Hand Lettering

Printing your hand lettering on fabric…oh yes you can.

This past Christmas my wife and I embarked on a brave, 3-month-long mission to produce 13 hand-made messenger bags for our family members, based on the Cooper Bag from Colette patterns. Of course by “we” I mean mainly Sara. She did 95% of the sewing, although I did venture into previously scary territory and during the final week of production, learned how to use a serger and at least […]

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“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainty” — Erich Fromm

This poster is a commissioned piece by the Dutch magazine Flow for their upcoming DIY issue. The lettering was hand drawn and loosely based on the slab-serif font Rockwell Bold. The illustration was hand rendered using Illustrator and brought onto a layered, hi-res Photoshop file. One side effect of hand-lettering quotes is that you’re forced to live with the words for a long time, so they can really penetrate

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Working for a Local Institution

Baseball Mary is the ultimate San Francisco Giants fan and somewhat of a force of nature. She’s also famous for her annual invitation-only fundraising party which targets a worthy non-profit or a family or individual in need (one year it was Bryan Stow, the unfortunate SF Giants fan who was beaten within an inch of his life in 2011 at a Giants-Dodgers game in L.A.) This year it’s La

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In the end only three things matter…

From the last few posts I guess it’s obvious that I’ve been playing around with a more free-form, lattice-type, scaffold kinda thing. What’s different about this piece is that after I scanned the inked page I brought it into Illustrator and did an image trace. All the little awkward joints and intersections got smoother as if it melted together a little. Then it was just about doing some clean-up

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The third quote about Courage: “Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.”

This quote is attributed to a psychiatrist who examined a little-known suffragette named Alice Paul in 1917, after she was arrested and imprisoned for protesting in front of the White House. Paul and a small group of women were charged with obstructing traffic and not only imprisoned, but beaten and chained to their rat infested cells. Paul staged a hunger strike which resulted in her being moved to a

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1rst of 3 quotes about courage. “Better to be be slapped by the truth than kissed by a lie.” — Russian proverb

Courage has been on my mind and under my pencil lately, so I thought I’d dig around and letter up what some greater minds have had to say about the concept. This quote popped up on Facebook recently and stood out so I decided to pencil it out during a recent 0-0 Manchester United vs. Chelsea match. This old proverb talks about courage peripherally, which is why I like

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I could really go for some chocolate covered feelings right now

My new friend Camille Harper routinely says stuff that can keep a hand letterer busy for days. So when I read this Facebook post she made a while back I immediately asked permission to commit it to paper, then pixels. My wife told me it’s now her “PMS poster.” I am hereby smiling and nodding. The process: thanks Norma Talmadge I immediately found inspiration in my vintage photo collection

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