Happy Holidays 2010

I love designing a holiday card every year and this years was quite a feat. I wanted to do more than just the ambiguous "Happy Holidays" but somehow still create a card for everyone. So I put together Festivus, Christmas, Hanukkah, Navidad, and Holidays each with their own positive expression and then cut the words up so the illustrations in the card could be mixed and matched. The result is you can celebrate everything! They are 4-color process on 65# Cover French's Parchtone Mist with A7 French's Poptone Blue Rasberry envelopes! Only 50 cards were made so if you got one Enjoy!

U is for U-Bend!

U is up at Alphabattle!

Arsenic & Old Lace

A new poster design on my site! :) A mixture of whimsical typography and clean illustration, which make up much of my personal style are used to create this poster for the play Arsenic & Old Lace. Arsenic & Old Lace is a play by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939. This is not a client project but is my interpretation of how it could be done and was developed for a series of samples I'll be sending to art directors.

T is for Time

T is for Time :) Now up for Alphabattle!

SWARM Sans!

Thanks to Brain Carroll over on Dribbble I heard about Design*Sponge's Design Your Own Alphabet Contest. I however heard about it about 24 hours before the deadline so I came up with an entry of my own with SWARM Sans. Which honestly I think may be much stronger than the original serif version I designed. Look for a full typeface of it sometime in 2011 (I've got a pretty full plate right now).



You can see Brian's Icarus entry up on Dribbble. Awesome work Bri!

R & S

With my work on my Halloween costume I fell a bit behind on my lettering and missed out on R. I went ahead with it since it felt odd to not do so. So here is R and S. You can see all the others over at Alphabattle!


R is for Ribbon!


S is for Smoke!

My lettering is getting more and more narrative as this goes on, that is something I'm really enjoying! :)

Q

Q is for the Queen of Hearts! :) Check out the rest of the letters over at Alphabattle!

TERCIO!

Tercio is a pastiche slab-serif of wood & metal tendencies. Originally construction was to create a slab-serif version of Camisado, but as the design progressed so many changes took place that Tercio became its own font. The steampunk inspired print is 12.5" x 19" four color process with a silk-screen overprint of metallic gold ink on French's 65# Cover Parchtone Aged. Download Tercio for free here. Enjoy!

P is for Pen

P is up at LetterCult. Enjoy!

O

O is up at LetterCult. I was originally trying to go for something that looked like lace but in the end it felt more like porcelain.

A Lesson on Typography

N is for kNot!

N is up over at LetterCult's Alphabattle. Enjoy!

Alphabattle L & M

Gotten a little bit behind on my blogging that should be remedied with my switch to FT freelancing and FT teaching. I know it sounds weird to leave a steady gig for 2 FT jobs and some how have more time but trust me it is true.



Light me up an L :)



Kept thinking of condiments :)

Suzanne Pfutzenreuter

Today's Awesome Award goes to Suzanne Pfutzenreuter! This Jenson book is absolutely beautiful. You can check out more of here work on her Behance site. Oh and you should follow her too!





For more information and past winners check here.

K is Killer

K is up at LetterCult :) Check it out!

Marian Bantjes

She is as always inspirational and amazing. Thanks for the dedication and love Marian :)

J is for...

Bet you can't guess my inspiration...HAHA. Check out all the other cool J's over at LetterCult.

I, i captain!

i is up over at LetterCult's AlphaBattle :) Check it out.

On My Mark Unleash H!

H is up on AlphaBattle! Check it out at LetterCult

Dribbble Dis

So I love the idea of Dribbble. Especially since it plays upon my idea that design needs to be more about community over competition, sharing ideas and inspirations rather than worrying about others stealing them. As an educator I find it to be really bad in the heart of design education so I encourage my students to share and share alike. It doesn't matter it someone has the same idea as you, they won't execute it the same way as you because they are NOT you. That being said I decided to dribbble here a bit, since well...I don't have a dribbble account (you need to be invited, oh well someday maybe :] )


A new poster/shirt print illustration. Enjoy!