These are books I have created, specifically the print version of my portfolio. The cardboard was created last week. The pink one was created back in 2008 and the yellow one was created back in 2006.
The cardboard portfolio came about by me wanting to produce a book with a great deal of analog craft, with a feel of creation by the hand. In addition, in recession times, I wanted to create a book that is near zero dollar to produce. The card board cover was found in my studio, along with the cover text stamp. I did have to purchase the binding screw posts (100 count/$14), legal size paper (folded in half to get thickness and double sided-ness, 500 sheets/$10) and raffia ribbons (60 yard/$2). In total, a single book only costs me about 60 cents.
The cardboard book contains 12 pages, 3 projects. The beneficial part of using screw post bindings is that I can switch out projects or add more pages by switching the screw post size. The cover could be any found cardboard with the potential of integrating existing graphics from the cardboard.
The yellow portfolio was made for the annual UIC Portfolio Day. This was produced after my first semester at architecture graduate school. It contains projects from first design and technical (building science) courses. The book was printed on hard stock and the black double coil binding was outsourced, done by local printing company. This book was selected for Portfolio Day exhibition and won the Faculty Choice Award.
The pink portfolio contains most of my projects from school. The book was produced by online publishing company (lulu). To download for free or to buy a copy for $21, click here.
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These are magazine spreads produced in indesign and illustrator. The first three are pages were designed for Art Professor, Nathan Peck’s tenure dossier book. The second to the last was produced for Chicago Art Department’s zine showcasing one of their resident artist. The last magazine page was created as an exercise in another graphic design course I took.
The display case was design in collaboration between Professor Peck and I. The three icons represent the three art clubs in the University.
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These square pages were produced in “Graphic Design for Architect” course that I took Spring 2008. We were asked to design page and cover layout using predominately black and white text. Color and an image were sneaked in later on.
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I do love to create infographics. The first two were produced for Saint Xavier Art Professor, Nathan Peck’s tenure dossier book. The first chart is a list of all the courses he has taught, along with course description, total number of students in each course and the frequency or corresponding semester for each course. The size of the red dot is relative to the amount of total students he has taught for the course.
The second diagram was also created for Nathan Peck’s tenure dossier book. This diagram illustrates visually the locations and names of all his professional gigs or exhibitions across the United States.
The third diagram was created for UrbanLab for their “Growing Water” book. This diagram illustrate the water cycle for Bay City, Michigan.
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These are posters created for “Graphic Design for Architect” course. The longer poster is tabloid and the small one is letter size.
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These are presentation posters I created back when I was in architecture school. The landscape posters are approximately 12′ x 7′ and the portrait one is approximately 3′ x 10′.
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This PS/2 computer port is hand-stitched onto a T-shirt. The idea of combining computer ports and stitching came about by me wanting to use the medium of stitching, an analog traditional storytelling craft with contemporary digital theme subject matter of computer ports. I wanted to tell the story of passe ports.
First, an illustration of a catalog of computer ports were drawn. Then one image was blown up and printed onto vellum. The vellum is then overlaid onto the T-shirt, to be used as a guide for the stitching. This is the first and only that I did and the shirt was given to Nathan. As you can see from the photo, he loves the shirt for it is a well-worn shirt.
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This info-graphic was made in February 2009 as entry in the Good Magazine competition. The competition called for a graphic description of the economic meltdown of 2008-2009. Looking back, I should have done some editing. I packed too much information onto a two letter sized spread. Though I did learned a lot about current economic issues and terminologies. There’s nothing better than a research based art where you learn something new while doing something that you love.
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This Lincoln portrait illustration was also made back in Winter 2008, for the 200 Lincoln Show at Chicago Art Department (CAD). The illustration was then made into a T-shirt using iron-ons. On the back of the shirt, it has number 16, to represent the 16th president. Only one was made and this unique shirt was bought by Seth Gershberg. Thanks Seth for the love and support.
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These postcards were created back in Winter 2008 for the promotion of a new architectural gallery, named “demo.”. The gallery is about demolishing convention, demonstrating ideas and exhibiting democratically. The gallery is a venue/outlet for young architects and designers to display their creativity, passion and skills. The original founders were Lindsay Grote, Sarah Forbes and I. Sarah and I bowed out due to relocation and work load. It was slated to open last summer. I’ll have to get an update from Lindsay as to the status of this organization. Please keep posted…
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