Wednesday, December 15, 2010

New Resume

Working on a new resume (which will also be the last page of my portfolio). Since I'm kind of stuck on infographics these days...

Copy will probably get tweaked but I'm hoping the design and spacing works. Thoughts?

Monday, December 6, 2010

Classrooms Without Borders book cover

Here's the latest one I'm working on for Teachers College Press. The title and subtitle basically say it all so I was going for something a little abstract (doing an internet image search for the word "internet" does not turn up beautiful results and seems a little too meta). This is the first draft so we'll see what my design manager thinks. And hopefully what anyone in the internets thinks...

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Final Book Cover

In case anyone is interested, this is the final version the publisher went with (which the authors called "inspired" :) Would have liked to have stuck with the Vectrex typeface but so it goes.

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Redesign/Tweaks

So the publisher didn't love my initial design (mostly because it doesn't quite work for the target audience) so I'm doing some redesigns, adding more color and cleaning some things up. Here's what I've got so far...


Thursday, November 4, 2010

Connected World Book Cover

Here's a book cover I'm working on for an educational publisher. The book has to do with how children are educated in two worlds, the world of the classroom and the world of technology. No word yet on whether the publisher or authors like it so it's still a work in progress and feedback would be lovely. Too dark maybe?

thanks.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

The Final Monograph

After a bit more than a year of work, here it is, my final thesis project in book form. I took these photos really quickly just in an attempt to get them up and I'll be doing a proper photo shoot soon but I figured I'd put these up anyway, just to give an idea. This book was all hand bound, everything printed and then accordion folded with the gatefold and vellum inserts sewn in (in fact, due to the accordion nature of the book, every page was stitched together). The cover is cotton book cloth over a fairly heavy book board. If anyone is interested, I'll post some pictures of the details that's holding this whole together and talk about the process.

And of course, if there's anyone that hasn't seen the final designed pages, the whole book was posted up on issuu and it can be gone through at your leisure here: http://issuu.com/luodawei/docs/final_book

I'm having more copies of the book professionally printed for anyone that wants one and I'll post details here in a week or so. Hope you all like it.

d.







Friday, August 13, 2010

Final table of contents


So here's what I'm thinking for the final table of contents. Hopefully this fixes some of the issues. Thoughts?