tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45365717368799807452024-03-07T14:47:49.108-08:00BOOKS, EXHIBITIONS, DESIGNS, EPHEMERA, AND OTHER THINGSItems made by me, updated by whim.Jacob McMurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01772646137449365776noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536571736879980745.post-84170252461793209572009-10-16T12:36:00.000-07:002009-10-16T12:38:38.101-07:00New Website!Hey all, I've started putting up all my new work on my website at:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.jacobmcmurray.com">www.jacobmcmurray.com</a><br /><br />I may continue updating this blog, but time seems getting more and more compressed, so who knows!<br /><br />xox. -jacobJacob McMurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01772646137449365776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536571736879980745.post-56902877208928997282009-05-01T11:38:00.000-07:002009-05-01T11:44:46.709-07:00Poster: Clarion West (2009)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3uBE4DXpXvoPNTRnh2KwdP1avHAz1Qr_NvexxfoJHlYYnQQiIynXYklLxqA2XJcard2qWYNoffKyN_q1yLvtBpNHVT1cEz5G041rMrdgspYav2hMobPOWO5XPG2gnRXKecg9p04tZMcM/s1600-h/clarionwest2009-2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3uBE4DXpXvoPNTRnh2KwdP1avHAz1Qr_NvexxfoJHlYYnQQiIynXYklLxqA2XJcard2qWYNoffKyN_q1yLvtBpNHVT1cEz5G041rMrdgspYav2hMobPOWO5XPG2gnRXKecg9p04tZMcM/s400/clarionwest2009-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330926709614720466" border="0" /></a>3 color screenprint, 18x24, the skull and the "skull breath" are overprinted in a glow-in-the-dark ink. I assembled this together mostly from bits and pieces that I had gathered from the <span style="font-style: italic;">Stand on Zanzibar</span> project (that I posted about below) - I don't know if that's laziness or a cunning maximization of available assets - you decide. Anyway, I kind of love it.Jacob McMurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01772646137449365776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536571736879980745.post-80795603088863320722009-04-29T13:42:00.000-07:002009-04-29T13:47:38.418-07:00Poster: Tea Cozies (2009)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKUkTjc2FxCQTTgiilj8YgBV5FcGzWII2GBdEb3-GBOXS1glXNCkY_uB1RgiTnLtyErfsl4pIUjE_7Zzbf2j0-PflVBN17_uRg6ifgKQ6_TlaMJ3Y5ahqXq4Jrd_TzDJnkM_mr8tptUZk/s1600-h/POTW-570.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 259px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKUkTjc2FxCQTTgiilj8YgBV5FcGzWII2GBdEb3-GBOXS1glXNCkY_uB1RgiTnLtyErfsl4pIUjE_7Zzbf2j0-PflVBN17_uRg6ifgKQ6_TlaMJ3Y5ahqXq4Jrd_TzDJnkM_mr8tptUZk/s400/POTW-570.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330217684606496354" border="0" /></a><br />Here's a poster that I created for some friends of mine in the Tea Cozies. Created in about an hour, using imagery I already had on my computer and some quickly-drawn type. This style feels so remote to what I seem to be doing now that I don't really know what I think of the poster overall, but I guess other people liked it, because I was flipping through our local weekly <span style="font-style: italic;">The Stranger, </span><span>and it was selected for their <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/poster-of-the-week/Content?oid=1488035&ms">Poster of the Week!</a><br /><br />11x17 color xerox<br /></span>Jacob McMurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01772646137449365776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536571736879980745.post-24248263432241527012009-03-24T13:36:00.000-07:002009-03-25T11:34:55.204-07:00Book Illos: Stand on Zanzibar (2009)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRVD30Ys7lPvzf-oa0_DZJCHkZRSPxphtfgZ41qd6cRBrPX_E8Gh0EEIcEqmHs5tjcrJB-mOzFvI0Ff5q1gAf51MRmoyxsf09ZAXLKhT6rvHjaYKMAs9UDKy0NVsgzBWmDSlkFgHzdqJk/s1600-h/00+-+SoZcover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 280px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRVD30Ys7lPvzf-oa0_DZJCHkZRSPxphtfgZ41qd6cRBrPX_E8Gh0EEIcEqmHs5tjcrJB-mOzFvI0Ff5q1gAf51MRmoyxsf09ZAXLKhT6rvHjaYKMAs9UDKy0NVsgzBWmDSlkFgHzdqJk/s400/00+-+SoZcover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316858994624383826" border="0" /></a><br />I'm currently working with Centipede Press on their reissue of <span style="font-style: italic;">Stand on Zanzibar</span> by John Brunner, which has been a big project, but very fulfilling. I have a bit of work to go, but I wanted to share some of the comp "illustrations" that I've been doing for the project. They probably will be modified slightly here and there, but overall I'm feeling pretty good about them.<br /><br />Written in the late 1960s,<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>SoZ</span> is rife with themes of overpopulation, hypercapitalism, eugenics, and information overload - all stuff that is quite relevant today. The book was a groundbreaking work of science fiction when it was released, but visually I wanted to create a decidedly non-sf (or at least a non-traditional sf) look for the pieces, using a lot of photomontage and collage techniques, keeping in mind a mid-century feel. I found that a lot of the images were feeling quite techno-religious (is it just me?), which I think fits quite well.<br /><br />A lot of the textures were from scanned sections of b/w photography that had been printed in photography annuals. Because of the printing process, there's lots of nice, juicy halftone gradients to work with. Makes everything feel a bit gritty and moody, I think.<br /><br />Anyway, I'll post further designs and the final book when it is released.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZZkEVjOYp9lCMMvGUXGee9YbcfyhLvHvSP5yzODwnA1mFfFnZePFZrLJsA6EXkXYVA1yHQFPdSR6cZYafSRiHGCAtewJwHF59vhqga99o0BvTSmB1DI86oy03lzL67UsB4aJTWjPYw2w/s1600-h/01+-+Chad+Mulligan1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 249px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZZkEVjOYp9lCMMvGUXGee9YbcfyhLvHvSP5yzODwnA1mFfFnZePFZrLJsA6EXkXYVA1yHQFPdSR6cZYafSRiHGCAtewJwHF59vhqga99o0BvTSmB1DI86oy03lzL67UsB4aJTWjPYw2w/s400/01+-+Chad+Mulligan1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316858935191337266" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7z1BmY4H9G6mIqQdZI8ke4aTVDFzTASfeaEZ37TuxCO1qZGDapO9ZMW-Mja75QpDzfh-yK2oUMD9C3OHKQlJvY38Vc5eav_jb2f0I77nUUJq5UJ8fgkwP3PIr6lKmIfY4fEtX26akQbw/s1600-h/02+-+mr+and+mrs+everywhere.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 249px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZbdu5xbuD3dr3n97KV_oc6rrxLZ9h6RgZ6HuPnE1Mgixgsq8YuRwbANbatJ1La7HC009K12hYClwpu7HyHoBUIPJmOlVFZnOazbnZnjGZjbKc-QwRNAZEV0tehjDrG8sJreaoxTgiFW8/s400/10+-+Chad+Mulligan3+.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316858752350775330" border="0" /></a>Jacob McMurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01772646137449365776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536571736879980745.post-42305521905937707052009-01-02T14:42:00.000-08:002009-01-02T15:03:22.920-08:00Ephemera: Holiday Coaster / Drink Set (2008)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIddo4C9qBmLOfNNWUOC6YQUFb_LW2xj9OEYfI9-o-_7J9EtPY0Bqs9ZXpN9ork_rh1GPXpfkrlRS7eVpUFZ0zec_4pZ9IcczRoVznR798NsVyIvPRMdw-gbnntoAip7Aqog53yE0Qxfk/s1600-h/DSC00577.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIddo4C9qBmLOfNNWUOC6YQUFb_LW2xj9OEYfI9-o-_7J9EtPY0Bqs9ZXpN9ork_rh1GPXpfkrlRS7eVpUFZ0zec_4pZ9IcczRoVznR798NsVyIvPRMdw-gbnntoAip7Aqog53yE0Qxfk/s400/DSC00577.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286833112144279970" border="0" /></a><br />This holiday, my wife and I constructed coaster sets for presents.<br /><br />The coasters were cut out of old 78 rpm records that we had collected - we keep the one's we like to play on our hand-crank Brunswick record player, and the one's we don't (or the damaged records) get sacrificed to the <span style="font-style: italic;">greater good</span><span>. I use a 4" hole saw on my drill press and cut each of the labels out. With a little sanding on the edges, they make great coasters. Most of the labels are heat pressed onto the shellac/vinyl composition, so they weather quite well with normal use.<br /><br />We added a little booklet with seven drinks that we enjoy. The cover paper was something that my wife had collected a few years ago, and the interiors were printed on a color photocopier. Everything was hand trimmed (we only made 30 sets, so not so much work), the booklets were stapled in the spines, and the whole assemblage was tied together using candlewicking (purchased at a local craft store in rolls of 100 feet.<br /></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpuM8iftrihTz_1Cu-IU-EHQOTkmSVzjuaSOLoeJe_k6farMP2ecsYkWIauIQwN7IQeF-36DTgO4hl1BbClXEw8gJ8WqqVmMfmGMdVGJf-nDmGzUrjbAn-RcHpdNq_OElX11fKFCMqMSI/s1600-h/photo(2).jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpuM8iftrihTz_1Cu-IU-EHQOTkmSVzjuaSOLoeJe_k6farMP2ecsYkWIauIQwN7IQeF-36DTgO4hl1BbClXEw8gJ8WqqVmMfmGMdVGJf-nDmGzUrjbAn-RcHpdNq_OElX11fKFCMqMSI/s400/photo(2).jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286833123796219106" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidbp7M6opj-YASQIlaPu10-APIFgoFE3sNiERb3lezckyTnR7STvg7A_Z6PUAsMBjwPLO_fjcbrG3nrBFpqd3dtup-DhBtCKbkc0v0J21obuU0_MsKmHYsJMoK25NJBjJJ-u4ZXYz8qZk/s1600-h/photo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidbp7M6opj-YASQIlaPu10-APIFgoFE3sNiERb3lezckyTnR7STvg7A_Z6PUAsMBjwPLO_fjcbrG3nrBFpqd3dtup-DhBtCKbkc0v0J21obuU0_MsKmHYsJMoK25NJBjJJ-u4ZXYz8qZk/s400/photo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286833122836081618" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiorY018rYtvOtEstbftIT1jNrzpi8_8YC10jvc4RaIOK_A04FNL-AVX2ddTSldQqSXTCzo022olw2HPWaML3GRmvzt3l2hubfhcBKXHmcOE8C14ZH3_vEwUEWED9yGhY9Q1O6_gKUR9pc/s1600-h/DSC00579.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiorY018rYtvOtEstbftIT1jNrzpi8_8YC10jvc4RaIOK_A04FNL-AVX2ddTSldQqSXTCzo022olw2HPWaML3GRmvzt3l2hubfhcBKXHmcOE8C14ZH3_vEwUEWED9yGhY9Q1O6_gKUR9pc/s400/DSC00579.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286833119027723010" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Some of the page spreads:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhascBs8Zoqbs7ctRjThqlC0sHA8MV1ajIEDq7ogJWN6xsW3LUtLpkgah_KSR9UpBydrP4wqYJxycj7qLYI3zl8zWGaUJk80_RfAQfzMEMHZ5KfWh_QgAf6pdo_zAKNYMuQXry70Z_2pfM/s1600-h/mcguizzodrink5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhascBs8Zoqbs7ctRjThqlC0sHA8MV1ajIEDq7ogJWN6xsW3LUtLpkgah_KSR9UpBydrP4wqYJxycj7qLYI3zl8zWGaUJk80_RfAQfzMEMHZ5KfWh_QgAf6pdo_zAKNYMuQXry70Z_2pfM/s400/mcguizzodrink5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286835676361664706" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq9nWOaYBu1lNjGrV_vISR27NGWk7us21_wbKXVlxLiAekfDQZwHX3Dx3f7nUlUX_3tafElke_VQ5FLbF11HarBxRgSKZz52eaLT9e09yuhWs5luGdE41AGHAotZknLHhF_DWV6re5lkw/s1600-h/mcguizzodrink2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq9nWOaYBu1lNjGrV_vISR27NGWk7us21_wbKXVlxLiAekfDQZwHX3Dx3f7nUlUX_3tafElke_VQ5FLbF11HarBxRgSKZz52eaLT9e09yuhWs5luGdE41AGHAotZknLHhF_DWV6re5lkw/s400/mcguizzodrink2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286835673650800594" border="0" /></a>Jacob McMurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01772646137449365776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536571736879980745.post-91667519701425397112008-12-30T18:00:00.000-08:002008-12-30T21:33:29.370-08:00Book: Cosmocopia by DiFilippo/Woodring (2008)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj60YI3pjek7tWIEG44oLl88jutJw7kb96oiNcBc7eE6-cV4fN5Fl3oMxCr2beEuoALmVtVFF-RMVMpgUTchYmJ6kD0KRigsKEMwGDqZ1WPx4MhPdK8cWV2Bnps9dkL7vgQOOTw3yVsNgk/s1600-h/DSC00545.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285770373071806818" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj60YI3pjek7tWIEG44oLl88jutJw7kb96oiNcBc7eE6-cV4fN5Fl3oMxCr2beEuoALmVtVFF-RMVMpgUTchYmJ6kD0KRigsKEMwGDqZ1WPx4MhPdK8cWV2Bnps9dkL7vgQOOTw3yVsNgk/s400/DSC00545.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div>The small press that Therese Littleton and I run, Payseur & Schmidt, released <em>Cosmocopia, </em>a project by Paul DiFilippo and Jim Woodring. Basically, Paul has written a short novel that is an homage to Woodring, Richard Powers, Frank Frazetta, and David Lindsay, and Jim has created artwork to visually bring the novel alive. Jim came up with the idea to have a jigsaw puzzle, which fits perfectly in the Payseur & Schmidt aesthetic. I designed the book and the packaging and Lance and Beth at Thingmakers manufactured the whole thing. I have to say that I was pretty surprised at how awesome they looked when I first saw a finished copy. It's nice to work with quality content!!!</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>As with all the Payseur & Schmidt material, I try to hit that balance between something that looks polished and professional, and something that feels a bit DIY, hand-made and punk rock. The goal is to not worry about perfection, to take risks, to not worry about if something sells, and to just DO IT. Oh, and a recent goal for me is to try and make everything out of biodegradable materials, as much as possible. Ever since I read <em>The World Without Us</em> by Alan Weisman and learned about the floating mound of plastic the size of Texas in the north Pacific, I'm anti-plastic. </div><br />Buy a copy today at our <a href="http://www.payseurandschmidt.com/">Payseur & Schmidt</a> website!<br /><br /><div>What's in the set:</div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_WBugn03zpqPbt5TyazVvxUG8apLeMW_v3Em1F5j48KlbVV65Nu02jLv3WLfdqdz97gi5RMOnQr08742UeAF0G4f8pPJs-joo0ON-TNjJi1i_pA2ZF0pxc_vLE1JcK4EJrUX1D71SDGw/s1600-h/DSC00547.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285770845385593234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_WBugn03zpqPbt5TyazVvxUG8apLeMW_v3Em1F5j48KlbVV65Nu02jLv3WLfdqdz97gi5RMOnQr08742UeAF0G4f8pPJs-joo0ON-TNjJi1i_pA2ZF0pxc_vLE1JcK4EJrUX1D71SDGw/s400/DSC00547.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Sample spread (showing chapter heads that orient perpendicular to the rest of the text block):<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxR2-M76FSi50QVVc_Mr4qxXRFjbnAGmQf5Dydte8Zv8sc5gded26Mun-bzsUVpXfIcuB_Sn-HCS61TZYKOfymVKzqLzJ4IWjx2z5zYxx847ktG_G_V2gL-qsE0-f4wYZ1qiYwUrFnXio/s1600-h/DSC00548.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285770852501534690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxR2-M76FSi50QVVc_Mr4qxXRFjbnAGmQf5Dydte8Zv8sc5gded26Mun-bzsUVpXfIcuB_Sn-HCS61TZYKOfymVKzqLzJ4IWjx2z5zYxx847ktG_G_V2gL-qsE0-f4wYZ1qiYwUrFnXio/s400/DSC00548.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div>Gratuitous and unnecessary multi-page title (spreads shown): </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSCWEwtyWIxoX2OcFfmVaqe1Mdzvx1FWRMQ0S1XfGWbS7YddeaofrvJVA6jeOQ6r_J2lq_-0XXW7z0LbK5eSJfuy2UdjtGlGWvOQXifA42VpPRxwemKzG-HcQhAZs_rbfGpxv0kD1sBh0/s1600-h/cosmocopia-92.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285770860012101842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 132px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSCWEwtyWIxoX2OcFfmVaqe1Mdzvx1FWRMQ0S1XfGWbS7YddeaofrvJVA6jeOQ6r_J2lq_-0XXW7z0LbK5eSJfuy2UdjtGlGWvOQXifA42VpPRxwemKzG-HcQhAZs_rbfGpxv0kD1sBh0/s400/cosmocopia-92.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbeyfnIyDhvb0Evg2owjc9vOvyMdfRKZpvrZqNR89xoXuljmRRALj5Td7MCz2icJfdDuBfN7tHqiLdRpC4x1ERg9wk-4vyXkh3-qMBddnZpAhTtlGjducAISYbt6F3XBxw7rog64Dse1g/s1600-h/cosmocopia-93.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285770868469771058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 132px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbeyfnIyDhvb0Evg2owjc9vOvyMdfRKZpvrZqNR89xoXuljmRRALj5Td7MCz2icJfdDuBfN7tHqiLdRpC4x1ERg9wk-4vyXkh3-qMBddnZpAhTtlGjducAISYbt6F3XBxw7rog64Dse1g/s400/cosmocopia-93.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirnylXfUp6CaY6zuN0elqWzfVLlx6ELPKRbDgEYvUgJomzrgd_plmRfMmrB8IZeBlgZ4rUgVtS-WS3Zpggy4JRFlON6d-43p7pRF5AIMds0z0dkUOQI69_S5rPsrUsEjTxDvtfZd2zVYo/s1600-h/cosmocopia-94.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285770879005703506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 132px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirnylXfUp6CaY6zuN0elqWzfVLlx6ELPKRbDgEYvUgJomzrgd_plmRfMmrB8IZeBlgZ4rUgVtS-WS3Zpggy4JRFlON6d-43p7pRF5AIMds0z0dkUOQI69_S5rPsrUsEjTxDvtfZd2zVYo/s400/cosmocopia-94.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Bound-in bullshit postcard (I was hoping that it would be reminiscent of those postcards you'd see in a crappy old paperback. Text by Therese Littleton.)<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOi6YW25n9lmvU8FCotTzLV2zHD84Jlatu4qWhZw4wcKkMksoVxR2nMyVOgJocPuA3kd3T1PNfAgdkTX7ob9q0glH0V8KBp1kowreVrFJ76aZacC5Ld2WS_MxdSsNHWtgDlN0gjznXnA0/s1600-h/7_-_postcard-for-print-outlines.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285772112244770818" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 263px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOi6YW25n9lmvU8FCotTzLV2zHD84Jlatu4qWhZw4wcKkMksoVxR2nMyVOgJocPuA3kd3T1PNfAgdkTX7ob9q0glH0V8KBp1kowreVrFJ76aZacC5Ld2WS_MxdSsNHWtgDlN0gjznXnA0/s400/7_-_postcard-for-print-outlines.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div>Jacob McMurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01772646137449365776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536571736879980745.post-16878202171613674212008-12-29T17:07:00.000-08:002008-12-30T21:34:00.953-08:00Ephemera: Wedding Invites (2008)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibHo84gbi0qH7VwCcr5_ZItwabepYkMOjKbV6GeSiygIm4K3cambPlvJ6QwUKmZVpV5PdEmYn8mQQCbyrRqiPusAtfJDYZLB_yS-GlltLg_fGynpzjXnRhyphenhyphenBbDUo1s9amSiNuW69Xxvbk/s1600-h/DSC00541.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285386123065850162" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibHo84gbi0qH7VwCcr5_ZItwabepYkMOjKbV6GeSiygIm4K3cambPlvJ6QwUKmZVpV5PdEmYn8mQQCbyrRqiPusAtfJDYZLB_yS-GlltLg_fGynpzjXnRhyphenhyphenBbDUo1s9amSiNuW69Xxvbk/s400/DSC00541.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div>After a long pause, I'm finally adding more projects!</div><br /><div></div><div>This is a wedding invite set that I created. The clients wanted to create something that was inexpensive, had a hand-made feel, was reminiscent of Mexican loteria cards, but carried imagery that was important to them. </div><br /><div></div><div>We came up with some initial ideas together and then we went through a few comps to get it just right. The outer enclosure is screenprinted in 2 colors and then folded and "die-cut" by hand on the front panel (the panel with the bride and groom's initials), using an exacto knife and a paper punch.</div><br /><div></div><div>The interior cards contained wedding information on the reverse sides and simple imagery on the fronts. These were printed on a color photocopier using a nice paper that was laser printer friendly. By doing something as simple as using a nice paper, it's pretty easy to fool people into thinking that you used a much more expensive printing method than was actually used. </div><div></div><br /><div>All in all, I think these turned out pretty nice, and offered something unique for a special day. A little hand-made action goes a long way. </div><br /><div></div><div></div><div>The invite enclosure, and cards for directions, info, and an rsvp postcard:<br /></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4jG3nFqgEDYiH5NeW0K5Q_fs47urLO_sCiezSs7eHgflxXtf-JQj8JGAGjBlPMgURzI_JKPPmU1SZXN4-nXaydlaOSCws0YyrHjoUt70dGSOE2dwVowV_F340bHnWI2WQeEuTCLfzc0M/s1600-h/DSC00543.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285386449007015234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4jG3nFqgEDYiH5NeW0K5Q_fs47urLO_sCiezSs7eHgflxXtf-JQj8JGAGjBlPMgURzI_JKPPmU1SZXN4-nXaydlaOSCws0YyrHjoUt70dGSOE2dwVowV_F340bHnWI2WQeEuTCLfzc0M/s400/DSC00543.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The back of the invite enclosure:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOek-B0GQP5tweC6mpbKULxJo8EN72bgjh473tMQJEmC6A1l9qyHZbGVYLbhS-rbVmGO-RiRbSSGkKnxnf7KREBuoPCTZOcu95aG42Zd-oBxQqXIXy0PBi7kXmZJiJMGrJJYqRUEBOFFU/s1600-h/DSC00544.