Inspiration

This woman makes incredible jewelry out of silverware. I have a bracelet made of a fork that I got from her at a craft fair. I want to experiment with making my own this summer when I have the time:

http://www.silverforkjewelry.com/

Font Book

Here's my final book:


Front and Back Cover:

Inside Spread:

35 Characters

Here are some shots Lauren got at the 35 Characters event in Wilmington. The last one is just after me and the little guy high fived!

Plus d'inspiration

Here is a great greeting card company:
http://www.vigocards.com/

Here are a couple tea bag pouches I got at Iron Hill last night that are really nicely designed. As a set, the different kinds of tea worked well together

Inspiration 5/3

While brainstorming for our typeface design project, I found myself really liking the featured display typeface, "Underware" on http://www.vllg.com/

I like the swatches and the contrast in thick and thin lines. I also like its hand-drawn impression, but I would hesitate to use it in words where certain letters are repeated, because the uniformity from one letter to the next would detract from it appearing hand-drawn.

Blackletter

Here's my letter K looking svelte in its black paint job...

May 1st Inspiration

After being in Chinatown in Philly, my interest in an Asian design aesthetic has been "re-awakened." Here are some cool home items that are made from chopsticks:

http://www.chopstickart.com/-c-0_26.html

http://www.weirdomatic.com/chopsticks-art.html

And I've done a very very limited amount of this myself, but I really want to experiment with Chinese knotting:

http://ornamental-knots.com/

May 1st Process

I painted my letter K black on Thursday. I forgot to take pictures, but there will be plenty of them from our excursions on the 5th and 7th, I'm sure. :)

Instead, here is the poster I made to promote the event. I didn't stick to the CMYK color scheme of our letters... I decided to focus on conveying the camaraderie of happy little letters frolicking outdoors, which is how I picture our class will be :-)

I've also been working on side projects. I have a phone painting in the making that I will probably post sketches for later, and I made some jewelry this weekend: