Archive for November, 2007
new chair pics
here are some quick snapshots of my new folding chair design (taken with my really dodgy digital camera, sorry!). i’m really excited about this one! i hope to make a couple of them eventually, out of different woods, and with more refined hardware.details:- made of locally grown ash hardwood, with reclaimed aluminum cutoff cross-pieces- hand-cut [...]
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Tags: chair, folding, furniture, sustainable
more books
art in america, december 1963. i got this at a booksale in high school, and found it when i went home for thanksgiving. the back cover is especially beautiful. both are compositions by george ortman, entitled “festival”.
caligula and 3 other plays, by albert camus. a nice cover for one of my favorite authors, my roommate [...]
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Tags: archival, art, book covers, books, graphic design, modern
myspace, rip
couldn’t take the pressure. plus i hated that it was the first result when you googled my name. professional life, here i come. for anyone feeling nostalgic, i whipped up this memorial jpg:#
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solar decathlon stools
i made 2 of these folding barstools over the summer for the carnegie mellon solar decathlon team house. i wasn’t too happy with how they came out, so i never took very professional shots of them. this one image was shot on-site in washington dc by neha thatte, showing the unfolded chair. when folded up, [...]
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Tags: chair, furniture, solar decathlon
typeface
after years of taking notes and drawing in graph paper notebooks, i’ve developed an ultra-simple, all-uppercase style of writing. i’ve been slowly building a portfolio website over the past week or so, and it occured to me to try to reproduce my lettering style in the design. i couldn’t find any fonts that really worked [...]
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Tags: font, graphic design, type
infinity plus
for some reason i was obsessed with this symbol i found in a book of op art last summer (repeated 4 times here). i can’t really say why, but the expression “infinity plus” always goes through my head when i look at it.
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light fixture
when the light fixture in my room got full of dead bugs, i decided to take it down, and make one of my own.
it’s made out of:
- a 12×12″ square of acrylic (purchased at a flea market)
- a page of slides of the german countryside (purchased as part of a record set at jerry’s records [...]
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Tags: design, light
pgh camo
2 summers ago, i made an attempt at creating a camo swatch based on pittsburgh imagery, colors, and map shapes. the results were interesting, but not especially polished. you can see the steelers logo and the 3 rivers pretty clearly in the designs. ted galperin made a similar attempt later that year, since the idea [...]
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Tags: camo, camouflage, pgh, pittsburgh
more book covers
a few more interesting covers i picked up today at east end community thrift, on penn ave.
this is a grim one. i love the weird purple chosen for the woodcut part.
this is actually the back cover of what i think is a biography of francis ponge, part of a series. the french phrases and [...]
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modern book covers
a collection of several vintage, modern bookcovers. book collecting is a hobby of mine, but i must admit i often buy books based solely on the charm of their covers.
found at half-price books, dated 1962. bought in the gift store, as evidenced by a type-written card found inside asking for visitors to refrain from photography.
a [...]
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