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285386457302128194" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOek-B0GQP5tweC6mpbKULxJo8EN72bgjh473tMQJEmC6A1l9qyHZbGVYLbhS-rbVmGO-RiRbSSGkKnxnf7KREBuoPCTZOcu95aG42Zd-oBxQqXIXy0PBi7kXmZJiJMGrJJYqRUEBOFFU/s400/DSC00544.JPG" border="0" /></a>Jacob McMurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01772646137449365776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536571736879980745.post-638534216115736362008-05-01T00:14:00.000-07:002008-05-12T23:06:00.685-07:00Poster: Clarion West (2008)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwahgjjl8Ck8hi_FVJZKiz8xvyN-1xF-oMiKSM0orGxdWgUqVczGbXz_zpkzSJvGoapT2OwoOPMsYhoFG14uNIQX_ya1Mi5NJ6B9-ahE5YLcUY1UM6LjanBWPAAwgmEGKvohA-0-q5w4k/s1600-h/clarion2008-2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195308207839362018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwahgjjl8Ck8hi_FVJZKiz8xvyN-1xF-oMiKSM0orGxdWgUqVczGbXz_zpkzSJvGoapT2OwoOPMsYhoFG14uNIQX_ya1Mi5NJ6B9-ahE5YLcUY1UM6LjanBWPAAwgmEGKvohA-0-q5w4k/s400/clarion2008-2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>This is the 5th year in a row that the <a href="http://www.clarionwest.org/">Clarion West Writer's Workshop</a> has asked me to design a poster for their advertising. It's a yearly project that I look forward to and I happily donate my design time, because they are really great at giving me a lot of creative freedom (and pay for the printing of a cool screenprint too!)</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>It's also a big challenge because the poster is used for advertising and there's a <em>lot </em>of information to get across. <a href="http://www.johndberry.com">John Berry</a> has been their art director for the past couple years and is an excellent typographer, so I get a bunch of type mentoring too, which is always nice. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>This poster is the second idea that I came up with. The initial idea I actually created a rough comp for, but I decided that that design would probably work better (with evolution) as a book cover, rather than a poster, so I'm saving it for later. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>The design that I ended up creating I really like a lot. I created it at night during a business trip to Denver, and I had no access to a scanner, so all of the imagery that is collaged into the poster I already had on my harddrive -- the elements I've either used before in other compositions or they were images that I had scanned in for other projects but never ended up using. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>I like that it doesn't overtly scream "science fiction and fantasy". Well, maybe the skeleton dude does, but maybe not. I really enjoy the shape of the black arabic letterform bits and the overall colors. I'd like to have a small amount printed on a natural stock, which I think will work with those colors well. The colors remind me of 1950s gravure printing, which had such mellow, non-super-saturated colors. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>18" x 24", 3-color screenprint.</div>Jacob McMurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01772646137449365776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536571736879980745.post-82093768992776294792008-04-30T23:00:00.000-07:002008-12-30T21:38:57.588-08:00Unclassifiable: Pacifico Van design (2008)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjqgs3pdgKVB50HFkNwgfui5DGN_JRNQS5c7uI6zUt6eymzHnYDMX284A5rSOoAWjG7WiBAmJG98ytBQ4Ac7GDpCTaDKXejfeqVrIwITvCTzGoOKMI3DW5PKe2b64z-XbrQLhbwUIDipk/s1600-h/pacificodesignv2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195291027970178002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjqgs3pdgKVB50HFkNwgfui5DGN_JRNQS5c7uI6zUt6eymzHnYDMX284A5rSOoAWjG7WiBAmJG98ytBQ4Ac7GDpCTaDKXejfeqVrIwITvCTzGoOKMI3DW5PKe2b64z-XbrQLhbwUIDipk/s400/pacificodesignv2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />One of the coolest jobs that I've done this year is a van design for Pacifico Beer. The campaign is really cool. 18 different artists were picked and each given a theme that relates to the story/idea/feel of Pacifico Beer. Each artist was then given free reign to create a design/illustration that would then be actually hand-painted onto a mid-1960s Volkswagen van. A lot of the surfers in the 1960s and 1970s painted their VW vans and this is picking up on that. The vans are then driven all around the US, spreading the gospel of Pacifico.<br /><br />For a big corporation, I think this campaign is really edgy and cool. The artists involved all were top notch and I felt really honored and really nervous to be in the final group (I will happily say that I thought I was the least talented of the bunch).<br /><br />My theme was the Pescadores (the fishermen). The pescadores are in many ways the wisemen of the fishing villages, and there are a set of tall tales, myths, and traditions that are orally passed down by them, like how the rattlesnake got its rattle, and the legend of the octopus (and how it likes to steal beer - especially Pacifico, of course).<br /><br />I came up with the idea of having the color gradation on the top and bottom halves -- I was thinking of how with many printing techniques, you can have a 'split fountain' effect, which means that two or more different colors of ink are allowed to mix together on the print surface, creating this gradation effect (this originated with letterpress, I believe, where ink for large jobs was held in a "fountain" device which sat above your ink plate or roller surface and fed a steady, measured amount of ink. Different colors of ink could be compartmentalized in the fountain, only to mix when they hit the printing rollers.) Anyway...<br /><br />If your familiar with any of my work, you know already that I'm pretty enamored with ornamentation and squigglies and both are used prominently here. The squiggly fishing line really conveyed to me the idea of the motion and active skill of the pescadores. And it looked cool.<br /><br />Apparently the van is being painted right now or is already done. I'm super excited to see what it ends up looking like. I'm especially excited that it's going to be hand-painted and not just wrapped in a digital print, like you see all the time now. I'm really interested in the process of how the painter and their technique and skill will modify my original design, making it a hybrid of my art and theirs. I'll post a pic of the van when I get one.<br /><br />I'd love to do this type of project again.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>Here's some images of the finished van:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz9IfI_4Vj7-ZN8eb8SwDAYkLpRcz-OvTSaVX5tNJP0f0uAKl8rQboatylptKDz3Eu-ByTXaNo946XvB_0ku0B9m4ApHocJGYcuHxnvJdR9bP26vgPIeatPySoNRmspGHZoAkjSlefirw/s1600-h/2572091974_71661c0cf4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285824353722114018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz9IfI_4Vj7-ZN8eb8SwDAYkLpRcz-OvTSaVX5tNJP0f0uAKl8rQboatylptKDz3Eu-ByTXaNo946XvB_0ku0B9m4ApHocJGYcuHxnvJdR9bP26vgPIeatPySoNRmspGHZoAkjSlefirw/s400/2572091974_71661c0cf4.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipFQd9IiiWOtWSGkuKCF4mcW7mC3Hq2-lSD9h6T5OJorAVQKzF9c2KZ-1OHdwjyREhrEV5vcPWmKHpF3HKYIkjRKg1jz92zQ7tvf4Ny4w1SLbQ3wOoiaAwc-KO_kgA0P-FTfikCQRwZlc/s1600-h/2572091966_399c2e012a.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285824346820958642" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipFQd9IiiWOtWSGkuKCF4mcW7mC3Hq2-lSD9h6T5OJorAVQKzF9c2KZ-1OHdwjyREhrEV5vcPWmKHpF3HKYIkjRKg1jz92zQ7tvf4Ny4w1SLbQ3wOoiaAwc-KO_kgA0P-FTfikCQRwZlc/s400/2572091966_399c2e012a.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhf9MxX9Lu6vlPfiACYc1mYvrZ-w4uJvYey3a0Qp0796k8nAfSMktDciB05S-VQ2Y1CdDG8hfw1-iy6URRtuZVaqXh7wrbR0jY0K3GmSZ0aTi2Ti9BNE7w_nVOSz-SW_TBBs2FGytPqGU/s1600-h/2571262413_057483e89c.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285824339244104322" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhf9MxX9Lu6vlPfiACYc1mYvrZ-w4uJvYey3a0Qp0796k8nAfSMktDciB05S-VQ2Y1CdDG8hfw1-iy6URRtuZVaqXh7wrbR0jY0K3GmSZ0aTi2Ti9BNE7w_nVOSz-SW_TBBs2FGytPqGU/s400/2571262413_057483e89c.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGCW82yGeKP6FGqS85ZKJzQTFuO7WX8LvJeMk16HYvZxcmaRQFCrapFf3-f057TUXR93nSVsE79w8g4pTryIDQ54NR6yeiNcykZVNWkibEPdc1EOqSdc8ejojH2sM7ftsv5xhf3b-X-lI/s1600-h/2571262409_b752aec072_o.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285824338268237042" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGCW82yGeKP6FGqS85ZKJzQTFuO7WX8LvJeMk16HYvZxcmaRQFCrapFf3-f057TUXR93nSVsE79w8g4pTryIDQ54NR6yeiNcykZVNWkibEPdc1EOqSdc8ejojH2sM7ftsv5xhf3b-X-lI/s400/2571262409_b752aec072_o.png" border="0" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLFGhii5Hu9ikcQFz3GwyXSYHUOLIhqRkhagIUhnQg1IOLJahOVwnPHuBWxlkmW2-WaLDVNRMhOHtY4Ejb0lOLoFm_wLwDAeTDjo2MdMVk1fDAiVAQMJe6q5rz8IQLRfNl1sw9OmaY47o/s1600-h/2571262405_878d780eb9.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285824335424160434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLFGhii5Hu9ikcQFz3GwyXSYHUOLIhqRkhagIUhnQg1IOLJahOVwnPHuBWxlkmW2-WaLDVNRMhOHtY4Ejb0lOLoFm_wLwDAeTDjo2MdMVk1fDAiVAQMJe6q5rz8IQLRfNl1sw9OmaY47o/s400/2571262405_878d780eb9.jpg" border="0" /></a> </p>Jacob McMurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01772646137449365776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536571736879980745.post-33193434487176700472008-04-12T22:42:00.000-07:002008-04-12T22:57:42.862-07:00Poster: Art of Modern Rock (2006)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeQURCQ2EMYQnMdkUsHQtr3Isar99x7jBS9CkkcnUgvPqHCO3ynTatjFgZrf7GiL-uH4AMSJqcw6r1ulz1_qfb4yjTB3jSLSN9XDacp7Wd_xdDzx5cchnmkzzf6jTGTPtHemqGFCYkdUA/s1600-h/AoMR-posterv6.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5188601939699351042" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeQURCQ2EMYQnMdkUsHQtr3Isar99x7jBS9CkkcnUgvPqHCO3ynTatjFgZrf7GiL-uH4AMSJqcw6r1ulz1_qfb4yjTB3jSLSN9XDacp7Wd_xdDzx5cchnmkzzf6jTGTPtHemqGFCYkdUA/s400/AoMR-posterv6.jpg" border="0" /></a> This was a poster created for the opening of the exhibition <em>Art of Modern Rock: The Poster Explosion</em> at Experience Music Project in 2006. This was an exhibition that I curated with Dennis King, Gabe Kean, and Jacob Covey which originally debuted at Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival in late August 2005. The exhibition was based on a book of the same name edited by Dennis King and Paul Grushkin. More on the exhibition later. The poster was designed by myself, using as the central image the exhibition logo that was created by Jacob Covey (an excellent designer, who just happens to be the art director at Fantagraphics.)