Book Covers

These are just a few books with amazing covers I got last weekend. There was a used book sale and that was about the end of it.

Edgard Allen Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym

Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead

Ben Shahn's Graphic Art
(Particularly great. The book is gorgeous inside, too.)

Zadie Smith's White Teeth

Thursday Night Throwdown

This was done for the Barista Guild of America's (about) monthly latte art competition, entitled "Thursday Night Throwdown." This is my first poster I've done for them, and I hope to continue doing them. I was going for an old-school wrestling or boxing poster. A suggestion was made to add boxing gloves to the poster, which would have been a really cool element, but oh well, maybe next time.

Thursday Night Throwdown Competition Poster
Digital Print
8" x 10"

St. Lous Symphony Orchestra Mailer & Calendar

This is a project that I did for a Graphic Design class. Our assignment was to redesign the mailer/calendar that the Symphony mails out to get people interested in their new season. All we were given were the specs and a few requirements, everything else was open to our own design. A week before this project began, I went to an estate sale and found a myriad of old photographs in the basement. I bought all of them, imagining everything I could do with them. It happened to work out that we began this project the next week, and I decided to utilize the pictures. I found the German word for memories, Reminiszenz, and titled my mailer as such. I then found German composers to feature on the right side of each spread, and paired it with different images of women through various ages of their lives.
For the cover, I scattered a few of the other pictures on the floor and photographed them to resemble someone digging through their old photos in order to remember something. I hand drew all the titles and names and found two other fonts which were appropriate to my own design as well as to the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra aesthetic.

I am extremely happy with my final product. I put a lot of time and thought into it, and I hope it shows.

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Cover

SLSO interior spreads
In order: Pages 1, 2, and 3

SLSO Calendar of Events