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 […]
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 […]
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 created this course flyer as part of my design internship for the MSU Professional Writing Dept. This design gave me some trouble, as the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum is both very new and hosts diverse art. I wasn’t sure how to visually link my design to the Broad. Eventually, I decided to […]
When my college department held a contest for a t-shirt design, I knew I wanted to enter. The Professional Writing program has a chameleon mascot named Clyde who represents our versatility as students, and I was inspired to remake his image on the t-shirt. After going through multiple designs, I finally decided on a cute […]
Grammar is my daily bread and butter when I write or edit, but doesn’t play a role in my design as often. When I received the task to redesign an grammar course flyer for my design internship at MSU, I was super excited. Grammar isn’t usually considered a very interesting subject, so I wanted to […]
This is a mixed media piece created in Photoshop for a fantasy art context. The goal was to imagine a unique species of dragon and draw it in its natural habitat. As you can guess, my dragon had camouflage skills and very sticky toes. I was very excited when my dragon won third place in […]
Kristin Phillips: Portfolio 