start of poems

Here's the first "poem" I'm happy-ish with. Keep pushing it?


Here's two more, the top one was my first attempt and then because I liked the China one, I went back and redid it with lighter, thinner type but for comparison's sake, I thought I'd put both up. I like the colors but think maybe it's too jumbled and distracting. Thoughts?




Another, this time with colored text...once again kind of liking the soft colors... but feel like the text needs more...greater shift in scale? different typeface?

not finished yet....

So I haven't been able to finish the designing of the spreads yet but I thought I'd put up a couple of the illustrations. I'm envisioning "stories" next to the images explaining how these people and ideas are influential and maybe a timeline running across the spreads but I don't quite think it's all going to get dropped into place by tomorrow night so here's something to look at in the meantime.

Oh yeah, here's another revision

Food spread

I have a photo shoot lined up for some of the food section but in the meantime, here's another idea.

revision

So, trying to respond to L's thoughts and have moved the photo onto the next page, using this page more as a text page....but now kind of thinking that it lacks the energy of the last one. Maybe I'll try and rework the earlier spread with the new headline, treat it more like a feature opener and just include tiny bit of text... But thought I'd put this up anyway for any comments.

Art section

So I've been thinking a lot about how art fits in with the whole identity thing and decided that a huge part of making art and designing is the process. And the creative process starts with the blank piece of paper, sketches and the desk, where it actually happens. So we've got two "views" of the desk so to speak, an actual photograph and a "diagram" indicating everything that was on my desk on a given day (getting back to that "moment in time" idea). Hopefully there's a bit of playfulness tucked into the grid patterns.

Are there things I haven't thought about? Ways to improve this? I might include some influences, mixed in with sketches I've done for this book (so the book is getting a little self-referencial). Any thoughts? Art is such an important part of my life that I'm having a hard time seeing how to explain that visually, ironically.

Revised and new spreads