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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 try and post a little […]

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 still a lot of tweaks to make, but […]

On to…

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, […]

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.

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.

Shaping Up Marua

After a brief hia­tus from design out­side of work, I’m back with some updates to Marua. I think she’s shap­ing up rather nicely, but of course still needs some touchups. I’m almost to point where I feel com­fort­able design­ing sup­port mate­ri­als for the exhi­bi­tion. As things get pro­duced I’ll make sure to post updates. I think there’s enough promise […]

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