Departmental Works

Follow

• 

  ¡Ándale, Prieta!

  Anne Giangiulio

  My cover design for Cinco Puntos Press / Lee & Low Books and Yasmín Ramírez's first book, ¡Ándale, Prieta!. It's a GREAT story BUT, what may be an equally amazing story is the one that transpired as I was designing this...Whenever I am tasked with designing a book cover, the first thing I do is read the book. It only took me about two nights to finish this one. I was really touched by it and identified with its main character very much. It is a memoir of growing up in El Paso in the 1980s. The author’s single mother worked the night shift on the international bridge to Juárez, Mexico and had to sleep during the day. As such, the daughter (who is the author/narrator) was pretty much raised by her grandmother, who she calls "Ita". The book details Ita’s strength and perseverance. She provided a loving home for her granddaughter despite her own difficult life of poverty, having been a victim of domestic violence, and a breast cancer survivor.
  The book is very descriptive and lists certain details extremely vividly. One such passage details the fact the grandmother’s house was on California Avenue in El Paso. The author describes it as having 25 steps leading from the sidewalk to the front door that she would count when climbing them as a young girl, the yard has landscaping gravel, not grass, and an old wooden screen door. As I read this I thought to myself that I know somewhat where this street is! My daughter’s school is just 2 blocks from California Avenue.
  The next day, I had an appointment that I realized just so happened would take me right past California Avenue. The appointment was at a credit union in regards to settling part of my mother’s estate. Side note: My 81-year old mother passed away on November 7, 2020. Her death was not COVID related, however it was sudden. She died in the ICU of a hospital here in El Paso and my 4 siblings and I had to say our goodbyes to her via Zoom due to the COVID visiting restrictions in place. I do not think I will ever get over the fact I could not be physically with my mother that day or hold her hand and hug her when I needed to the most.
  I decided to leave a bit early for my appointment that day so that I would have time to drive down California Avenue and look at the houses along the street. I wondered if the house described in the book was actually real, or maybe I could find one that matches the description somewhat, take some photos, and mock-up a cover idea from that. As I turned onto the very long street (about 16 blocks long). I saw that on one side of the street, ALL the homes had many steps leading from the sidewalk to the front door. Also, the majority of them had landscaping gravel, which is typical of the water-wise xeriscaping here in the Chihuahuan Desert. As I was driving, one house simply made me stop the car. It was perfect. The homes are pretty much identical, charming 1930s bungalows, but this one just spoke to me. It was very original while others had been updated in various ways like windows replaced, or new front doors. This one was a bit rundown—peeling paint, a bit of rotted wood trim, but it enchanted me. I lowered the window of the passenger side of my car to take a pic with my phone so I could run the idea past my publisher.
  That evening, I contacted a friend, Iris Morales who has a gorgeous young daughter with a dark complexion and long, black hair. I wondered if she could loan me her child for a photo shoot that weekend. I envisioned a cover with her daughter as the “Prieta” in the title walking up those stairs, or perhaps another idea of a cover with the elderly hands of a grandmother braiding this little girl’s hair. I was excited that my friend was more than happy to oblige and even offered me her 70-year old mother-in-law for the elderly hands. With all that set, I figured I need to get permission from this homeowner—I couldn’t just show up on this random person’s front steps and start taking pictures!
  The next day, I had an appointment again at the same credit union to sign more paperwork. So, I was conveniently driving by California Avenue once more. I turned into the street and parked along the curb in front of the home, put on my mask, and started to climb its many stairs. As I was getting to the top, I counted 23, 24, 25…huh, it has the EXACT number of steps as the home described in the book. I had brought one of my official business cards from UTEP with me so that the “Associate Professor of Art, Graphic Design” title on it would make me appear more legit and my request less crazy to whomever answered this door. I wondered if, due to COVID, anyone would even respond to an unexpected stranger’s knock.
  Soon, a gentleman’s voice came from behind the door asking me who I was. I told him my name and slipped my business card into the crack between the screen and its wood. He apologized and told me he had just gotten out of the shower. I apologized for the inconvenience and explained what I needed and how it really struck me how perfect his home was, how it almost precisely matched the description of the home in this book I was reading. That we would not need to come inside at all, just be down his stairs for a quick photo shoot and be gone in around 30 minutes. He was very friendly, said no problem (a response perhaps weird to people elsewhere in the U.S., but typical of El Pasoans), he saw my last name on my business card and jokingly said, “Italian! When’s dinner?!” and asked if I was married, perhaps also typical of El Pasoans.
  I told him yes and then went on to explain the book was by a local author, a young woman who grew up in El Paso and was raised by her grandmother, that it was going to be published by Cinco Puntos Press sometime this year. He then went on to tell me that his niece was a writer. And then it HIT ME—at the exact same time the words “Her name is Yasmín Ramírez” left his lips I knew this was not just a perfect house, it was THE ACTUAL HOUSE of the book!!! This was HIS MOTHER’S HOUSE and when she passed away, now he lives here. His mother was Ita and he is the Tío, the author’s uncle, OF COURSE, a character also in the book! I instantly told him I feel like I know him already, his family, and especially his strong, amazing mother, Yasmín’s Ita. I told him she reminded me so much of my own mother who recently passed away and he offered his condolences and then told me he still misses his mother every day.It was at that point that I started sobbing on a random front porch in front of this perfect stranger, who yet was really not a stranger at all. I was really overcome! How, out of all these homes, was I pulled to this one!? Kismet, Serendipity, and My Mom and Ita looking down on us laughing—did they both use their magnets to pull me here? 16 blocks of pretty much identical homes and I chose this one?!
  I said my thanks and goodbyes to Tío and went off, still stunned, to my appointment. I was bursting and even felt compelled to tell the story to the guy at the credit union who started crying and said I gave him goosebumps! As we finalized the closing of my mother’s accounts, we both agreed that my mom was continuing to send me gifts.When I was done there, I just HAD to call my publisher, Lee Merrill Byrd. She was amazed by it all and put me in touch with the author via text. Up to that point, I had never even spoken with Yasmín Ramírez. When she called me, I told her the story and we both cried and laughed and decided it was simply predestined, I was meant to be the designer for her book.
  Love, loss, the twenty-five steps and memories in between that get us from here to there...

