Holloway: Nathaniel Mackey

Nathaniel Mackey is everyone's favorite poet. He is good. Some people like the poster I did for his reading.

Holloway: Rachel Levitsky and Gillian Osborne

I did this poster, the last one for Holloway's Autumn 2007 series, with Adobe Illustrator.
Rachel Levitsky is a good poet.

Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka and Michael Bigley are reading at UC Berkeley this Wednesday as part of the Holloway Series in Poetry. I am a little giddy about seeing Amiri Baraka. He is supposed to be a thrilling reader, and I enjoy his poetry very much. Wholly excited about Wednesday. It's kind of an early reading, so you should come in your costume if there are parties to get to after it, which I am sure there are. I think it will be worth stopping in before Hallowe'en actually starts.

Holloway: Ted Pearson

Ted Pearson for the Holloway Series in Poetry.

Holloway: Rae Armantrout 2

This one is the second Rae Armantrout poster for Holloway. I think I will stop using Photoshop unless I absolutely have to. I don't like the way digitally constructed and/or altered images look. I think that hand vectorizing things is fun, and it looks crisp and clean. I hand draw, then drop it into or recreate it in Illustrator. I like Illustrator very much.

When I got my first job in graphics, the only thing I used was Photoshop. I digitally created cell phone antennae and superimposed them in real-life so that cities and clients could see how they would look finished. When I worked in advertising, there were people doing amazing things in Illustrator who I thought had magical powers or something. I like to think that I might be one of them now.

Holloway Fall 2007 Season Poster

There is something that I like very much about the way this turned out. I am unsure what it is.
Rae Armantrout, Ted Pearson, Amiri Baraka, and Rachel Levitsky. It is very cool to be in a place where you can meet poets like these.
It's all in Illustrator.
I think it will be the last poster I do in Gold and Blue.
I hope that Amiri Baraka, Rae Armantrout, Rachel Levitsky, and Ted Pearson like it as much as I do. I hope that you like it, too.

Holloway Faculty Reading

Really Famous Poets Like Lyn Hejinian, Bob Hass, Geoffrey G. O'Brien, John Shoptaw, and Cecil Giscombe.

I wanted to make an overly school-spirited poster for poets, who are normally not considered very school-spirited. This is the way it came out. Most people don't get what I was trying to do until I tell them, so maybe I failed. . . or maybe I am subtle.

Holloway Prototype: Ted Pearson

Would you like to see something cool?
Well, I think this Ted Pearson thing is cool. It took me quite awhile to do even though it's unfinished.
I do these by hand. I don't think the automatic one is good, and isn't that cheating letting the computer do everything for you? It won't be used now. I was using an old photo as a model. But there are new photos. So it's back to the drawing board.
I have this now, too:Technorati Profile

Joshua Clover for Holloway

Joshua Clover loved this poster. He was worried that the Jorie Graham one might be even cooler, but he loved his.
It's done, more or less, all in Illustrator.

Jorie Graham

This is another one for the Holloway Series in Poetry. Constructed wholly in Illustrator.

Aaron Kunin and Holloway

Aaron Kunin thanked me for the rats when he signed my copy of his book, Folding Ruler Star. This was for his reading with the Holloway Series in Poetry. Most of the grunge text is by hand, and the rest is Illustrator.

Cole Swensen Reading

This poster was made for the Holloway Series in Poetry. Done almost entirely in Adobe Illustrator.