{"id":746,"date":"2004-06-09T10:50:54","date_gmt":"2004-06-09T17:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amyredmond.com\/portfolio\/?p=746"},"modified":"2021-07-04T00:39:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T07:39:34","slug":"scds04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amyredmond.com\/portfolio\/scds04\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Country Day School<br>\u2014<br>Anthology of Short Fiction (2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-747 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/amyredmond.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/scds04f.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"505\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Book Title<\/strong>: <em>The 2004 Anthology of Short Fiction<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Client\/Publisher<\/strong>: Seattle Country Day School \/ M2 Press (2004)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Role<\/strong>: Design, typesetting, copywriting<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author<\/strong>: Various young adults<\/p>\n<p><strong>Size<\/strong>: 5.5 x 8 inches, perfect bound<\/p>\n<p>Each year, during his tenure at Seattle Country Day School, English teacher Dave Pippin rallied his 5th-grade students to create an anthology of short fiction. The students spent most of the school year refining their work, preparing it for publication in the Spring.<\/p>\n<p>I was recruited, as an extension of my week-long artist residency at the school, to design and letterpress print the cover. The 2004 edition was the third in a series of 3 anthologies that I designed, and marks the tenth anniversary of this book project.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-748 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/amyredmond.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/scds04b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"505\" \/><\/p>\n<p>M.r Pippin&#8217;s 2004 5th grade classes inspired the idea of a film noir\/pulp cover theme, and all credits are treated in a pseudo-film credit style with students &#8220;starring for the first time on the big screen&#8221; in this production that was &#8220;filmed on location at Seattle Country Day School.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The cover was designed digitally and made into magnesium printing plates, which I then letterpress printed in an edition of 175 on a Vandercook SP-15 press. Mr. Pippin then had the covers bound to the interior book block, which he\u00a0typeset himself. The books were presented to the students during their last week of school.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>With over 18 years of experience in agency and studio settings,\u00a0<a title=\"Amy Redmond (Art Direction\/Design\/Letterpress)\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20161019181801\/http:\/\/www.amyredmond.com\/\">Amy Redmond<\/a>\u00a0is a visual designer who thrives on variety, creating print and interactive work for corporate and non-profit clients. To keep her creativity refreshed, Amy balances digital design with time in her letterpress studio (<a title=\"Amada Press\" href=\"http:\/\/amadapress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amada Press)<\/a>\u00a0in Seattle. She also teaches at the\u00a0<a title=\"School of Visual Concepts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.svcseattle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">School of Visual Concepts<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Title: The 2004 Anthology of Short Fiction Client\/Publisher: Seattle Country Day School \/ M2 Press (2004) Role: Design, typesetting, copywriting Author: Various young adults Size: 5.5 x 8 inches, perfect bound Each year, during his tenure at Seattle Country Day School, English teacher Dave Pippin rallied his 5th-grade students to create an anthology of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49,2],"tags":[5,42,36,45,29,100,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amyredmond.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amyredmond.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amyredmond.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amyredmond.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amyredmond.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amyredmond.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"https:\/\/amyredmond.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amyredmond.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amyredmond.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amyredmond.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amyredmond.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}