A blog dedicated to my favorite glyph of all time? Why yes, please, I’ll sooo have another.
Please take a gander at the lovely assortment of found and designed ampersands at The Ampersand. Now here goes my productivity…how gorgeous are these?!
I was so excited to read about the new movie titles that Jessica Hische worked on for Wes Anderson…yes, Wes…’s new movie Moonrise Kingdom. Watch the trailer here.
As always, I am enamored of your work Jessica…if you’re out there reading this….sigh.
Can’t wait till this comes out!
The nostalgia that paint by numbers have in my heart are taken to a whole new level with this work by Trey Speegle. I remember spending countless hours trying to perfectly color realistic versions of horses or flowers onto these thin canvases that I could parade around with and show off to my parents and grandparents. Mixing typography with this childhood obsession is so fantastic in my mind.
Referencing something that so many people have an emotional or historical attachment to is very good art sense, and I applaud Trey for playing on these different contexts. It’s something to keep in mind while designing.
All artwork found here.
I just added the logo concepts that I worked on this summer for the Ex Libris bookstore. This was such a fun project to experiment with, as each intern at Working Class Studio was asked to create ten logos. It was a lot of work, but I was able to work with letterforms and creating my own type for many of the logos. This project is the one that prompted me to learn calligraphy, and that’s something that I’ve been continually practicing and using at least on a weekly basis.
Take a look!
Oh, and I promise that I’ll actually get my website running over this break and stop relying on behance completely. Yeah, this is more of a promise to myself than to you, but I thought I’d make that public so I can get on my own butt about getting it done.
I’ve been collecting life lessons and quote posters over here. These are a few of my favorite.
I’ve been taken aback by the simple beauty of the type treatment that the anthropologie emails have had lately. Whoever came up with this simple holiday type treatment is really getting something right! You can see the bottom image in motion on their homepage now.
I have holidays on the brain again. Last class of the quarter today at 5PM, then…break! As you can see, I also have stripes on the brain, but I don’t know when that isn’t happening. This is another mother-inherited obsession of mine. Stripey stripe stripe stripe. <3.
The type on this holiday card is also out of control. I need to diligently practice my calligraphy skills over break to get as good at this one day.
As we head into the final weeks of the quarter and deadlines seem to be getting uncomfortably close, I need to remember this poster. Here’s to hoping for a happy finals! (Although enjoy and finals are words I never thought I’d use in the same sentence…)
Remember this color study? It’s just beginning to come into fruition, but it’s interesting to see when small studies like this find there way to larger-scale projects. This is a logo concept that I’ve developed for a project (currently in the works). This is just a small part of the larger project, but color can have such a huge impact on the way we perceive things. I see a primary color revival coming about. I think that it really represents the ‘going back to basics’ thought. When we start with the fundamentals, we can start on the right path towards anything we choose. This is a nice additive metaphor for natural healing products, something that takes it away from the hippy-dippy aesthetics that are used so often.
PINEGATE ROAD 