Monthly Archives: July 2008

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This is my book cover redesign for the modern english translation ofDante’s Inferno, by Robert Pinsky. For those of you who don’t already know, it’s a 12th century Italian poem written by Dante Alighieri. It was originally called a Divine Comedy and chronicles a soul’s journey as it takes a tour through the nine levels of hell. Kind of dark…

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For our typography class this week we were asked to do a redesign of last months issue of “Step Inside Design.” A monthly design magazine… as you probably deduced from the title. The only thing we were allowed to bring over from the original was the copy. Meaning everything else had to be changed. This was one of those design projects I started while having no idea where I was going to go with it. Being that it’s a design magazine, I felt like I was free to do whatever I wanted. Above is the final product and below is a time lapse screen capture, as well as a few close up shots of the design. Enjoy!

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Okay, Here’s part two of my no children at war series. Feel free to leave questions, comments or criticisms. I hope you like the piece!

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This piece is part one in a poster series I’m putting together called, “No Child at War.” The idea is to bring to light the fact that there are a multitude of nations around the world who are using children as soldiers. Everything was done in Photoshop CS3 using an Intuos 3 Wacom tablet. If you’d like to see the whole process condensed down to five minutes, take a look at the video below. I hope you like it!

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