Design
business identity & packaging design for SHALU

Shalu is Amisha Sharma’s small business; she makes soap, lip balm, and other things for the body and home. Using lettering and an illustration I made, I designed soap packaging, tags, labels, website graphics, and business cards for her.

APARTMENT 2-E

APARTMENT 2-E, edition of six. 100% cotton paper, hand-bound. Contains a poem, “Apartment 2-E” (originally published in the Allegheny Review) and a small relief print. Cover digitally printed.

ALL

ALL, edition of five. Tri-fold pamphlet with insert, in glassine envelope with gold-striped tape and cotton paper tag.

MUGS I HAVE LOVED

Edition of ten. 100% cotton paper, hand-bound with red thread.

When You Have A Pig, You Don’t Need A Hat

A story about a lonely grandma and a lonely guinea pig who find one another and figure out that companionship is the key to happiness. Single-sheet folding book, A4, with doll. Cotton paper; watercolors reproduced digitally. Edition of 5.

111O/2 (2)

The table of contents for this issue. 111O.

111O/2

The second issue of 111O, the journal I edit and design. Poems by George Szirtes, Sarah Jackson, Sharon Bryan, Stephanie N. Johnson.

STITCH

Small accordion book with sewing.  Part of the 52 Books project. Inner text reads ’150 STITCHES PER SECOND OF CONTACT WITH HUMAN SKIN’, referring to damage by chainsaw. 100% cotton paper, relief-printed and sewn; cotton fabric, cotton thread. Edition of two.

Do Ye Ken John Peel? (2)

Book, part of 52 Books project. Accordion with paper and thread band. Edition of four. Watercolor illustrations, digitally reproduced on 100% cotton paper. ‘Do y’ken John Peel’ is a 19th-century English folk song. In this version, the fox gets away.

SMALL: a manifesto (2)

Book, part of 52 Books project. A6, 12 pp. Edition of 12, with magnifying glass.

SMALL: a manifesto

Book, part of 52 Books project. A6, 12pp. Edition of 12.

Upcoming readings

July 17, 2013:
at Casa Libre, Tucson, AZ

July 21, 2013:
Los Angeles, CA, details TBA

Week of July 22:
Bay Area, CA, details TBA

August 9, 2013:
Hartland Four Corners, VT, details TBA

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September 2013:
UK: London and Nottingham, details TBA

October 10, 2013:
Reading and Q&A with reception,
Poëziecentrum, Ghent, Belgium

October 2013:
Nottingham, UK, details TBA