design portfolio of stacey hsi
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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
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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.
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.
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 !