Dueling Boxes Press logo

For letterpress, we are to design a logo for a Private Press name we create for ourselves. Fortunately I came up with one of those during the first letterpress class I took last summer. Of course, with my lack-luster computing skills and all the free time we have at MICA, I haven't touched the idea since (except for wishing I had a small logo to print on the backs of things for identification!) Well now I have a good reason to make something amazing, and the more I think about it, the more I like the name I've chosen.

For the initial branding, I'm going to print up some posters. Not only do I like printing posters, but it allows me to use the pretty new wood type, and it buys me another week to design (read draw) the image for my logo (layout, select type, ect.). I'm working on something that mimics the old boxing match announcement poster from the beginning to the the middle of the 20th Century. The layout I like best will look something like this:



I really like the opposing sides look spatially and the textual layout was about what I was thinking for how my text should be apportioned. Something like this:

Dueling Boxes Press
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We challenge you [box]
[box] to challenge us
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Letterpress, sculpture, whatever.
We can take it

Student Loan Crisis

On democracynow.org, they discussed the student loan crisis this morning. They said that most students will graduate with $20,000 in debt from 4 years, but I'm going to be honest here, my total is probably going to be twice that.

Rev. Jessie Jackson was on talking about how we, as students and post-students, should use our energy left over from the election to march and protest.

Their other speaker, Alan Collins, began this website: http://www.studentloanjustice.org/ You can get information there and give testimony of your own issues. There's also contact information for people who should know/listen.

I think the Obama campaign needs to make good on their promises for students, community service grants, arts and humanities grants, ect. They need to do it very soon.