Card 9 | Shayla Johnson

Shayla Johnson is one of my Chicago representatives in this book. Her design group, called the G-Spot, has been around for 12 years and counting.

I dig this coffee stain. It reminds me of a personality ink blot from a Rorschach Test.

Card 8 | James Victore

I don’t think James really liked my project idea, but he painted my name in his style anyways. I heard James speak at the 2nd Annual Dallas Society of Visual Communications (DSVC) Student Show and Convention in 2006. I remember him as one of the most sarcastic and humorous speakers, with an extremely dirty mouth.

Card 7 | Francis Pavy

This card was part colored and designed with markers, paint and real collage pieces. It definitely
took some time to make this beauty.

Card 6 | J.J. Sedelmaier

Look familiar? This artist and his company are responsible for those hilarious cartoon shorts on Saturday Night Live, and have done work for MTV, Comedy Central, and Nickelodeon.

Collections One

Over the years, I have collected a number of interesting ways that my name has been written, produced, or displayed. The Asian characters were made in San Fransisco when my parents went on a vacation. It lives in a frame next to my bed. The above was on the back of an envelope from one of my best friends, Abbey, who was trying to make the letter look like it was from Hogwarts. Below I have a doodle that I kept from class, and a scan of the comic from which I was named. I used to doodle my name on just about everything, which was one of the reasons I thought of the idea for this book.

Card 5 | Milton Glaser

Wow! I was very honored to get his card in the mail. Known in some books as the “Father of Graphic Design”, Milton Glaser is most known for his numerous logos and most importantly, the “I ♥ NY” identity.

I used to have these multi-color lead pencils and loved them.Very retro. Note the neat marks the mailing process made on the cards throughout the book. I call it “Mail Dirty”.

Card 4 | Deborah Sussman

Ms. Sussman works at Sussman/Prejza & Co., Inc. in California and is on the board for the American Institute for Graphic Arts (AIGA) of Los Angeles.