designer
I have a huge collection of photographs of my family at the dinner table. For whatever reason, this is when my family decides to take pictures. I probably have more photos of us around dinner tables than any other event in our lives. Every birthday, holiday, and celebration is documented around the table. I xeroxed as many as I could find and connected them all together into one long accordian book.
I made a small flip book about my grandmother’s name, which is quite long. The text reads: “My Grandmother’s name is Pauline Louise Anderson Johnson Halling. But her friends call her P. Louise”. I added a couple of old photos and circled my grandmother to identify her among her friends. I started making the book in Flash to get the pacing and animation down and then printed out the frames. I really like how the finished book looks like an old home movie when it’s flipped.
A 5-color screenprint of directions and a map from my home in Baltimore to my parent’s house in Silver Spring. The trip there is one side, the return on the other. The twisting shape of the book mirrors my totally distorted sense of direction.
I recently got the book Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog, by Kitty Burns Florey. It’s a great book about the lost art of diagramming sentences. I letterpressed the quote, “I do not know anything more interesting than diagramming sentences,” by Gertrude Stein. I, of course, had to enlist my sixth grade English teacher to help me with the diagramming. It was funny to find out she also had the book, as we both spent some time trying to figure out this surprisingly complicated sentence. I letterpressed the black and then hand-painted the circles with watercolor.
I screenprinted recipes on index card-sized plexiglass. I screenprinted the back in one flat color and type on the top in 2 colors. I was experimenting with alternative surfaces and transparency as well as making some cool waterproof recipe cards. The laser cutter at MICA rounded the edges nicely. The surface is still delicate, so I worry about scratches on the ink.
The Urban Forest Project was an outdoor exhibition of banners created by local designers. It started in New York and was in Baltimore in spring 2008. Banners hung in several neighborhoods throughout Baltimore, promoting a healthier environment. Afterwards, they were recycled into bags and buttons and sold. Mine hung on Pratt street, right near this lovely Watch for Bikes sign. The project was presented by Tilt Studios, see the blog here.
Some of my wares for MICA’s Art Market. I screenprinted American Apparel underwear with bleach and made some boy brief buttons. So, both sexes were represented!
One of Joe’s paper robots I made for my Mom, a children’s librarian.
Playing around with letterpress.
I designed a number set and created a large calendar for it. I really liked how abstracted the letter forms became without the counters, but still kept some legibility. It created a great space for adding varying line patterns and drawings illustrating different holidays throughout the year.
