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Custom Hand Lettering: Tattoos, Cereals, Beef

Between thumbnail and finished letter form is a well trod path. Typographer and designer Alan Ariail has been kind enough to document the entire process from ideation through execution.

Posted in Education, Resources, Typography

San Francisco Portfolio Day is June 5th

and I know that you know that I know that you should go.

Posted in Course Related, Education, Event, Portfolio Workshop, Resources

Girls’ Art Camp Needs Speakers!

Come challenge kids to throw their lives into the creative disciplines!

Posted in Education, Resources, Vocation & Profession

Publishing Is Dead.

What a great time to start a magazine or small press! New print-on-demand technologies allow one to both wet your feet and whet the appetite of potential readers with little capital outlay!

Posted in Course Related, Education, PrePress, Resources, Vocation & Profession

Stop complaining about your broken computer and use a d*mn sharpie.

Feeling out of your depth on a project? The illustrations of of Korean artist Kim Daehyun are excellent inspiration for projects that hinge upon iconographic presentation of the ephemeral. Um yeah. Did I mention they are done with a sharpie? Very cool.

Posted in Amusement, Artists & Designers, Course Related, Design History, Drawing, Education, Resources, Visual Concepts, Vocation & Profession