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 […]
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 […]
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