Townhouse Decorations

Painted these letters that I got from the BFA show for my Delaware house. I am still trying to identify the font, so far no luck...

Type Specimen Final Book

Printmaking - Screen Printed Shirt

Form & Comm Final Spread

Type Specimen Book

(Still have some things to fix on some of the letters; especially the "S")

Process - More Font Variations

I am really liking the light version of my font that I have created. I am confident that I can find a way to incorporate them both into my type specimen book.

I have also been experimenting with adding other elements to my dropcap and adding illustration to my book:

Inspiration

A week ago in Philadelphia I took this picture of a parking sign because I really liked the font it used. I did some investigation and found out that this font was Insignia:

While I liked some elements of this font, there were a lot of things that I didn't like. I decided to take the elements that I liked and incorporate them into my font.

More Type Process

After talking about my typeface today in class I decided to go back and try to incorporate the break that I drew in the "D" into other letters.

 

Also I am working on a "light" version of my font that I hope to incorporate into my type specimen book as well.

Form & Comm Spread

I am still having some issues incorporating my phrase: "Design without thought is just decoration." into this image. I want the image to be the first thing you see and I want the text to be secondary, but I am afraid that right now it is getting lost.

Rough Comp of Type Specimen Book

Abstract Design for Screenprinting

Inspiration

I finally found an example of a poster that uses the radial system pretty effectively. Here are some more festival posters, some are more successful than others.

Inspiration

Mike Abbink has a lot of interesting projects on his website. I thought this one in particular that he did as a proposal for a branding of New York City was particularly applicable to our type specimen book project.

Printmaking - Screen printed car

Typeface Process

CMYK Sighting

I found these CMYK stickers plastered to a pole while waiting at a stoplight in Philadelphia. As a nerdy artist I thought they were pretty cool, the other passengers in the car did not understand...

Inspiration

While looking through an old issue of Time I found this portrait composed of type:

I looked up the artist, Dylan Roscover, and discovered that he had done a similar portrait of Steve Jobs for an Apple campaign: