I interned with the Espresso Book Machine printing press at the Michigan State University Library, where I worked as a pre-press and printing assistant. During the course of my work, I handled everything from cover design to book layout. Initially, the Espresso Book Machine was used mainly to print dissertations and the occasional book for […]
This is one of the sample books I created for the Espresso Book Machine. I wanted to show the smallest book the machine can print, and I felt that a poetry book would suit the small-size format well. The cover was created in Adobe InDesign using a Public Domain picture from pixabay.com. After selecting poems, […]
During my internship with the Espresso Book Machine, I had the idea to create sample books to help explain the range of sizes the machine could print. I created seven demo books: three novels, two photo-books, one manual, and one poetry book. Each book features Public Domain images from pixabay.com and was designed in Adobe […]
This is Darcy, the new portfolio mascot! Darcy represents my multi-genre skills, including writing, editing, art, and social media. I created little Darcy using mixed traditional and digital media (pencil, technical pen, Adobe Illustrator, respectively). Darcy is holding a tablet pen and a USB mouse to represent digital media, a quill and ink bottle for […]
While working for the MSU Writing Center, I had the opportunity to be part of the Content Team. I wrote two blog pieces, “Why Write an Outline? Why not!” and the “Gender Neutral They.” You can now see my piece about the gender neutral they up on the Writing Center’s website here! As a writer […]
One of my final projects during my time at the Writing Center was to design a flyer for client surveys. The MSU Writing Center regularly asks clients to fill out a survey discussing their experience, and then this information is used to help consultants better cater to the needs of clients. Usually, the flyer is […]
Similar to the brochure I made, I also created bookmarks for the Espresso Book Machine (in the MSU library). Although these bookmarks were recreations of existing bookmarks, I had some room to play with the colors and layout. I was also able to use the pictures I had previously edited from my trifold to give […]
This was a trifold I created for my internship at MSU’s Espresso Book Machine (it’s a cool machine that makes books!). I wanted to play with the themes of the machine, so I took much of my inspiration from the gears and pulleys inside the machine. The brochure also directly uses pictures from the Espresso […]
I recently finished a large collaborative project to produce revised versions of student workbooks for Joe Wojcik, a motivational speaker who tours schools as Joe the Biker to help stop bullying. The workbooks were definitely a multimedia project for me. Not only did I edit the text and do some collaborative developmental editing, but I […]
First and foremost, I am a writer. I’ve wanted to be a teller of stories for as long as I can remember, and creative writing is my biggest creative outlet. I think in stories, I construct rhetoric in stories, and I create visual stories. As an editor, keeping true to the author’s vision is vital […]
Kristin Phillips: Portfolio 