January 2012
2 posts
Luck 'o the Irish
The day before our wedding, my husband, Tom, found a 4-leaf clover. It seemed pretty auspicious. Tom pressed the lucky clover in between the pages of a heavy book to keep it safe. On our first anniversary (which is the paper year) Tom gave me a home letterpress kit and the neatly pressed 4-leaf clover, thinking that I could design and print something that we could use to display our good luck...
Catching up
Ever since I started working at Ailey a year and a half ago I have been work, work, working and go, go, going pretty much non-stop. Designing for this prolific and popular dance company has really kept me on my toes M-F, and the bit of freelance work I do on the side has kept me busy on the weekends. I really haven’t had a moment to consider collecting some of this work and preparing it for...
August 2011
2 posts
This looks like so much fun!
Check it out….
Someone buy this for me please!!
Found here
April 2011
1 post
Winter is coming.
Tonight the new series Game of Thrones, based on the AMAZING Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin, premieres on HBO. In honor of this I thought I’d post the redesign of this series that I did as a project last year.
These books fall pretty squarely into the “Fantasy” genre, and it shows in their packaging. However, they are also REALLY well written and not your...
March 2011
1 post
Come ON, Spring!
In at attempt to remind Spring that it’s time to arrive already (I am sick of wearing my ski hat every day) here are some lovely Bulgarian stamps designed by Stefan Kanchev in 1971.
via Design:Related
December 2010
2 posts
Everyone should have a symbol.
That was what I thought as the stage lit up for Prince last night at Madison Square Garden. His really is lovely.
The show was transcendent, definitely in my top 5 of all time, in part due to the stunning Miss Janelle Monáe (below). If you have a chance to see her live, DO IT! She’s so strange and wonderful. It’s like really funky performance art.
Top photo by me and my iPhone....
Infographic Wednesday
I was looking for inspiration for an infographic project I’m starting at work when I stumbled upon this gem by Pop Chart Lab. Love!!
September 2010
6 posts
Penguin 75
While unemployed over the summer I created lists and lists of things I was going to buy myself when I finally got a job. At the very top of the list was this book:
Penguin’s Art Director, Paul Buckley, chose 75 covers from the last 10 years to be featured in this book, along with comments from the authors, designers, agents, editors, etc. There are also some rejected covers that made it...
Love it.
Sculpture by Jason Freeny.
Goodbye, summer.
Last night I said goodbye to what has truly been a fantastic summer by going to see the Pavement reunion show at the Central Park Summerstage.
I was totally in LOVE with the light design—specifically the strings of lights draped across the stage. Gorgeous!
(Photos via Pitchfork and Limewire)
October Wedding Invitations.
Finally! The invites for my dear friends Nick and Brenna’s wedding are all done. I had wanted to print them with my Gocco printer, but time restraints made that impossible. These were, instead, printed on my Epson 1400. I can get really fabulous bright colors with my Epson which worked well for the bright and cheerful orange I was using. And this orange matched perfectly to French...
Employment.
Tomorrow is my first day at my new job as the Graphic Designer at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. It was three month, slightly harrowing job search, but I couldn’t be happier with the result! I’m thrilled to be working with such a fantastic organization and can’t wait to help make all their things look pretty.
I want them all.
This just a small sample of the new Penguin hardcover classics. So gorgeous!
June 2010
1 post
A Sure Cure for the Kidneys
When my very good friends Nick and Brenna announced their engagement to me last February, the first thing I said to them, after “Yay!” was “I’m designing your invitations.” They didn’t have any kind of a say in it.
When it came time to make the Save the Date cards, Brenna sent me an email describing what they were thinking. “We want to convey that...
May 2010
3 posts
Stop. Babytime.
My husband is in a great Brooklyn country band called The Flanks. On top of being a huge fan and a Flanks wife, I also have become their resident designer. A few years ago I designed and screen printed the original Flanks t-shirt, which you can see here, modeled by the fabulous Marty Capodice:
Recently, the band welcomed it’s first Flanks baby! This joyous news, coupled with the fact...
A Six-Pack of Color.
Post-graduation I went on a cleaning/reorganizing binge. In the midst of this madness, as I was packing up the paper recycling, I noticed how GORGEOUS the color combinations on the Brooklyn Brewery’s Summer Ale and East India Pale Ale six-pack cartons are. It felt like a shame to waste them. So, voila! I have a new art supplies bin.
Pratt Show 2010
Last night was the Friends and Family Reception for the much anticipated (well, anticipated by my classmates and myself, anyway) Pratt Show! Free wine + good friends + finally being done with school = A FANTASTIC TIME! Thank you to everyone who came out…
This is what my panel looked like:
Kat and Cormac
Steve, Cory and Margaret
My Publication Design professor Nancy Stamatopoulos
...
April 2010
3 posts
Handmade Cavalcade
On Saturday I went with my friends Katy and Chris to check out the Spring Handmade Cavalcade in the ‘hood. Some of my favorites were:
1) The embroidered photography from Aperature Agog:
2) The “Clue” inspired jewelry of Jenny Topolski (This one is Mrs. White with the revolver):
AND, last but not least, the super delicious sea salt chocolate (and gorgeous package design)...
Letterpress
Yesterday my Pre-Press and Print Production class went to The Arm in Williamsburg to learn about letterpress AND to make posters advertising the Pratt Show, which is fast arriving. (Yikes!) We could only work about 3 people at a time, so we all got to see different parts of the process. I was part of the group that set the type for all of our names. It was a blast!
Photos courtesy of Steven...
Daptone = Awesome
I love, love, LOVE the retro design style of Daptone Records, specifically the album covers for Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. I’m going to see them next Friday at the Apollo and am beside myself with excitement.
Sharon Jones was a corrections officer at Rikers and now she is the lady James Brown. Amazing.