Design projects • • • Experimental Books
Experimental Books
Projects exploring and experimenting with book design, layout, and illustration.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Illustration, photography, book design, and book binding for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. This rendition of Lewis Carroll’s classic story is inspired by Alice’s belief that a book is useless without pictures or conversations, and the book’s layout and illustrations reflect this concept, along with the fact that she is a very imaginative girl who loves to pretend to be different people and have conversations with herself.
![alice in wonderland](../projects/alice/images/01.jpg)
The book features coptic binding and measures a half-letter page in size, vertically, to give it an unconventional sense of length and a unique reading experience
![alice in wonderland](../projects/alice/images/02.jpg)
![alice in wonderland](../projects/alice/images/03.jpg)
![alice in wonderland](../projects/alice/images/04.jpg)
![alice in wonderland](../projects/alice/images/05.jpg)
To emphasize dialogue, conversations are pulled to their own pages. In the illustrations, one girl acts out all the characters’ parts.
![alice in wonderland](../projects/alice/images/06.jpg)
Alice’s inspirational quote for the book's design
![alice in wonderland](../projects/alice/images/07.jpg)
![alice in wonderland](../projects/alice/images/08.jpg)
![alice in wonderland](../projects/alice/images/09.jpg)
![alice in wonderland](../projects/alice/images/10.jpg)
![alice in wonderland](../projects/alice/images/11.jpg)
![alice in wonderland](../projects/alice/images/12.jpg)
![alice in wonderland](../projects/alice/images/13.jpg)
![alice in wonderland](../projects/alice/images/14.jpg)
![alice in wonderland](../projects/alice/images/15.jpg)
![alice in wonderland](../projects/alice/images/16.jpg)
Some illustrations incorporate hand-lettering
![alice in wonderland](../projects/alice/images/17.jpg)
![alice in wonderland](../projects/alice/images/18.jpg)
![alice in wonderland](../projects/alice/images/19.jpg)
![alice in wonderland](../projects/alice/images/20.jpg)
The Elements of Style
Book design for William Strunk Jr.s and E.B. White's “The Elements of Style.” The design uses a geometric approach with a retro-inspired color palette to appeal hip college students and young professionals.
![the elements of style](../projects/elements-of-style/images/8490.jpg)
The cover uses velum cut-outs to create an abstract geometric E
![the elements of style](../projects/elements-of-style/images/8493.jpg)
![the elements of style](../projects/elements-of-style/images/8494.jpg)
![the elements of style](../projects/elements-of-style/images/01.jpg)
![the elements of style](../projects/elements-of-style/images/8495.jpg)
![the elements of style](../projects/elements-of-style/images/04.jpg)
![the elements of style](../projects/elements-of-style/images/8499.jpg)
![the elements of style](../projects/elements-of-style/images/8500.jpg)
![the elements of style](../projects/elements-of-style/images/05.jpg)
![the elements of style](../projects/elements-of-style/images/06.jpg)
![the elements of style](../projects/elements-of-style/images/8503.jpg)
![the elements of style](../projects/elements-of-style/images/02.jpg)
![the elements of style](../projects/elements-of-style/images/07.jpg)
![the elements of style](../projects/elements-of-style/images/03.jpg)
![the elements of style](../projects/elements-of-style/images/8507.jpg)
Robot Calendar
Illustrations and layout for a robot-themed calendar. To celebrate the robots’ long limbs, the calendar folds out in landscape format and provides a page in each spread for notes.
![2014 robot calendar mockup](../projects/robot-calendar/images/robots_01.jpg)
The stretchy robot arm unifies the front and back covers; use of a clear spiral helps prevent the binding from visually interfering with the continuity of the design
![2014 robot calendar mockup](../projects/robot-calendar/images/robots_02.jpg)
![2014 robot calendar mockup](../projects/robot-calendar/images/robots_03.jpg)
![2014 robot calendar mockup](../projects/robot-calendar/images/robots_04.jpg)
![2014 robot calendar mockup](../projects/robot-calendar/images/robots_07.jpg)
The layout for the month of January; all spreads have the robot on the left and a page for notes on the right
![2014 robot calendar mockup](../projects/robot-calendar/images/robots_05.jpg)
![2014 robot calendar mockup](../projects/robot-calendar/images/robots_06.jpg)
![2014 robot calendar mockup](../projects/robot-calendar/images/robots_08.jpg)
![January](../projects/robot-calendar/images/01.jpg)
![February](../projects/robot-calendar/images/02.jpg)
![March](../projects/robot-calendar/images/03.jpg)
![April](../projects/robot-calendar/images/04.jpg)
![May](../projects/robot-calendar/images/05.jpg)
![June](../projects/robot-calendar/images/06.jpg)
![July](../projects/robot-calendar/images/07.jpg)
![August](../projects/robot-calendar/images/08.jpg)
![September](../projects/robot-calendar/images/09.jpg)
![October](../projects/robot-calendar/images/10.jpg)
![November](../projects/robot-calendar/images/11.jpg)
![December](../projects/robot-calendar/images/12.jpg)