Emily's Junk

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)

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 Paper’s Glo-Tone Orange envelopes! Hurray.

The porcupine on the RSVP card…well, he just felt right. He’s fun and quirky yet dignified and, ahem, a little prickly. Just like the happy couple themselves! :)

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.

This just a small sample of the new Penguin hardcover classics. So gorgeous!

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 it’ll be a fun, non-fancy but nice event. Other than that, we like old-timey stuff. And Nick likes the idea of it being a ‘stomp.’” Well then. Add that to some some turn of the century advertising research and voila!

Printed on French Paper Speckletone (Madero Beach) with my brand new (used) Gocco printer and Brown Gocco Ink.

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 that I am soon to be an aunt (my brother-in-law, who was the original Flanks bass player, is expecting), made it clear to me that it was time to make some Flanks onesies!!

I printed these on American Apparel’s “Sustainable Edition” 100% organic cotton baby onesies. Only the best for the littlest Flanks fans.

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.

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

Mr. Chris Kam

Mr. Brewer and Ms. Switser

Mamma Wilbur

Lady Maureen

And, of course, my dear, dear husband.

Phew. I’m glad that’s over.

Now what?

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) from Fine and Raw:

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 Mallia