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dis•po•si•tion (thesis 2010)

Posted by Aprile on 2010.04.11:

It has been a really long sleepless week...! I can honestly say I'm finished this time, though I have a few other things to finish up. I'm so excited for regular life again, school really is not my thing. I can't wait until I can work on my own projects without feeling guilty about not doing homework. I have this HUGE list of things to do when I am finally out of here... And I'm excited about that.

Meanwhile, here is one of my books to go along with those displays I showed you. There is another book, and yet another (a process book). They are quite lovely and I'll take a picture of them soon (they have presentations to give and places to be)! I have my final presentation tomorrow which of course I haven't prepared for very well. I planned on being prepared but once those books were printed I was just finished...

Hope you like this book, it's my favourite! The photographs are self-portraits from Chelsea Jade, aren't they amazing? They really make the book extra beautiful!

(There are some imperfections in the digital version because it was compressed, but I assure you the books are p-e-r-f-e-c-t. Yay)!

P.S. Thank you for all the lovely comments on my last thesis post, it's so nice to know what people think! xoxo

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anthro annual

Posted by Aprile on 2009.07.14:

Hello! It's been a while! I have been so busy working and finishing up school projects, I have had hardly any time for the internet. I dearly miss the internet. At least I have some homework to show for myself! This is a final project for the Editorial Design course I posted about earlier (the Natural Living book).

We had to design an annual report for a company, and since I'm not really that interested in "companies" as opposed to independent businesses, I just had no other choice but to do my report on Urban Outfitters Inc. which is the least "corporate" corporation I can think of! Also, I love it, and I am currently working at Anthropologie—which is where I focused my report—as a temp for the Yorkville store opening. So naturally, you know. (Click on the above image to view the entire book page by page at Issuu).

I did all the collage illustrations (fun!) and the financial layouts (not as fun!). It was a great project and I'm really proud of how it turned out. I printed it on this natural-textured cream coloured paper, with little flecks of brown in it. Let me know what you think!

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natural living (working title)

Posted by Aprile on 2009.06.29:

Some of you might have heard through the grapevine about my little book project, which I am doing for a summer course on Editorial Design. I feel it's really important to work with my personal style, so I was really glad we were allowed to choose what type of book and the content it would be based on. Feeling pretty inspired by some talented Flickr photographers/nature lovers, I asked some of them to participate by submitting interviews and photos to me. It will not be published, it's a special one time only thing, and there will be one copy printed for me, and one for each participant involved in the project. (You will all get to see the PDF, don't worry! I know that's not the same...)

Anyway, I'm excited to show you a little sneak peek, I am trying to assemble everything in the "right" order while adding photos that keep rolling into my inbox. I am so excited to see the final printed version, due in ONE WEEK, Ahh! And I will let you know how it turns out : )

Photos in these spreads by Karin Eriksson and Chelsea Fuss from {frolic!}.

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the art of vincent pacheco

Posted by Aprile on 2009.03.28:

More homework—can you tell that is all I'm doing right now? This is the second spread of the feature article of my magazine, the first I posted about here. This one isn't as simple and pretty as the first one, but then I had to get all of my content in there. I hope Vincent doesn't mind what I am doing to his beautiful collages, which is making a collage out of his collages. A collage collage if you will.

Wow, I'm so tired. Sorry if this post and the last have come out gibberish!

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eric the viking

Posted by Aprile on 2009.03.24:

I have been so busy working on school work today, trying so hard to get things done instead of catching up on my rss feeds. I have 6 projects to do and 4 weeks to do them in. Ahhhh! School is just too much sometimes.

The above image is a layout I'm going for my editorial class, we are designing our own magazines and mine is about (you guessed it) collage. The feature spread is about Vincent Pacheco, collage genius, and his collage is in the layout above (see original here). I added the text, drawings, and adapted it into a layout. I love getting to incorporate handmade elements into design work where I can.

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no use crying over spilt...

Posted by Aprile on 2008.11.17:


These layouts for Milk magazine are right up my alley.
I l-o-v-e them, but I bet you could've guessed that.




via Create/Reject

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