10/19/11

Every 24 hours in America

This many people die from smoking related causes:

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That's 1213.69 people. Statistics found at The National Cancer Institute.

10/17/11

Get your crayons out

Because it's coloring book time! Sharpen your pencils, bust out your gel pens, wet your watercolors, because this time it'll be coming to you live on cardstock! I won't tell you too much about it right now, because I have four (!) projects (big 'uns) going on in my design production class, and thinking about the other three classes makes my eyes roll back in my head. But here's a sneak peak:

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I have been so blessed and inspired by many amazing women in my life. Stay tuned, I'll keep mini-previews coming, and it will be available for sale November 4th!

10/9/11

First Illustration Project

Musicophilia

The assignment was to create a cut-paper book jacket; the one I got was "Musicophilia" by Oliver Sacks. Sacks is a neurologist who "uses fascinating and occasionally bizarre and quirky medical case studies to examine the powerful connection between music and the human brain throughout history." It was really fun to design something almost entirely with my hands. Last year I created three book jackets for a Graphic design class, and all of them, start to finish, were mostly digital. This was a fun prompt, sometimes the limitations in our requirements really stretch us out of our comfort zone and produce much more unique results.

Thanks for reading, hope everyone had a great weekend!