Typo3: The Portfolio- in progress

Above left is my mailing address, Sagmeister Inc. was just a convenient address to place.

Above right is my thank you letter (on my letterhead.)

The upside down type speaks to my quirks as an individual and as a designer. The PDF will no include upside down elements since it's too big of a pain in the ass to turn your laptop upside down to get all the info (let alone if you were on a desktop.)

More progress to come as I finish up the photos I'm taking for my actual portfolio.

Typo3: Russel Wright final spreads and dust jacket

In crit today we decided the red blurbs (no pun intended, even though they are screw ups too) were a mistake. Thus, I brought the red color into the images and justified the captions.



















I feel that the colophon of any book is a side note (about the piece as a whole) and thus, I chose to illustrate it where the notations in the body paragraphs appear. Plus, this way, the colophon fills the empty space of the selected bibliography spreads. A good note to end on.






I felt the dust jacket should represent the retro/classical aspects of Wright's work and era. He is his work, so I felt it was important to show him on the cover.

Typo3: Russel Wright Cover 1

I feel that a lot of Russel Wright's ceramics work is contrived of organic forms and thick to thin lines. I wanted the cover to be semi-retro/contemporary, also reflecting my views of Mr. Wright's work.

The gradient, I feel, speaks to the smooth forms of his ceramics as well.

Typo3: Project 3, Next interval

These are the next step for the newest typo book. The top spread is the contents spread (obviously). The red blurb is possibly going to be how I tag/caption all the images in my spreads.

The second spread is the opening for the Manitoga text. The third is the main text body of the Manitoga set.

Typo3: Project 3, First iterations

The top spread is more "classical."
The second spread is more of an even distribution between type and image
The third spread is more simplistic and fun.
The fourth is just a bad idea all around. No one wants a book with side-ways type.

Typo3: Project 2, COVER and (1st iteration) layouts

This image is the entire trim of the cover (front, back, spine, insets). I chose the image of the mannequin because I believe Stein is speaking to the viewer in terms of misdirection (nothing is as it seems), fabrication (we can make anything in the world that we want), and possibly with a spice of feminism (she speaks at lengths about food and objects and other things relating to the home and the life of a woman).




The second image here is how the cover itself will look when it is all folded up. I may still need to tweak the type a bit. 






















This is the "full title" spread of the inside of my book, pages 0 and 1.


Gertrude Stein is on the same base line as all the rest of my called out text. 
























This obviously is the CONTENTS page. Page 2 and 3. I'm just trying to go with really clean and classical layouts. The semi-bold italic type is a factor that plays through the entirety of my spreads. 












Sugar and Dirt Not Copper spread. The idea of calling out text was a main deciding factor for me throughout the creations of these layouts. The titles of the pieces are in the same side line in the margins with the page number and title of the collective works. I left wide margins around the  main text to further along the idea of classical text. 






















PS- I DID replace Malachite with A Shawl and A White Hunter with Book. The two I replaced were too short to successfully portray the gaps in thought that I wanted to show. The two new poems are longer and were more successfully interpretable. 

Typo3: Project 2- Poems

For our book project, I have chosen the poems: Dirt and Not Copper, A White Hunter, Malachite, This is Dress Aider, and Sugar. For my first couple of iterations I used Malachite.

I really enjoy the idea of the sideways text. I believe it makes the poem more interesting and almost turns the text into a landscape. 

Typo3: Mailer Final

Top left image is of the outside panels of my Typo mailer for Caledonia. The bottom left image is of the inside/poster of the mailer. The bottom right image is a detail shot of the inside of the mailer, allowing you to see the alignment of image, patterns, and type. 

Typo3: Stephen Fry Video Response

This video made me wonder if Gutenburg were still alive today, would he approve of all the ways typography and printing have evolved? Yes, his press made something priorly hand-made faster and easier to access, but there was also still a very keen sense of a personal touch in each page he printed. Hand crafted press, hand carved type, hand-made paper. Today, the pressing process is almost completely impersonal. It's almost depressing. I hit a key on a computer and hit another and I can print 4 billion copies of the same thing without even hardly being in the same room as the whole process.

Couple of facts that I found interesting from the video:

It would have taken the slaughter of 140 calves in order to get the amount of vellum needed for only ONE copy of the bible.

The mold used to quickly reproduce the letter E in the video was amazing but I didn't quite understand how that worked, if you're hand pouring something, how do you make the letters all the same height. I guess you possibly have to do some filing?

He possibly drew inspiration from a grape/wine press.

The man that made the press in the video based some of his design off of an illustration by Albrecht Durer.

One of the Brothers Grimm had written in the front of one of Gutenberg's bibles when he was working as a librarian.