New TOC

So now that the page count of the thesis book is done, I redid the table of contents with new info and tried to clean up the design a bit. How do people like it? Clear? Good layout? Enough detail? I've been staring at it for so long I've lost perspective but I think color coding the bubbles to reflect the three main sections is a good idea. Comments?

Thanks

A variation...more to come I suspect.

The final cover

Just as a point of interest, here's the final. Publisher and authors were all happy.

Book Cover, halfway (I hope) done

Here's a cover I'm working on for a book about five families of Pakistani heritage with the underlying idea that objects all have a story behind them. I'm fairly happy with how the pieces are working together but I put the title in and realized Knockout is probably the wrong choice (though I like the distressing). Anyone have an idea of a good typeface that would be a better display face? Since the words are both long and a bit hard to read, I think it'd need to be fairly compressed. Handwritten maybe? I tried something handdrawn earlier and it didn't work but maybe it needs to be revisited on the label.... thanks.

Trying to fix a spread

This is a spread I've been working on for a while, trying to get it right. The left and right hand pages open out for the gatefold of the bar behind it (hence the illustration side...) Anyone have a thought? Do the two pages work together?

Ad concept work

So I've been doing a lot of work for each of BBDO's clients recently, taking a provided word and then trying to encapsulate the essence of the brand in a single 22"x28" poster. Some have been great, some have missed the mark but I thought I'd put a couple up for people (or really anyone that's reading this...) to see. This one for GE was declined but I still like it.


And a couple others that they did go for.

Dinner party pages

Still working on creating a relationship with the images that are placed next to each other and getting the tatter to feel intimate and not decaying. The handwritten text are little stories about my early experiences with food in China, like little journal entries to give background on the images of Chinese food at the dinner party. Anyone have thoughts?

Final?

So, as I work on my book, I thought it'd be a good idea to continue working on my portfolio. So I've tried re-tweaking some of the text on this portfolio. Anyone have any thoughts? Type look tight? I'm planning on printing it out full size, holding it up myself and photographing it for the portfolio and trying to make it as good as possible before I do that. If anyone sees this, feedback would be great. Thanks.