Monthly Archives: October 2012
Skin Horse Patch, Attempt 1
I work at this place called TechShop that has amazing machines they let all kinds of people use. Have I mentioned that before? If not it probably explains a lot about how I go about making the things that I do. One of the machines we have is a CNC embroiderer. It comes pre-loaded with […]
ProtoTank Identity Package- Business Cards
Months ago I told my friends at ProtoTank a prototyping startup that when they were ready to start putting together a corporate identity to let me know. About a month ago they let me know that they’d locked in a logo and the colors they wanted to represent their business and that they were urgently […]
Skin Horse Slipcases, Part 3
If you missed the first two parts of my series describing the making of the Skin Horse Slipcases you can find part 1 here and part 2 here respectively. As promised this post starts off with printing wonderland. Do you feel happy? I feel happy. Probably because this is a picture of me occupying my happy place using a […]
Website Redesign – Portfolio Page
One of the biggest projects I’m currently working on is a redesign of my portfolio website http://www.lizconley.com. It’s been years since that site first went live so it’s certainly due for an update. Looking back at the demands I was making of my website designer and good friend Myrrh Larsen back in 2009 it’s pretty […]
Skin Horse Slipcases, Part 2
Work on the Skin Horse slipcases continues. It’s been a while since I posted Part 1 and a fair amount has happened since then. After cutting all the pieces and cleaning the edges of all the soot the laser burned onto them I got to work cutting a silkscreen stencil. One of my favorite things […]
Long Stitch Journal
It’s been years since I bound a book using the Long Stitch style described in Keith Smith’s “Non-Adhesive Binding Volume I” but lately I’ve been feeling a need to get back into it. Back in college it was one of my favorite styles, partly because the perfect weight of board for the cover is the […]
HESTIA AND DIONYSUS, ROUND 2
Almost two months ago I posted two images that will ultimately be used as promotional posters for SF Olympians Fest. Since then I’ve tweaked the images to include a spot color and increase the readability of some areas of the silhouette. Ultimately I plan to create paper cuts of the two images to include in […]
Contemporary Cameo
It’s been a busy day for me taking photos of old projects and finishing up ones nearing completion. A friend sent me a link to an exciting job opportunity for which I’ll need to submit a portfolio. There’s nothing like a portfolio submission to get me to finish a project that’s languished one step away […]
Radical Designs Signage
One of the things I do for clients is custom vinyl signage. Last week Suzi over at Radical Designs (they’re a full service web development cooperative focused exclusively on the needs of non-profit and grassroots social change organizations so as you might guess their website is pretty interesting to browse through) contacted me about getting a […]
Cardboard Box Laboratory 