Mirror, mirror..on the book?

Artist book. Seven sins. Aka: the longest/tedious project ever for an elective class. This book consists of the seven sins as road signs and a photo/graphic to represent that sin. The covers are mirror to signify a look into yourself as to what sin you see. The original assignment was to create 5 editions of the same book. So essentially I had 5 times more work than an average project. Lets take a look at the steps it took me to accomplish this book, shall we?
1. A trip to Home Depot to get mirror cut, whom couldn't cut mirror so they sent me to Lowe's who broke 3 pieces of mirror and left me with 5 rough edged pieces to sand down myself.
2. Midor-ing the white wood trim to frame the mirror (which meant I had to bring home 96 inches of this wood to use my parents saw over Thanksgiving break)
3. Printing the images created for the content of this book. (the worst mistake made: printing the 35 pages on $73 worth of 11"x17" cardstock instead of 8.5"x11". Ouch.)
4. Assembling the mirror and wood frame onto the book board. Obviously this was difficult considering my first time cutting and sanding wood on this small of a scale. The measurements were not exact so it took a bit of finagling. Its also a lot more difficult than you might think to sand mirror to make a nicer edge than what the Lowe's guy left me with.
4. Drilling holes in the covers and pages. Actually a pretty easy task, but time consuming when you consider the 35 pages had be individually poked.
5. Finally I got to bind the books using a coptic stitch. The most monotonous task and the most rewarding considering you actually see the final piece. 

Now mix this with the flu and the stress of about 7 other projects, and you'll understand the miserable disaster I have been lately. Things are slowly starting to come around with most of my classes so I'm getting out of this rut. To be honest, I think my crafting skills were lacking toward the end of this project but I was so anxious to finish that I wasn't caring much. And due to the impressive effects that this flu/cold has had on me, I haven't made it to this class to even turn it in yet. Oh the joys of college!

Stealin' the Show

Senior Show Postcard 

Concept

UPDATE!

I'm finalizing my concept for review on Friday. I ended up sticking with the crisp white background. After multiple attempts at painting the canvas, we discovered a little paint doesn't do justice but too much can look sloppy. So white it is. I'm not opposed to either although I spent a good bit of time on that painting. Nonetheless, here is my poster and the ending of my Senior Studio class!

I've started the Senior Show project to promote the end of the year celebration for PCAD. As you can see, the idea is to run through the list of things we have "accomplished" (metaphorically) and then use the popular idiom, now we're ready to steal the show. This concept is just the beginning idea that will be further explored. Considering this represents the entire school, I thought it would add a great quality to use a canvas texture in the background. I wanted to take that even further by beginning a hand-rendered painting of this text. Then I'll be able to scan in the canvas to use as the postcard and poster imagery. When I approached my teacher with the idea, he agreed that it would give it a great quality. He also suggested printing the canvas with the text to paint over. (Apparently he has a printer that can do this.) Its been a while since I've been able to paint for a project, so I'm very excited. I'll post the final once I finish. 

For now, its just about time for Thanksgiving break!

 

Connecting the Dots

Connect Session logo ideas for internship

During the summer, I was asked to create a logo for the connects sessions that Sheetz would hold for employees. Apparently the last logo was overly art directed and took 18+ months and nothing ever really came of it. When it came up again, they threw the job to me. I feel like these we're more of a brainstorming process but I doubt any of them would get used. My work seemed to be much too clean for their style. However, I do feel like I had a good exploration during the process of this. I thought I'd share a random thought from the summer, considering this past week in classes has been less productive project wise. (After a full week of projects being due, I seem to be at the beginning again in all my classes, not too interesting at this point.)

Green Machine

Postcard

Invitation

Back of Invitation

Content of Invitation

Junior Achievement of Central Pennsylvania 

presents the "Go Green" Gala Event

The long awaited JA postcard. This series of material has been the bulk of my work so far this semester. When they first presented the project, we weren't sure how to take the idea of "Go Green" being the theme for such a classy upscale event. I feel like this has a good combination of both. My idea was to use the black tie attire and combine random green leaves in an unexpected way. This way you understand that it is still an upscale event, yet you're going green in a fashionable way. I have a few other items coming, including the poster and the invitation package. I present to the client on Tuesday, so I'll let you know how it all goes.

It's a safety dance.

Type in motion. Using the lyrics of a song to make a motion video that fits the style of the song. Oh how I love the Safety Dance.

Ps if this doesn't work, try it out on youtube here.

i love letterpress.

two paper dolls

two paper dolls

unknown

This is the kind of thing that inspires me.
This is what I want to do.
I love letterpress.

Mapquest me.

FINAL!

Psychedelic Map
Adobe Illustrator

This class is a 3 hour elective that is basically sophomore level learning. The best part: when you already know the program and can play in class to make something like this. To make it even better, I still have 2 weeks left to finish this. I have no idea what else I'm going to do, but its fun exploring.