Living Letters
Another great example of hand-drawn lettering. Not only do I like this because it’s done manually, but it’s extremely expressive. It’s use of a calming, cool color and the vines sprouting out from all...
View ArticleCoffee & Cigarettes
This truly is a genius design in my opinion. Combining images and the simple letterform of an ampersand to basically state the title of the film without using any photographic images is impressive. If...
View ArticleTypography Final Project
For our final project we essentially had to pull material from this blog and organize it and design a booklet. We could use InDesign to set our text but that was it; everything had to be in black and...
View ArticleProject 1 – Order!
Final_Poster Forgot to upload this a while back but this was my final poster for our first project that focused on Order. My image is off a mural on a random building in Detroit, and essentially I...
View ArticleNew vs Old
I stumbled upon an article on Eye Magazine.com that talks about Monotype’s typographical adviser, Stanley Morison, who published an article about newspaper design (that I didn’t get to fully read...
View ArticleAccidental Mysteries
Here’s a really cool post I found on the Design Observer site. It talks about this German Book from the 17th Century that basically is just a compilation of different calligraphy styles applied to the...
View ArticleWhen life gives you hands…
Nice quote that stopped me in my tracks. Even though I’m a Graphic Designer, I love doing project by getting messy (screen printing, drawing, painting, etc). I don’t think value will ever be lost in...
View ArticleInspiration
I like the transparency of this design because it’s interesting and captivating but doesn’t look muddled or pointless. The color scheme is also very nice and soothing. Inspiration is a post from:...
View ArticleSpring Break Letter-Pressing
So I had an amazing spring break… one of the things I had the opportunity to do was to go to Signal Return Letter Press in Downtown Detroit and make some postcards… Below are a few of the ones I played...
View ArticleLaurie Haycock : Cranbrook Lecture
So I went to listen to a lecture by Laurie Haycock at Cranbrook a few weeks ago, and it was definitely interesting, but quite beautiful. Most of the lecture she talked about the work she and her...
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