-sale sign?'. Word. The documentation book is more fun for me. It's a tiny little thing with some good design moves, I feel.





Conservation short story: This little book has helped me work out both typographic and binding issues, though I feel it's not quite reached its full potential. The story, by David Eagleman, is about a single quark that weaves and unravels the universe; hence the 'unraveling' leading in the textblock.





Fright Night Poster: Did this one in under two hours. it shows, but wha-evah, I had mad fun doin' it. Might use the caution-tape-looking move on something else.







JE Press door sign: since this wasn't a job and didn't need a billion copies ASAP, I spent time with the actual printing of these, shooting for just the right amount of impression and correct amounts of ink, mostly. Still way too much silver ink-it shows on the border, which had tiny little designs on it that flooded. Oh well, happy cause I actually did it.

Thas' it. Tomorrow's Halloween, and I'm wearing either my kimono or my yukata. 'pends on the weather.

Woot, done lots!

Been a busy busy week. How busy? Forgot my mother's birthday! How could I? I feel like a total douche. But this is a fraction of what I produced last week. A letterpress invite/menu for a special college dinner; I probably should have mentioned somewhere that is for the theologian Jonathan Edward's b-day...oh well. Also, the date is totally wrong. :) Next is my entry for the a book-collecting prize poster contest. Mostly inspired by something I read about Paul Rand, I think... The rest was built off a classic book-page-like grid. I added the red and ornaments to reference old-style printing. Lastly, an illustration (one of 6) I scribbled for the YDN.

Stress explosion!

Not my best effort, but definitely expresses how I feel right about now. I think I'll try to do a comic about something other than stress. I am, however, rather pleased with how the typography turned out in the last panel.

Cold Lovers

A romantic number I did Saturday for the Penny Dreadful, an great little campus publication. I hope it's obvious that its cold outside. I once drew a winter scene, there wasn't supposed to be any snow in it, and ended up coloring the trees a lush and verdant green until someone pointed this out...Anyway, I was telling my roommate I'm pleasantly surprised the guy turned out so friendly-looking, I usually can't easily get that look of gentleness.

Pooh Bear Invites

The vegetables from last post came out great in the YDN, and I'm kind of surprised that they did. Pictured above is what I spent my Saturday on. Super simple letter-press invitation to what looks like a perverted children's book convention. Funny story: I finished printing these on a Chandler-Price, went to the paper cutter/guillotine thing, stuffed them under the blade without paying any attention to what I was doing, and proceeded to chop a hundred of these little invitations in half. I saw it happening, and was vaguely glad my finger wasn't there, and yet slightly appalled with myself. Yay, redoing stuff...Just noticed that the 3 didn't print totally (again, absent minded). Oh well.

Vegetables

This is what I spent yesterday evening doing. I've been using brush pens a lot now and I kind of regret buying the fancy nibs I was determined to learn how to use. My sense of light and shadow, though, is still a bit off; I'm very hesitant with the darks in these ones. I even tried to make up for it with the flat gray added in Photoshop. Meh, its a start. The bottom left ones are tomatillos: basically tomatoes wrapped in paper...