If you missed my tweets about this in early July, there is currently a show of my letterpressed drop caps at Art in the Age in Philadelphia. If you are in or around Philly this Friday (July 30th), come and help celebrate the show with me. I’m hoping it will turn into a massive Philadelphia nostalgiafest in which I carry on my own private game of Edward Cocktail-Hands and promise everyone I am moving back “becausephiladelphiaissototallyawesome!!!1!”. See the video below for further details about the show, and if you can’t make it, no worries, drop caps will be for sale on my site very soon and you and I can have a virtual toast when you purchase one. -
Just got these in the mail yesterday! So pumped! While I haven’t yet run out of my personal business cards, I thought it would be a fun idea to make Daily Drop Cap cards, since for the most part that’s what everyone knows me from. I designed them so they could be used as the project continues and after it is complete (can’t wait until I can start checking off the “complete” box). If you want to zoom in, you can see a much larger image here. These were printed by Cranky Pressman, and they did a truly excellent job! Some specs: Two color front (black and pms warm red) / blank back; Printed on Crane’s Lettra 220lb Paper with edge painting. The registration is absolutely spot on and I couldn’t be happier with the end result. Everyone hire Keith to print your stuff! He is old school and uses metal plates for everything (I usually print with polymer), which rules. Because I ordered 1000 of these and will no way be able to hand that many out in person in the near future I’ll be tossing one in the next hundred or so orders I get from my store. Huzzah!
This year I had the pleasure of teaching at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. The class was called Personal Viewpoints, which is a Junior / Senior class split between three teachers (myself, Katherine Streeter, and Jon Krause this year) each taking a five week section. The students have to actually apply to get into the class, so generally Matt Curtius, the UARTS faculty member (and dear friend of mine) who curated this bunch, picks a good mix of people with different styles but all with excellent work ethics. This was my first real teaching gig (I had a very brief stint at Philadelphia University before moving to New York) and definitely my first time working entirely with illustrators (I went to school for design so didn’t quite know what to expect). Because I only had five weeks with the students, I decided to assign one main project with multiple components — book cover design + endpapers, titlepage, and bookplate for a special edition novelization of The Wizard of Oz. This was literally the first time some of the students had worked with type, so I was expecting to have to do a lot of hand-holding. But, after a very brief lesson, they returned the following week with shockingly amazing type treatments! Seriously, across the board they were great! See for yourself below, and feel free to click on the student’s name to go to their personal site (not everyone has a site link but most do). The students’ names are set in Nelly Script Flourish, a really fun typeface by Tart Workshop. Buy it!
o this new site has been a long time coming. My previous site served me well, but now thanks to Cameron (my awesome 612a studiomate) and Evan of Fictive Kin, I have my own crazy back-end management system so I can update more than once a year. The gallery pages and about page of the site were custom built with a rails CMS, the blog is Wordpress with some serious styling and customizing, and the store is powered by Big Cartel, which Cameron magically transformed to perfectly fit the rest of the site. One of my favorite new features of the site is the super-duper comprehensive FAQ page to answer any and all questions you might have about my inspirations and process.
o this new site has been a long time coming. My previous site served me well, but now thanks to Cameron (my awesome 612a studiomate) and Evan of 