Month: March 2010

I’d Like To Keep Doing Interviews

Posted by – March 31, 2010

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

Isabel, Mexican Cuisine Aficionado

Michelle, Culinary Prowess )

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Still thinking about type

Posted by – March 30, 2010

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).

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And this I believe:

Posted by – March 29, 2010

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.

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Digital vs. Offset Printing?

Posted by – March 24, 2010

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?

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Amber’s Site is up!

Posted by – March 24, 2010

Go ahead, click around:

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Shapes of Race Cars Album Cover

Posted by – March 23, 2010

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.

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Runners Up

Posted by – March 22, 2010

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:

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Joshua Tree

Posted by – March 19, 2010

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

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day

Posted by – March 17, 2010

a day of creepy man-children shaking pigs out of giant clovers

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Posted by – March 16, 2010

the earth

yawning and shifting

woke us before dawn

all is calm

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