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Two New Hand-lettered pieces

Originals are already SOLD!

I'm Happy

The F Word and Its Versatility: A Love Story

The F-word and its Versatility

I did a series of hand lettered post cards for a gallery show I was in. They will soon be letterpressed and for sale, by popular demand.

My Heart Always Leads Me

For your desktop!

What I do at Shopbop.com

A lot of people are confused about what I design at my current job at Shopbop.com. Here is a good example of how I put a bunch of "raw materials" together to illustrate a fashion concept in an interesting way. This is another one of my favorites, a lookbook for Thakoon. Enjoy friends!

The Sincerest Form of Flattery

I'm in love with this artist I just discovered a couple of days ago and I decided it was okay to copy her if I let you know how amazing she is. Her name is Yallena James and she rocks my world. Here are my first attempts at discovering her style through imitation.

Bustin' Open a Freshy, Mates!

Oh no she didn't desktop wallpaper

Oh yes she did.

If I were type.

It's for your iPhone.

Now & Again.

When you're not sure how to start...

(it's desktop wallpaper)

Weird or cool. I can't decide.

Either way. It's my new nickname for you. Enjoy.

Safety first

I did this for my dad. He works with heavy machinery and such. He's the Safety Captain or Chief or Honcho or whatever. He wanted a safety poster because, "These little dip shits keep injuring themselves."

They didn't pay me but I laughed a lot while I was designing it and I used way more fonts than I needed to just because I could, so I guess it's okay. These little four hour projects are my favorite.

Gestalt and all that stuffs

How many times will I draw these building shapes until I like them? It's a good thing they only take me about a minute to draw—otherwise this would be a really expensive logo.

This has nothing to do with design

and everything to do with love.

I went to work today...

...I thought about peacocks...



...and about the importance of refinement...



...and about repetition...






...and how a pattern is almost always better when there are masterfully placed variations and inconsistencies...



...and about how much I love type...



...and about U + I...

undeclared

FABRICated

I want to make frabric out of this pattern I think.

It's me

be polite

Wheeeeee!

Making these t's. Selling these t's.

Merry-go-round collaboration

Here we are working on concepts for the ArtPedaler show next month by drawing for 20 minutes at a time and then passing our paper's clockwise.

That's Finn, one of Maria's new kitten. He wanted to sit on whatever I was drawing.

replay

playing with stuff after it goes to press can be really fun...



Just finished album art for the new Mama Digdown's Brass Band album, "We Make 'Em Say Ooh." Decided to mess with it some more. Maybe they'll want flyers or something.

Check out their tunes on myspace.

I gotta make

Frank Chimero said it best the other day at Design Madison — "Some people, they just gotta make."

I just gotta make... as many things pretty as my little hands possibly can before I leave this world. Every second is an opportunity to make something beautiful.

"This work fills you up," said Chimero, frankly. True that Franky baby, true that.

I think this is why I got a job

This was a piece I did this summer with Cricket Design Works when I was just a lowly intern. I was inspired by those religious, mexican candles you can get in the cleaning isle at Woodman's. Jesus, I love those.

I think I invented this. Don't steal it!

I think I might use this as my self-promo piece. Here's the concept.

You like me! You REALLY like me!?

I am honored to say that my hard work and dedication to the Art Department at MATC was rewarded today. I received an award for Visual Arts Student of the Year. Allow me to toot my horn a bit! *Toot, toot*

Thanks for reading. We will now continue with our normal programming.

Learning to sew again

I decided after searching for weeks for my ideal portfolio and case that I just needed to make my own. So I got some really nice card stock for the interior - Neenah Classic Crest in Epic Black. I cut black boards for the outside with hinges and decided to do post hole binding. I got all the following supplies at Dick Blick:

Heavy duty black board $6.00
Lineco spine repair tape $15.89
Pina Zangaro adhesive hinge strips (already 4 hole punched, really took the guess work out) 10 packs are $10.20ea
Pina Zangaro screwpost kit $4.68
Bookboard hold puncher$11.85

So I cut two boards down to be a bit larger than the 13x16 paper. Then I used the scraps to go inside for the posts, so they would be hidden. First I used the adhesive hinges (which I attached to the black card-stock I bought from Neenah) to measure where to punch the holes. I put the posts and the all the hinges, bookboard and adhesive ones together so I knew what the thickness would be before taping hinges down to the covers.

Then I bought super heavy weight canvas fabric, about $10. I spray mounted it to the covers and edged it on the inside of the covers with book repair tape.


Then i got a funky fabric for a case and used the heavy weight fabric as a liner. I sewed a pocket on it and attached a magnetic button closure.

I still have to make handles and a strap. I wanted the shoulder strap to be removable, so my friend saw some overall hooks and we decided that would be a really cool way to do it.

It was a lot of time and sewing, but now I have the exact portfolio that I want. Check it.

Sandwich Packaging Mock-up #2! Not much different, better picture though

New Catalogue Project! I decided to do a made up lighting company...

The springy, grassy spread



The welcome spread


The front and back cover


My thumbnails/brainstorming for interior pages