It took me awhile to settle on a person to choose for my next Imagemaking project. But I finally narrowed it down to Jimi Hendrix. I admire his creativity and innovative nature. I especially like his unconventional (at the time) use of different effects to create a musical environment. I chose him partially because we Read More
If there’s one thing I like about letterforms, it’s their inherent sexiness. So many lovely shapes and personalities in letterforms. I loves me some letters, yo. So this exploration of experimental typography was a lot of fun. I got to step away from actual words and just focus on these beautiful shapes in relation to Read More
In the last episode, we chronicled our journey through the depths of the letterpress dungeon and told tales of our quest for the letter n and our encounter with a deceptive p masquerading as a q. Things have calmed down since then. I got my cards printed without much fuss, and there is peace in Read More
Imagine a book about printing, made by various desktop printers from history. Printed through a chain of 4 printers representing a point in desktop printing history, each with an assigned color in the CMYK process. What? I know. Crazy. Crazy-awesome. Xavier Antin uses an array of four vintage printers to print this book. Each one Read More
After watching the film “Typeface,” I was pretty inspired and excited to do some letterpress work of my own. So I was pretty happy when I heard we were actually going to do it in class. This week went by pretty fast. I went from pencil sketches to using the press in just a few Read More
DIY Hacker Values Pride in making a device or software better than it was before. Exploit vulnerabilities or draw attention to flaws so they can be fixed. Push the limits to what technology can do. Open-source philosophy: Everyone should have access to view and change software (and even hardware) in the community. (Linux is a Read More
“Technology over technique produces emotionless design.” At first glance, this quote feels like it came from the mind of a jaded veteran of 1960s design. Honestly, before I researched who Daniel Mall was, I figured he was some grumpy old man who already passed his prime. But, nope. He’s a young, contemporary dude who actually Read More
After many revisions and a lot of fiddling around with type placement, transitions, and keeping true to the concept of the poem, I’ve settled on a final version. Since posting my original shapes & text, I’ve moved the “obscure my view of the sky” text to fit better with the shape of my “smudgy sky Read More
I chose to critique my dot book. I’ve come a long way since then. The cover isn’t so bad… except that the paper on either side of the matboard started peeling off almost as soon as I put it on. Rubber cement isn’t the greatest adhesive for me. More of it gets on me than Read More
The singlemost important thing I’ve learned in these 16 short weeks is that, despite what I initially think, success is possible. I can reach it. And we’re all in this together. It’s not a competition. And students make great teachers. When you’re surrounded by 20 different people with 20 different views & opinions, you get varied, Read More