Expression Tunnel

I spend a lot of time thinking and working on graphic design. It’s how I pay the bills. But I’ve tried to refrain from including it here—a site I’ve tried to keep focused on photograph. However, I’ve had a category for design on this site since launching. I’m thinking it needs to get used every once and while. Occasionally they collide. Like now. I’m working on a cover for boundary 2. These covers are great to work on from a design perspective: challenging. For this next issue, American Poetry After 1975, I found myself looking for graffiti, largely for textures to build a cover from. In Raleigh, the most accessible (and reliable) graffiti is the…

macro work

Right. So, I’m trying to get my act together on the design front after 3 years of working for myself and get a site launched. Well, beyond the joys of 99% content free information contact forms. Fine. The issue being that on the print work, the easy route is rendering JPEGs from InDesign or Illustrator and throwing them up on the site. Okay. “Throwing them up.” isn’t the best phrasing to go with. It seems the right solution is to shoot them. (Which is why I’m posting about it here.) This isn’t easy. Do I shoot it straight up? (If that’s the case am I just taking the long way to deliver, flat, boring, two dimensional…