• 

  Fuck Putin

  Anne Giangiulio

  I designed this in loving homage to Ukrainian folk artist Maria Prymachenko whose 25 paintings were lost on February 28, 2022 when Russian forces burned the Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum, about 50 miles northwest of Kyiv.
  Every day more irreparable loss.
  #stopwar
  This poster earned a Silver Award, Print, Social & Political Category, in the international, juried Graphis Competitions Poster Annual 2023.

• 

  One Earth

  Anne Giangiulio

  This poster was created for the 17th Bienal Internacional del Cartel en México A.C. (BICM)'s Category B theme, "Just One Earth". My approach to this design is what keeps me awake at night: The state in which I will leave the earth for my children. From the BICM site: Next year, 2022, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) celebrates 50 years of its creation and work. Within this framework, the motto “Only One Earth” will be the theme of this category. On the one hand, this finds an echo as it is also the theme for World Environment Day 2022, but even more significant is that, 50 years ago, this was the same slogan of the meeting that laid the foundations and led to the creation of the UNEP.
  The desire of this category is to join the goal that the organization has set for the next 10 years: “The United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration”. Faced with the triple crisis that our planet is experiencing (climate change, biodiversity crisis, pollution and waste crisis), the work of preventing, halting and reversing should guide the restoration of the world’s ecosystems. Well, as UNEP itself manifests, it is necessary “a systemic change that redefines and restores our links with the planet.” In this sense, it is a task that is incumbent upon all strata of world society, since it requires a transforming force that integrates actions, disciplines, knowledge and needs, all of them diverse, to heal our planet.

• 

  T-aiku Tu Libru | Tiwa Language Book

  Anne Giangiulio

  This T-aiku Tu Libru | Tiwa Language Book was put out by the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo of El Paso. I worked closely with tribal elders and an anthropological linguist from UCLA, Dr. Erin Debenport, to develop for the first time a document that formalizes and standardizes the spelling of the Southern Tigua language from its oral tradition into writing. This first edition features animals and insects. The binder will later be added on to to include more vocabulary categories such as numbers, colors, nature, community, etc. I was more than honored to lend my art direction and design to this landmark teaching tool which takes the form of an easel binder. Of course, I feel the project will not be entirely complete until I can see it at work for its intended audience: The very young children in tribal daycares, pre-schools and kindergartens with the goal of introducing them to the words of their ancestors and keeping the Tigua language alive. Thanks to Christopher Villa at Helix Solutions who invited me to this project.

• 

  Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo 2021 Year-End Report

  Anne Giangiulio

  I designed this Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo 2021 Year-End Report for the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo (YDSP), a federally recognized Native American tribe in El Paso, Texas. The people are called Tigua, and their native language is Southern Tiwa. YDSP is the oldest community in Texas and the longest-running government in the state since the tribe’s establishment in 1683. The 2021 Year-End Report features arroyo plant clippings of creosote, mesquite, and sage slipped into the spiral binding, with brown kraft cardstock, fabric corners, and white-printed silhouettes on its cover, the report evokes the look of a vintage field guide, elevated. The inside showcases plants of the Chihuahuan Desert that the tribe has used medicinally for perhaps over a millennia, and details their traditional names and uses. Vellum sheets separate these trompe-l'œil photos of flora throughout and read as wildflowers that have been tucked inside for pressing—both as intentional, prized specimens as well as casually, to enliven pages. It was a true privilege to work on this project. Hiking in the sacred Hueco Tanks with tribal member Rick Quezada, I learned much about the healing power of plants I see everyday here in El Paso. Thanks once again to Helix Solutions with whom it is always a pleasure to work, and to Tovar Printing of El Paso, Texas for their expert execution.

