Stencils. It was my fault for not making mine waterproof & reusable, but hey that just means my piece is pretty one of a kind, huhn?

So when the summer started, I had this idea in my mind that I would be able to seize all this extra time to be able to explore tons of other mediums that didn’t involve a mouse. that idea lasted maybe 2 weeks. But in any case, I somehow ended up with this can of spray paint on my desk that stared me in the face every night. So a few days ago I thought what the hell, let’s make a stencil. 

Anyhow, here’s the result of my first time playing with spray paint! It’s messy, amateur, and sort of illegible but I mean I had lots of fun. A gust of wind sent my paint splattering everywhere at the end there, but I tried to make the best of it by propping it up for some dripping action. Guess I got pretty lucky?

It was fun, got to jam to some Blue Scholars in the garage while I blew up my lungs with toxic vapors. I’ll definitely be doing this again :). 

*quote by Karen Lamb 

Trying to make using gradients awesome again. Except since this summer began, I’m no longer a “get inspired in the middle of the night” kind of designer anymore so I guess I’ll see how this looks in the morning when I’m fully awake! 

The first page of a sketchbook I made for my special awesome friend benson’s birthday :)! So designing for another designer is 10x more stressful than designing for yourself/ or a teacher. But it made me discover my love for all things retro and (somethings) in script font.

It was also my second time bookbinding. And I have to say, apart from it being almost impossible to buy supplies now that I’m back home, the process went MUCH smoother than my first experience. I swear, it’s like all the stress and trama caused from raising my first child really made the second time around more bearable. Not that I’m comparing these things to raising or birthing babies. Except that I am! Ah the labors of love..More bookbinding posts to come!

*& happy belated birthday, b!

TYPE 25. A book I designed and bound for my typography class this spring. For 10 weeks, we were assigned to design 10 book covers per week for Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451. Each assignment had a set parameters we had to follow, the first being the most restrictive(Times New Roman, 9pt, black on white), with new visual contrasts added each following week(bold, italics, blocks, colors..etc).

I believed in two things coming into this class, 1. that I understood typography and 2. that Times New Roman was a stupid typeface meant for history papers. But after 10 weeks of kearning, spacing, and aligning, I’ve come to realize that I knew close to absolutely nothing. From understanding how to use a simple grid to produce a clean and organized design to how to selectively use color and blocks in type, there is still an endless amount to learn.

And when it comes to Times New Roman, well I’ve come to appreciate the typeface a lot more. In fact, it’s quite beautiful when type setted correctly! We’re all just used to seeing it smushed tightly together in an essay that (of course) we hate. But to the designers: give it another chance! bold-italic is my homeslice. 

TYPE 25. dividers(top) & spreads(bottom)

TYPE 25. foldouts! capable of being tacky and classy at the same time. 

TYPE 25. introduction