Fat Script: An Exploration in Cyrillic and Latin Script

We are experimenting with Cyrillic in my lettering class with Ken Barber of House Industries this week. We have to make a bilingual hang tag for some manner of plush toy in the spirit of Moomins, Cheburashka, etc. I decided after some sketching to try and handle both the latin and the cyrillic in some super-fat(phat) script lettering reminiscent of a chunky shoelace or some squeezed out toothpaste.

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Monogram/Lettering/Cipher Sketches

Some sketchbook scans of my brainstorming and sketching for my personal monogram/cipher for Ken Barber. Some more cleaned up versions to come soon. (more…)

A Semester’s Worth of Books.

or at least what I haven’t lost, thrown away, sold, or gifted.

I certainly had a very book centric semester, but I think it worked out quite well in the end. I now have the book thing added to my belt to help me execute some bigger ideas. I will continue to make books over the summer, perhaps some small editions to make some cash. Also, my portfolio will be updated soon as well, perhaps along with my website??? WHO KNOWS! Stay tuned.

Leatherbound Sketchbooks

I haven’t blogged about anything in awhile, so I figured I would grab something nearby and take some pictures of it. I completed this 3 book series a month or so ago. My goal was to make what in my mind would be the perfect sketchbook for a fine artist. I came up with these wide format, leatherbound, Rives BFK Gray notebooks. I have already gifted two of them to some very fine artists, and I am sure I will find someone to give the 3rd one to soon. I hope they will draw/paint/watercolor/gouache/doodle all over them, then let me borrow them so I can take some pictures of them worn, when I hope they will be more beautiful and just as intact.

Sourced Leather

Plans for the Flatback Hardcover

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Experimental Numerals

While paying tremendous amounts of attention today in “The History of Existentialism,” I doodled out this non-lining, mostly sans-serif set of numerals on some Kierkegaard. I am quite fond of the little guys. Does anyone know of a font with a numeral set that lines like this?

The “Raspberry Attic” Art of Olivia Horvath

An excerpt from Olivia Horvath's Sketchbook

Jeez, seems like all of my wonderful friends are getting blogs these days…crazy kids. I have long admired Olivia’s ability to infuse a little piece of her dynamic personality into every piece she works on; her “raspberry attic” style radiates through all of her cross-media work. (more…)