Tag Archives: Arlo Vance
Type Thursday 14: Uncanny Chronicle
Here’s some custom type I did for a friend’s ‘zine. So much fun! Quirky ‘Zine masthead
New = Work
After the launch of my new portfolio website, I decided I should customize my blog to have a more seamless interaction with it. Well, hundreds of hours later trying to create a WordPress theme from scratch, I’ve launched the new look—which still needs a lot of work. I’ll be updating old posts so they fit [...]
Broken Promise
I swore I’d never do it—that I’d never need to do it. But I did…and I liked it. There’s something immediately tangible about programming that design doesn’t seem to have, although technically web development falls under the graphic design discipline. Plus there’s the fulfillment of my obsession with detail and organization. I wrote my new [...]
Daphne finally gets an italic
It’s been a long time coming, but Daphne is finally getting an italic. I’ve been making adjustments to the roman and finally had time to work out a preliminary design for the italic. It’s still really rough, but worth posting about. At the portfolio review this last week, a friend of mine asked me to [...]
Weekend Serif
Having a long weekend always does wonders for projects that, during a normal work week, I have no time for. This weekend I was able to get a very preliminary version of a serif I’ve been stewing about for quite some time. It’s a sharp Baskerville, which is fairly well-known for its curves. There are [...]