Type is for Kids

Remember the call for entries for my Social Typography Experiment? I'm getting close to the end of the vectorizing process and whew! What a process it's been. This afternoon I was working on one of the kiddie submissions (thanks to my sister for soliciting those) and was completely blown away by the arrangement of the letters on the page. I'm loving how each word flows into the next. And how cute is the little bug creature on the side?

Oh, and you're still more than welcome to send me submissions. Just go here for all of the information.

Design #104: Never ever

I find it intriguing. So many times you say (or you hear people say) that there is something they won't do, somewhere they won't live, something they won't be or do. Ironically, and more often than not, you find yourself (or those people) doing exactly what it was you said (or they said) they wouldn't do. It just makes you wonder... Learning experience anyone? .....................................

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Design #103: Gon' eat some friend chicken

This wallpaper is for my southern friends. ..........................

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Design #102: Channeling Linzie Hunter

Ever since finding her work in HOW Magazine last year, I've been in love with Linzie Hunter's work. Originally from Scotland, she was a theater major before studying illustration at the Chelsea College of Art and Design. All of her work is great, but my favorite is the series of gorgeous hand-lettered illustrations using subject lines from spam email. The phrase on my design today comes from one of the most famous movie break-up lines, "It's not you, it's me." And I wondered, has that line ever been turned on it's head?

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Design #98: Catch phrase

There's a new phrase in town. The type is hand drawn with a Sharpie on cheap printer paper. You can't get any better than that. Hmmm...

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spam filter.

Reading through the August issue of HOW (one of my favorite graphic design magazines) I came across an article featuring an amazing artist. The artist is illustrator Linzie Hunter. Instead of trashing all of the spam email she gets, she chooses to be creative with it. She makes art.

According to HOW, her hand-lettered spam one-liners began as a playful exercise to get away from her computer illustration and get back into paint and ink. In no time, this experiment went from the lab to commercial success. Although spam can be quite crude, some of these one-liners almost take on a crafty, folk-art quality through her illustrations.

She has a book being published this fall.

You can find her work for sale at Thumbtackpress.com and 20x200.com