Carol book

Here's a carol book I made for a singing that a few people from 2Cities and Brooke and I were going to do downtown with ukulele and guitar... Unfortunately it was rained out, so I figured I would at least share it here. My Christmas typeface of choice this year has been Elephant italic (with decreased spacing and slant).

Noah's sketch

This is what happened when I let Noah scribble in Autocad... kinda pretty.  Actually, a lot cooler than what I would have done.

New product: Helvetica b-day hats

New in the shop: Helvetica birthday hats.  I actually worked up these patterns about 6 months ago, but never got around to making a few sets for pictures.  It's about time we added something new to the shop.

Helvetica characters have such beautiful geometry when you really zoom in.  They made a pleasant building block for these simple tessellations.  The shapes enclosed by the "1"s actually become figures on the ground of white until you realize the numerals.

FiN invitations

I had the pleasure of designing the invitations for The Future is Now exhibition put on by Helicity.  Don't worry if you did not receive one -- it is open to the public, so please come!  It should be tons of fun.  I still have to finish up a couple submissions for it.

I especially had fun illustrating the Brew Pub and the water tower.

Recent Work: Part 4... cupcakes

I had the pleasure of making baby shower invites for our friend Ashley, who happens to be our go-to gal for fabulous cupcakes.  So referencing pictures from some she made for Olive's birthday party, I illustrated them in the style you would find in children's books from the 60's; that is, line drawings in ink imperfectly filled with harvest gold, rosey pink, minty green, and the like.

Also, I decided this time to take advantage of the back of the card with a busier pattern, also drawn and colored in the same manner.



Recent Work: Part 2

A while back, Brooke put together a wedding shower at our place for a couple friends of ours... so I had fun with the invites. Pretty simple; I mainly played with mixing typically formal typefaces in a playful way that would match this fun yet tasteful couple... and then, of course, I threw in some ring-bling for Mallory.

At one point during their wedding reception, Brooke came to me panicking because she couldn't find Noah. We found him in a room, workin' it in front of the camera with the bride and groom... typical: