zine-a-rama

hello friends.



i really can't believe that july is halfway done! this summer its been a bit hard to get any of my big art projects done, or started, for that matter... but one thing that i WILL be doing is putting together a zine and selling it at the portland zine symposium! woot! (if any of you are in Portland, come check it out!) my zine is going to be a collection of self portraits that i drew while i was pregnant with amelia.

one of the best pregnancy books that jake and i read (and we read a bunch of them) was this zine called Placenta Zine. i don't know who made it or if there are any others, but it was a really sweet zine with birth stories, and basically how to be a radical parent.

i think my zine is going to be my tribute to Placenta Zine, in a way, although i'm not sure if i'll have much text, i think its mostly going to be to story of my pregnancy told through drawings. i'm also thinking that if i can pull it off, i'll put together another little zine of some illustrated conversations that i have in some of my sketch books. here's a little preview of some of the drawings that will be in my zine...

also, the link to pdx zines

brought to you by the letter P

so....i've been doing some things... working on my experimental typeface. i've gotten to letter 'P'. wooh, 16 letters, i'm almost there. its getting easier to construct the shapes as i go along. after this, i'm going to start putting them into words and see if they read. then do some adjustments... CHECK THEM OUT!

my first book.

Todayi finished my first project for my bookbinding class. the assignment was to take a random quote from this old book of quotes and design a book around that quote without actually using it in the book. my quote was by some guy named george granville. basically, he was just some English creepster who was born into wealth and then ripped off some of Shakespeare's plays, had some crappy poetry, and at some point was quoted as saying "whimsy, not reason, is the female guide"
so that was the quote that i used to design my book. as you may have noticed, i'm not a huge fan of george granville and as i began planning how i would make my book, i kept getting annoyed at the quote. i mean, who is this granville guy to say that women are guided by whimsy and not reason. what does he even know? ugh, jerk. but part of the assignment was that we couldn't switch quotes, so i was stuck with it.
i decided to break down the quote and come up with key words for each part. it went something like this:
whimsy: whim, whim-wham, ridiculous notion, wander, whisk, trifle, giddy, fancy, fantastical, rash, sudden, impulsive, why not?, caprice, bold.
reason: reasonable, sensible, ordered, logical, centered, clear, precise, neat, smart, sense, feeling in control, understandable.
female: shoes, fashion, shopping, magazines, lipstick, barbies, glamour, trinkets, little boxes to put stuff in, jewels, tacky, crafty, yard, ornaments, flowers, perfume, doilies, pink, pastel, ribbons, nail polish.
please note that for my female key words, i was thinking more along the lines of the stereotypical extreme frilly girly type that i'm assuming george granville was talking about.
so, real briefly, here's what i did to make my book:
i began gathering pictures that represented women and whimsey as the female 'guide'.
basically i chopped up a few NYLON and Star magazines and then pieced them together on some paper i had leftover from some other project. it was looking a little um... high school collage, so i added some cool net-ish paper over the top to kind of tone it down and give it that 'ordered' look. next, i bound it together (using a saddle stich), made the cover, sewed some details with my sewing machine, other than some technical things i'm pretty happy with how it came out. and um... yeah, here are some pictures!

i had a lot of fun making this book, so much fun, that by the end i wasn't even mad at george granville for saying that women are guided by whimsy! in fact, i may even agree with him.

Layout. blah blah blah...

I just finished making this assignment for one of my classes. the objective was to design a two page spread for a magazine. the title (no, i didn't think it up myself) had to be "Layout: principles of design 101 with the subheading layout means... blah blah. the text had to relate to layout in some way. the rest was up to us to decide what pictures, typefaces, and then the actual layout of the spread. Its not perfect, and there are some things about it that i will have to change before my portfolio review in the spring, but its 4:30 on a sunday and i think i want to go home now!
(click the pictures for a larger view.)

Not guaranteed forever part 2

New stuff for you to see and buy.

these two bird shirts below are sold out, sorry! if you want a re-print, email me, and i'll see what i can do.



And...

some buttons (click image for larger view):


Top Row - Red Button
Second Row - Red Rain boots, Red Mouse
Third Row - Red Shelled Snail, Green Circle
Fourth Row - Orange and Green Flutterby, Rain Clouds, Safety Sam
Fifth Row - Red Raven, Green Button, BFF
(Please specify which button.)



Top Row - Faces
Second Row - Red face, Shy Crow
Third Row - Dandelion, Robot, Black Bike
Fourth Row - Red Cat, Face

pf. jones, that is.

Check out some of my new t-shirts. Now go to the Portland Saturday Market and buy some. Or you could buy them online...Designed and printed by yours truly.



Love,
pf jones

P.S.
there's more shirts, i'll put them up later...

oh yeah.

So anyone who lives in portland should go eat at paradox cafe on SE Bellmont and 35th ave. my paintings are hanging there. for two months. maybe you'll buy one.

yep.