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HopeFear Photographs

Here are some photographs of the hopefear project. The exhibit was up for a week and a half in the Library at BYU-Idaho.

More info about this project can be found here and here. Thanks!

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The Hopefear Project

The hopefear project started months ago and now it is done. Still, I feel like it isn’t done.

When I reached the day of reckoning on this project, I pulled all the data obtain on my questionnaire and it totaled 100 people exactly. People from all over the world. That seemed perfect. My hope to get a handful of photos, poems, songs, and other ‘expression’ about hope and or fear was hardly realized and so I canned my plans for that aspect of the design. Funny thing happened though . . .

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Book Arts

A simple book I designed and built.

This is a book.

I am in a book arts class and I am learning some really cool things. This is the first completed project for the class. It’s called a long stitch. The examples we observed in class looked like this, and this is the style that most of the students did. But me? I don’t really like leather. So I found some corrugated plastic at my local sign shop and achieved a completely different aesthetic.

I rather like it. More images after the jump.

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Handmade Slab Serif

A custom made (sort of) typeface

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News update

I have been busy at work and somewhat separated from my portfolio and blog. I have some things to add, I just need to buckle down and do it.

So lately, I’ve been taking some really great classes. Information design and 3D graphic design to name a few. These are really keeping me flat out and I am really enjoying it. One of the projects I am working on in my Info Design class is a research/design project which I am calling OnePostcard (read on!).

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