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The Renaissance

The Renaissance

Apr 27, 2013

I’m in the midst of the design for an edi­tion of Wal­ter Pater’s The Renais­sance. I’ve have been look­ing at a lot of inspi­ra­tion from …

Research is beginning…

Research is beginning…

Apr 21, 2013

I’m excited that the research is begin­ning for my MA dis­ser­ta­tion, focus­ing on the role of orna­ment in 18th cen­tury rococo book design, …

A healthy distraction: boat lettering

A healthy distraction: boat lettering

Apr 20, 2013

Hav­ing a fun sat­ur­day after­noon! The name ‘PENGUIN’ will soon be painted in gold (gold-leaf, I hope) …

Monocle in use!

Monocle in use!

Apr 1, 2013

There’s some­thing nice about see­ing your own let­ters in gold foil!  Or maybe not, if you’re like me and you con­tinue to want to fix this or …

Lines on boats

Lines on boats

Feb 15, 2013

Just com­pleted: a book about how to tie knots for sail­ing books. Shown is the process of fine-tuning illus­tra­tions, and the mak­ing of a blank …

A book for Pina Bausch

A book for Pina Bausch

Feb 1, 2013

This is a doc­u­men­tary text based on Pina Bausch’s life, through the lens of Wim Wender’s film titled Pina from 2011. The book is an assignment …

Text is complex

Text is complex

Jan 5, 2013

If I had ulti­mate fun with the cover series I did for Vir­ginia Woolf this past semes­ter (see pre­vi­ous post), the “com­plex text” …

Virginia Woolf cover series

Virginia Woolf cover series

Dec 10, 2012

I recently fin­ished a series book cov­ers for Vir­ginia Woolf’s nov­els, inspired by the orig­i­nal cov­ers of her sis­ter, Vanessa Bell. They …

Monocle

Monocle

Oct 8, 2012

Mon­o­cle began in week two of the Coop­er­Type Con­densed course, my first expe­ri­ence in design­ing type of any kind. Coop­er­Type is