http://haikavanian.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 14 May 2008 04:19:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hardcover sketchbook with 42 pages for my 42 day trip to Europe. Paper cut and folded... ...into 5 signatures The signatures sewn together Mulberry paper glued over the stitching Spine and cover cardboard measured & cut Cover cloth measured and cut, spine & cover boards glued down Edges folded over, glued ... http://haikavanian.com/forty-two-hardcover-sketchbook/ 2 color screenprinted poster inspired by Nick Drake's Pink Moon album Initial rough sketch Inked & scanned High-tech exposure & washout First layer printed & drying Exposure & washout of the second layer Whoopsy, burned the second screen flipped horizontally, but I decided to print a few anyway since I thought it'd look cool. A few close-ups, ... http://haikavanian.com/nick-drake-pink-moon-poster-process/ Digitalomo is a project I started in 2007 to give my cell-phone cam pics a home. The essence of Lomography lies in taking your camera with you everywhere and sporadically documenting life without a great deal of deliberation or planning. Digital Lomography retains these core values, but uses cell phone ... http://haikavanian.com/digitalomo/ One color screenprinted poster featuring the updated version of my first typeface. Exposure Washout Taped off & ready to print The result Close-up  http://haikavanian.com/design-poster-process/ Anchor's Food Find is a distributor of boutique chips from around the world. The "Anchor" in the title comes from the mascot, who according to the story, is an ex-marine trucker who drives around and finds/meets new chip cookers and helps them distribute their chips to the world. Inspiration for the ... http://haikavanian.com/anchors-food-finds/ London > Paris > Interlaken > Rome > Venice > Munich > Berlin > Amsterdam http://haikavanian.com/europe-2007/ The look and feel of this typeface was inspired by that of the Armenian alphabet http://haikavanian.com/custom-typeface/ A Bungee-Trampoline attraction at the Westfield Shopping Center in north Toledo. http://haikavanian.com/skybound/ Poster mocking Soviet-era motivational posters with faulty promises In this case the tagline used is historically accurate; bread was often promised to the hungry. The part they forget to tell you about is the fact that the bread is full of delicious mold by the time it reaches you.. A simplified ... http://haikavanian.com/bread-for-the-hungry/ Postcard & vinyl lettering for annual exhibition in downtown Toledo. http://haikavanian.com/20-north-gallery-black-history-month-07/ I took over 50 photos of local shop-signs for this project, and used most of them in the composition for the cover, as well as extracting a sample of typography from them with which to set the bands name. I think the signs capture the essence of Toledo fairly well. ... http://haikavanian.com/the-express-local/ Photos from war-torn Nogorno Karabakh & the capital of Armenia- Yerevan http://haikavanian.com/armenia-2005/