• 

  19th Amendment Centennial

  Anne Giangiulio

  Poster celebrating the centennial of the ratification of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote—When Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment on August 18, 1920, the amendment passed its final hurdle of obtaining the agreement of three-fourths of the states. Good on Tennessee. This shows the power of policy to create true equality and empowerment for all. There is so much more that needs to be done by our government in this respect.

• 

  Battleground; Invasive Procedure; Inadequate Protection Poster Series

  Anne Giangiulio

  These three posters were designed to bring attention to the injustices women face at the hands of men around the world every day—in terms of unequal, gender-biased laws, and inadequate protection under the law that compromises women's safety. My process is to look to everyday objects and see the irony and relationships in them and how they may be linked to ideas in a way that draws the audience's attention. Viewers have been very caught off guard by these posters.
  This poster series earned a Silver Award in Graphis Competitions Poster Annual 2022

• 

  Build That Wall!

  Anne Giangiulio

  I designed this poster of protest as a way to show the fact that I believe President Trump becomes a danger to the American people more and more every day and needs to be stopped. It plays off of the chant his supporters spew at his rallies of "Build that wall!" to separate the U.S.–Mexico border. Even though this is a wall that the majority of Americans do not want, especially those that actually live as we do, near the border in question. From trying to explain how racists are "very fine people" to suggesting bleach consumption can fight the Corona Virus, and his begrudging acceptance of the need to wear a mask in public, he consistently disappoints in leading this country in a positive direction for the common good. Someone needs to spare us all from the turmoil, destruction and deaths he has caused since taking office in 2016. We need to build that wall—around him.

• 

  Chalk the Block 2020 Poster

  Anne Giangiulio

  I designed this poster for the annual Chalk the Block event which will hopefully take place in October of 2020, as it has the past 10 years, in downtown El Paso. For the art vendors component of the event, I organize a group of students from my 'Graphic Design 4: Typography' class at The University of Texas at El Paso. Their posters are judged and selected to be on sale in a downtown outdoor booth for the weekend event. All proceeds from the sale of the posters go directly to the student designers.

• 

  Different This Year

  Anne Giangiulio

  As of mid-December 2020, the COVID-19 fatalities in El Paso were 1,220. The Health Department also reported 188 new virus cases, as well as 44 additional cases that are part of the delayed local results issued by the State. Hospitalizations due to the virus decreased to 600. There are 237 patients in the ICU and 161 are on ventilators. The total number of positive cases is at 93,455, with 37,031 of the cases classified as currently active within the community. That means that close to 1 out of every 5 people in El Paso have COVID.

• 

  El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Cover

  Anne Giangiulio

  I was asked by the women of the C.L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department of The University of Texas at El Paso Library to design this cover for El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Cover, Volume 2, A Women's Sufrage Centennial Project. The coloring book will soon be distributed to schools and libraries around the city of El Paso. During this process, I learned that the colors of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement were white, purple, and gold!

• 

  The Tedium is the Message

  Anne Giangiulio

  I designed this cross stitch with French knots in response to the #StayHome mandate at the start of the Corona Virus pandemic hitting my city around the middle of March, 2020. Using graph paper and Adobe Illustrator, I designed the layout that I later implemented on 14-count Aida cloth. The point of using an age-old craft technique for this poster is due to how much time counted cross stitch takes, something that staying home with nowhere to go makes possible. Its title is a spoof of communication thinker Marshall McCluhan's famous phrase, "the medium is the message" introduced in his Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, published in 1964. McLuhan proposed that a communication medium itself, not the messages it carries, should be the primary focus of study. I wanted the medium to send the message that sometimes staying home = tedium at this time.

• 

  Tribal Injury Atlas for New Mexico and Southwest Colorado

  Anne Giangiulio

  I was contracted by the local strategic planning firm Helix Solutions to design a Tribal Injury Atlas for New Mexico and Southwest Colorado. The report provides an overview of injury among American Indian and Alaska Native people living in New Mexico and Southwestern Colorado. Topics covered includedeaths and hospitalizations due to injury. Furthermore,it looks at both the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey and theNew Mexico Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey to describerisk behaviors within the American Indian/Alaska Native(AI/AN) youth populations of the two states. The reportalso draws upon aggregated New Mexico Behavioral RiskFactor Surveillance System data to present injury-relatedrisk behaviors in the adult AI/AN population in NewMexico. A special section on opioid misuse presents dataon drug overdoses due to opioid misuse as well as state-leveldata on opioid poisonings resulting in emergencydepartment visits.
  This report featured the typical charts and graphs one would expect from such a publication, but I created section divisions with beautiful commissioned photos of the southwest, its people, architecture, and customs. The publication became a thoughtful interpretation of the data.