<br /><br />The idea for the poster (and the logo, really) was to try and create some sort of pleasing abstract collage using imagery and striking colors that seems\ to be common in rock posters. The arrows and cloud of the logo combine with the skulls, birds, women, dots and doodles of the background to hopefully form a poster that is evocative of rock posters, without being a cliche. I kind of like it.<br /><div></div>Jacob McMurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01772646137449365776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536571736879980745.post-91738709828796489062008-04-10T23:38:00.000-07:002008-04-10T23:53:32.094-07:00Book Covers: Lost Books Resurrected (2006)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoRWNy2sh2kV6PNMS4TXCiq9dSuECBNuyqCFfwfjX9qHcUReUIteGtSFU9rEdFwWibUvyjmz5gdQw4zZGT1bzkCIUYKjcCpVQcbM8YHkzTk-s8YUziulY-tupgh3PusAU3fwL1bzJNnos/s1600-h/magpies.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoRWNy2sh2kV6PNMS4TXCiq9dSuECBNuyqCFfwfjX9qHcUReUIteGtSFU9rEdFwWibUvyjmz5gdQw4zZGT1bzkCIUYKjcCpVQcbM8YHkzTk-s8YUziulY-tupgh3PusAU3fwL1bzJNnos/s400/magpies.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187874583370600146" /></a><br /><br />In early 2006, I think, Jeff VanderMeer was working on an <a href="http://www.sfsite.com/04a/lb221.htm">article for SFsite</a> about the lost or forgotten books by various well-known and respected authors. The trick was that the books were all made-up. He asked me if I'd design some covers for these bullshit books. It sounded like something right up my alley, so I agreed. Jeff supplied the authors and titles and I was free to do whatever I wanted.<br /><br />Since it was just for fun and there wasn't any money exchanging hands, I decided that I'd try and spend under 30 minutes on each one and just try and make something cool in that amount of time. It actually worked pretty well. Some are stinkers, like The Original Laura and Dictionary of the Khazars: Hermaphrodite Edition, but the others I kind of like. The Messiah is kind of cheating, since it's basically a poster that I did for an improv show and just repurposed. In any case, it was a fun project, that made me think more about not worrying so much about details and trusting in the "happy accident."<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYBGYwlcObRKYLtYE3Lb_XN2noR23qAmYZvnQupCNyu11P58STHnnt5XYKgGvyargG36YMIWdTyli4kLwMIJ7iXErgD5Mz1TNr0T3tT1SwsKr-n0uqnDA9C8aoy3OZ4AZwd039dNnZK6c/s1600-h/saras-pony.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYBGYwlcObRKYLtYE3Lb_XN2noR23qAmYZvnQupCNyu11P58STHnnt5XYKgGvyargG36YMIWdTyli4kLwMIJ7iXErgD5Mz1TNr0T3tT1SwsKr-n0uqnDA9C8aoy3OZ4AZwd039dNnZK6c/s400/saras-pony.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187874768054193906" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_l-dUJRG8AIhxRmnmC3McncDrVi1tBCsOvbyWoU2q3ayr8y59pype4jDz3G3yNwmEpLMlqLw334nX0BlUKKXEw7Dq3gG8udG4YV0tR6XYjRsNlmFzyp6nVdThyphenhyphenUKBKUOai8pvaf5SHC0/s1600-h/violencetakerai.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_l-dUJRG8AIhxRmnmC3McncDrVi1tBCsOvbyWoU2q3ayr8y59pype4jDz3G3yNwmEpLMlqLw334nX0BlUKKXEw7Dq3gG8udG4YV0tR6XYjRsNlmFzyp6nVdThyphenhyphenUKBKUOai8pvaf5SHC0/s400/violencetakerai.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187874772349161218" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbcIgzHOF4hPIvwP9JkL2b6hL3-jLEwoC65O0furdoAcE3vioXidfDGFnJLBTOV2JBW1VnYSPoqFx2D8GolC_H7BQaJZxtolNV07zRpDVJ6k1wDERuclwqP22eprEOtccGYcKIDShncW8/s1600-h/khazars.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbcIgzHOF4hPIvwP9JkL2b6hL3-jLEwoC65O0furdoAcE3vioXidfDGFnJLBTOV2JBW1VnYSPoqFx2D8GolC_H7BQaJZxtolNV07zRpDVJ6k1wDERuclwqP22eprEOtccGYcKIDShncW8/s400/khazars.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187874574780665506" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidu28uyf-lHy7F-n4YT0B0E5tkLyrwGCtiSTt85_5gEXxG2yyv-ExqJxTYkhUsZpHljYVTzw_XFZEnKuq5JZApao8zcGPrw2DMW8P9hriM34aRr_42Bo-Y7X0AkYAmnMKTqGFHxSMUC9Y/s1600-h/knife.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidu28uyf-lHy7F-n4YT0B0E5tkLyrwGCtiSTt85_5gEXxG2yyv-ExqJxTYkhUsZpHljYVTzw_XFZEnKuq5JZApao8zcGPrw2DMW8P9hriM34aRr_42Bo-Y7X0AkYAmnMKTqGFHxSMUC9Y/s400/knife.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187874579075632818" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_81nkhYZL_Bj0p53YjMjLM_SWSQ3MRtZPqjIomwOZyB24xK1zCO7oAV4g5JByChA7s-odmwG_L5n4UNMMUS95zGbdG9VvwAx6qAMJZ0Gm3N1_GI5EhbkYlaxElDZznihSNzhLH_Y4qrA/s1600-h/laura.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_81nkhYZL_Bj0p53YjMjLM_SWSQ3MRtZPqjIomwOZyB24xK1zCO7oAV4g5JByChA7s-odmwG_L5n4UNMMUS95zGbdG9VvwAx6qAMJZ0Gm3N1_GI5EhbkYlaxElDZznihSNzhLH_Y4qrA/s400/laura.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187874579075632834" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivo5Crjlq1OwUphigKemIXNRywgSevrmVPJa7jpP3NOMicmPhL7rZvzr3ZXqD5cN9ORJyicMV55BHOsP_O3gK5-NcxaK5qyKyWdOKGHUv6uAh5SED-Hp_50xpgYuEE0dUe0SHg4ZUgS-E/s1600-h/messiah.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivo5Crjlq1OwUphigKemIXNRywgSevrmVPJa7jpP3NOMicmPhL7rZvzr3ZXqD5cN9ORJyicMV55BHOsP_O3gK5-NcxaK5qyKyWdOKGHUv6uAh5SED-Hp_50xpgYuEE0dUe0SHg4ZUgS-E/s400/messiah.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187874587665567458" /></a>Jacob McMurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01772646137449365776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536571736879980745.post-78539864742468437922008-03-16T21:05:00.001-07:002008-03-16T21:15:37.224-07:00Poster: Zidane (2008)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIdh_-KtbO1HLmBNRArKQ12r-QAPB60Wo61Lli0Bh8dGBopyXYqSMtTPalaPN7S-41BZVKQPDSybUuHNuDBXBMP308uf0mM_N2mUAUM1I46EFajIutWjeXnvfOT1hML-RP1inE2d5aaJE/s1600-h/zidane2-final.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178557155826637154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIdh_-KtbO1HLmBNRArKQ12r-QAPB60Wo61Lli0Bh8dGBopyXYqSMtTPalaPN7S-41BZVKQPDSybUuHNuDBXBMP308uf0mM_N2mUAUM1I46EFajIutWjeXnvfOT1hML-RP1inE2d5aaJE/s400/zidane2-final.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I recently designed a poster for the <a href="http://www.nwfilmforum.org/">Northwest Film Forum</a> for their screening of <em>Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait</em>. They already has a poster that was being used for advertising, but one of the board members had pushed forward the idea of creating a commemorative screen printed poster to sell at the showings.<br /><br />I donated my design time and we kept the designs to 2 colors to save on cost. I first created the design below, which I thought would look pretty cool. The idea was that the black layer would actually go down first and the dark grey layer would be a thinned-out white ink screen printed on top of the black, creating the ghostly grey. It didn't resonate with the client, so I created the design at top, which they did like. I'm pretty happy with both. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbLVhqAmvsutbHzo5BPgDsIioNo9hT-Z2cghq62yEbQPvgbstEUzvA0pA6VcSA5S_D0zkmcG9a1IrzqdynEoyEm0BZiWk3De8JyO4OIeGWyX55ThDgNvKjaxqjvixE5sJzYLglJyvIPVU/s1600-h/zidane-black.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178557160121604466" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbLVhqAmvsutbHzo5BPgDsIioNo9hT-Z2cghq62yEbQPvgbstEUzvA0pA6VcSA5S_D0zkmcG9a1IrzqdynEoyEm0BZiWk3De8JyO4OIeGWyX55ThDgNvKjaxqjvixE5sJzYLglJyvIPVU/s400/zidane-black.jpg" border="0" /></a>Jacob McMurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01772646137449365776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536571736879980745.post-65824387638401798402008-01-21T00:02:00.000-08:002008-01-21T00:09:12.287-08:00VERA t-shirt (2007)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzw5KRWl5L97o17ZUtfm2sfdOMOzrhMNvDP8brMDxy-YXFiUKuDw0jAy268RHc0KrvI-5dzr7fdLvM53lcgDq65zXhOUGMn4Y7ikwN6V0s4aJhWoTUaRzcPP7PZqs-LZqek5Bkpv8-mME/s1600-h/vera-design.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzw5KRWl5L97o17ZUtfm2sfdOMOzrhMNvDP8brMDxy-YXFiUKuDw0jAy268RHc0KrvI-5dzr7fdLvM53lcgDq65zXhOUGMn4Y7ikwN6V0s4aJhWoTUaRzcPP7PZqs-LZqek5Bkpv8-mME/s400/vera-design.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157837508775117794" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.theveraproject.org/">The Vera Project</a> is a great resource for kids who are into music and art in Seattle. It's an all-ages venue, but also has a recording studio and a screen printing studio. Every year they have a screen printing fundraiser, where 20 or so designers submit one-color VERA logo designs. Then you go to the event, buy a t-shirt, pick your design, and screen it yourself. This is what I submitted this year.Jacob McMurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01772646137449365776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536571736879980745.post-49910913791988640662008-01-19T15:55:00.000-08:002009-01-02T14:32:16.711-08:00Book Cover: The Devil Gets His Due by Leslie Fiedler (2007)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTRaWLp6glVdKCqq2Od8aEb8zG7q7ywTKHdPxoLJmN1M8luS0xHx37kIssOyRhjmm7yjnv_W7WeAT7dkmDRtLEmzXV2awe28onl_n59GAUDir2__-42lhmF5L8PpMW4qGf6GyxL3EQJ9w/s1600-h/fiedler-cover-FINAL-sm.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTRaWLp6glVdKCqq2Od8aEb8zG7q7ywTKHdPxoLJmN1M8luS0xHx37kIssOyRhjmm7yjnv_W7WeAT7dkmDRtLEmzXV2awe28onl_n59GAUDir2__-42lhmF5L8PpMW4qGf6GyxL3EQJ9w/s400/fiedler-cover-FINAL-sm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157801942150939602" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>I just finished this cover design for <em>The Devil Gets His Due</em> by Leslie Fiedler. It comes out on <a href="http://www.counterpointpress.com/">Counterpoint Press</a> at some point in 2008.</div><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVjM_brC_xd0qeex29QmwOESEYmudDHZmDQmiw7MQX4ncFFJ_tTnd8cILZFdxXkzQXJsRaGjgxMgrN544G8oqV20Cq9b8ZDEfK8CuVza_DYNNHJbS8p9biqWiM84sMl71lAhRjAYrERj0/s1600-h/fiedlercover2b.