These are 2 examples of the chapter divider pages I made that were chosen for Ellen Lupton’s new book, Indie Publishing: How to Design and Publish Your Own Book.
Archive for January, 2008
I went to Seoul, Korea last summer with 14 other students for 4 weeks as part of the MICA Korea summer study abroad program. We created artwork and installed a major exhibit at Gallery Ssamzie in Seoul, and then transported it back to Baltimore for a second installation at MICA in the Brown Center. The exhibition, called White: W3=White Day, Weddings, Women, explored the color white through the context of contemporary Korean society. Each student created an individual piece and worked on two large collaborative projects around this theme.
One of the collaborative works consisted of 3 monumental, diamond-shaped structures made of wood and fluorescent lights. The immense size and classic diamond shape of these objects reflected the absurd fantasy and extravagance of Korean “white wedding” ceremonies.
For my individual work, I built an exaggerated, overly ornamental chandelier by attaching large, steel wire circles and beads to a ready-made, smaller chandelier. The chandelier became three times its original size, taking something already decorated and functional and pushing it to a ridiculous level. I wanted to illustrate the superficiality and fantasy-driven industry of contemporary Korean culture. Ironically, it was the most popular piece to be photographed next to.
The 8 graduate students in my year had their first year show in April ‘07, (same time as the 2nd year students had their thesis show). We hung our work in the Pinkard Gallery and decided to paint the wall with a gray stripe to better set off the work. We each chose about 3 pieces from that year that we thought were our best. I chose my job history diagram, the Selma Koch/bra timeline, and a solar etching I did in the Dolphin printmaking studio at MICA. I designed the postcard announcement and also used my handwriting from the postcard for the vinyl graphic on the wall.
I screenprinted these postcards for the MICA study abroad program. Below are some t-shirt designs for the project.
I was asked to design a t-shirt for MICA’s study abroad program and these are some of my sketches. My favorite is the top left, although the project was pulled before any t-shirts were printed.
Two random words were pulled out of a hat, mermaids and bicycles, and each person in our letterpress class created an 8-page signature about them to be bound into one book. This is my signature- I chose to combine bicycles, tightropes, and Queen’s Bicycle Race song lyrics. The biggest challenge was getting the tightrope lines to match up across spreads.
This is a poem by Kwangkyu Kim that I letterpressed in 2 colors.
These are two projects from a fibers class I took my second semester at MICA. We built a loom the first day and started weaving a tapestry. We had to include several different weaving methods, as well as incorporate something other than yarn. I wrapped pencils with pages from an old cooking book and also wove in cassette tape ribbon. The second image is my first try at a quilt. My idea was to make a receiving blanket for a baby as well as tie it into the idea behind Korean wrapping cloths (pojagi), which were also handmade and used to wrap food and small gifts. They were said to carry and preserve the happiness and good luck from the giver to the receiver. I used basic quilting fabrics in colors that refer to the Korean hanbok. I gave this to my cousin when she had her first baby.
This is a 5-color screenprint replicating a page from my grandfather’s notebook, which included his handwriting, some doodles, and some math. I was experimenting with how closely the screenprinted image could look like the actual aged notebook paper. I think I came pretty close, although you can see where the blue lines cross over the holes in the paper, which I forgot to adjust for.
I am not really promoting slavery here- this was for a project with Paul Sahre. We created a poster based on 5 criterion he gave us for theme, tone, color, font and style. My parameters included: the Gettysburg Address, the color pink, an angry tone, Times New Roman, with a type-heavy style. This was a fun project and yielded really interesting results from everyone, although I’m still a little uncomfortable showing mine around!
