MelDel LLC Designer/Creative entrpreneurMelissa Delzio
melissa@meldel.com
books
Our Portland Story Sneak Peak
Yeah, I know it has been awhile, but good things take time, patience is a virtue, etc. The Our Portland Story Volume 1 book is actually wrapping up. Final edits to pages are being made by generous designers, my editor is pouring over every last detail, and a new website that I designed is being [...]
Portland Story Project Launches
As the last days of summer roll into fall, I have started a project bound to keep me busy through the rainy season. Essentially the project is a book that will be made up of contributions of images and text from Portlanders about Portland. It will be part yearbook, part coffee-table book, part Portland [...]
Spell, swear and be O.K.
Bill Bryson’s book, The Mother Tongue – English and how it got that way, has caused me to have a newfound respect for my high school English teacher, editors, and other purveyors of this unwieldy language. English is the most widespread language, and it draws its roots from countless other languages, thus accounting for the [...]
So What?!
After eagerly consuming the novel Sometimes a Great Notion (by Eugene resident and bus-painting pioneer, Ken Kesey) and watching the movie, my boyfriend and I were among the first in the door to the Portland Center Stage production of the novel. The play was fantastic and we chose to attend a symposium on the play’s [...]
Smith Magazine Invade Powells, Invites Me
To celebrate their book launch of Not Quite What I was Planning, 6-word Memoirs from Authors Famous and Obscure Smith Magazine is coming to Powells on Feb 21st. The Reading/Signing/Six-Word Slam begins at 7:30 and will feature six word “readings” from me and other Portland contributors. How’s that for a good 6-seconds of [...]
Delzio Bag Launches + First Sentence Published
Several months have passed now since I worked to bring Cut & Paste, the international digital design tournament to Portland, however, the design lives on! For the event, I designed 3 large banners that graced the Wonder Ballroom day of show. Post-show, I donated the brightly colored banners to my friends at Queen Bee Creations, [...]
unfinished thoughts
“Im impressed with people who can create new spaces with the right words. I only know one language and sometimes in the middle of a sentence I feel like a foreigner trying to talk because I have word spasms where parts of some words begin to sound peculiar to me and in the middle of [...]
Powells gets crafty
Yet another reason to love Powells, these kick ass retro notebooks. The covers for these spiral bounds are old hardback library children’s books complete with check out slip and stamped dates on the inside cover. My favorite: Nancy Drew of course! I imagine myself filling those pages with all sorts of Drew-inspired notes. Heck maybe [...]
Shake About
“Ernest Hemingway once claimed he could write a great story in six words or less. He followed that braggadocio up by keeping his word. His story: For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
The six-word story challenge is still alive and well today, only with a spin. Smith magazine (smithmag.net) posted a contest to find the best [...]
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