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Using The Rasterbator

A few weekends ago I decided to cover one of the walls in the office with a large poster. I’ve toyed around with black and white rasterbated images before, but I really wanted to see how well a full color one would look. My office walls are a lime green color and I figured something with dark greens would contrast nicely. Choosing a forest scene with a huge owl in a tree seemed right up my alley and so I was happy about that.

Took some quick measurements of the wall’s dimensions and uploaded the image to the Rasterbator. Got things cropped how I liked and outputted the 120 page PDF file. The next 3 hours I spent trimming the white borders off of each page since my printer doesn’t output full bleeds. I think next time I do one of these I’m going to leave the borders…cutting these pages consistently was pretty hard. I tried using a trimmer with a rotary blade but the pages slide some regardless of the clamp thing. Oh well.

Anyways. After cutting out all the pages I setup my JVC mini-DV camcorder and recorded myself sticking up each page. Figured this would be a fun excuse to use the camcorder since I rarely break the thing out after buying it 4 years ago. Took the 2 hours of footage and imported it into iMovie and made a quick time lapse video by speeding it up. I think it came out good and laugh every time I see my stupid cats walking around watching me in confusion. Check out my video on Vimeo.

Owl print outs a plentyLining things upThat\'s a lot trimmingsFirst rowFirst row in contextAlittle over half...The owl is almost completeOwl closeupAnother view of the owl

Night Eyes Layout

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Completed this in 2001 during my senior year at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Editorial design project where I was teamed up with a photography student and had to design a spread and a single page for an article about dreams, titled Night Eyes. Opening Spread [image], Single Page[image]

  • Editorial design student project
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Photoshop

Tranquility—Hiroshima Revisted Layout

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Completed this in 2001 during my senior year at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Editorial design project where I was teamed up with a photography student and had to design two 2-page spreads, table of contents page and cover for an article titled, Tranquility—Hiroshima Revisited. We shot underwater to help convey a sense of peace and stillness to coincide with the article’s themes. Opening Spread [image], Inside Spread [image], Inside Spread Detail [image], Table Of Contents [image], Cover [image]

  • Editorial design student project
  • QuarkXpress
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Photoshop

I Told You I Hate the Snow

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Digital manipulation based on a lomo photograph I took many years ago. Detail Shot [image]

  • 8″ x 10″
  • Cheap Lomo camera
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • MMIS-2005016