Need Supply Co.

The day I graduated I saw a well dressed man who I thought carried himself confidently, stroll through my senior show for Graphic Design. Of the hundreds of people that strolled through that night, he stuck out to me for some reason and thought "he knows what's up".  I later saw him at the restraunt next door and thanked him for stopping by. I gave him my business card and that was that. Two weeks later, I recieved a call from him and he was one of the owners of Need Supply Co. and hired me as a designer.

I was beyond thrilled.

 My first project while at Need Supply Co. was to work on the summer lookbook zine with the one other designer at Need. I think my mouth was open, and smiling the entire week. "Holy crap. I can't believe I'm getting paid to do this." above and below are the result at 8.5" x 5.5"

 We had hundreds and hundreds of photos to work with. The simplicity of the zine reflects the simplicity and effectiveness of the brand. I think in the end I had around a hundred pages laid out. The zine was only 16pages. It was a blast and more difficult than I had imagined. Below are some of my favorites that didn't make the cut.

                                       

hope you enjoy!

Vesuvius

I took a Book Arts class this last semester of school which was rad. This was one of my "books"

This project was inspired by a Sufjan Stevens song, Vesuvius.  My goal was to mix in a little bit of (almost) everything I love: Design, Illustration, narratives and Sculpture. And then being a three-dimessional piece, incorporating photography to photograph it. (A note on that: On my last tour to Austin with The Diamond Center in April, I lost my main camera setup Canon 30D and IS lens... Luckily, still have my Rebel and was able to bring it back from the grave)

                                      
Underneath the Volcano, is a book slipcase and book telling the story of the couple in the landscape traveling to the volcano.

  It was an interesting challenge working with a triangular shaped book and triangular compositions with and actually very fun with the illustrations.

dip pen, digital color and wacom tablet for the typography.

 The trees and bushes etc. the the type is set on, are the shrubbery files that I used in the physical 3D landscape.

                                      

Here are the drawings.

I forgot the one below in the final book. It acted as a rest between the forest spirit page and second to last page before they hurl themselves in to the volcano (spoiler alert)

 warmup drawing with the dip pen. It's been quite a while. but I really dig this drawing.

 mock ups. I like the first one the most of the entire project. OH WELL.

Tour Zine/Poster

I really wanted to encorporate my the photos I've taken while on the road with The Diamond Center other than just the web for quite a while. I am  also really interested in magazine design and would absolutely love to be an art director one day. So I recently created a small 6 page zine, with no sort of binding necessary. You'll see why after a few pictures. I developed a typeface for the headlines, that looks like a lot of other typefaces, but who cares, this ones mine, and it will be downloadable soon as a working font! 

Behold: Numero Uno.

I wanted this to be a small behind the scenes look at us on the road, hanging out, etc. I found that a photograph has to be really good to work as a duotone image in cyan because of the extremely small value range of a picture when converted from black and white, to cyan and white. So, many pictures I had laid out could not make the cut.

 Not only just a zine, buuttt....

The zine unfolds and becomes an 11"x17" poster on the other side. I wanted it to look like a poncho, kind of.... I dunno.... Anyways....

I actually really enjoy the unfolded zine layout / back of the poster  the most. Cyan ink on Mohawk cream 20lb paper. Numero Dos and NumeroTres are on there way!

Will this be available to the public? Not sure. But hope you like!