Sub/Conscious Meanderings

I’ve received two notices within the last two days that I’ll be fea­tured in two pub­li­ca­tions: 1. Graphis New Tal­ent Annual and 2. Design School Con­fi­den­tial, by Stephen Heller and pub­lished by Rock­port (I’ll keep you posted when it’s avail­able). Between the two pub­li­ca­tions, 10 of my 12 class­mates will also be fea­tured. I’m just a lit­tle excited. Woohoo!

Typhotheque, a foundry based in the Nether­lands, just released a pretty inge­nious sys­tem of dis­play fonts that span the course of type his­tory. It’s called His­tory. Check it out.

Just because I laughed out loud. A lot.

The time is rapidly approach­ing for me to show my stuff. Daphne: Unrec­i­p­ro­cated Love is finally sched­uled to hang at the BYU Har­ris Fine Arts Cen­ter at the end of Octo­ber. Now the time crunch begins. Know­ing how I respond to tight dead­lines I’m hop­ing that this will moti­vate me to get more done than what seems humanly pos­si­ble. I’ve still to set the kern­ing, design two posters and the spec­i­men book, then get it printed and hung. I’m hop­ing to have invi­ta­tions ready to go out by next week.

At the close of a long day at work, my co-worker Brad turned to me and said, “You’ve been fff­found!”. To my dis­be­lief, I saw the logo con­cept I had designed for the New York Pub­lic Library star­ing back at me from his com­puter screen.

Now for the expla­na­tion: As design­ers, we often look for inspi­ra­tion as we do our work. At Hint, this has become an essen­tial ele­ment of how we keep up with design trends. Chris­t­ian (the boss) likes mantras and one of his is Good Design In, Good Design Out—referring to neces­sity of the “recharge” or inspi­ra­tion to con­tinue doing good design. ffffound.com is one site that we refer to fairly reg­u­larly and it’s both flat­ter­ing and ter­ri­fy­ing that my work has now made it on to the site.

This ought to pro­vide me with the suf­fi­cient moti­va­tion to fin­ish my web­site. So…

After a very long (and some­what rainy) day, my back is tired and my eyes can barely be kept open. Here’s the lat­est ver­sion of Daphne. I’m start­ing to lose track of all the glyphs, but I think it’s some­where around 650. Any­way, the end of the tun­nel is near. Enjoy.