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S TAC E Y H S IDESIGN PORTFOLIO OF

hope you enjoy what’s inside! :)

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C O N T E N T S

madly in love 4

bartram's garden 6

the collected stories of gladys schmitt 8

domestic garden 9

pretenders 10

the finger bone 12

carnegie mellon press spring 2015 catalog 14

we mammals in hospitable times 17

carnegie mellon press promotional postcards 18

32nd annual adamson awards 20

selvage 22

patterns 24

king’s folly 27

typographic work 29

illustration samples 30

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MADLY IN LOVEcover design

Design work for madly in love by aliki

barnstone, published june 2014. This

book is part of the carnegie mellon

classic contemporary series, which

republishes poetry books from con-

temporary writers. The book is given a

fresh look and a new cover, which uti-

lizes the image of the first edition cover

as a design element. In this case, the

original cover can be seen in cropped

form in the center panel.

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ALIKI BARNSTONE

A CARNEGIE MELLON CLASSIC CONTEMPORARY

in love

POETRY

Ma

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in Lo

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“For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable and necessary as breathing or eating. It is no surprise to read, at the conclusion of one poem (and a poem largely about despair!): “I can spit out hatred for the prescribers/as surely as I’ve been cooking up/this poem for a long time and today/I sit at my feast and enjoy every bite.” Pleasure, wonder, anger, and moral passion are here, and the imagination that can write a poem called “Love Poem” and make it fresh. This is a remarkable first book.”

—Robert Pinsky

“All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstone’s poems so much. They remind me of the one she has studied most—shall we call her her master—that Emily Dickinson. Not in the forms, not, as such, in the music, and not in the references; but in that weird intimacy, that eerie closeness, that absolute confession of soul. Once you understand this, you begin to see the connection. It piles up after that. In Barnstone (too) the two worlds are intensely present, and the voice moves back and forth between them. She has the rare art of distance and closeness. It gives her her fine music, her wisdom, her form. She is a fine poet.”

—Gerald Stern

Aliki Barnstone is a poet, translator, critic, and editor. She is the author of seven books of poetry, includ-ing The Real Tin Flower (Crowell-Collier), which was published when she was twelve years old and prefaced by Anne Sexton, and most recently, Dear God, Dear Dr. Heartbreak: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow, 2009) and Bright Body (White Pine, 2011). She translated The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy (Norton, 2006), and she co-edited A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now (Schocken, 1980, 1992) and edited The Shambala Anthology of Women’s Spiritual Poetry. Among her awards are a Pennsylva-nia Council on the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, the Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, a Senior Fulbright Fellowship in Greece, and a residency at the Anderson Center at Tower View. She is Profes-sor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where she serves as Series Editor of the Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation.

Cover art: Aliki BarnstoneCover design: Stacey Hsi

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY PRESS

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B A R T R A M ' S G A R D E Ncover design

Design for the cover of Eleanor Stan-

ford's book of poems, Bartram's Garden.

The front cover features a botanical

print provided by the Natural History

Museum in London, layered over some

vintage paper textures. These paper

textures continue onto the back cover,

giving the book the feel of a hand-writ-

ten journal while still retaining a sense

of sophistication and elegance.

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COLLECTED STORIES OF GLADYS SCHMITTcover & jacket design

A simple yet elegant design to reflect

the simple elegance of Schmitt's stories.

The cover features a painting of Schmitt

as a young woman.

The inside flaps of the dust jacket

for the cloth edition have elements that

match that of the front cover. The

book description that is on the back of

the paperback edition is moved to the

inside flap of the dust jacket.

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D O M E S T I C G A R D E Ncover design

Design work for John Hoppenthaler's

book of poems entitled Domestic

Garden.

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cover and interior design

Book design for jeff friedman’s pretend-

ers, published february 2014. In order

to counteract the amount of noise in

the original photo he requested, i took

a picture of the photo on my screen,

giving it a faded, vintage feel. After

being printed on matte cover stock, the

cover has an almost ghostly atmosphere.

The book interior was also

designed by me. This was my first expe-

rience with book-length text layout.

I went with a fairly simple design, to

match the pure and straightforward

quality of friedman’s poems.

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P R E T E N D E R S

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THE FINGER BONEcover design

Design work for the carnegie mellon

classic contemporary edition of kevin

prufer’s the finger bone. The original

cover design is located in the bottom

left portion of the front cover design,

with the new title and author name

imposed over the ghosted title and

author of the old cover.

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C M U P R E S SSPRING CATALOGcatalog design and layout

Design of carnegie mellon university

press’s spring 2015 catalog. I created

a template that includes three types

of catalog pages: those for featured

books (1 book/page), featured backlist,

(8 books/page), and other backlist (15

books/page).

The overall design of the spring

2015 catalog offers a modern and

eye-catching method of presenting the

titles released by the press. The catalog

utilizes similar design elements as those

found in other promotional materials,

such as postcards, website banners, etc.

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WE MAMMALS IN HOSPITABLE TIMEScover design

Design work for Jynne Dilling Mar-

tin’s debut collection of poetry, entitled

we mammals in hospitable times. Ms.

Martin provided an image of syn-

chronized swimmers and requested a

design that would parallel the “verve

and brilliance” of her poetry.

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C M U P R E S SP O S T C A R D Spromotional goods design

Postcards designed to advertise books

from the fall 2014 and spring 2015

releases by carnegie mellon university

press. Each postcard utilizes design

elements from the cover design of

the book featured, as well as offering

information about release dates, blurbs,

author info, etc.

In addition to postcards for each

book, there are postcards for each pub-

lishing season, which feature the new

releases for that season and use design

elements common to the catalog and

website banner.

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3 2 N D A N N U A L A D A M S O N A W A R D Sposter and pamphlet

Promotional goods for the 32nd pauline

b. Adamson awards for excellence in

creative writing. I was hired by the

carnegie mellon english department to

design a poster advertising the event

and a program for the awards cere-

mony. I chose to use a photo of type-

writer keys, which symbolizes creative

writing while being abstract enough

not to be too obvious.

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cover design

Design work for selvage, a book of

poems by donna johnson, published

in february 2013. The cover painting

provided by the author was cut into

strips so as to resemble the selvage

strips on the edges of fabric. In the final

cover design, the strips are arranged

in a haphazard pattern, as if falling

or being scattered, to parallel themes

from the book.

This project was my first experi-

ence in book cover design.

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S E L V A G E

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Seamlessly tiling patterns. Some were

drawn by hand and traced in illustrator,

some were first conceived in autocad

and exported to illustrator for applica-

tion of color.

P A T T E R N S

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K I N G ’ S F O L L Yfreelance logo design

Designed for an independent web-

comic entitled king’s folly, written and

illustrated by allexis kristedja under the

handle “whispwill.” The client provided

a rough sketch indicating her prefer-

ence for “folly” to be in script and that

there be a crown used as a design

element. The crown and ornamental

accents were designed by me in adobe

illustrator, and the text was also created

in adobe illustrator following the client’s

approval of a pen-and-paper version.

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Including fonts created for personal use

(using illustrator and fontcreator 6.1)

And typographic experiments (using

adobe illustrator cs5).

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T Y P O G R A P H Y

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I L L U S T R A T I O N AND VISUAL ARTA collection of artwork created by me

between 2010 and 2014.

Traditional media used include

charcoal, graphite pencil, ballpoint

pen, watercolors, and conté crayon.

Digital artworks were created

using adobe photoshop cs3-6.

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T H A N K S F O R L O O K I N G !