• 

  You're Fired

  Anne Giangiulio

  The American people made their directive known to the president on November 3, 2020.

• 

  Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo 2020 Year-End Report

  Anne Giangiulio

  I designed this Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo 2020 Year-End Report for the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, a Puebloan Native American tribal entity located in the Ysleta section of El Paso, Texas. It is dedicated to all the frontline personnel who tirelessly worked to combat COVID-19 on the reservation and in the surrounding community. The cover features many of these heroes against the backdrop of what will be the Pueblo’s new health clinic. While under construction, the clinic is an inspiration, and its development represents the promise that the Pueblo will have the resources to protect against future health threats. The publication is stab bound with vegan leather cord and a turquoise bead that honors the memory of the seven tribal members who died of COVID last year. The gradients throughout denote transitions, both the ones we all faced last year, and those of the departed, from this world to that of the ancestors—may they greet and bless them all as they send their love and prayers back to the Pueblo in the form of sun rays, rain, and rainbows.

• 

  2019 Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Family Resource Guide

  Anne Giangiulio

  I designed this 2019 Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Family Resource Guide for the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo (YDSP), a Puebloan Native American tribal entity located in the Ysleta section of El Paso, Texas. YDSP is one of three federally-recognized Native American tribes, and the only Pueblo, in the State of Texas. The current YDSP population is approximately 4,226 members nationwide. Thirteen miles from downtown El Paso, Ysleta, Texas has been home to the Tigua people for over 300 years. This guide featured phone numbers and addresses of resources, geared toward a senior population of the tribe. As such, the text is larger than usual for ease of reading. I created section divisions with beautiful commissioned photos of the Pueblo, its people, architecture, and customs.

• 

  Chalk the Block 2019 Poster

  Anne Giangiulio

  I designed this poster for the annual Chalk the Block event which took place October 11–12, 2019 in downtown El Paso. For the art vendors component of the event, I organized a group of 9 students from my 'Graphic Design 4: Typography' class at The University of Texas at El Paso. Their posters were judged and selected to be on sale in a downtown outdoor booth for the weekend event. All proceeds from the sale of the posters went directly to the students.

• 

  Girl Gone Missing

  Anne Giangiulio

  Book cover and interior template I designed for Girl Gone Missing by Marcie R. Rendon, published by Cinco Puntos Press.
  Her name is Renee Blackbear, but what most people call the 19-year-old Ojibwe woman is Cash. She lived all her life in Fargo, sister city to Minnesota’s Moorhead, just downriver from the Cities. She has one friend, the sheriff Wheaton. He pulled her from her mother’s wrecked car when she was three. Since then, Cash navigated through foster homes, and at 13 was working farms, driving truck. Wheaton wants her to take hold of her life, signs her up for college. She gets an education there at Moorhead State all right: sees that people talk a lot but mostly about nothing, not like the men in the fields she’s known all her life who hold the rich topsoil in their hands, talk fertilizer and weather and prices on the Grain Exchange. In between classes and hauling beets, drinking beer and shooting pool, a man who claims he’s her brother shows up, and she begins to dream the Cities and blonde Scandinavian girls calling for help.

• 

  Letters to Goya / Titles | Titles / Letters to Goya

  Anne Giangiulio

  Why is Carl Jung dancing in the Streets of Death? Because one of his favorites among the living—artist James Magee, the creator of the colossal desert stonework, The Hill, and “the alleged” anima incarnate of the mysterious artist Annabel Livermore—has concocted this brew of poems and letters from the lands of Ordinary and Surreal. The poems flutter like butterflies from his imagination as he creates large steel assemblages. Weirdly, Letters to Goya are found pieces from 1955, from the rickety typewriter of the Duchess of Alba, who in (sur)real life is an old lady who wheel-chairs around the Waikiki Trailer Park in Sweetwater, Texas. Are the letters real? Well, yes. And no!

• 

  The Bird Boys

  Anne Giangiulio

  Book cover and interior template I designed for The Bird Boys by Lisa Sandlin, published by Cinco Puntos Press.
  After a serial killer almost murdered Delpha Wade (The Do-Right, 2015), the county hospital releases her into the handcuffs of the city police for questioning. She killed the man who was trying to kill her, and she is, after all, an ex-con. It’s still Beaumont, 1970s, and mindsets don’t change along the Texas Gulf Coast. Her boss, the neophyte private detective Tom Phelan, awaits her, and soon they are once again in deep shit. It seems like an easy case—one Bird brother looking for the long-lost other—but turns out that one brother is a murderer. He likes to slit throats. But which one? Maybe the young girl who sees into the dark places of human hearts can help. But only Delpha is wise enough to listen.

• 

  We the Women Poster

  Anne Giangiulio

  https://www.wethewomendesign.com/I was invited to contribute a design to We the Women, a brilliant collective effort by female designers across the country to bring awareness and action to women's rights issues in the U.S.
  Proceeds from the sale of the posters support Ultraviolet, a non-profit that fights sexism and supports inclusivity.
  

• 

  Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo 2019 Year-End Report

  Anne Giangiulio

  This project earned first place, Annual Reports category, in the 2020 Print Awards, presented by Adobe. https://www.printmag.com/post/the-best-graphic-design-of-the-year-announcing-the-winners-of-the-print-awards I designed this Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo 2019 Year-End Report for the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, a Puebloan Native American tribal entity located in the Ysleta section of El Paso, Texas. With a focus on the traditional foods of the tribe, the report features photos and text that document the creation of time-honored recipes created by various tribal members and the stories that accompany them. To achieve this, we worked with a Tiguan photographer whom I art directed during the cooking or baking process. Separating each section is a spread containing a full-bleed image of the dish, facing in-progress images with a removable, perforated recipe card. The bright silver spiral-bound report was expertly printed and assembled by Tovar Printing of El Paso, Texas and complements its silver metallic embossed varnish of illustrations of the dishes' ingredients that pops strikingly against a deep sunset purple cover. The result is not your average annual report, but one that informs its intended audience beautifully while creating a record of favorite tribal cuisine. As. designer, it was a true honor to work with Tigua members on this project. Above all, I am grateful for the experience I will not soon forget of being a welcome guest at the table to experience these delicious and special dishes firsthand.

• 

  AIGA Design for Democracy 2018

  Anne Giangiulio

  Poster designed for the 2018 AIGA Get Out the Vote non-partisan exhibition, Design for Democracy, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

• 

  A Song for The River

  Anne Giangiulio

  The Gila River and Wilderness are the heart and soul of A Song for the River. Every summer since 2002, Connors has been perched in a tower 50 feet above the Gila Wilderness, watching for fire. His first book, Fire Season (30,000 sold), recounted the deep lessons learned about mountains, wilderness, fire, and solitude. A Song for the River, its sequel, updates and deepens the story: the mountain he loves goes up in flames; a lookout on another mountain whom he has come to love as brother dies in a freak accident; and three high school students he admires die tragically in an airplane crash while researching the wilderness and the wild river they wish to save. Connors channels their voices in a praise song of great urgency and makes a plea to save a vital piece of our natural and cultural heritage: the wild Gila River, whose waters are threatened by a potential dam.

• 

  A Terrible Combination

  Anne Giangiulio

  I designed the poster 'A Terrible Combination' for the 2018 15th International Biennial of the Poster in Mexico City to take place in October of 2018.

• 

  A Woman, in Bed

  Anne Giangiulio

  Simone comes of age in WWI. She comes into her own in WWII as part of the French resistance. Frequently, she abandons herself to lust—particularly to a man named Jacques. She leaves her first husband for Jacques and spends over a decade as his lover. They eventually marry, yet Simone still sleeps with strangers, her husband the most distant of them all. What is she seeking? Simone isn’t sure. More than sex—a tenderness that lust can never fill. Just when her body feels most fragile, she meets Pierre, a much younger man, a novice at love-making, clumsy and overly emotional, a fool—yet there is something about him. A lifelong love story not between two lovers but between a woman and her body.

• 

  Chalk the Block 2018 Poster

  Anne Giangiulio

  I designed this poster for the annual Chalk the Block event which took place October 12–14, 2018 in downtown El Paso. For the art vendors component of the event, I organized a group of 10 students from my 'Graphic Design 4: Typography' class at The University of Texas at El Paso. Their posters were judged and selected to be on sale in a downtown outdoor booth for the weekend event. All proceeds from the sale of the posters went directly to the students.

• 

  Plastic Straws Suck

  Anne Giangiulio

  I designed the poster 'Plastic Straws Suck' for Poster for Tomorrow's 2018 competition, 'Let's make Our Planet Great Again!" http://www.posterfortomorrow.org

• 

  Stop Child Marriage

  Anne Giangiulio

  I designed the poster 'Stop Child Marriage' for the 2018 15th International Biennial of the Poster in Mexico City to take place in October of 2018.

• 

  Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo 2018 Year-End Report

  Anne Giangiulio

  I designed this Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo 2018 Year-End Report for the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, a Puebloan Native American tribal entity located in the Ysleta section of El Paso, Texas. With a color palette of terracotta and dark turquoise, the report features artwork created by artists from the Tigua Indian Cultural Center and the Eagle's Path Culural Gift Shop. These artists' medium is usually pottery, however, under my art direction, to better complement the report format, they used watercolor paper while staying true to the tribe's traditional motifs and aesthetics. The spiral-bound report was expertly printed and assembled by Tovar Printing of El Paso, Texas with a die cut and glossy UV varnish on the cover. Divider tabs along the side assign visual pattern, rather than text, to each of the report's seven sections. The result is a report that informs its intended audience beautifully—balancing negative space with bold Pueblo symbols and signs such a flowers, feathers, and bear claws that draw from Tigua history and culture. It was a true honor to work with such striking visuals on this project.

