.: my pet projects :.

I've been doing these basically the past four months, developing concepts,slept at 7am everyday, never ending printing, taking pictures (by my own and from flickr...), many, many trips to Kelly Paper (where, incidentally, I tripped and fell over and made a huge fool of myself...LOL) until the people who works there know me just by hearing my voice... and these are the results:

This is a magazine based on the word 'paramour' or illicit love affair. My concept is mixing craft with a bit of a flair (like Sublime Stitching mixed with Ready-made, in a way...) Since the first issue is about love, the content is more like Ready Made mixed with Playboy .... :p

I wish I took pictures of the content, but the book was still very fragile when I shot this and I didn't want to risk it falling apart before I got to class. I bind it myself, therefore it's a little crooked :p I love the faux-leather paper I use to cover the inside, and the blue leather matches the blue on the cover outside. The pages are french-fold, printed on a yummy, creamy & smooth Mohawk paper that I absolutely love. Now my professors got a hold of both projects, so I cannot show you more.
This book is the result from all the interviews I've been conducting these past four months (and I used some of your photos without asking, of course) If I didn't get a good grade out of it, I'm still pretty happy with how it turned out.

Comments, anyone?

.: the return of the scrapper :.

I miss scrapbooking (digitally) a lot. Haven't done it in a very long time, and I got so many beautiful kits I want to use. I probably got 30gb of files of scrapbook kits and another 2gb of pictures I want to scrap. Now that I got some time off, I return to scrapbook. I made the paper and the jelly snowflake that you can't barely see... :)

.: anthro goodies :.

LOVE ANTHROPOLOGIE! Especially the one on top left, but it's not on sale yet. The one on bottom left is on sale but they no longer have my size. I keep my fingers crossed though....

.: while flick-ing :.

I found these hilarious pictures while browsing Flickr, shamelessly stealing images from highly talented photographers for my book :p Maybe I should chill with a good bottle of Johns Daphne, eh?

.: Love Us! :.

my new design hero: Marian Bantjes

I understand how challenging it is to love designers: they're a bunch of wackos who got excited over book covers, non-nonsensical jumbled alphabets, and went wild in a paper store. We sleep 4 hours a day (if we're lucky), drink coffee like water, and live among paper swatches and weird trinkets. But love us, please... we strive to create a better world for all of you ... at least visually :p

.: random random random :.

Whenever final projects are closing on me, I got panic. When I got panic, I usually got easily distracted and browse around instead of doing stuff. I know it's a terrible habit but I just need to do something to ease the nervousness. So here are the results of my panic-attack-browsings: t-shirts from Crafster store. Aren't these adorable?

.: cute outerwears :.

Although my closet is extremely overloaded I still cannot resist to add more stuff :p I have 5 black jackets/coats but whenever I see something cute in black I still want to take it home! Living in SanFran, outerwear is very important because basically for 9 months out of 12, you need them. (excuses....) Winter this year comes a bit late but I already plan for another outerwear-window shopping, and this military jacket from AE is soooo cute! OK, on to another browsing moment...