happy holidays

book on the radio

My first stab at a book illustrating two different radio segments. My pieces are Studs Terkel on NPR's "StoryCorps," and the other is Bill O'Reilly on his show, "The Radio Factor," where he tells a caller to shove it. Fun stuff. It'll be accordion-folded with one segment on each side.

YKGA moim (you figure it out)

nom nom nom nom.

home improvements

Just finished a bout of re or further decorating my apartment. I put up a curtain divider to separate the bedroom, bought another carpet, and a giant arc lamp. It's finally a little homier feeling.

hi monkey!

Oscar says 'hi.'

garage interventions continued

I gave up on trying to address the political 'urban renewal' aspect of the parking garage and just trying to make whimsical interventions to play off of the oppressive space. Above is a kind of 'car wash' curtain of party streamers to be installed in the garage. The curtain was all of one length, but somebody decided to give it a haircut last night. I'm kind of annoyed about that. Below is confetti in the shape of leaves that you scatter as you leave the parking lot. The garage is enormous and difficult to navigate, so the confetti is supposed to help you locate your car when you return. The pink is really neon pink.

emoticons continued2

emoticons continued

My emoticons project has evolved into becoming the emoticons for iconic paintings. Right now they're in postcard form, although I'll probably change them into book form. The bellyband is a bunch of features blown up.

election day coverage

Watching the poll results come in in the GD atrium. On the left we projected YouTube, in the center MSNBC, to the right was Fox News. We primarily watched MSNBC, but during commericial breaks, we'd switch over to YouTube and watch dance videos. There were really nice decorations of red, white, and blue objects hanging all over the atrium, unfortunately you can't really see them in the photo.

garage interventions

These are two separate interventions for my parking garage site. The Temple Street parking garage is at the heart of a major urban renewal project in downtown New Haven, which has included razing a mall and moving Gateway Community College next door to the parking lot. Providing enough parking spaces for the Gateway students in the Temple Street parking lot is part of a larger puzzle to create enough parking infrastructure to accomodate all the incoming traffic to New Haven. New Haven was also the site of a major urban renewal effort in the 1960s which displaced many local residents and which actually hastened the city's decline. Whew. 

That said, above are small postcard-size panels depicting historical scenes of downtown New Haven. The text on the panels, says "The more things change, the more they stay the same"—referring to how this second urban renewal project may be similar/different from the initial attempt.

The shapes on the bottom are neon-colored paper cut-outs of oil blobs that drip from cars. I was trying to draw attention to a kind of "green message" without being too didactic.

happy halloween

i was a mummy for halloween. boo.

poster machine

I'm starting to get lazy about posting stuff. Or, conversely, I'm starting to get too busy to post ? It's probably more about the lazy, honestly. This is from a lovely poster show in the GD Atrium exhibiting posters generated from 'poster machines' as supervised by Roel Wouters. Sometimes they were literally machines, sometimes the machine was just a mechanized approach to generating form/content. I didn't make any poster/machines bc the workshop was geared towards first and second years. Next year.

mr. lemonhead

An idea for the application of my emoticons in which you can build your own. The sheet of features on the left are stickers. The sheet on the right comes with just a blank head you can then emote as you wish. Stickers again. And circles, or close to them.

signs of the times

Other directives based on the street sign vernacular. I've noticed I've done a lot of projects so far borrowing from different vernaculars: the multiple-choice test sheet, the jazz album cover, and now signs. This is possibly a bad trend.

park here

This is a new assignment to create a series of posters based on a site, to be installed at that site. I chose the mammoth cement  Paul Rudolph parking lot on Temple Street in downtown New Haven. Above are my first attempts based on the vernacular of parking signs.

JAZZ HANDS !

Latest iteration of this book jacket.

my emoticons

This is a new assignment to develop a set of icons to organize or categorize something we're interested in. I chose to do new kinds of emoticons.

calendar test

This is the latest version of the calendar, modeled on standardized multiple choice test forms. Comes in a little envelope so you can keep it at your desk.

book jackets

First sketches for a Blue Note Jazz album covers book jacket.

calendar to nowhere