- Hey guys, look!
I have mail.
This is a very heavy box.
I'm gonna go put it down and open it up.
There it is.
The John Green box set, which I designed
and so they sent me a
few free copies of it.
This is so cool.
It's like it's shrink-wrapped.
This is like an actual thing
that you can buy in a store
and it has my design on it.
Okay, I'm gonna open up this one.
I have two more in that box
which is why it was so heavy.
It's so shiny!
Also so cool, to be clear though,
I don't want people getting confused,
this band that wraps around
it, I did not design that.
I did the illustration
that is on the actual box.
So I'm just gonna go
ahead and take that off.
(surprised) I just saw the bottom!
Background pattern art,
2012, Karen Kavett.
So I also got a second piece of mail
which is this poster tube so I'm gonna
open this up and see what's in here.
My posters!
So after I designed the box
and we were pretty happy
with the design, I was
like, "You know this pattern
"would make a really nice poster."
So they didn't ask me to, I just decided
to mock up a few versions of the poster
acceptable and so I'm being like,
"Hey hey, I made this poster.
"If you wanna use it for
something, you know, go ahead."
And so I guess they got them printed.
I'm not entirely sure what
they're gonna be using them for
or if there's any way for you to get one
but this is a thing
that exists in the world
so maybe at some point we'll find out more
about if they're going
to do anything with it.
So some of you may be
wondering how this came about.
How did I end up designing
this crazy box set?
Well, I very simply just
got an email back in May
from Julie Strauss-Gabel,
who's John Green's publisher
and she was like, "We're
releasing a box set
"of John's books and we need a box.
"Do you wanna design it?"
And I said, "Yes please,
yes that is a thing
"that I would very much like to do."
So here in my sketchbook
you can see some of my
initial sketches and
ideas for the illustration
and then on the next page
are some of my early sketches
which I scanned in and live traced.
If you wanna see this in
more detail, I'll have a
whole blog post up on my
website about the whole process
of designing it now that
I have the actual box set
and I can take some nice
pictures and don't have to
rely on the little, like Amazon image.
Speaking of my website, by the way,
I finally released the new design.
The old one was fine but I
designed it like two years ago.
It was really outdated so I just gave
the entire thing a complete overhaul.
Every single page has been
updated with current information
so if you want to keep up to date
on all of my graphic design work,
a lot of which includes
nerdfightery things
like this kind of stuff.
It is karenkavett.com.
I'll have the link down below.
Please let me know if you like it.
I really like it.
I think it looks a lot more professional.
I've actually had it done since September
but I had one of my
friends starting to code it
and just was taking him forever,
so I finally enlisted Andy
who has done a lot of work with LeakyCon
and he just finished it right up.
So yeah, I was just really
excited about this box set
and I wanted to show you guys.
This is a thing that you
can buy in any book store
or on Amazon so if you want
a thing that I designed
in real life, you can now
own it for the low, low price
of something.
I'm not entirely sure how much it costs,
maybe like $80 on Amazon?
I don't even know.
Also, while I am plugging
things, I've been posting
a lot of videos on my
second channel recently.
Last week I put up a video
where I went in to go
visit the Full House house.
Also, take a look at the
architecture of the house.
There is clearly not
an attic in this house.
At least not one that is big enough for
Jessie and Becky and
their kids to live in.
And then earlier this week was episode two
of my new series, Karen Learns to Cook.
(bright pop music)
Hey everyone, welcome to Karen
Learns to Cook, episode two.
And finally I documented my voting process
because this is the first time
I've been able to vote in the elections.
Well that took all of five seconds.
I literally walked in,
gave them my envelope,
she checked if I signed it
and then I got a sticker.
And I'm filming this on
Monday even though I'm
gonna be posting it on Thursday,
so I don't know yet who won.
But I'm pretty confident
it's gonna be Obama.
So, go Obama! Ow.
Okay, that's it for me.
Stay tuned until next
week when I will have a
Thanksgiving crafting video that I think
is gonna be really fun.
If you missed my previous
video, I recommended
some awesome graphic design
material, some good inspiration.
You can watch that right here.
And if you want to check
out my second channel,
I will put a link to that right here.
Thank you so much for watching.
Don't forget to pick up your
copy of the John Green box set.
If you have friends
who aren't nerdfighters
or haven't read his books,
this makes an excellent Christmas present.
And I will see you all next time.
(techno music)
