Wonderland, a hand-drawn font by Eve Duhamel, was cre ated with felt tip pen for Fontself.Wonderland
Two untracables from FFFFOUND.
I plan on using my upcoming time off to really really work on hand drawn type.
and other stuff.
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I’m loving the combination of old school stock imagery, blocky text boxes, and randomly inserted pictures of… more stock imagery? Oh, and the little extra bits of copy sprinkled around.
End of Year Show 2010, Werkplaats Typografie
I think the lesson here is: get really good at what you love doing.
For instance: Your design school professor might advise you not to fill your portfolio with only quirky illustrations and hand drawn type. He might tell you that your work is “cute” and “charming” but that you might want to show a more diverse range of styles. You yourself might wonder if working in a more traditional, commercial style will help your chances of finding work after graduation.
And none of these hypothetical people are wrong, but think of it another way: When somebody DOES want awesome hand drawn stuff, who do you think they’re going to come looking for?
Also: I want to steal this idea. I think we all should steal this idea. Let’s all write treatises on things like five o’clock shadows and then leave copies of them for people to find in custom-constructed brochure holders.
Cherry on top: grandiose ornamentation is one of my favorite things, hand-drawn typography is my other favorite thing, obviously.
Alice Pattullo
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Some featured projects from Mike Krol, lookin pretty fine.
What I like about a lot of these projects is how the Main Idea is carried through and rephrased in different ways throughout all the pieces.
I love the way that “Q” echoes the lightening bolt shapes. Also I love lightening bolts.
^ This is the kind of good, bad photoshopping that I am ALL ABOUT
^ cool typography. I would really like to see it rendered in duct tape on an amp or guitar case.
More Sarah Thorne
Making a whole installation for use in print: I love. Also patterns made out of a word over and over.
Do you ever design something and think to yourself: this looks good. And then two months later you glance back and you go: oh my god this is so mediocre how could I have thought I was finished before?
That’s how I’m feeling about the layout for my portfolio site, which I never finished building anway. I’m thinking when I go back to redo it, I’ll make it something like the above image?
Which is a detail shot of THIS awesome book jacket
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