Friday, August 21, 2009

T marks the spot

the nyt style mag has been posting best "T"s of the last few years on their blog and they're so incredible I have to share. the images are all in flash so i can't copy them unless i do a million screencaps which is annoying but thankfully the blog "but does it float" just posted a bunch, which i reproduce here:
more here: http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/well-openers/













Thursday, August 13, 2009

book 3

trying to decide if it's necessary/more interesting/better to vary the placement of the titles. i'm thinking yes. could continue experimenting with colors foreeeeever. gradient not quite "ooooh" enough and can't quite work out the rectangle/font colors. also concerned whether the 3 work as a series...gah



Wednesday, August 12, 2009

book 2 beginnings

update: tried changing the size of the rectangle and placement of the title as another variable

just starting to play with colors for the second book in the series. early experiments:



BOOK JACKET

Packaging/Idenity Odds & Ends

working on a prototype (white writing on the brown bag) but in the meantime here are the sketches (and my salty record label)





PSA POSTER





haven't made the second half of the "black & light" (ha, i like that name) alphabet so still missing "S" and "W" - will finish eventually!!

TYPE SPECIMEN












Monday, August 10, 2009

aaarg (process book)

been having a tough time with figuring out a good layout scheme. not loving anything so far. here are some examples of things i have tried. would love any suggestions! thanks.