Cyrillic Fat Script Updated

I got lots of feedback on the “Fat Script: An Exploration in Cyrillic and Latin Script” post from yesterday concerning the legibility of my Cyrillic. (Special thanks to Robin, Colin, Alexey, Ken, and the internet) Hence, I have updated the script to hopefully be more legible. The old is on top and the new is on the bottom; let me know!

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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Laser Etched Letterpress Block Printing, Soup to Nuts, in One Day

Soooooooooo for my Experimental Lettering course we had to expand on our monogram/cipher sketches from last week and apply the finalized design to some medium. I chose to create a letterpress wood block I can use on any typesetting things I tackle in the future. So, I got up real early on Saturday, went down to the wood shop, cut a piece of wood to the perfect size, went over to the lasercutter/etcher and waited my turn in line, and etched the design into the end grain of the block. The result was this:

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Objectified Screening at MICA

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Developed Lettering: Teaberry

I have been working on further developing the “grocery store” lettering from my first assignment in Ken Barber’s class, and here is where it has gotten me. Though it is in its infancy and I doubt I will ever get around to turning this into an actual font, I have started affectionately calling this face “Teaberry” after one of my favorite old-school chewing gum brands.

Please let me know what you think thus-far!

Poster for MICA’s Screening of Objectified (in progress)

I am creating a poster for MICA‘s screening of Gary Hustwit’s latest documentary, Objectified. In order to do this, I tracked pretty much every object I touched throughout the course of a day and then proceeded to illustrate each one. I wanted to allude to Build‘s poster for the film, but take the basic idea a bit further and put a concept behind it. I will post the final and printed version in my portfolio.

P.S. That image above is massive, just re-sized on this page. Download it or view it in it’s own window to see some more detail.

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Storefront Hand Lettering

I am falling madly, rapidly in love with lettering and type design in my class with Ken Barber of House Industries. These are some sample sketches from our first exercise in the class; I will be posting more work as the semester progresses and trying to translate my giddy, schoolgirl attitude about the subject through the cold, emotionless medium of blogging. WHAMMY.

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Observed: Chewing Gum Packaging

I happened across these packs of gum in the Charles Village Safeway and thought they were particularly beautiful. They have a great, simple, retro style to them that pretty effectively sold the product to me. INSPIRED! Check out the Wikipedia article on Beeman’s Gum to learn more about this sweet vintage product.

King of the Forest Birthday Invitations

Your Recession is My Renaissance.

Had this bouncing around my head for some time and threw it together. I think it, or something similar would make a fine screen print. Thoughts?