I also design posters and advertisements, make digital games accessible to the visually impaired, manage crowdfunding projects, create brand identities and marketing plans, and very occassionally write things.
Layout / Design
Art Direction
Project Management
Crowdfunding
Brand Identity
PDF Remediation
Marketing / Social Media
+ consultation for all above
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The Demon Collective, Vol. 1
Magical Industrial Revolution
Libreté + Fleur Du Mall
Lorn Song of the Bachelor
ALIEN The Roleplaying Game
ARCventure Series
BX: A Cipher Universe
Gangs of Titan City
The Monster Overhaul
Old School Essentials
Eat the Reich
Moonlight on Roseville Beach
Social Media Management
Throne of Avarice
Cairn 2E Boxed Set
INEVITABLE
MOTHERSHIP 1E Deluxe Set
GMDK
Skerples
GMDK
Exalted Funeral
Free League Publishing
Exalted Funeral
Dreamyard NYC
SoulMuppet Publishing
Skerples
Necrotic Gnome
Rowan, Rook, & Deckard
R. Rook Studio
Space Penguin Ink
SoulMuppet Publishing
Space Penguin Ink
SoulMuppet Publishing
Tuesday Knight Games
Project Management
Crowdfunding
Project Management
Layout / Design
PDF Remediation
Layout / Design
Layout / Design
Layout / Design
Crowdfunding
PDF Remediation
PDF Remediation
Layout / Design
Marketing / Social Media
Layout / Design
Marketing / Social Media
Layout / Design
PDF Remediation
a4 softcover, 52pp
Published by Valkyrie Loughcrewe
2024
I’ve had a lot of fun producing Squishy! books over the years. There’s four of them, about a year or so apart, and reading them in order really showcases my development as a self-taught designer. The most recent book, The Mall at Midnight, is one of the more cohesive ones I’ve done, without any of the wild swings in tone of something like Campfire Carnage or the amateur charm of The Halloween Babysitter. Instead, it takes one premise — a trashy, beaten-up zine made by deranged mall goths — and runs with it.
It helps that the artist, Delancey Throne, is a goddamn mastermind in working with high-contrast black-and-white. Due to the nature of the art, I eschewed my usual disdain for fake paper textures and went wild; the book you get might be crisp and still warm from the digital printer, but it’s going to look like a shitty band poster that’s been photocopied a few too many times, dammit. Because each page is so scuzzy, I felt that the text needed to be relatively simple and very, very big. We’re talking 72pt headers in as high-contrast a color compared to the background as possible. Whether or not that text is upright is another matter.
There were a few places where I filled space with my own art, repurposed from the public domain. I went a bit Barbara Kruger with an image of a church revival, and the map of the mall was designed in Illustrator and then overlaid onto actual photos of mall directories. The cover, despite its simplicity, is one of my favorites.
I’m not always in the mood to design for horror, but I’ll do a Squishy! book every 16 months until I die, and I’ll do it with a smile on my face.
Writing by Valkyrie Loughcrewe.
Illustrated by Delancey Throne.
Design by Dai Shugars.