• 

  Ahgottahandleonit

  Anne Giangiulio

  Book cover and interior template I designed for Ahgottahandleonit by Donovan Mixon, published by Cinco Puntos Press.
  Tim, already two years behind in a Newark inner-city high school, will be a sophomore again if he doesn’t pass the English proficiency exam. He’s got good street cred, riffing strange rap-rhymes and running like the wind. Maria, a girl in his class, catches his eye, but he’s still thinking about his ex, Rene.
  At home, he’s packed into a 3-flat with his mom, sister and Uncle Gentrale. His father, a drunk, recently walked out on the family, wanting some “freedom.” He tells Tim, “Ahgottahandleonit.” He doesn’t. Nor does Tim. The last day of school before summer, in front of his classmates, Tim insults Mr. Jones, the one teacher who has wanted to help. Tim doesn’t know why he did this. It was just always there, a rage born of some dark history, one his dad cannot explain. His uncle tries though––it’s about some crazy stuff going down when he and Tim’s dad were young, living on the farm.
  In a fight with some gangbangers, Tim’s rage boils over. He ends up slamming Chucky’s head with a rock. He steals his phone and carries it, like an albatross, throughout the summer. He wants to run, to hide, to get revenge, to be free. Maybe Mr. Jones will understand?
  Tim wants his life to matter.

• 

  All Around Us

  Anne Giangiulio

  Grandpa says circles are all around us. He points to the rainbow that rises high in the sky after a thundercloud has come. “Can you see? That’s only half of the circle. The rest of it is down below, in the earth.” He and his granddaughter meditate on gardens and seeds, on circles seen and unseen, inside and outside us, on where our bodies come from and where they return to. They share and create family traditions in this stunning exploration of the cycles of life and nature.

• 

  Chalk the Block 2017 Poster

  Anne Giangiulio

  Poster designed for the annual downtown El Paso arts festival, Chalk the Block 2017. This poster was part of a suite I designed with my students to re-brand the border to a national audience in the style of vintage travel posters. These works were featured in the international design blog, The Daily Heller here:http://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/untrumping-border-stereotypes-el-paso/

• 

  Migration is Human

  Anne Giangiulio

  I originally designed this poster on the topic "In Favor of People's Human Rights in the Migration" for the 14th Biennial of the Poster Competition in Mexico City. The limited rights to the image were later purchased by the German publisher Junius Verlag to be used on the cover of the book Globale Migration (Zur Einführung) by Helen Schwenken:https://www.amazon.de/Globale-Migration-Einf%C3%BChrung-Helen-Schwenken/dp/3885068052

• 

  Murder on the Red River

  Anne Giangiulio

  Book cover and interior template I designed for Murder on the Red River by Marcie R. Rendon, published by Cinco Puntos Press.
  Cash and Sheriff Wheaton make for a strange partnership. He pulled her from her mother’s wrecked car when she was three. He’s kept an eye out for her ever since. It’s a tough place to live—that part of the world where the Red River divides Minnesota and North Dakota. Cash navigated through foster homes, and at 13 was working farms. She’s tough as nails—barely over five feet, jeans and jean jacket, smokes Marlboros, drinks Bud Longnecks. Makes her living driving truck. Playing pool on the side. Wheaton is a big lawman type. Scandinavian stock, but darker skin than most. Something else in there? Cash hasn’t ever asked. He wants her to take hold of her life. Get into junior college.
  So there they are, staring at the dead Indian lying in the field. Soon Cash was dreaming the dead man’s HUD house on the Red Lake Reservation, mother and kids waiting. She has that kind of knowing. That’s the place to start looking. There’s a long and dangerous way to go to find the men who killed him. Plus there’s Jim, the married white guy. And Long Braids, the Indian guy headed for Minneapolis to join the American Indian Movement.

• 

  Trippy Trost Animated Gif for Neon Desert Music Festival

  Anne Giangiulio

  I designed this animated gif which was projected on the side of a building in downtown El Paso, Texas for the annual Neon Desert Music Festival. Sponsored by the Texas Trost Society, it features a likeness of Henry C. Trost (1860–1933), an important architect who designed many of El Paso's most important buildings, with many bright colors in keeping with the eclectic and energetic spirit of the music festival. See "additional files" below for the animated gif.

