Greetings Cards for Tigerprint Hand Drawn Type Competition
These are the final 3 designs I submitted to the Hand Drawn Type Competition from Tigerprint. I hand drew all elements using fineliner, pencil, coloured pencil, and ink, and then scanned them into Photoshop, where I collaged all the pieces together and added more colour if necessary. I wanted to use bold typographical imagery and...
The Daily Ampersand Project: Day 7 to 10
I’ve been massively busy (which isn’t really an excuse) so haven’t posted any of my ampersands! I’m about 2 weeks behind on posting and 4 days behind on actually doing them. Should finish more later. The main trouble is scanning them in – I’m being lazy mostly because I haven’t set up my scanner on...
Now that’s my TYPE of cake….
See what I did there? I came across this amazing cake over at design*sponge (awesome blog, I recommend it strongly, lots of handmade project tips/interior design/general coolness) and have to post about it. I have a bit of a love for typewriters – I haven’t blogged about it yet but I bought an old typewriter...
Pencil Power
I want to post today about a few illustrators that really inspire me, who all work with pencil predominantly. I’m a huge fan of good ol’ fashioned pencil drawing in illustration, and I’m constantly trying to improve my drawing because I think it’s important in this crazy digital world to still have these skills. I’ve...
Seven Deadly Sins: Finished Project
I never actually thought I would be able to finish this in time for deadline. This project has been so stressful; fun though. And even though I had to rush these a bit, I’m really pleased with them. Here we go: I won’t put the titles up; one of the ideas of the project was...
I think I have a typography fetish.
Because this took me about an hour and a half and I loved every minute of it. I just love letterforms. And all you can do with them. Mmmm. I know this is quite graphic-designy of me but sometimes I need a bit of that. It’s graph paper (recycled, don’tcha know) and letraset. That’s all....
Computers
I’ve had this quote going round my head for a while. Thought I’d better do something about it. I’m not keen on the tetris style ‘to’. Not that legible. The rest was fun though – It’s just a type experiment before I delve into my projects. I’m not procrastinating, honest. **I don’t hate computers. I’m...
