#student work

“To the best of your ability what is or was the color of your mother’s eyes?” - An Eagan Family Portrait 💧

Featuring: Helena, unnamed mother, Jame (unfortunately) and Helly (as a doll)

Closeups of raggedy Helly, baby Helena and unnamed mother

Update: I’ve been informed I can be graded on this if I include an analysis so here it is:

🌌 Spirit Elemental Fae✨

“The spirit blessed themselves to a carefully chosen individual. They are a continuation of every Elemental’s blessing. They provide those that borrow its power with strength, guidance,and sight. They will also place thoughts of fear, existential crisis, and complicated experiences in one’s path.”

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THEN FALL, CAESAR

Done for SCAD DSGN 101.

old graduate work (lemáine origins)

Typography Tuesday

Every spring semester when I teach INFOST 603: History of Books & Printing in person (I teach it online in the fall), I have my students (mostly from Information Studies) set type and print a collaborative broadside. I set a theme (this year, "Springtime Milwaukee"), have each student send me a very short phrase related to that theme, and then I arrange the lines as an exquisite corpse poem.

This year, we met at Adam Beadel's Team Nerd Press/Grove Gallery, where each student set their individual line in various fonts of wood type. These were locked up on a poster press in the poetic arrangement, and everyone got to ink up the form in a kaleidoscope of colors and pull their own prints. After reading about the invention of type and the beginning of letterpress, the only way to fully understand the nature of that technology is to do it yourself!

Thanks to Melissa, our Special Collections Library Assistant (and student in the class), for taking the pictures.

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