Series of 3 Book Covers

Final Project. I really enjoyed this class and I am going to miss it~

Book Cover 1

Here is my first book cover!

Product Design, Take 3

After getting feedback in class, I tried to just stamp my leaf directly on the containers. This did not work well at all! Probably because I was trying to use the wrong kinds of containers. I would really like these to be on metal bottles, but I had a hard time finding any in the time that I had to work on this project. The idea is to just keep the labeling very simple and natural looking, just like the natural products.

Product Design

I had some other logo ideas with a handmade leaf stamp that were not printing correctly:

Product Design, Take 1

I just need to say that I am exhausted!!!!!!!!!!!!
Being a mom, working full time, going to this class and basic HTML class, taking care of the house, cooking...I don't know what fuel I am running on but it must be powerful sh*t because I'm still standin'!
And yes, the baby face on the "keep smilin'" poster is the face of my precious sweet thing!

New Posters

The stencil letters are my first attempt at screen printing..I know I need practice, but it's a start!

Poster!

ok, HERE is the last version of the first poster that i posted.  i forgot the event time.. DRRRR!!!

Poster!

This is the last version of my first poster.  For some reason I have been having a very hard time uploading things to this blog for the past few days.  It keeps saying "bad request", so I will keep trying tonight to post all of my older versions...sorry!!

Type Book, Draft 2

Future Projects

Here are the top three projects that I would love to do:

Band Poster!!!

Tee Shirt

CD Booklet and Case Design

My Very First Type Specimen Book

Text!

Shannon's house looked different from the other homes on our street. While all of the other houses had new white or gray siding and black asphalt roofs, Shan's house looked like it was made from old wood. It was warped in places and the white paint that covered the wood was chipped in chunks and scattered across the entire yard. The roof was red, rust colored like Shannon's hair. The door was the same color and had no screen door behind it. It creaked and moaned as she pushed it open and stepped inside.

The air was the first thing that I noticed; it was so thick and cloudy with cigarette smoke that I coughed loudly when I took my first breath. My eyes stung and squinted as I looked around the living room. The walls were what I am pretty sure was once white, but now had the appearance of an almost peach color. The sofa was covered with a black sheet and two rickety looking rocking chairs sat in front of an old television set- the kind that had one little knob for both power and volume, equipped with bunny-ear antennae sitting on the top of it. It was on, showing a news program, but with no sound. Shannon's mother, who I had only been introduced to once outside in the driveway, emerged from a dark hallway.

"Hello, Laura," she said.

"Hi, Ruth. Thanks for letting me sleep over."

Her hair had the same fire-red shade as Shannon's, but hers was thin, wispy and wavy. If it was all pulled back into a ponytail, it would probably only be the girth of a pipe cleaner. Her face looked worn, wrinkled and tired, her skin like the melting wax of a candle that someone had let burn too long. She had bright red lipstick on that made her lips look like a bloody sore that was torn into the white mask of her face. She pressed a cigarette to her lips and sucked, staining the filter with lipstick and the imprint of her lips. She was wearing a black robe with big red roses all over it. It was lace and completely see-through. She didn't have anything on underneath.

"Oh, I didn't know I had," she said, slowly walking away from us and toward the kitchen. Her voice was slight as her hair.

Swipe!

These are some things that I like and find interesting. The baby is my cutie patootie son, without whom there would be no inspiration.

I found these images on ffffound.com, aestheticapparatus.com, some random stranger's blog, misprintedtype.com and my own computer.