More Hanafuda

These are just some of the cards that I liked the best. I'd explain what they are, but that would require a lot of background information. If you're interested though, feel free to ask. On the bottom are some images of the same cards from a typical real deck, so you can see how I broke from convention on a lot of them.

Hanafuda Cards and Book

These are pictures of my final Surface Research project- bookmaking. I designed a deck of Hanafuda cards (Japanese playing cards with 12 suits reflecting the months of the year, each represented by a different flower) and made a little accordion booklet explaining how to play a popular game with them. Thanks to Nicky for helping me finish this and taking the pictures five minutes before they were due.

Sketchbook and beyond

Some more stuff from my sketchbook. The first is a modified contour that i then colored in. The second is another experiment with the printed tissue paper and some transfers from a book of Old English tiles. I have about 200 pages of tile designs and am trying to think of some sweet stuff to do with them if anyone has any ideas. The last is a fluke that happened when I closed my laptop right after i told it to print. I reopened it and then it did that.

Sketchbook collages

Here are some pages from my sketchbook. Instead doing a whole new sketchbook, I decided to just try to fill up all the half-finished ones that I have. Its not going that well but hopefully once I get home I will start being more productive. Anyway, I did these by printing some cool pictures on tissue paper and then cutting them out and collaging them. Some are neater than others and some of them might be upside down but whatever.