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157341066390274930" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVjM_brC_xd0qeex29QmwOESEYmudDHZmDQmiw7MQX4ncFFJ_tTnd8cILZFdxXkzQXJsRaGjgxMgrN544G8oqV20Cq9b8ZDEfK8CuVza_DYNNHJbS8p9biqWiM84sMl71lAhRjAYrERj0/s400/fiedlercover2b.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>I've been noticing lately that, whereas in the past I would naturally design as if I were designing for screen printing, regardless of whether it would be screen printed, now I seem to be breaking out of that a little bit and getting very inspired by texture and transparency. I guess it's still "screen print think", since you can achieve colors shifts with overlapping, but instead of having everything be completely opaque, I'm liking this new subtlety of overlapping semi-transparent objects.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>In any case, I'm pretty happy with this design.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDIFk7F8VeKqdYojHf1oFA6V0TPFJq6Ti1e00NARZiLu7GSrx4JOABqGSQWbvIMkmS2e2gcaFp7PDDb_Esr3qm95MRW-kt29V_6Oj3_LDaWqtpKLCYU_EjZiLQ-3H_GNer7eIPMVS1ihc/s1600-h/DSC00558.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDIFk7F8VeKqdYojHf1oFA6V0TPFJq6Ti1e00NARZiLu7GSrx4JOABqGSQWbvIMkmS2e2gcaFp7PDDb_Esr3qm95MRW-kt29V_6Oj3_LDaWqtpKLCYU_EjZiLQ-3H_GNer7eIPMVS1ihc/s400/DSC00558.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286827528292662978" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgopVQY4IwWVpIAzCAhAUcc6tTQq3HbrNn-On0lKq3pRMwDXNYNxTvNSeRLOaOuxnVZIQZ3pM7T0AFmWIMv7GSWSXkSDCTgHXA58CjeTV8UChHAeux_C6ngQ9b3aDDnh_0gH0q_aM0xWtE/s1600-h/DSC00557.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgopVQY4IwWVpIAzCAhAUcc6tTQq3HbrNn-On0lKq3pRMwDXNYNxTvNSeRLOaOuxnVZIQZ3pM7T0AFmWIMv7GSWSXkSDCTgHXA58CjeTV8UChHAeux_C6ngQ9b3aDDnh_0gH0q_aM0xWtE/s400/DSC00557.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286827518453810722" border="0" /></a><br /></div>Jacob McMurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01772646137449365776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536571736879980745.post-89639647313385677162008-01-19T15:36:00.000-08:002008-01-19T15:52:50.622-08:00Exhibition Catalog: American Sabor (2007)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjksVMfcPWpHhHB3DhVMMAWw4vnFrx9iysi01_46CueLNmutnV1rO1Z12gUQFp5XJ7DQoNf1wgIugK87sKFSDGku9U46EYhVAqN7SeRbyiQb1aapBxcBD0OkeylYWaAgbxMBlIbpfH9n0A/s1600-h/DSC00335.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157337149380100914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjksVMfcPWpHhHB3DhVMMAWw4vnFrx9iysi01_46CueLNmutnV1rO1Z12gUQFp5XJ7DQoNf1wgIugK87sKFSDGku9U46EYhVAqN7SeRbyiQb1aapBxcBD0OkeylYWaAgbxMBlIbpfH9n0A/s400/DSC00335.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Experience Music Project opened a new exhibition called <a href="http://www.empsfm.org/exhibitions/index.asp?articleID=910"><em>American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music</em></a><em> </em>on October 13, 2007. It was curated by Jasen Emmons and the exhibition was designed by Ken Burns. I was fortunate enough to be able to design the catalog. It is 40-odd pages, saddlestitched, with deep "french flaps" on the front and back covers. It was a challenge to design because all of the text was bilingual, English and Spanish. The english text of course came rather late, and the translations later, so there were lots of last minute layout freakouts. There were many artifacts pictured in the catalog and in order to promote the idea that these aren't just images, but archival, physical artifacts, I clipped out each image and did a slight drop shadow on the images. All in all, I think it turned out beautifully.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilK4hfHLJWGYc58nXBSceisBBSagLFhai_N9ClYM2yH9BzV7-XeDinS77spkQ-EQlWyoeb71Nhyp5otd56ne3BTlVwJJgf8sAB20Wr9vUrpvayN6dl2ztOPoHEeg5V_aNfYOYNztNdBio/s1600-h/DSC00336.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157337170854937410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilK4hfHLJWGYc58nXBSceisBBSagLFhai_N9ClYM2yH9BzV7-XeDinS77spkQ-EQlWyoeb71Nhyp5otd56ne3BTlVwJJgf8sAB20Wr9vUrpvayN6dl2ztOPoHEeg5V_aNfYOYNztNdBio/s400/DSC00336.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmmvy0NtZINH42Rwvkh4PlYkDlm34yIKTDu1M1_C4Mcb7hP94kcsQDe3DCmf7uDyimHIzWRGbVFPARSuu_noI7M0AXPIduNaBD5WojyUZkOAp2yAYmSRn0e48M2MItpkfyTVSQ0JoaXxY/s1600-h/DSC00337.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157337183739839314" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmmvy0NtZINH42Rwvkh4PlYkDlm34yIKTDu1M1_C4Mcb7hP94kcsQDe3DCmf7uDyimHIzWRGbVFPARSuu_noI7M0AXPIduNaBD5WojyUZkOAp2yAYmSRn0e48M2MItpkfyTVSQ0JoaXxY/s400/DSC00337.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiibCl8VY14CY8ZwX4zv8hOIrvMY3k4fQDcs15AoWOA-OAcJqrD_l5EDZXpYScewKPRJwAHgHR0irLSMQ8yivTALZu0KeoqBTRrbm44k9QNG48_ExqCDSvT2_bTTHyXxF8zNCq-xkCNkCk/s1600-h/DSC00338.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157337192329773922" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiibCl8VY14CY8ZwX4zv8hOIrvMY3k4fQDcs15AoWOA-OAcJqrD_l5EDZXpYScewKPRJwAHgHR0irLSMQ8yivTALZu0KeoqBTRrbm44k9QNG48_ExqCDSvT2_bTTHyXxF8zNCq-xkCNkCk/s400/DSC00338.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div>Jacob McMurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01772646137449365776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536571736879980745.post-80870714368327460492008-01-19T15:27:00.000-08:002008-01-19T15:36:16.520-08:00Ephemera: McGuizzo Dry Chimichurri Rub (2007)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwt8GhqC2p9LSN3rYc8JBj5xxxGHPmnph1lIL0iCnrT_lBv_Lo3wF1N11rjeszfC5PJBTbLhEr_3RiZ6ThtzcOnHdfmcTe1p_I3tVfZH4tnshRqXdixAaUJLwpnD7gYiF4vKGEQk5jXU4/s1600-h/DSC00331.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157333992579138338" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwt8GhqC2p9LSN3rYc8JBj5xxxGHPmnph1lIL0iCnrT_lBv_Lo3wF1N11rjeszfC5PJBTbLhEr_3RiZ6ThtzcOnHdfmcTe1p_I3tVfZH4tnshRqXdixAaUJLwpnD7gYiF4vKGEQk5jXU4/s400/DSC00331.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Every holiday, my wife and I try and plan some sort of handmade item that we can give out to friends and family. In past years it has been home-brewed beer with custom designed labels. This year it is the McGuizzo Dry Chimichurri Rub. I like projects like this because they are easy to do, make you feel good because you're exercising your DIY muscles, and they look fabulous. The rub recipe is from the McGuizzo Family Archives, circa 1957. Spices were bought in bulk at PCC, the steel tins were purchased at Storables, and the label was designed by myself, printed out on my printer, and hand trimmed with an Xacto knife. The labels were then adhered with a combination of Elmer's glue and gluestick. Instant cool present. And it makes meat taste good as well. </div>Jacob McMurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01772646137449365776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536571736879980745.post-9559715317101702792007-12-05T20:51:00.000-08:002007-12-05T22:10:26.961-08:00Exhibition: The Seattle-Havana Poster Show (2007)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguCuRhArnJbWYSTFGu-K8KQU77zVbZ2WpP5cdMQuvhMW3i7-iaUNwaoIb00aNnQf2As_bZf-14iaOAFrbShUX1oecH7i47cWVbiKVuqyUFoII5z4jbcjt_NgIxQlX3x2O5TJHuyx9OZtI/s1600-h/1388801138_a295e7412d_b.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140718904508903298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguCuRhArnJbWYSTFGu-K8KQU77zVbZ2WpP5cdMQuvhMW3i7-iaUNwaoIb00aNnQf2As_bZf-14iaOAFrbShUX1oecH7i47cWVbiKVuqyUFoII5z4jbcjt_NgIxQlX3x2O5TJHuyx9OZtI/s400/1388801138_a295e7412d_b.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><em>The Seattle-Havana Poster Show </em>is an exhibition of contemporary screen printed posters from, uh, Seattle and Havana that debuted at the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle in 2007. The show was organized by myself and Seattle-based graphic designer (and Creative Manager at Starbucks) Daniel Smith, along with two curators based in Havana: Pedro Contreras Suárez of El Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales and Pepe Menéndez, Design Director of Casa de las Américas. The show is currently gearing up to travel to Havana, Cuba, where it will be on display at El Centro de Dessarollo de las Artes Visuales from April 17 - May 17, 2008. More information on the show itself (besides this post) can be found at the exhibition <a href="http://www.seattlehavana.com/index.html">website.</a><br /><br />The show concept was initiated by Dan Smith, who had travelled a few times to Cuba for pleasure and as part of a graphic design conference. During his time there, he met with several graphic designers and the seed idea for the show was germinated.<br /><br />Dan contacted me because I had curated several shows on music posters (<a href="http://jacobmcmurray.blogspot.com/2007/01/exhibition-paper-scissors-rock-2003.html">Paper Scissors ROCK: 25 Years of NW Punk Poster Design</a> (2003) and the Art of Modern Rock (2005/6)) and I just happen to co-own a screenprinting shop. In any case, I was to be the Seattle guy and Dan was to be the Cuban guy, and Pedro and Pepe were to be our Cuban experts (and future lead curators when this travels to Havana in 2008).<br /><br />There was no particular reason to feature these two cities except for the fact that both of them have vibrant screen printed poster scenes, although seemingly for very different reasons. In Seattle, screen printing is not an inexpensive process (xeroxed flyers are much more economical) and the posters are often created not really to advertise an event (almost always a music concert) but more as commodities that are sold to fans of the bands that have played at the show. This is obvious, at least to me, in the way that typography is often dealt with in Seattle posters -- since they aren't usually used to advertise, there is no need for all of the relevant text (bands/dates/venue/price) to be prominent and large, as they would be with posters with a primary purpose to advertise. Seattle posters, for the most part, serve as fairly free-form creative canvases for the designer.