• 

  Get Out the Vote 2016

  Anne Giangiulio

  Poster designed for the 2016 AIGA Get Out the Vote non-partisan exhibition. For This same poster, I was contacted by Paul Loeb, Founder of the Campus Election Engagement Project in Seattle, WA to distribute the poster in schools throughout the country.

• 

  Pull

  Anne Giangiulio

  Book cover and interior template I designed for Pull by Kevin Waltman, published by Cinco Puntos Press.Derrick has worked hard the last two years getting ready for his junior basketball season. He’s earned his coach’s trust and his role as the starting point guard for Marion East. Marion East has never won the Indiana state championship, but this year the team is Derrick’s. And Derrick is really good. Major colleges work feverishly to recruit him because now that he’s a junior, they can do it legally. Opponents worry when D-Bow steps onto the court. Derrick is ready to run teams off the court. If only he could get on the court and stay on it. Pull is the third book in Waltman's D-Bow High School Hoops series.

• 

  Quicks

  Anne Giangiulio

  Book cover and interior template I designed for Quicks by Kevin Waltman, published by Cinco Puntos Press.It's D-Bow's senior year, his A-Game is ready, big-time colleges are taking notice, and he's dreaming big. What's really rattling D-Bow is the cocky white guy, Daryl Gibson, angling for his job at point. It's time for D-Bow to man up, and bring home a win for Marion High, his inner-city school in Indianapolis that’s never had a state championship. Quicks is the fourth and final book in Waltman's D-Bow High School Hoops series.s.

• 

  Viva Trost! Wheatpaste

  Anne Giangiulio

  My work was selected to participate in the juried exhibition “Urban Transformations: Visions of the Past and Future of El Paso” which took placeOctober 1, 2016–October 31, 2016 in downtown El Paso, Texas sponsored by the Texas Trost Society. My wheatpaste submission "Viva Trost!" was created with all the themes of Modern Renaissance, Historic Preservation, Sustainability, Urban Renewal, and El Paso’s future in mind. It honors Henry C. Trost (1860–1933), an important architect who designed many of El Paso's most important buildings.
  It looks to the future while at the same time acknowledging El Paso’s past. In the design, I have utilized historic typefaces that would have been seen during El Paso’s early growth period, the Victorian Era, c. 1870s, 1880s.
  One simply needs to look at pages of the El Paso Daily Herald newspaper from that era to see such typography widely in use. In my design, these overly decorative typefaces are combined with vibrant colors displaying the vitality of our bi-national heritage—a nod to Mexico and in general to living life to its fullest. It is bright, hopeful and fun. These same adjectives should be used to describe the future of downtown El Paso.

• 

  Ciudad Juárez–El Paso Biennial 2015

  Anne Giangiulio

  Catalog designed for the 'Ciudad Juárez–El Paso Biennial 2015', on display from November 6, 2015 to February 7, 2016 at the El Paso Museum of Art. 130 pages.

• 

  Crane Boy

  Anne Giangiulio

  Book cover and interior I designed for 'Crane Boy' written by Diana Cohn and illustrated by Youme, published by Cinco Puntos Press. It tells the tale of Kinga and his classmates waiting for the black-necked cranes to return to the kingdom of Bhutan. The birds fly south over the highest mountains in the word to winter in the valley where Kinga lives, deep in the Himalayas. The cranes have been visiting the valley since ancient times, but every year, fewer cranes return. Kinga is concerned. "What can he do?," he wonders. He and his classmates approach the monks for permission to create and perform a dance to honor the cranes and to remind the Bhutanese people of their duty to care for them. The monks caution them to first watch the cranes to see how they move and learn from them. The children watch and practice. And practice some more until the big day when they perform before the king of Bhutan. 40 pages.

• 

  Exhibition catalog for 'Hal Marcus: Lyric Modern'

  Anne Giangiulio

  Catalog designed for the exhibition 'Hal Marcus: Lyric Modern', on display from September 6, 2015 to January 24, 2016 at the Dede Rogers Special Events Gallery of the El Paso Museum of Art. 40 pages.

• 

  Posters for Nepal

  Anne Giangiulio

  I was invited to design a poster for the campaign ‘Posters for Nepal’ which is to be on sale at http://www.postersfornepal.com/. All proceeds to benefit UNICEF and the American Red Cross. I visited Nepal with friends in the summer of 1999. That trip has such special, magical memories to me that when I heard of the devastating earthquake that hit there in April of 2015, in many of the same areas that I had visited, I was heartbroken. I recall the beautiful, friendly people we met there and their resilience in both a tough climate and tough economic circumstances. I knew they would rebuild and that if I could do a small part as a designer to create a poster to help, I certainly would. Depicted in my design is a 17th century deity from Nepalese Buddhism, a form of Hevajra seen among the rubble ruins of the earthquake embracing his consort Vajrasrinkhala. Despite looking very wrathful, Hevajra symbolizes great compassion. It also makes reference to the irreplaceable, fragile ancient artifacts and carvings that were destroyed in the quake. So, I am using the image here in a way to show that from this wrathful-looking earthquake shall come deep compassion that we must show the survivors in helping them to rebuild their country.

