I finally assembled the parts of the print portfolio I was working on, and my page order might need some revision.
This is the full jacket view of Crystal's print portfolio.
Really though, this is work that was waiting for a few seconds to be stitched together. I have a hard time putting things down when I’m doing them for anyone I know, so I might still go back and retouch the cover, and more obviously now that I see it set up, put the liner on the back cover in more subtle form so I can use the huge photo from “F Your Birthday” across the inside, and maybe across the DVD.
I was pulled randomly from one thing to another all day, and went directly from a surprise breakfast to the Tandem Co-op/Gallery space to do a couple designs for more print work. Akira was nice enough to put me up while doing the designs, and I had a chance to watch while some awesome documentary magic was being worked in After Effects, so I stuck around until seven, basically pulled straight from bed and fueled by coffee.
The night before, I stayed up all night working on print matter for Tandem with Akira and was most satisfied with something produced after a 2 am pizza run, right before posting the series and heading home. The unused design featured Vitrina, and seemed to fit the look perfectly, but was voted off the island by daybreak. The bike seems to be a good working theme, and the shape has grown on me. Hopefully this isn’t just self-satisfaction taking root– I still haven’t abandoned my original idea involving some slightly-cheesy 80’s air-brush action.
Heading down this dangerous path of designing for self-satisfaction, there’s a gigantic black and white website calling out to me. In the meantime, I’ve been spotting a few very nice single-task websites. I get the feeling that the days of the workhorse multitool-style small site might be numbered, but this could be a more general complaint about setting things on your site too many clicks away. My favorite thing about these single purpose sites is that everything is evident, and interaction is only a single click deep for most uses. I’ll keep this in mind while playing with scriptaculous.