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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.

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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Advanced Typography

The Fall 2009 semester has begun and I think this is going to be a good one. Oh, and I’m already sleep deprived.

A thousand-year-old manuscript.

A thousand-year-old manuscript.

The Fall semester here at Brigham Young University-Idaho starts a little late, on the 10th of September this year. But things are in full swing and I am feeling the burn. I am taking Advanced Typography, Color Photography, Book Arts, History of Design and Illustration, and an Old Testament class. All of these are great, really. The big love of my heart? Advanced Typography.

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Handmade Slab Serif

A custom made (sort of) typeface

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Painting with Produce

An exploration of textures

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In my 3D Graphic Design class (as in package and environment design), we have been given a number of “exploration” assignments. This one was to be an exploration of textures.

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