My Work: Sri Nama by Bada Haridas

The music on Sri Nama, the latest album from Bada Haridas, is beautiful. Some tracks are more energetic with a slightly rougher "live" feel and other tracks are warm and mellow. I created a richly textured design that represented the music on this album and the devotional mood of Bada Haridas's kirtan. Listen at badaharidas.com.

Note: I'll put up the full digipak mockup when I have time to put it together. For now, here is the front and back cover of the 6 panel digipak.

Book Cover Inspiration from WellMedicated.com

I discovered WellMedicated.com through their recent blog entry: 45 Beautifully Designed Book Covers. Here are my favorites from their selection.

Packagings of the World Blog

I recently found the Packagings of the World Blog. The designs featured are diverse and best of all: lots of photos, very little text.

Creating One or More Rounded Corners

Want to create only one or two rounded corners in InDesign? Here's the trick: Download the free Adobe javascript plugin from here and follow these detailed instruction from InDesign Secrets. In short:

1. Download the free InDesign script called CornerEffects.js. (You'll need to sign in with your Adobe ID.)
2. Load the script into InDesign.
3. Open InDesign document and draw a rectangle (or other shape) or select a photo.
4. With the shape or photo selected, double-click the CornerEffects script. A dialog box pops up and you can choose which corners you'd like to round.

Note: Since this script manually creates the points for the rounded corner shape, the final corner effect not flexible/editable like InDesign's built-in rounded corner effect. Therefore, I would highly recommend you make a copy of your original photos onto a separate layer before applying the rounded corner script.

Bocage Shoes

I love the beauty, delicacy and amount of detail in these two illustrations for Bocage Shoes by Vania Zouravliov. I only saw one of these ads/illustrations in Communication Arts but Adfeast has both posters.

Northern Ohio Railway Museum posters

I seem to be on a vintage kick. I like the vintage styling of these posters and it's interesting to dissect the posters and notice all of the elements (fonts, colors, arrangement, styling) that contribute to this feel. I'd like to figure out how to create the light rays from the trains in the first poster.

Slower posting

My life has been just a little bit crazy and busy lately and I've been ignoring my blog. I will write when I can and hopefully my summer will calm down soon...

Open Lotus

This blown open lotus shows how a little color goes a long way to making an impact. I like how the tiny bit of pink at the tips, bright yellow center and grayish green shadows make this white lotus pop. Photo by zenjebil at sxc.hu

Relato

We recently purchased some fonts at work and I'm in font heaven—too many delicious new fonts to choose from. One of my favorites is Relato, a contemporary serif font. I just love the italics.

Oprah's Summer Reading List

Oprah's summer reading list has some books with interesting design. I love the color and decorative text on Dreaming in Hindi. The extreme cropping and ghostly white text on the light gray background make the Columbine cover moody and appropriate. I like the order and structure of Plan Bee. And for Admission, gotta love the 'A'.