Author Archives: jlcarson
Wake Forest Magazine – Fall 2012
Three articles for Wake Forest Magazine. Photography by Christine Rucker, Ken Bennett, and Walter P. Calahan.
Leading out Loud – Lego
The Leading out Loud series brings speakers to the School of Business – this speaker was from Lego, so I created an option with a wide variety of Lego people.
Beyond Jim Crow poster
Poster for a talk by the president of the NAACP.
Wake Forest Magazine – Summer 2012
Two articles designed for the Wake Forest Magazine – illustration and hand-drawn type.
Winston-Salem Youth Chorus
Singing Our Faith
The Monkey Story
A Chinese folktale, as told by my British grandfather. Bound in handmade paper and sewn in a traditional style.
Carbon Tracker
Logo for an energy management and tracking company.
Stack
A toy store specializing in construction toys. Folding direct mail box describes the philosophy of the store. Desk block set includes a miniature brochure for parents when they sign up for the store’s newsletter.
Photography by Bobby Prokenpeck 
Miniature brochure and direct mail cards. Interlocking cards have building ideas for kids, educational information for parents.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Collector’s edition, bound in a towel so the reader always knows “where his towel is.”
Sub and Soda Shop
Fasteners
High-end hardware packaging, using animals as metaphors for various fasteners.
Mick’s Music and Bar
Creative Circus Poster
Student recruitment poster
Homestead Farm and General Store
An organic farm where you can pick your own produce from the field, or pick it up at their store.
Urban Roots
A non-profit that plants trees around the city. The brochure is a folded circle with a die-cut showing the transition from buildings to trees. Plastic stencils make it possible to paint posters directly onto telephone poles instead of using paper.
Painted “poster” for telephone poles, and shirts for volunteers and supporters.