Design Class Final Project

As the final project for the ¨Design for Print and Web¨class at CCS, I put together a revision of the Pegasus Walkers Athletic Club website using Wordpress.  While I do not yet have the final grade - I was pleased with the outcome.  I received some suggestions for redoing the banner which I will attempt to due this summer (that part of graphical design is not my forte) but I received good comments on layout and organization.

You can check out the revised site at www.pegasusac.org

Almost a Painting

A Two Book Weekend

Finished two books over the weekend - and both continue with the theme of having photographs on the cover (which is NOT why I picked them.

Book 1) "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot.  Very interesting book that I would recommend.    Cover fits the book well.  While I usually do not like photos of the person the book is about on the cover - this book needs the face of the person behind the cells that helped medical research.

Book 2) "The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes

Cover from edition I read

The first one is the cover on the book I read.  I know I said that I don't like photographs on the cover but I believe this one is OK ---- it is not the author and the sepia tones fit the book.  I do not like the lettering - the original cover's letter is much more interesting.

Original Cover

I loved the lettering and fading of the original cover.  A bit to nebulous though with what the symbols are - but then again it fits the book.

Found two interesting references about designing the original cover:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8929045/Suzanne-Dean-the-secret-to-a-good-book-cover.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlzFDKcHLqI

Dogwood Tree in Bloom

From Last Printmaking Class

Finished the printmaking class the week before last.  I really enjoyed it.  I would like to take it again but I am taking a break for a while.  No art classes this summer but will be back at it in the fall.  The following are two of the prints from my last class.

The first is a gelatin print from a stamp I picked up at an estate sale of a local potter.  Gelatin prints are wild - the instructor made a slab from gelatin and you paint on it, lay a piece of paper on top then rub.  Great fun - something you can do at home since you do not need a printing press.

The second is a gelatin print on top of a print I had done earlier from a solar plate.  The plate is based on a photo I had taken in Italy.