Gothic Script, the class I began to pull out my hair, well not really, but it certainly wasn’t as relaxing as Uncials. Our instructor, John Suter, at the Main Artery Gallery, presented us with our project. Some text with a nice border around it and a bit of illumination. Gothic proved to be a bit more challenging – keeping the nib at a 45ยบ. My lines didn’t look straight anymore and at some points I had to turn the pen [...]
I found this cool video tool called Animoto. It takes your still pictures and any music you choose and makes a video for you. Every time you remix it a new video is produced, they claim that there are no 2 videos the same. I’ve alway loved type in motion so I thought I would give it a try. Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.
In January I had the sudden urge to try and hand drawn my own type. What a disaster! If I had kept some of my attempts I’d show them to you now, so you could laugh your butt off like I did. It’s been a long time since I tried to draw anything – I think since art school, so what processed me to suddenly think I could do it? I’m not sure why I actually thought I could do [...]
I’m usually very neat and organized with my design work. There is nothing chaotic about it. The Pica Workshop is a place where I want to get messy, a place where I don’t have to worry about neatness, a place I can work through my process and show my mistakes. I believe that there are happy mistakes – a design that takes us in a different direction then we originally thought and the final piece or the pieces along the [...]