For The Kitchen & The Garden Patch
I’ve really been enjoying it.
If you, or someone you know, would be a good candidate, email helloATmelissabergenDOTcom
Please and Thank you.
And being vegan is not a requirement.
(See past interviews:
Brian Burke, Mastermind Behind the Cheese Crouton
My Boy, Vegan to Impress the Ladies
Grandma, Born and Raised in Beautiful Rural Vermont
Jerome, World-Traveling Veteran
There’s a lot of really beautiful typefaces on Font Shop that have a very subtle distressing to them, to make the type look like it was printed the old-fashioned way. I want to use one of these in The Kitchen and The Garden Patch.
Inspired by William Morris, the designer/artist best known for his work in the Arts and Crafts movement, this typeface (P22 Morris Golden) is one of my top choices for now.
I’m also still leaning towards using Metallophile SP8 (see it here).
that the free, exploring mind of the individual human
is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the
freedom of the mind to take
any direction it wishes,
undirected.
For The Kitchen & The Garden Patch, I am trying to decide between digital or offset printing.
I’m going to have a cream or natural colored paper to make the book have a nice, vintage feel to it.
BUT I’m wondering if offset, although more expensive, will make a difference in that feeling I’m trying to give the book.
OR will it be enough to print it digitally and use a font like Metallophile SP8? (below)
Any thoughts?
The Final
Another version which had a bandage that was later airbrushed out. Since the album is titled “Beauty Beat,” we didn’t want anyone getting the wrong impression.
And the original. Yes it’s me, and yes I had taken a self-portrait after I passed out and hit my face.
It was the worst day of my life, but sometimes it pays to capture those moments. It allows for a photo that doesn’t appear staged; the eyes have a far-off look that says
we are all enduring.
I’m still waiting to hear back if I can show you the new Shapes of Race Cars album cover.
But for now, here are two unused comps from the first round. Beautiful modeling by my friends Justine & Alanna:
days like this
my family visited me
during a heat wave
my mom and i cooked pies in the kitchen
for a day
we drove out to joshua tree
and climbed the rocks