• 

  The Do-Right

  Anne Giangiulio

  Book cover I designed for 'The Do-Right' written by Lisa Sandlin, published by Cinco Puntos Press. This was one of those design jobs that, after several cover proposals by me—including a woodcut, and one with groovy 70s type referencing the time period in which the book is set, we all decided that this photo entitled 'Blessing' by Keith Carter was simply perfect for the cover. It's a great read brimming with Grrrrl power in the main character of Delpha Wade. 306 pages. 1973. That's fourteen years of prison time after Delpha Wade killed a man who was raping her. She’d wanted to kill the other one too, but he got away. It's hard to find a decent job, but Delpha's persistence pays off. She lands a secretarial job with Tom Phelan, an ex-roughneck turned neophyte private eye. Delpha is smart, prison-wise, and together the two stumble into the dark corners of Beaumont, a blue-collar, Cajun-influenced town dominated by Big Oil. A mysterious client plots mayhem against a small petrochemical company — why? Searching for a teenage boy, Phelan uncovers the weird lair of a serial killer. And Delpha — on a weekend outing — looks into the eyes of her rapist, the one who got away. The novel's conclusion is classic noir, full of surprise, excitement, and karmic justice. Sandlin's elegant prose, twisting through the dark thickets of human passion, allows Delpha to open her heart again to friendship, compassion, and sexuality.

• 

  A Tightly Raveled Mind

  Anne Giangiulio

  Book cover and interior template I designed for 'A Tightly Raveled Mind' by Diane Lawson, published by Cinco Puntos Press. Sigmund Freud would have liked Dr. Nora Goodman, a sexy forty-something psychoanalyst with her handful of neurotic patients who can't seem to allow themselves happiness, love, or success. She's not exactly a steady customer herself, born to a ranting bipolar Talmudic scholar and a mother with a heart as cold as a slaughterhouse on the Kansas prairie​ in January.​ But now she has two kids and an overbearing psychiatrist husband. She hates him. She hates his insular social world. Nora wants a new life sans husband, but what she gets is something terribly different. It starts one Monday morning when her eight o'clock patient blows himself to smithereens. The following week, another patient dies. The police see the first as an accident, the second a straightforward suicide. Nora thinks her practice is being targeted by a killer. She hires private investigator Mike Ruiz, a tightly wound ex-cop who couldn't care less for Sigmund. "Oh, Freud," Mike says. "Isn't he dead?​" Freud is always watching while the unlikely pair struggle to an unexpected end.

• 

  Business Cards for Helix Solutions

  Anne Giangiulio

  Card designed for local businessman Christopher Villa of Helix Solutions. Cards are 2-color, double-sided, and embossed on the logo.

• 

  Centennial Notecards

  Anne Giangiulio

  From the over 30 watercolor drawings I did of buildings on The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) campus, 24 were selected to be made into high-quality deckle edged blank notecards. The cards are sold on campus in 4 separate packages of 6 cards each for $18 as part of UTEP's Centennial celebration in 2014. These same drawings also became a silk scarf (see also "Silk Scarf designed for UTEP's Centennial Celebration" under the "2013 Portfolio in Depth" header).

• 

  Chalk the Block 2014 Poster

  Anne Giangiulio

  I designed this poster for the annual Chalk the Block event which took place October 10–October 12, 2014 in downtown El Paso. For the pop-up gallery component of the event, I organized a group of 10 students from my 'Graphic Design 4: Typography' class at The University of Texas at El Paso. Their posters were judged and selected to be on sale in a downtown outdoor booth for the three-day weekend event. All proceeds from the sale of the posters went directly to the students.

• 

  Cold Type

  Anne Giangiulio

  Book cover and interior template I designed for 'Cold Type' by Harvey Araton, published by Cinco Puntos Press. "In times of change, American novelists return to old themes. In Cold Type—as in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman—a son and his father struggle to hold onto what they think is right. It's mid-1990s; and "cold type" technology, a.k.a. computerized typesetting, wreaks havoc among workers in the newspaper industry. A fabulously wealthy Briton buys the New York City Trib and immediately refuses to negotiate with the truck drivers' union. In solidarity, all the other blue collar unions take to the streets. Jamie Kramer is a reporter for the Trib. His father is a hardcore shop steward (unusual for a Jew in Irish-dominated unions) from the old day of "hot type," but who has become a typographer in a world he doesn't understand. His father expects Jamie not to cross the picket line. It would be an act of supreme disrespect. But that's not so easy for Jamie. His marriage has fallen apart, he desperately needs his paycheck for child support, and he needs to make his own life outside the shadow of his father."