Index cards, tape and type are calling my name and this time the theme is contrasts.

I recently participated in a project called Dead Words. The project is best described by the curator, Karen To:
“For over centuries, thousands of English words have been created, modified, and removed. Through this blog of lettering, we rediscover and interpret stories of dead words.”

My submission for Dead Words helped me realized I’d come full circle to my BFA thesis project and now I’m not only running around take pictures of feet, I’m also cutting obscure words out magazines and ensuring each one has a face.

Who’s getting me that pedicure already?

divulse \dahy-VUHLS\ verb: To tear away or apart.

Feet Portraits
My Feet series will introduce you to the places my feet go and other feet they meet. Some people take pictures of food. I take pictures of feet. There’s more to come. Enjoy.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything new to my Twitter series, so over the weekend I decided it was time to get inspired.

While lazily scrolling through Twitterland, a stream of tweets by @splorp caught my eye. They were simple one-word posts with a single image. Rather than just one design, I’ve created a short series that highlights the strange yet endearing tweet. You can thank me later that I refrained from writing peachy

I’ve been thinking about getting a few of my designs printed, and these tiny 7×7 inch designs just might be the first.

The Commute Design Project is my personal challenge to create designs on my train commute from work to home. The Twitter series is part of my goal to document spamm-y, interesting, and funny tweets through hand drawn type

It’s been a little quiet around these parts lately — I haven’t been super motivated to post anything. But hey, we all need a little break sometimes right?

I’m completely in love with the dreamy quality in this week’s Fancy. The lovely images and email content come to you from product designer Joey Roth, the clothing retailer Free People, the San Francisco online magazine 7×7, and the online font shop Hype for Type.

Strike My Fancy is a weekly sneak peak into my inbox that showcases a collage of the most beautiful email I received over the past week.

When last week’s Font Shop email popped into my inbox, I immediately knew that Antonio Banderas would be debuting in this week’s Strike My Fancy design.

I have no idea why, but there’s some weird nostalgia for me in Antonio Banderas’ name. I never knew he had a soccer career (I thought it was a music career until duly corrected below) and have zero Hispanic background.

To top it off, while working on the design, I couldn’t help but think that his name might fit well in a spinoff of the Barbara Streisand song. If you haven’t heard the Barbara Streisand song, you must.

Image credits go to: Athleta, Font Shop, Free People, and Lily’s Table

Strike My Fancy is a weekly sneak peak into my inbox that features a collage of the most interesting emails from the previous week.

Design 16 celebrates one my favorite design thinkers, Frank Chimero. He’s in the middle of writing a book, but you can catch his most recent work or find him on Twitter.

The Commute Design Project is my personal challenge to create designs on my train commute from work to home. The Twitter series is part of my goal to document spamm-y, interesting, and funny tweets through hand drawn type.

Today’s design for my new Twitter series comes from the fabulously talented type nut, Jessica Hische. I wanted this design to feel tropical (because of the mango) while conveying spunk.

The Commute Design Project is my personal challenge to create designs on my train commute from work to home. The Twitter series is part of my goal to document spamm-y, interesting, and funny tweets through hand drawn type

I’m very excited to introduce my new series of hand-drawn typography! I always seem to get lots of comments on my hand-drawn type, and since it’s become my go-to stress relief, why not do more?

Over the next…period of time, I’ll be illustrating tweets I find on Twitter. Inspired by how spamm-y and interesting 140 characters can be, I feel like it’s the perfect representation of our culture right now.

You can see more of @inspiredmag’s tweets here

Last week, an article from Forbes.com caught my eye about the most unhealthy commutes in the United States.

It wasn’t difficult to guess which area of the lower 48 would top the charts — it’s a well known fact that LA is akin to a driving nightmare. The article says that not only do So-Cal commuters experience the worst pollution levels, they also have the highest rate of fatal auto accidents, and spend an average of 93 hours per year sitting in traffic.

Yikes.

Disclaimer: I have to admit that the typography on this gem was drawn at home.

I’ve been collecting quotes on commuting that I find online, and they will slowly be finding their way into my designs for the next month or so.

This evening’s commute design comes to you from the 22nd Street Caltrain station and some guy named Gary Roberts. In our area, gas is nearly over $4.00 per gallon and even though we don’t need to fill our tank very often (thank you Nissan!), I still cringe a bit when we drive past a gas station.