Where being and English major and designer collide: the book cover. Carissa showed me Alexander Budnitz‘s very neat book cover archive. I insist you go there and relish some good design and some good books. Isn’t there just something about old books that is intoxicatingly beautiful? This one is by Paul Rand! Budnitz is the…
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Hardest button to button
Me at 4:25 am this morning after finally finishing my button packaging. Oh the life of graphic design. I assure you, I worked really hard on this project from when it was assigned until I finished it last night despite the last minute-ness. I toyed with all sorts of ideas, arranged buttons, made mock-ups, and…
Still here!
Carissa came to visit yesterday and I’ve been bustling around with my math class and thinking about graduate school. Sorry. Look at some of the cute souvenirs she got me. {Left: cute chicken notebook, handmade!; Right: Magnets} And she also picked up some graphic design magazines for me. This one had some neat ads. Here…
Do you like design? I like design.
While procrastinating yesterday I discovered fwis.com, or more specifically their book cover appreciation blog.I love good cover art. Wouldn’t that be an amazing career? To design actually meaningful covers for books? Not just two blurred people talking to each other? I added them to my blog roll. And an old favorite, The Dieline. This is…