other people's xmas gifts

i have been designing and hand-making my co-worker's gifts for their children, who happen to be about my age...but, i've got nothing better to do at work, so why not.

my one co-worker bought her son tickets to a basketball game, reservations for a hotel room, and a gift certificate to a restaurant. and since everything was just paper print outs, she wanted to make a book to put everything in. this way, her son would have something to open. and i liked this idea. so she asked me to design it.

these were some things i found while doing some research:

i immediately fell in love with that second poster when i saw it.

so this is what i made. this is just the cover, i am not posting all the pages. that's just for her son to see.

i've decided i like designing in a way that looks like a silk-screened poster. i love the layering, and the transparencies, and the masking-off of areas to use blocky/chunky elements. i use the computer to make my things look as lo-fi as possible...