Sabrina: a design project: May 2012

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

New postcard

Here's a picture of a postcard I got recently. I'll have to go find it in the box to remember where I got it. I'm also testing out blogging from my phone which should help me get more posts up!

Hello! Long time no see, mister blog. I've been collecting Sabrina drawings and pictures for a while so hopefully I can use some of my downtime as a freelance graphic designer to update this more often.

To get things started, I want to tell you about Postcrossing.com. You might be able to tell that I love mail -- especially postcards. My friend introduced me to this and I've been hooked ever since. It's basically a postcard exchange program with people from all over the world! I have close to 50 postcards from everywhere now. I added information about my blog to my profile, so I might be able to add a bunch of new artworks to the mix too!

Here is a card from Mirka in Finland. She is studying comics in art school -- how fun!

Enjoy!

Hello! Welcome to the Sabrina Design Project.

A couple of years ago in 2006 , right after I graduated from Texas State University, I had the idea to collect my name, Sabrina in every shape and form I could think of. As a graphic designer, I had met and been inspired by a number of professionals, professors, teachers, mentors and friends and began a book project. I finished a first draft of the book, but due to a hard drive crash, and the inability to mass produce it, or add new projects to it, I have decided to post my book in a blog form, and continue to add versions as I get them.

Most of these posts are from text written in 2006, so some information might not be up to date. My address has also changed, so contact me for my new one, or send me yours and I can send you a card to send back to me. Enjoy!

Thanks and Credits

A million thanks for all the designers, illustrators, and creatives who took the time to make a card for my book, and more importantly, for the exploration of a design project. I would like to especially thank all my professors at Texas State for supporting this book idea, even though it took them the longest to get me their cards. Along with my mentors, I would like to thank the following people for various deeds in no particular order: Kim Bond and the goonies at Shoehorn Design for their great ideas and for tolerating my random visits with rought drafts of this book; Every designer that I bugged more than once to do a card for me; All my friends (designers, musicians and dancers) who thought this idea was pretty rad; The couple of jerks who thought this book was a conceited and dumb idea (ha!); Salem, my printer, scanner and copier, his friend The Precious, who prints the big momma pages, and Gus Gus, my Dell mouse who cooperates with my Apple iBook, Hermione; Rhonda for proofreading it, Ryan for editing it, and for my friends who all had to listen to me talk about getting new cards in; My mom and dad for all of the above and more, and my brother who would show this off to his friends; Dennis Fagan, for his photography of Nick Glenn’s incredibly difficult card; My iTunes for entertaining me while I edit and scan; Countless other things that I can’t really think about now. I would also like to thank you, for taking the time to read this entire little blurb of my insanity. Woo!

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