I know it's been forever, life has been busy and sometimes writing about my work is difficult, because I feel like there has been a huge lack of creative work. How sad :[
I suppose you could say I've been working on some sort of design: my room in our new home! I bought myself a fantastic new princess bed set so I've been collecting thing to go with it. Since then we've painted the room a light gold, I bought gold sheets, my sister gave me sheer curtains to use in my room eventually, I have a lamp that a previously owned plus two new ornate ones, two new decorative bonsai trees, a matching desk and bookshelf, and a chair for underneath the desk. Oh and a tray to put my jewelry and perfume in! Decorating is so fun! We have been Homegoods hopping all over the place looking for unique finds! It really makes you hopeful for the future and I love having this be a joined effort by my family. As hard as it's been this has definitely brought us closer and made us a lot stronger.
[Sidenote: Christine refers to this transformation as my adult bedroom, it's awesome because it's the first big girl decision I've made for myself since graduation :) ]
Another fun creative thing I've done recently is help my cousin Nico with his school projects. I wish my siblings got cooler assignments in their school... Nico, who goes to Monsignor Donovan HS, has been the only one to come to me with fun ideas for projects. This one is by far my favorite because it got me to kick my own designer butt into shape by making a books. I love books, sometimes I get distracted with other things that are good at but honestly, nothing beats a good night of typesetting and designing pages to enhance the content of a story!!! ::Nerds out!::
The project was for a psychology class, the assignment being to creatively depict a psychological disorder by any means you find necessary. Nico pick bipolar disorder, he was thinking of doing happy and sad gingerbread men but we thought that wouldn't be as awesome as a kids book would be!
And so, ladies and gents, I present to you the original scans from Deena the Bipolar Dinosaur. Story and Illustrations by Nico Carbone, Designed and Published by Kelly McGovern!
The little designerly elements we talked about were subtly put into the type. During Deena's manic stages, the type is Century Gothic Regular in green. During her depressed stages it is Adobe Jenson Pro Subhead in grey. I devised a simple cover on a green textured card stock based on Nico's interior illustrations of Deena.
This was a really fun project for me as a designer and as a helping hand to my cousin! I could seriously start a portfolio out of helping kids with school projects haha, I think that will be the next series of person projects I may try and tackle if I can find enough people who need help with projects!
Thanks for reading! Stay tuned for more work in the future, even if the updates are far apart, I'm always up to something!
