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album covers – ghost box
Another great record label with its own resident designer/musician is the UK’s Ghost Box, which I read about in an issue of The Wire from last year. Julian House does all the label’s covers, drawing on the traditional layout of paperback publishers like Pelican for a “institutional-retro” look. As stated in the label’s manifesto, the [...]
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book covers flickr page
Hey there. I’ve continued collecting and archiving cool book covers, but they are now all on my flickr page, right here , instead of on this here blog. Thanks!
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album covers – rune grammofon
Kim Hiorthøy is the principle graphic designer for all releases on the Norwegian label Rune Grammofon. I stumbled across some of his designs while browsing Mimaroglu Music Sales, an amazing distro run by sound artist Keith Fullerton Whitman. Hiortøy’s work is amazing, and reminds me of the simplicity and attention to detail of all my favorite [...]
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procedural camouflage
I recently finished a programming project in the Processing programming environment, which I just started learning this semester. I created a program which will analyze any image file, and spit out a tile-able swatch of camouflage based upon it.
The program selects 5 predominant colors from the image, weights them, and creates a background of [...]
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Tags: art, camo, camouflage, design, processing
furniture – 2007
well, right before winter break, i finally managed to take decent pictures of all the furniture i’ve created over the past semester. i’m pretty happy with all the pieces, and i can’t wait until i get them put into a proper website, but until then, i’ll leave them all here.
“slab” folding chair:
“slat” collapsible ash [...]
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Tags: design, furniture, sustainable
dome obsession
i dug up some pictures from the height of my dome obsession, last november.
some small cardboard models, hanging on my studio wall:
inspirational images, hung up in studio:
my full-size cardboard dome, in process in the hallway outside my studio (it was too big to move all the way to the outdoor site by myself, so i [...]
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Tags: art, building, cardboard, domes, geodesic, life
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
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