Heirloom Print on Demand Now Available

It took almost a year and a half, but Heirloom is finally available from Lulu, one of the largest print-on-demand publishers. The quality of the book is actually much better than I expected; I have included some photographs so you can get a real idea of what you’ll be getting. For super hi-res versions, check out the Flickr Set.

Purchase the book here!
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Pompadour Available as a Font (still free!)

Thanks to the wonderful Johno of I Love Typography, and the magic of the Creative Commons, the Pompadour numeral set is now available as both TrueType and OpenType fonts. I figured if John was going to go through the trouble of making Pompadour into a working font, the least I could do was add some punctuation. You’ll find a full stop, semi-colon, colon, comma, hyphen, en-dash and em-dash enclosed, all designed to work with those chunky-ass numbers. Enjoy!

Pompadour (OpenType 8kb)
Pompadour (TrueType 20kb)

Pompadour Numerals Font by Andy Mangold is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at www.andymangold.com.

It’s also worth noting that a man named Tom generously made a different set of font files for Pompadour, with a square full stop. Head on over to his blog if you get your jollies from that sort of thing.

Pompadour Numeral Set (Free Download)

I have finally gotten around to wrapping up the numeral set I finished a year ago into a nice, downloadable .eps to share with the internet. I hereby dub it ‘Pompadour.’ I have licensed it under the Creative Commons, so feel free to download, use, modify, and share the numbers as you see fit, just please give props where props are due. If you end up using the numbers on something, shoot me a jpg and I’ll link you up on this post.

Download the Pompadour Numeral Set (.eps)

UPDATE: Pompadour now available as a font! Download available here.

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Make Something Cool Everyday

My most tangible new years resolution is to begin participating in the “Make Something Cool Every Day” project, wherein I will make something — cool — everyday. The idea is to give myself a break from all manner of projects for 30 minutes to an hour everyday and just make something. I expect to do a lot of lettering (quick sketches turned quickly digital) and hopefully some random editorialey illustrations.

I will be posting these on the internet, and I expect you people to hold me to my resolution.

Impromtu Business Card Design

I created this impromptu business card for a good friend’s father, who is currently “transitioning” from his previous job with an oil company to something… sandier. I wish you the best of luck, Tony!

Examining the “Portfolio Site”

As a young designer, my web presence is an important aspect of my personal branding, my best method of marketing myself, and a strong reflection of the designer I am, or want to be. Since I started putting my work online three years ago, this domain has had six different designs, only three of which I am not completely ashamed of (a good sign I am growing as a designer). Keeping to my unintentionally established six-month website life cycle, I will be redesigning my portfolio and blog for launch sometime in early 2010.

I have been spending the last couple months accumulating bookmarks of portfolio and blog designs that I find to be highly effective, compelling, or interesting for any reason, and I thought I would share my thoughts. These are some of the best websites out there in the portfolio/blogosphere, in my humble opinion.

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Modular Type Micro-Site

I have created a micro-site to house my modular type experimentation. It is nothing ground-breaking, but I think it is successful. Check it: modulartype.andymangold.com

Modular Type Skeleton

I am in the midst of creating a modular letter set; our first assignment with House Industies‘ Ben Kiel. This is simply a skeleton I have created to construct the alphabet with as few pieces as possible. Now, I am actually planning on putting this into Flash, creating a symbol in the library for each module, and then editing the individual modules one at a time and watching how they affect the entire alphabet. Hopefully with this process I can create a unique, balanced, and dynamic letter set.

Perhaps I will look into an interesting way to publish the dynamic Flash file, allowing other folks to create their own modules and plug them into the skeleton I have made. Let me know which of the multiple/alternative letter forms are most successful? Let me know in the comments.

“Heirloom” Update

I have conducted the first few rounds of interviews and photo shoots for my “Heirloom” project that I am getting pretty excited about. I figured I would post some shots from today’s work in hopes of enticing more of you to participate! THIS COULD BE YOU!

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Letterpressed Calling and Post Cards

I spent most of yesterday in the Letterpress Studio making sweet, sweet love to Dolphin Press’s SP20. I printed some calling cards for the lovely Kailie Parrish as well as some post cards from Baltimore, both from polymer plates. I am finally starting to get the hang of this letterpress business, and I must say it is very exciting.

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