A book of 12 common freshwater fish of North America. Each is an individual woodcut, combined with titles made with lead type. The paper, the cover, and the binding technique are all Japanese in origin to evoke the delicate, Japanese printmaking style. The texture on the cover was letterpressed in gold and made to look like scales. The paper is french-folded.

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Glassblowing was an assigned topic for my book design final project. Since I had no real interest in designing a manual, or an explanation of glassblowing techniques and history, I created a photo book that shows images of people blowing on glass. I juxtaposed the images with actual text on the process of glassblowing. I titled it "Glassblowing: A How To Book" The subtitles for the processes have names that work well with the images and create a different type of narrative. 

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This book is about the women of Weimar Berlin who were infamous for their promiscuity during Germany's economically turbulent time between the World Wars. The cover is silk-screened, the interior pages are laser printed, the signatures are separated by red paper. The color scheme and typography reference the Bauhaus style, which was prominent during the Weimar period. 

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This book is a critical look at Han Christian Anderson's The Little Mermaid. I chose to take this fairy tale and design it for an adult audience by analyzing it from a feminist point of view. On each page, I pulled out an excerpt that has questionable content, and related it to a specific feminist quote on the topic. The call outs alternate up and down to portray fluidity and mimic the rising and falling of the tides, which is important when considering the content.