<br /><br />In Havana, screen printing is one of the most affordable methods of printing. Strangely enough, the Cuban government largely doesn't allow the posters to be posted in the city, so most of the screen prints in Havana are seen only at the event they would have advertised. Many of these posters are created for cultural events -- not music as much as film series, exhibitions, etc.<br /><br />Dan and I decided that our approach would be to meld the two cities visually. We found visual similarities between individual Seattle and Havana posters, and displayed them together, always in a Seattle poster/Havana poster pair. We also had four focus areas, where we featured individual artists in either city, that we thought deserved a closer look.<br /><br />One aspect that we planned from the beginning was large-scale maps of each city, indicating prominent artists' studios with associated artist bios, venues, and other serigraphic hotspots. These maps would be projected onto a wall with an overhead projector (and standard McMurray exhibition trick), traced, and painted. Any text or precision elements would be added in vinyl.<br /><br />At first we envisioned literal maps, but we soon realized that they would most likely be unrecognizeable to most people (not to mention really difficult to execute with the time and people available), so we decided on thematic maps. So, the United States became a cow, and Cuba a swordfish. Below is a horrible photo of me (white shirt) in front of a half-finished U.S. map with artist <a href="http://hairparty.livejournal.com/">Devon Varmega</a> in the foreground.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD91odqtRaqh6uPF4wXGhxIs3Js3qoAx2MZFyGknOl0tmtc2CFUoQ3c7dZ7xyROx5nYeTgI7eG8CIBXvqsyxIEORaEsfxiWWdngGUoitUq4ioOU25YQJX8iCSMA09hdIHdry0YJ-FeEek/s1600-h/1387875677_abbe5e083b_b.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140719557343932418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD91odqtRaqh6uPF4wXGhxIs3Js3qoAx2MZFyGknOl0tmtc2CFUoQ3c7dZ7xyROx5nYeTgI7eG8CIBXvqsyxIEORaEsfxiWWdngGUoitUq4ioOU25YQJX8iCSMA09hdIHdry0YJ-FeEek/s400/1387875677_abbe5e083b_b.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />We also wanted to have a projected slideshow where we could feature Dan's copious photos of Havana and photos of artists and studios in Seattle.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5SqF0HCsoqes1l0tkNslWh-0GHLEuIp3ldls9zUU6Ht5yO9hjkwc9d56xCL7jmsyRfv9Ii2n44SLkn3hVPkw9-7qivL1bspzwQl_Bpx4k-8re6qoZ7ansXOGaIswTHIggRlLdIYfmpAA/s1600-h/1388816244_b3369516c9_b.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140719535869095890" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5SqF0HCsoqes1l0tkNslWh-0GHLEuIp3ldls9zUU6Ht5yO9hjkwc9d56xCL7jmsyRfv9Ii2n44SLkn3hVPkw9-7qivL1bspzwQl_Bpx4k-8re6qoZ7ansXOGaIswTHIggRlLdIYfmpAA/s400/1388816244_b3369516c9_b.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Below is the United States map, indicating Seattle at the rump. Devon Varmega's posters on the right.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwDNedC1R0198abcE3KFWtKvxo1zsybW9AkxIxHc7PkoPdqlwuWaW28tpIQAcUkbOppNcTJ560BZL8OASegMRYSiZgyJXO87siWdhx0UlSBKRUmoUTSPWWyX40PKGq4oXa-8xLV0YI0Ns/s1600-h/1387888503_01ad42a8d1_b.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140719540164063202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwDNedC1R0198abcE3KFWtKvxo1zsybW9AkxIxHc7PkoPdqlwuWaW28tpIQAcUkbOppNcTJ560BZL8OASegMRYSiZgyJXO87siWdhx0UlSBKRUmoUTSPWWyX40PKGq4oXa-8xLV0YI0Ns/s400/1387888503_01ad42a8d1_b.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />The Cuban map (apparently inspiring amorous feelings in the audience):<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja0FY3OB46ODALvA8wfTgGxtZS9NYdmTK2H1f81kwCuFoRgGhi_L0I_NYQbpxxpAnqwhna9gU2Lkci_YnidABNHyqNVniksQs08q4XHTfQRwYX1cMkmaUTsSUC3_Q3gFDz9UYScI_K9Uo/s1600-h/1388826578_62313b960b_b.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140719548753997810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja0FY3OB46ODALvA8wfTgGxtZS9NYdmTK2H1f81kwCuFoRgGhi_L0I_NYQbpxxpAnqwhna9gU2Lkci_YnidABNHyqNVniksQs08q4XHTfQRwYX1cMkmaUTsSUC3_Q3gFDz9UYScI_K9Uo/s400/1388826578_62313b960b_b.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />One wall of the gallery featuring the poster pairs<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdC0UhniruwNHeq-MyVMqqJGpySg9CLbohE0GZflm8dO9naec_wHoE7i8X9r3E25wiBLSAHD37_rg4ne2CA-vvxL-khSqPm_DG5XKBzvSB9z-k9j4pW05SBc_RkQLg8E1xVJvGvlDtdzg/s1600-h/1388799712_d320d4ca5a_b.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140718913098837906" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdC0UhniruwNHeq-MyVMqqJGpySg9CLbohE0GZflm8dO9naec_wHoE7i8X9r3E25wiBLSAHD37_rg4ne2CA-vvxL-khSqPm_DG5XKBzvSB9z-k9j4pW05SBc_RkQLg8E1xVJvGvlDtdzg/s400/1388799712_d320d4ca5a_b.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />In order to show how screen printing works, we featured two sets of progressive proofs, which show the poster as each color layer is printed. This shows how designers use color order, trapping, and ovelapping colors to create their designs. The poster featured below is the exhibition poster, created by a design collective in Havana called Grupo Camaleon.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9fYUgGh5gqvXhhbygmPsFesliF7yYGNbp49J66Nn2PZy_CMmw2zi3uwa-NyN1SCauF9YuJTZEmGppFCX-WLWLBGfPsewwfK_q3uM8JGf8lbBgNTk185BIb4sSN_tOL-rngChE-ll2W0E/s1600-h/1388817176_038b668c0b_b.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140718917393805218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9fYUgGh5gqvXhhbygmPsFesliF7yYGNbp49J66Nn2PZy_CMmw2zi3uwa-NyN1SCauF9YuJTZEmGppFCX-WLWLBGfPsewwfK_q3uM8JGf8lbBgNTk185BIb4sSN_tOL-rngChE-ll2W0E/s400/1388817176_038b668c0b_b.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />An artist focus section (below) featuring famed Pacific NW designer Art Chantry. The King of Hawaii pumpkin poster is actually printed onto a copper foil sheet!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGgbNPLhEsqXorBuAS-sIS6Xq6zyrVkyULxpsmYa59k586F0gUnZv45zqPdxNEGbY3ChFMn1gQbcbe6LjTxdpFKVC_GQxc7BLCs6J-0zauGMmIgnKqyQ-bVvc8_jMWuxOQIZ4_5LI0it0/s1600-h/1388792884_8860d70389_b.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140718921688772530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGgbNPLhEsqXorBuAS-sIS6Xq6zyrVkyULxpsmYa59k586F0gUnZv45zqPdxNEGbY3ChFMn1gQbcbe6LjTxdpFKVC_GQxc7BLCs6J-0zauGMmIgnKqyQ-bVvc8_jMWuxOQIZ4_5LI0it0/s400/1388792884_8860d70389_b.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Designer <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.33rpmdesign.com">Andrio Abero</a> standing in front of his Death Cab for Cutie poster.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.33rpmdesign.com"><br /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTyEeBFqkDJClhW5sgqSYm1kWPfQF0zkl-NWHU1Gl3AVNUPwU89c1BLN5JEZI0OeDeKHCLRU0ncuTU-RuSBX2cEjSKBEm9WJL7ekHe_cQn7xtG32DHnoocKTF-G7H3lo6bQZtPVKCaF9A/s1600-h/1387937143_537b881c65_b.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140718934573674434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTyEeBFqkDJClhW5sgqSYm1kWPfQF0zkl-NWHU1Gl3AVNUPwU89c1BLN5JEZI0OeDeKHCLRU0ncuTU-RuSBX2cEjSKBEm9WJL7ekHe_cQn7xtG32DHnoocKTF-G7H3lo6bQZtPVKCaF9A/s400/1387937143_537b881c65_b.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The exhibition was only ran for less than a week -- the length of the Bumbershoot Festival. Portions of the exhibition were then shown at three branches of the <a href="http://veritecoffee.com/">Cafe Verite</a> coffeeshops in Seattle (Verite is one of the exhibition sponsors). As I said above, the exhibition is going to travel to Cuba in March of 2008. Dan and I are planning to create a catalog featuring all of the designers' work to further the cultural exchange.<br /><br />The framing devices I made out of plexiglas and a compressed plastic sheeting called sintra. I created them for a previous exhibition (The Art of Modern Rock) and reused them for this show. The plex and sintra were cut to size on a table saw, paired together and drilled with spaced holes. Once the posters were installed in the frames (the were held in position along the bottom edge of the posters by transparent photo corners) the frames were screwed directly into the walls. There were spacers behind the frames so that they stood out from the wall just so. The screws meant that install took a while, but it also was instant security. You'd have to tear down the walls to steal a poster.<br /><br />Maybe I'll see you in Havana in April!Jacob McMurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01772646137449365776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536571736879980745.post-13950729960875117232007-12-03T21:54:00.000-08:002009-01-02T14:34:12.651-08:00Book Cover: Voyage of the Proteus by Thomas M. Disch (2007)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXMCnbxGMXtY7AF-G1ZXPSQZNB_YxYHDnr9DATj6pKIZakLMGbEy6zzV4FIe1ttcB16YnIZLQWNK0rp_T-iRGqhBpbozjDYwFZ-w6bLqTQ19haauUd5S2y29-7dNMGdDf9acLQ5M53EvA/s1600-h/6-subterranean-disch9.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140009938552319858" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXMCnbxGMXtY7AF-G1ZXPSQZNB_YxYHDnr9DATj6pKIZakLMGbEy6zzV4FIe1ttcB16YnIZLQWNK0rp_T-iRGqhBpbozjDYwFZ-w6bLqTQ19haauUd5S2y29-7dNMGdDf9acLQ5M53EvA/s400/6-subterranean-disch9.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Bill Schafer at <a href="http://www.subterraneanpress.com/">Subterranean Press</a> asked me recently if I'd like to do a cover design for a new Thomas Disch novella, titled <em>The Voyage of the Proteus: An Eyewitness Account of the End of the World </em>(preorder it <a href="http://www.subterraneanpress.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=disch&Category_Code=PRE&Product_Count=5">here</a>). I've always loved Disch -- I kind of consider him the Frank Zappa of genre lit, in that he seems to delight in surprising and shocking anyone and everyone. I think it's a fascinating quality. In any case, after working with Tom on Payseur & Schmidt's first hit, the <em><a href="http://www.payseurandschmidt.com/mecca.shtml">Mecca/Mettle</a></em> project, how could I say no to another round?