Slides

Slides from second book!

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I am so bad about this thing! Anyway, I have a bunch of new spreads for you. For my final, I'm sending off my final book to be printed from www.lulu.com. I sent it off last week, and I'm really afraid it won't come in in time. :( Lame.

Here's some of my new pages! I'm really enjoying working this way lately. It's more simple. I think the solution to creating good compositions is not over thinking it. I feel like I always over think things, and it ends up looking overworked.

I realized in my book pages that a couple of them were grey themed. So I wanted to integrate those pages a little more. I added some more grey ones, and I think it flows a lot better. I also added some blank pages in the final book. It looks so nice! (in my PDF anyway. My book hasn't come in yet. Double frown.)

Two for the day!

Some mo'

yayuh!

New Pages!

Here's some of the pages I've been working on for my altered books. It's been a cool process. I've been ripping up the books, measuring the pages, designing handmade on existing pages, and also creating pages on my computer to add to the books. :)

It's been fun.

Slides

Here's some slides from the last three books!

Slacker

I am an update slacker to the fullest extent. I completed my first round of books! It was so fun. I had a really good time doing it! Here's some scans from my last pages. I've been working on the second part. It's been a challenge, I forgot that indesign was a little complicated. Oh well! Time is on my side. (ha) On my next part of this project, I'm going to take some pages and elements from the first books and make more pages and larger books!

Camera!

I've been putting in soooo many hours lately, and I still feel like my amount of work isn't what it should be for my amount of time. Isn't that crazy? 2 hours can be like, 1/2 of a page completed. Anyway, here's some more pages, Jon brought me his camera!

Eureka!

Yesterday, I found a big bag of all the paper scraps I've collected over the last year. It is amazing. I've been working like crazy! I love today.



Unfortunately the only camera I have right now is on my computer, so here's a little glimpse of my workings.

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These are still very unfinished, but the fact that I am finally motivated makes me very excited. I'm a little mad that you can't see the detail on these, because that's definitely the best part.

wooooooorking

I'm working on these books!

So far, the bug pages have been coming along nicely.





I'm in the process of scanning them in and manipulating them further.

Starting

Why is starting so difficult? I'll have everything down. I'll have images, paper, ideas, but... no composition.

Composition is always difficult at first, that blank piece of paper glaring at me. It knows that I have difficulty starting, and it laughs at my face.

But anyway, I finally did get started. I've done all the image research last week, and I even cut up all the bugs and made new bugs, and I just finally decided I had to start making pages.

This is what my living room looks like. My roommates are going to kill me.




And a couple of new bugs.

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This embarks my new semester! This semester I will be making books, and I am so excited!

This week, I've been working on gathering imagery for my first set of 3 small ones. One will be on bugs, one on vines, and one on birds.

I've been scanning in like crazy lately! I've also been doing a lot of drawing, I haven't scanned those in yet, but I'll post pictures tomorrow.

Finishing

They're still finishing the video for the women's conference, and they're finishing the video that my stick art was used for. Both should be pretty amazing. Here's some of the photos from the photoshoot that I helped with, it's going to be used in the final print piece that I'm working on. It'll also be in the video, and other miscellaneous posters that they decide to make in my absense. This is just a few of them. There were probably a billion. Photos by Justin King.





Some of my work consisted of stuff that was time consuming, but necessary. Things no one else wanted to do, like making 90 slides a month for slide announcements.





I also had to make all the slides for baby dedication! Here's some examples.




Overall, I think everything I learned has helped me greatly. I got to develop my own stuff, using my own style, but I still had to stay within the constraints of the client. I also realized how important making multiple drafts is. I had to draft out some of this stuff 10-15 times before I created something that they were OK with. I think I always kind of knew this, but it became way more apparent to me over the summer. It was wonderful. :)