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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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