RYAN RIEGNER

Today at my internship at Zago, we finally received the D’apostrophe portfolio book project from the printers with a lot of anticipation. The offset printed final copies had only marginal errors, which was not only exhilarating, but highly uncommon. This limited edition print run of 50 copies was completed for our client, Francis D’heane, a New York based Interior Designer originally from Belgium. It serves as the firm’s collective portfolio with projects ranging from apartments to offices and commercial stores. I find his work to be a marvelous fresh breath of color, material and composition. He has also has an expectational ability to integrate original artwork from artists such as Takashi Murakami and Matthew Barney into his conceptual layouts, accentuating them rather than overpowering them with MoMA friendly bells and whistles. Unfortunately, this book will only be available for client promotions, so low res, web safe jpg that I took today will have to do unless we can convince him to send it off to publishers.

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Some time ago I began a sketchbook in which I wanted to conduct a series of illustrative experiments, both conceptually and materially. It was a really fun experiment to engage on, and I found inspiration from many unexpected avenues. The main focus of the book was derived from ready-made materials and observations around me, and the sketchbook took on a very handmade, sporadic scrapbook type of feel by the time it was completed. It has probably been my most fun and freeing personal project to date. Please enjoy some of the selected spreads. Who knows what the next book will hold!

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Back in 1999, my father, Robert Riegner spent a solid year sentence in prison for multiple D.U.I. charges. Originally sentenced to 1-3 years at State Correctional Facility: Camp Hill, he was exposed to the harsh reality of the challenges of an inmate in the prison system. Throughout the process, he kept a daily journal of the account, describing his challenges with overcoming his addiction to alcohol. He explored the dangers and cunning needed for survival amidst dangerous convicts, and he exposed much of the corruption of the prison system. The journal was his way to maintain sanity and keep his goals in focus. Afterwords, he took the collected legal papers and created a manuscript over the next 8 years, which I have now put into a novel form.

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Write it, Buy it, Eat it, Enjoy it is a handy (possibly even tasty) book loaded with fifty blank grocery lists for every smart shopper. Album bound with twisty ties and hand transferred onto recycled paper. Pen not included.

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The WaterBlock Type Specimen book, my first designed font, is the prime example of the possibilities of even the simplest of printmaking and bookbinding processes. Created by watercolor mono printing onto Arches Rives BFK in a snake book format with Ochre hardback covers, I have decided upon the snake format to be the most useful for displaying a typeface, both as individual elemntal characters, and as a set.

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These are a typographic series of book cover re-designs created by my proposed publishing company, Melody Press. I kept the covers free of imagery to portray a synopsis of each book through the type of the title. I chose to redesign the books, “The Devil Knows You’re Dead” by Lawrence Block, “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer, and “Nausea” by Jean-Paul Sartre, and I highly recommend all three. All subheadings and block texts are set in Minion Pro.

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