"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."Jules De Goncourt | Pandora Ink Design was founded in 2007 for the various and varied design projects & services of Melissa Duckworth. Our projects range from marketing services to installation book design, and everything in between. For more information on this wide variety of projects, please take some time to explore our website. You may also contact us with any questions. Our Books: “What makes a book? Is it a stack of paper, or that that stack of paper has been bound, or that that bound stack of paper has a cover, or is it the content? Where do you draw the line between book and sculpture, book and manuscript, book and oral history, book and film?" Our comprehensive objects: a culmination of text, structure, and visual art. Melissa believes that a book should be the sum of its parts, that each element should come together to create something greater. In this philosophy, visual art is not merely disposable illustration to the text, but integral to understanding the work. (more...) Marketing Design & Consultation: Melissa has worked widely in Sales & Marketing, Marketing Design, Book Production, and Book Design. Her education and work experience exemplify a unique and seemingly disparate set of skills. Her understanding of sales & marketing, as well as art & design make her a valuable team member, with much to offer. (more...) Couture Family Albums: A Couture Family Album is a printed, hard-bound, reproducible book but one-of-a-kind. The process can be used to create stunning, unique and comprehensive albums to record a family's history, or something of a smaller scope, such as a wedding or the birth of a child. We gather the story, quotes, and artifacts to create an exquisite book. For instance, for a wedding, you could have your professional photos, candids, quotes from your guests, a CD or DVD, all in one place along with reproductions of your wedding and engagement announcement, honeymoon reservations, etc--- anything you would want to save from this special time to share with your children can be documented and preserved in this way, then duplicated to be shared in its entirety with friends, family & future generations. (more...) Melissa Duckworth: Melissa began her creative life as a writing student at the University of Michigan. Ultimately, she ended up involved with Eastern Michigan University’s Cellar Roots: first as assistant editor, and later as Editor-in-Chief. This experience drastically shifted Melissa’s creative energies from writing to design. She began exploring non-traditional book design in 2005. (more...) |