<br /><br />I had a slight problem, however, in that I got the following from Bill:<br /><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">It would be of a single mast Greek ship, coming toward the viewer, with the sail full and puffed forward. The perspective would be from slightly above. You might be able to see the oars on either side of the ship though this isn't strictly necessary. There could be people on the deck or not. Your call. In the background, at sea, on the horizon, would be the mushroom cloud from an atomic blast.</span></em><br /><br />Very specific idea, which is fantastic for me, because there's nothing worse than vague directions in this field, but the problem was that I can't illustrate my way out of a box. If you've looked at any of my design work before, it's pretty apparent, I think, that I'm halfway decent at collage, but an illustrator, I am not.<br /><br />So, I decided that it would be really cool to collaborate on this project with my friend <a href="http://www.shawnwolfe.com/">Shawn Wolfe</a>, who is an excellent illustrator. Shawn was in to the idea, and Bill was cool with it, so we began.<br /><br />Unlike the <em>Mecca/Mettle</em> book (which I just realized I haven't posted about, so I'll have to), where illustrator Tim Kirk supplied a finished drawing and then I unilaterally designed the cover, I felt that this project worked out as a true collaboration between Shawn and myself.<br /><br />We have completely different visual styles and methods of working, so we thought it might be good for Shawn to begin with a draft illo, since we had such specific direction, and then I would add some of my ideas and repeat until we were both satisfied.<br /><br />Here's Shawn's initial rough illo:<br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5139999579091201810" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuMaCXmZM_LzMzGOtz8QmDmbpdG2LJf1Tr7ZS7zHc2XVOfvMxB5FrxDilH3gK2VSScdxmig4eEoR9Yg32cu4ZUpbYMq4mLgzjZYP5vtumkWyEMrfLyJIskzJS4hDyMnImgyd7GQeUhwb4/s400/1-Proteus-cover1-sketch.jpg" border="0" /><br />The boat was spot on, but we decided to trim down the nukes to just one, in case there was any back cover text (we didn't have any of that at the time). Shawn revised and came back with this below:<br /><br /><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140000403724922658" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijDPt5wb4u63gonq9AVUzDkl0cxCsccPMco9NUY9JShQsJOHr_tvedo9vYUfLEBsmgtvcx5P-gqcRqkbUISVPhH5UqVD-3X5LhPH5EnJ_SMqkjbH73ToEzA2cjXVCySK1UmUgnXvP57iU/s400/2-Proteus-cover2-sketch.jpg" border="0" /> </p><br /><p>I liked the bright colors of the trireme and thought it might be cool to have the nuke image almost seem screenprinted in a milky transparent white on some degraded paper. This also made it feel that there was some negative space where I could design something complementary. I roughed in the type alone, but it felt a little too bare. The weird squiggly bits I actually saw on the <a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/">Bibliodyssey</a> blog. They were these really interesting 19th century Art Nouveau ornaments. The images on Bibliodyssey were hi-res enough that I could play with them in Photoshop and then use Live Trace in Illustrator to turn them into smooth vector paths. </p><p>I've been getting away from my former method of designing everything as if it was going to be screen printed, and incorporating more textures and transparency into the design. It was kind of freeing to start thinking, "oh yeah, this is being printed 4-color. I can do all these things."<br /></p><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140000674307862322" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinpKSvbcvvRsbR4MadchV_LkFg-UddFrg8ouLRfDSerkfFBAO1oWag8DzaVDo7wIi-rIrHqd9Y7o13WEZhvHUCubIXrP9JsBvww1Q27rBZPS_eAdRbX51ugQuKbDdbzeesZMo5yzvqxog/s400/3-disch-cover-comp.jpg" border="0" /></p><p>Shawn kept refining the nuke illustration and the ship, and we played around for a while with the idea of making the cover seem really distressed and adding a Greek trireme stamp that Shawn found (and was the color scheme inspiration), but we eventually abandoned this, since it seemed like too much going on.</p><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140000678602829634" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDyTzuvt_839Dz9gGSifzbSzHiFX0Im4y18UjgKgMs0NoQAZFdqmUoreR9RWfpBxtvkqIcNtn-4xApv2nplvDcdxfCCpdaHhafYdopafryn4_jXanf6ic0EK7wPcoWXKdPKqQNdhTpK4g/s400/4-disch-cover-comp3.jpg" border="0" /></p><br /><p></p>Here's what the final cover worked out to be <em><span style="font-size:85%;">(below).</span></em> It doesn't seem like a huge amount of difference from beginning to end, but Shawn and I went back and forth six or seven times, minutely tweaking bits here and there. Bill and Tom loved the cover, which was cool. I'll post the finished product when I get one in my hands in early 2008.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXMCnbxGMXtY7AF-G1ZXPSQZNB_YxYHDnr9DATj6pKIZakLMGbEy6zzV4FIe1ttcB16YnIZLQWNK0rp_T-iRGqhBpbozjDYwFZ-w6bLqTQ19haauUd5S2y29-7dNMGdDf9acLQ5M53EvA/s1600-h/6-subterranean-disch9.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140009938552319858" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXMCnbxGMXtY7AF-G1ZXPSQZNB_YxYHDnr9DATj6pKIZakLMGbEy6zzV4FIe1ttcB16YnIZLQWNK0rp_T-iRGqhBpbozjDYwFZ-w6bLqTQ19haauUd5S2y29-7dNMGdDf9acLQ5M53EvA/s400/6-subterranean-disch9.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1V3itvIcngHb-sfhGpqpq3rJZfW2px2NeHm4OOfcTIN1m5iq82BB3njYBkqKZjvV9ZsbVRMxPm79qBqJrzI0-NMt2z0UpiPH3wdNPD7-osx_k-2uud9LmR3TOIwlw2a8-sQxcSkToNbc/s1600-h/DSC00556.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1V3itvIcngHb-sfhGpqpq3rJZfW2px2NeHm4OOfcTIN1m5iq82BB3njYBkqKZjvV9ZsbVRMxPm79qBqJrzI0-NMt2z0UpiPH3wdNPD7-osx_k-2uud9LmR3TOIwlw2a8-sQxcSkToNbc/s400/DSC00556.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286828282259821842" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp1o3ZUhCjgHh_WhOZ3T74YDOquZQW9hQGeVjpF4oPa4SXD2qi0_FLr-PDA-D62dmz-fRI2uaiWx-lPJr8lTIsl-Am0cBd0t6p9Xi7u0H4Ao2dzAhH-JZaG-NGszr3jzcw3x5x5GVX1Ko/s1600-h/DSC00554.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp1o3ZUhCjgHh_WhOZ3T74YDOquZQW9hQGeVjpF4oPa4SXD2qi0_FLr-PDA-D62dmz-fRI2uaiWx-lPJr8lTIsl-Am0cBd0t6p9Xi7u0H4Ao2dzAhH-JZaG-NGszr3jzcw3x5x5GVX1Ko/s400/DSC00554.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286828275961412674" border="0" /></a>Jacob McMurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01772646137449365776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536571736879980745.post-90364465921938938762007-12-03T21:47:00.000-08:002007-12-03T21:49:31.956-08:00Farouche Assemblage UpdateI posted some finished photos and commentary <a href="http://jacobmcmurray.blogspot.com/2007/03/blog-post.html">here</a> on my design for "The Farouche Assemblage" chapbook.Jacob McMurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01772646137449365776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536571736879980745.post-77372779013677768802007-09-04T02:03:00.000-07:002007-09-04T02:22:00.595-07:00Book: ANWAGTHAP by Nicola Griffith (2007)<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106275592972493586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiloN56zXIsyXA59laqrQkdXBnQzXXzs6I5slbV3PFwy-3UAir77hev02nGyBfVcR3_sO55k0DqN8LpLmbMF414yaFPi9397KXoKCJvxBkeHrtYMflhlbHR79P-vq0S_r_iEBRNBXbxZ_8/s400/anwagthap.jpg" border="0" /><a href="http://www.nicolagriffith.com/">Nicola Griffith</a> was cool enough to want to publish her amazing memoir with <a href="http://www.payseurandschmidt.com/">Payseur and Schmidt</a>. Since she was entrusting us with something near and dear to her heart, we felt like we should reciprocate by creating a whole box of memories, instead of a typical memoir in book form. For And Now We Are Going To Have A Party: Liner Notes to a Writer's Early Life, I designed the following: a CD of Nicola's songs from her early 1980s punk/new wave band Janes Plane (and more), three scratch-and-sniff cards detailing scents particular to specific wheres and whens in Nicola's life, a letterpressed preface card by Dorothy Allison, a fold-out poster of a collage Nicola made in her early years in Catholic school, a signing sheet masquerading as a baby photo, a fascimile of the first book that she ever created, and five volumes of her memoir -- all housed in die-cut box and secured by a printed "obi" band.<br /><br />Design-wise, I ended up creating a very minimal design for the project, since I had little time to create this gem, and I really wanted Nicola's imagery to show through. This was the first project that was printed entirely by my friends Lance and Beth at <a href="http://www.thingmakers.net/">Thingmakers</a> in Tacoma. I'm pretty proud of the whole project and it definitely has been well-received - now I just need more people to purchase this gem, so we can make our money back!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.payseurandschmidt.com/party.shtml">Order here!<br /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtSc-hcnfHq-reFl6NdqhbNQa8eebOUGqzsoqGO8zMmHwD8Du0HA8D5UnAlCTxdtBt3mY2lWwzrWou4pbFF-hUP4jnYpFkExbDuHn9hZQ1sDCDp1zHk9WzaccR-vSK0g_PSa_14pzd85Y/s1600-h/DSC00112.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106275842080596770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtSc-hcnfHq-reFl6NdqhbNQa8eebOUGqzsoqGO8zMmHwD8Du0HA8D5UnAlCTxdtBt3mY2lWwzrWou4pbFF-hUP4jnYpFkExbDuHn9hZQ1sDCDp1zHk9WzaccR-vSK0g_PSa_14pzd85Y/s400/DSC00112.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div>Jacob McMurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01772646137449365776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536571736879980745.post-27296424961455155832007-08-10T01:56:00.001-07:002007-09-02T17:00:46.721-07:00Book cover: Under My Roof by Nick Mamatas (2007)Update: the final cover for <em>Under My Roof </em>by Nick Mamatas, for Soft Skull Press:<br /><br /><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105760248436580994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibD6Y7l931Cqi7ZEgvyacIYC__Bo1nEPxopHDEt-ALH5Q0E2AS0yKqth024uaabTu7KjLr0iBC85_t45Xn6M6aBWq2SLEM6O5FPbqzP68gMuotLbYg9gT43_J6-PqKpizl-i7JOIkd4FQ/s400/undermyroof2.jpg" border="0" /></p><p>I think it turned out rather well. I changed the original gnome image (thanks to Mike Monteleone for the photograph) to a more capricious and semi-smiley gnome (complete with thumbs-up), and completed the spine and back covers.