DAY FORTY-NINE

Made some vector squiggles with the pencil tool. Picked my favorite. Then tried to make it old.

DAY FORTY-EIGHT

Alphabattle C.

DAY FORTY-SEVEN

A monogram in progress…

DAY FORTY-SIX

Spent all day Saturday attending the Bat Mitzvah of a family friend. Catching up with something fairly quick.

DAY FORTY-FIVE

LTRCLT. Stretching readability in favor of bolt-i-ness. The more I look at this, the more I’m thinking it’s not working. ZIRCLT, wat?
Going to update most likely.

different

closer to a final

DAY FORTY-FOUR

I spotted this No. 44 in the gutter last year. It was dirty and wet, a random piece of paper destined for death by disintegration. I pulled it up, and set it on the driveway to dry. I felt a bit like the kid from American Beauty, you know, the dude who videotaped dead birds and plastic bags flying in the wind. But yeah, beauty is subjective, and I thought I’d share it on Day 44.

It’s a bit more interesting than this piece, which is the result of random meandering while watching American Idol (which is terrible this season, btw.)

DAY FORTY-THREE

Geometric progression.

DAY FORTY-TWO

Made some comic-book letters that kinda remind me of Dexter’s Lab or Powerpuff Girls.

DAY FORTY-ONE

Not really sure what this was about. It was supposed to be something about the Mac hello screen of yesteryear, and some computer-looking letters, but that’s not how it turned out. Oh well.

DAY FORTY

Five years ago, I made this for a Typophile T-shirt contest.

Upon posting it, I was informed that my TYPE thing was actually not type—it was digital lettering. I wasn’t aware of the distinction until then. (It was a pretty lame effort anyhow.)

Today, I made some letters (primarily with the underutilized pencil tool in Illustrator), and the leaves reminded of that old piece.

B3S, aka Butt3rscotch, is a designer forum.

DAY THIRTY-NINE

Leftover letters…from…stuff.

DAY THIRTY-EIGHT

I made some French Clarendon-ish letters, with flat tops and bottoms…and felt compelled to display them in a vintage specimen book style.

DAY THIRTY-SEVEN

Thirty-seven is my favorite number. I took the 37 from Day 12, and pulled some 3d shenanigans in Illustrator.

DAY THIRTY-SIX

Futuristic letters, inspired by the old-school movie Demolition Man, and the new movie, Repo Men.

DAY THIRTY-FIVE

I made three reverse-contrast slab letters, and pushed them around until I had balanced logotype, W-A-R (bottom). (I know that the outstretched hand is owned by Saul Bass, so this can be categorized as homage, officially.)

DAY THIRTY-FOUR

Started with a slightly convex stem, and ended up with about half the uppercase characters on this serif titling face. H-O-T-E-L are usually the first letters I make.

DAY THIRTY-THREE

Sketch.

DAY THIRTY-TWO

T-shirt logotype. Surf shop is a placeholder, ITC Blair.

DAY THIRTY-ONE

Playing around with the letter B. Probably will submit this to that AlphaBattle thingity.

DAY THIRTY

Seeing what I could do with a random word, Robots.txt.

DAY TWENTY-NINE

Some hand-lettering + Photoshop.

DAY TWENTY-EIGHT

I love drawing numbers. I also love red numbers stamped on a ticket.

AGENCY 26 MAIN SITE

DAY TWENTY-SEVEN

mixing some styles.

DAY TWENTY-SIX!

I had the pencils and pens out for some client work and Sharpie’d some rough letters—a schizo Alphabet and some bubble lettering. I could fix all the mistakes, but that would be defeating the purpose. The warts and blips give these more depth, more heart. I realize that most clients want clean vector, but progressive clothing companies are always down for some quick and dirty hand-lettering.

Just got a new work area set up, so more hand-lettering to come. (type purists: I know it’s a contradiction to use lettering to spell TYPE, but it’ll be okay.)