Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Poster: "Roots"


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Who: My friend Catherine was asking for some design help for an ad she needed for a class.
What: Her concept was that she lived in 3 different places and has gained unique experiences from there. My take is that she has grown from those experiences which has provided her roots in order for her to grow and mature as a person. Her text [her explanation of what she's gained from those 3 different experiences] were to be placed on the bottom.
Why: I've been studying and surveying typography lately and I got inspired and here's my approach to using type to convey a picture. Her initials "C A" are used as the outline of the tree while her first name are the branches. Her last name is the trunk and lastly { conveys the roots. The space below was to leave enough room for her text.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Card: Birthday [Angela's 24th]


Who: Friend from USF who just turned 24
What: Watched the documentary Helvetica and got inspired to not use the font Helvetica. Instead I used Orator Std in different font sizes.
Why: Her name is Angela, so I thought I'd go with the obvious and make something with angels. Instead of drawing one which I was about to, I thought I'd use the usual greeting to make one. Inside, using the same font and color of "Happy Birthday" it reads "HAPPYTWENTYFOURTHBIRTHDAYANGELA" running vertically on the right side of card. This way, I'd have maximum space writing a message.

About

jjasef is the identity I've used across the web's social spectrum. It has been my username since high school because I'm identified either by my first name Jasef [pronounced "Jah-Sehf"] growing up and then JJ [short for my full name Jasef Jaicee] from high school and out. Since high school, I got into photography and I named that jC Photography just by using my initials. Since then, I've learned graphic design as well since both go hand in hand and now wanted to identify myself with it.

So here comes jjasef represented by the logo I created [originally for my girlfriend and I.. hehe. It's our initials reversed: J.C and C.J but now use it for my graphic design pieces since it represents my full name initials: J.J.C.C].

Ever since learning graphic design, I've used cards as my main outlet and once I started, I barely buy greeting cards. I've used greeting cards as a quick way to practice graphic design, layout, composition, use of typography, and all of that into a piece of folded paper.

And while I'm not a one-man Hallmark company, I take joy [and pride] in the pieces I've made because of its uniqueness and somewhere down the road I'd like to make it available to the public. And if anyone is already interested, email me and we can work on custom cards for any event.

Because these are hand made with the easiest designs requiring one fold, the more complicated designs require additional cutting and folds making these limited in production. Meaning, while I like making cards, if I know a certain design will take longer than usual, we will discuss further to have a price quote.

Feel free to email me your address and I will mail you a sample card I've done in the past. Refer to Contact page to get a hold of me.

think.create.print.cut.fold.

jjasef

Contact

For inquiries on custom card designs and purchasing info, please contact directly:

JJ Casas
jjasef@gmail.com
jjasef.com

For Photography, please visit website/blog:

jcasasphotography.com

jcasasphotography.blogspot.com

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Can You Make This Possible For Me?


designed by jj casas

I need a web designer who can make that text clickable aaand implement it into a blog's banner [through blogger.com]

Basically, if the visitor clicks "home" it'll go to the home page--main blog entries.

If the visitor clicks "design" it'll go to list of blogs categorized as "design". So it's a link to grouped blog entries.

Same for "about." I'll create a post regarding myself/bio and it just needs to be linked to that entry.

If anyone knows how to achieve this through blogger, let me know!

Thanks

I will be Organized.

Found this on KnockKnockStuff.com [because they have some random shizz and I randomly stumbled upon it] I had to get it.
It's basically a binder that organizes greeting cards and ensures that no one gets left behind: there are calendars of containing holidays and spaces for your to create rough drafts and ultimately spaces to write down your "Notable Birthday" list.
The rough draft pad includes 50 pages to practice what you need to say in order to prevent mess ups on your actual card.
There are actual tabs in the binder including birthdays, friendship, love, holidays, etc. Pretty cool because they give off tips but also greetings and such. Along with those tabs are actual folder pockets to keep cards so once I build my inventory of cards for different occasions, I'm going to go ahead and pop them right in so I would have a card in future without the hassle of running em through the printer.
So I started writing the names of friends and all in the included "Notable Birthdays" and mainly the ones I included were the ones part of Nonage since I already have their mailing addresses. I'm going to keep building upon this list as long as I attain the addresses of the people.

Now it's just time to start making cards. Oh, did you see 7 Pounds? I wish I knew how to make cards like that.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009