Category Archives: Design

Straight As

Struggle pt. 2

Big advancements in my thinking tonight.

Sketchbook

Struggle

Typographic Study

Letter Pairings

Great Find

At a hip vintage store in Federal Hill I found a stack of old Fortune magazines from the late 50s early 60s. Loving the masthead on this thing. It’s filled with some great gems, like this guy.

Late, into the Night

I love the feeling of going to far with something, where I get entirely distracted by something productive and instead of budgeting my time wisely, I throw everything away in the name of progress. Today I stayed up until 7am working on my new blog layout. What started as a simple layout project turned into [...]

The 500

I was given 7 days to do 500 thumbnails based on two objects. An S hook and a woodworkers biscuit. I had 5 sheets full of 100 1″ x 1″ squares. Each page had a theme to explore. Anomaly, balance, contrast, rhythm and texture were my cues. I got it done, carpal tunnel be damned. [...]

Repetition

Digesting letterforms through making them by hand. Lots of patience and lots of starting over. It’s really good for me.