</p><p>---<br /></p><br />Here's a comp I just turned in for a reprint of Nick Mamatas' great short novel Under My Roof. I was a big fan of his previous novel Move Under Ground and so when Soft Skull Press asked me to create the cover, how could I say no?<br />I'll post more on this when I finish the spine/back/etc. I'm sure it will look different by then!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG4QSesS0gMWMC_gSiuTk2U_z2HufD7T_wNAUbIOdrjUwXv8A1rB3AyaGzZuYL1VI1cj0l1yIQFGiSxQn4qK1ireGi2MxSUoGt4E9ezLwaHfd0p1tWb7D6wIgN-qz5-0epyz5uqmGna60/s1600-h/undermyroof1x.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5096993657889541074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG4QSesS0gMWMC_gSiuTk2U_z2HufD7T_wNAUbIOdrjUwXv8A1rB3AyaGzZuYL1VI1cj0l1yIQFGiSxQn4qK1ireGi2MxSUoGt4E9ezLwaHfd0p1tWb7D6wIgN-qz5-0epyz5uqmGna60/s400/undermyroof1x.jpg" border="0" /></a>Jacob McMurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01772646137449365776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536571736879980745.post-86091664158949169632007-05-31T21:37:00.000-07:002007-05-31T21:42:48.842-07:00Poster: Night of Improv (2004)This is a pretty old poster for me, but I think it still holds up pretty well. I was really trying at this point to find ways to make digital type not so clean looking. I didn't have an analog xerox machine, which is what I would have liked (and still should get, if I had the space), so I couldn't use that tried and true method of "shitting" out type, so, at least for this, I ended up setting blocks of type and then tracing over the letterforms with a sharpie, and then re-scanning those in for placement. It looks appropriately crappy and comforting.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHejF7e4MP3CkZiJ2aYX00TuooiwOagQA24ftCxLnlykbXLUDbW6vRH3eC0szS5gRZdc6VRWW16gQLIy-OZAM_tEyn58IM6fz_7XSCncep_XFRgpdoTs8lH6uss3I9RNBEEi7bpI0iWVw/s1600-h/30864.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070950630986303490" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHejF7e4MP3CkZiJ2aYX00TuooiwOagQA24ftCxLnlykbXLUDbW6vRH3eC0szS5gRZdc6VRWW16gQLIy-OZAM_tEyn58IM6fz_7XSCncep_XFRgpdoTs8lH6uss3I9RNBEEi7bpI0iWVw/s400/30864.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnMS8f6ZtEk_DO9WbmpqiU1E7vhov4sgCc2qbSDkjXTCmyDT1LE93nTDdf-n5vsEbqrliJIdwATe0duyaz9jvUvnjMbFT4DxVE8sCwE9LmGKXxps7O9X-Balobxs4_9oibScXXCqHxafY/s1600-h/50964.jpg"></a><br /><br /><div></div></div>Jacob McMurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01772646137449365776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536571736879980745.post-39550547342975071632007-05-31T10:17:00.000-07:002007-05-31T10:35:08.338-07:00Postcard: Payseur & Schmidt (2007)<div>Here's a simple piece of silly ephemera that I generated for <a href="http://www.payseurandschmidt.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Payseur</span> & Schmidt</a>. It's kind of a worthless advertising piece, but it cracks me up, so I went with it. The front is basically stolen from a late 19<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">th</span> century trade card advertising a hat company. I just replaced the type with what I wanted. The back Riot Act image is from this cool Encyclopedia of Ephemera book (by Maurice <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Rickards</span>) that I've had for a couple years. I didn't realize that reading the Riot Act was an actual practice starting in 1714 to disperse mobs of rioters. The Act needed to be read to the letter and then the mob had 1 hour to disperse, or face life imprisonment. The Act also absolved the police force for any injuries or deaths that happened during this period (after the hour had ended.) Fun times!</div><div> </div><br /><div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070779596798642130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Lv7BV1dsad57UaybtKkmAHKo2Sar7XiocE82R0xzrKxFUN0_l4HKqiKHFkXFa2jzjolEQvUIMicHgrUsEtZSHHSrpRK5shMqHHRLQ32NYlMiIIVA8wO71FJrotDSNo1cTL2zDtXs4IA/s400/pnspostcard-front.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070779613978511330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU_4j2cohGRvqCE6bo4uTuIvfw08g51cvlLGPX0doT6wssGug_jaOtxN73fM3N-Lleih4DL0eo9I4wG7zyLnezSu61dp0jDC8J8AkFbhS-tvz81_n1M0lrYlMn8EnWDgASndzh5OWXgXc/s400/pnspostcard-back.jpg" border="0" /></div>Jacob McMurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01772646137449365776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536571736879980745.post-89963905950413920852007-05-30T00:55:00.000-07:002007-09-03T03:08:56.453-07:00Book Cover: The Best of Lady Churchill's (2007)Update: here's the actual published version of the book, front and back. You can get it via <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Best-Lady-Churchills-Rosebud-Wristlet/dp/0345499131/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-9499846-6726354?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188813122&sr=8-1">Amazon.</a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigO6LPLVVqEy8SXgohMI5hS2pfjwAlSATNGoapJ9tsAWIb8p_AHZ5BAAgqzMjjs36bGz7QBE5eQSpTlwCs2ZechVQhZgCU_oVvgLpUNzJarFH2m9wKpg_JfjkN7XW_rOXFyGk5A1eXC8w/s1600-h/DSC00116-2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105917474304385714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigO6LPLVVqEy8SXgohMI5hS2pfjwAlSATNGoapJ9tsAWIb8p_AHZ5BAAgqzMjjs36bGz7QBE5eQSpTlwCs2ZechVQhZgCU_oVvgLpUNzJarFH2m9wKpg_JfjkN7XW_rOXFyGk5A1eXC8w/s400/DSC00116-2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuJruf4lgSg0Mu1GQj4oppz0fVYFtY7Zkirk1iMvi1FOAZdZ4z1j5jqWKvja-cAOHzuWIja-54HZhDoazdorkZNFyyZFJ5RtN3d_E6iXoWbi4a9Nej5E5Ydfs3TvPHNcKX7zQCKcqKAtU/s1600-h/DSC00120-2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105917478599353026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuJruf4lgSg0Mu1GQj4oppz0fVYFtY7Zkirk1iMvi1FOAZdZ4z1j5jqWKvja-cAOHzuWIja-54HZhDoazdorkZNFyyZFJ5RtN3d_E6iXoWbi4a9Nej5E5Ydfs3TvPHNcKX7zQCKcqKAtU/s400/DSC00120-2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><div>---</div><div></div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim8lovcullwADJnpSahV6YGH6Kuuy_dlXfW6SNEPlx7pphoiCnNS7YNWQQC5TWkzHLitFHs6eBy5pGQb4XvcYGnoJbKxYa5m7mJ5gcr5I3dD-NDZR_2BeBBgSMTpzmJAnwSwU12VPkyS8/s1600-h/lCRW7E-full.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070263165869697074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim8lovcullwADJnpSahV6YGH6Kuuy_dlXfW6SNEPlx7pphoiCnNS7YNWQQC5TWkzHLitFHs6eBy5pGQb4XvcYGnoJbKxYa5m7mJ5gcr5I3dD-NDZR_2BeBBgSMTpzmJAnwSwU12VPkyS8/s400/lCRW7E-full.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>Another job I recently finished was for Del Rey for <em>The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet</em>, which if you don't know already, you really should. It's the fabulous semi-regular zine published by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant, and if you don't know them, you should as well. Go to their awesome venture <a href="http://www.lcrw.net/">Small Beer Press</a> and check it out.<br /><br />Anyway, I had designed Elizabeth Hand's <em>Generation Loss</em> cover (see somewhere below in this blog) for them and that worked out nicely, so they had recommended me to Del Rey for this job. I came up with three completely different comps which were thrown around for a while. The final cover contained parts of one of the comps but really went in a different direction altogether. It was a nice project.<br /><br />At top is basically the final cover (some quotes, logos, and other adjustments will be made by Del Rey/Random House)<br /><br />This (below) was my favorite comp of the bunch, though I can see how they wanted something a little different. The great thing about rejected comps is that you can use them for other projects. This comp became the 2007 Clarion West poster (see below in the blog to check this out).<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy6MOWwZgPeqmHGcVNd7ib0iKfMAYhNsJ9aF4Tb4MqdtWO96DaguLRcOvjxHVuR733yeAsjpGCMNhDBp3hvJlgz9zIQ5PDy-hc3MTUF8qyhpxEqmWM3dFYzKuq6oNPle8-qn3eMK2-0Qc/s1600-h/lCRW10d.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070260202342262770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy6MOWwZgPeqmHGcVNd7ib0iKfMAYhNsJ9aF4Tb4MqdtWO96DaguLRcOvjxHVuR733yeAsjpGCMNhDBp3hvJlgz9zIQ5PDy-hc3MTUF8qyhpxEqmWM3dFYzKuq6oNPle8-qn3eMK2-0Qc/s400/lCRW10d.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8IzRPO52Cqnww314lpBtpud2GvFUOU-HiFMfWzSvrGQtUOzi6pxBT1jiZU_8w49v5xbMcIjkA1kCTtMH6KiPq_5KhnTsQAqRgBfC9dn6e8vQdaB2QT8vczBy9sc0tcpRigePifOWdqa4/s1600-h/lCRW6h.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070260202342262786" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8IzRPO52Cqnww314lpBtpud2GvFUOU-HiFMfWzSvrGQtUOzi6pxBT1jiZU_8w49v5xbMcIjkA1kCTtMH6KiPq_5KhnTsQAqRgBfC9dn6e8vQdaB2QT8vczBy9sc0tcpRigePifOWdqa4/s400/lCRW6h.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinCt2A4zyzHYni0fgVAj2mMnVB8A7KPjly1ee_ghojtG4PulhjfR-nInSkMPZRwrlqdoJz_sgXCCbnDCPcX_Ahog791fYstBoJ7K_NLYJq0foMmSDSaVBmafxjIAyy5gWOTLsTif5AfLM/s1600-h/lCRW7c.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070260206637230098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinCt2A4zyzHYni0fgVAj2mMnVB8A7KPjly1ee_ghojtG4PulhjfR-nInSkMPZRwrlqdoJz_sgXCCbnDCPcX_Ahog791fYstBoJ7K_NLYJq0foMmSDSaVBmafxjIAyy5gWOTLsTif5AfLM/s400/lCRW7c.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div></div></div>Jacob McMurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01772646137449365776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4536571736879980745.post-87664791395472608682007-05-27T01:06:00.000-07:002007-05-27T01:11:50.484-07:00Poster: Jonathan Safran Foer (2005)This was a quick poster for a co-worker that was promoting the event.<br /><br />color xerox, 150 copies, 11" x 17"<br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5069149807267358658" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqKfvhk2S60TpRvA6rtnzEbau6B9n02dnuPeUwIpJJjELfapK5p0_HgAItjPGSOlrrkMGu2y_nR-joSi15UPo_aUELRKsEc5nCAlkc9G7CbDYKZMk0_fNnN-XxVXwlqBxWFMZB6knJvk8/s400/easterbloc3.jpg" border="0" />Jacob McMurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01772646137449365776noreply@blogger.com