Sub/Conscious Meanderings

Now the my BFA is finally fin­ished, I have free time to fill. Luck­ily I’m good at that. In fact, I already have a cou­ple projects I’ve added:

1. I’m a con­trib­u­tor to a new blog called ‘the syl­labus’
We’ve just started get­ting con­tent together so we have a good launch. It’s focused on graphic design stu­dents and young graphic design pro­fes­sion­als, their unique con­cerns and things that will ease the tran­si­tion between school and work. I’ll be the con­tribut­ing typog­ra­phy expert (what­ever that means) with a weekly blog and more infre­quent arti­cles. I’m rather excited about it.

2. I’ve started a new type­face. Granted, it’s still in the incu­ba­tion stages, but I feel like I have a solid design brief/concept that fills an area that seems to be need­ing filled within the realm of type design.

3. I’ve also been toss­ing around another idea for writ­ing, mostly just a fun way for me to jour­nal and incu­bate ideas. It’ll be called Gray­Mat­ters. I’m so clever. I’m hop­ing that I’ll be able to get some funds to pub­lish every year. I think after I incor­po­rate Type­caste at the begin­ning of the year, I might use it as the basis for my annual report. Who knows?

One lit­tle caveat on #2. Austin made me promise that I’d take at least a month off before start­ing another type­face so there prob­a­bly won’t be any updates dur­ing the next month.

Daphne is finally here! I was able to get the exhi­bi­tion put together over the week­end and it’s finally being dis­played in the HFAC. Relief is such an inad­e­quate word to describe how I feel. I just hope that the response will be pos­i­tive. For those who aren’t able to attend, here are a few pic­tures of the exhi­bi­tion. Enjoy.

So I finally heard from the gallery this week. The exhi­bi­tion is Octo­ber 20–31. I’m excited, but also a lit­tle stressed. I still have quite a bit of work to fin­ish up, but things are close. I’ll be prepar­ing the poster/specimen for press this week­end. I’ll also be tak­ing my cam­era with me to cat­a­logue the print­ing process and the exhibit, so look for those images soon. I’ll also have printed sam­ples avail­able after the the 20th, so if you’re unable to attend the exhi­bi­tion and want one, just email me with a cur­rent address and I’ll mail one out. Unfor­tu­nately, print­ing spec­i­men books ended up being more costly than I antic­i­pated, so I’ll have a pdf avail­able on my website.