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Dress Memory blog design

Smilsafe website design

admin — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:08:39 +0000

The Smilsafe website was designed to clearly communicate their services and to illustrate to customers how they can avoid red tape and complexity by using Smilsafe. A simple process and direction was important to highlight in the design. Related articles at daneash.com:Romy Ash – Websitespencer sternberg audio website Related articles at daneash.com:

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Dress Memory blog design

admin — Fri, 27 May 2011 11:35:47 +0000

A custom wordpress blog with a clean design to deliver both image and text. Dress Memory is Lorelei Vashti’s piecemeal memoir of her twenties in dresses. A dress a week.

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Carrington Aged Care

admin — Sun, 15 May 2011 04:44:10 +0000

Carrington Aged Care is an aged care provider in Melbourne. The site features smooth tour style navigation that gives the viewer an inside peek to their three facilities.

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Trotski and Ash blog design

admin — Sun, 01 May 2011 00:06:59 +0000

A completely customized blog for the purpose of style. Clean white space and a minimal look to accent the high quality photography work and sophisticated typography.

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Prickly Pear PR illustration & website

admin — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 07:44:03 +0000

The feature of this site is the illustration. It details the Green PR agency’s focus and specialty. The hand drawn style gives it a more earthy and friendly feel.

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T shirt design Snow Splash 2011

admin — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 02:36:25 +0000

Snow Splash 2011 T Shirt Design up close

Design and T-shirt

For the second year running I have designed the T Shirt for Snow Splash in Hakuba and Minakami. A live music event in the snowy regions of Japan. Which do you prefer?

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Romy Ash – Website

admin — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:40:22 +0000

Romy Ash is a creative writer based in Melbourne. I have designed a very simple photo/text based website for her. A showcase of her writing skill.

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Surfers Journal JP – web dev

admin — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:10:39 +0000

Working with Outdoor Japan and the Surfers Journal, I did the web development for their new Japanese Edition.

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spencer sternberg audio website

admin — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 04:36:00 +0000

I designed a wordpress CMS for Spencer Sternberg that could manage his Royalty Free music uploads. The design is optimized for search engines and has a blog and special front page design to improve SEO.

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Zumba Calling Osaka – poster design

admin — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 03:19:42 +0000

A poster design for Zumba Osaka held at Studio Calling.

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1933 design journals

admin — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:22:23 +0000

covers of 1993 design journals

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Lino Cut Print – Reeds by Kamogawa

admin — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:27:09 +0000

Lino Cut Print of the reeds by Kamogawa as part of my series for my recent exhibition at Ital Gabon Kyoto. This design was originally derived from a paper cut and transferred to the printing block.

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admin — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 05:27:30 +0000

Part of my lino cut print series in my recent exhibition at italgabon Kyoto.

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admin — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 05:02:39 +0000

The logo as part of the site design and main illustration

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Water Lily lino cut print

admin — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:17:11 +0000

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admin — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 03:08:41 +0000

3 lino cut blocks placed on a single piece of Japanese paper （和紙）and printed with a single press. The 3 designs were each derived from segments of my previous cut out work. I have put emphasis on the direction of line by cutting a pattern into the negative space. The effect is unique to lino cut.

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paper cut design for lino cut prints

admin — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 02:00:59 +0000

Recently I created this paper cut design drawing influence from origami flowers. To maintain the images shape, paper cut requires that everything be linked by joining paper and that white space be cut from design without cutting into other white space and essentially leaving paper string connecting everything. I like the challenge of having to pre-think a strategy for cutting out a design and it is a nice thought the finished design is totally connected. The effect is appealing and it has other applications.

I felt the property would look nice in a printed form so I have been using my paper cut as a template to create lino cuts. Much of Japan’s traditional design is derived from wood block printing. Lino cut is a much easier medium to work with and the results and texture vary. I like the control of line you can achieve with lino cut.

First tracing the template and then removing the white areas with a knife. I found there were a few important things to remember.

Keep a border around the edge of your block for when it comes to inking the board and printing, it helps a lot.
Try use the cutting direction as a texture. It requires a really deep cut if you want a completely white area in the negative space. I personally like to use the lines of the cut and it works well with my paper cut designs as a base.

I am pleased but even with these quite rigid grooves I created when cutting out this design, I found the result on the printed paper was very light and subtle. A lot of the texture in the print has come from the ink and how it is applied to the block. Something to experiment with. Check out the results of finished prints.

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