ARLO VANCE

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The Sub/Conscious Meanderings of a Design Philandros

Monthly Archives: September 2008

2 in 2

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 […]

Type History

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.

My Type of Humor

Just because I laughed out loud. A lot.

Exhibitionism

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 […]

I’ve been FFFFound!

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 […]

Daphne’s Almost Done

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.

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