Sabrina: a design project

Monday, January 12, 2009

Card 21 | Michael Cronan

Michael Cronan also graced us with his presence at the 2006 Creative Summit. His design, painting and other creative talents have merited him for many invitations to conferences and conventions nationwide with companies and groups such as Apple and AIGA.

SABRINA:
Sultry
Accomplished
Beautiful
Reliable
Incandescent
Noetic
Affible

Thanks, Michael!

Card 20 | Jay Ryan

I stumbled upon Jay Ryan’s illustrations when browsing through Christian Helms' and the Decoder Ring’s website. Jay’s work can be found at thebirdmachine.com. I enjoy how he wrote “ halloo”.

Friday, January 9, 2009

Card 19 | Jack Unruh

While Jack Unruh, illustrator, didn’t exactly follow my prompt, he still sent back a fly fishing
character who exclaims, “nice fly.” I guess even a postage stamp can be inspirational.

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Card 18 | Kim Roberson

Kim came to a Creative Summit once in 2004 with Gary Baseman and has been a regular ever since. Her cartoon work has been linked with Disney and Nickelodeon and is just spectacular. She is currently working with Cartoon Network. Extra bonus: she’s also really friendly.

Funny enough, I’ve been to Las Vegas twice, but as a minor. What a waste.

Cards from Friends

As one of my favorite creative pen pals, Abbey made the card with the clouds and sequins for me. Another good friend and new creative pen pal, Jennifer (J-Fo to most) played my card game too. The double script with imprinted signature belongs to fellow colleague and book supporter, Cade. The latter two friends were officers in our student chapter of AIGA, and continue to be design inspiration and great pen pals in San Fransisco.

Note: the San Marcos address is outdated; I no longer live there. Email me for my new address, if you want to send something in, or send me yours, and I'll mail you a card to send back.

Card 17 | Alissa Walker

Yes, this is a real magnet, fresh from sunny California. Very neat. Check out the classic car stamp added to the postage.

Card 16 | Lanny Sommese

I was able to listen to Lanny and his wife, Kristin, speak at the DSVC Conference in 2005. They both teach design at Penn State, and work together for Sommese Design. Most famous for his posters, Sommese uses concept and communication to express ideas and continues to value these fundamentals of design in his teachings.

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!