Here you’ll find examples of hand-drawn typography—from simple handwriting and script to more elaborate font-based and invented letterforms. The typographic work is often integrated into larger illustrations or photo-based series, though I am also interested in drawing letters that stand alone.
Rising 5,468′ (1,667 m) above sea level, the summit of Mount Helena overlooks the city of Helena 1,300′ below. Montana’s capital city was founded in 1864 after a discovery of gold in what was soon called Last Chance Gulch. By 1888, Helena had more millionaires per capita than any other city in the world.
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Photographs—featuring employees of Elixir Design—were taken at an industrial kitchen in Emeryville, California. The recipe (for Chewy Orange-Almond Cookies) was hand-drawn.
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Long life with blessings of family & friends is yours is the fourth entry to a recently initiated series on fortunes. Photographs were taken in Mammoth Lakes, California, in December 2008.
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January is here, and so is Cleveland Magazine’s annual issue featuring 30 of the city’s most interesting people. The short list includes new member of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Shaquille O’Neal, congresswoman Betty Sutton (author of Cash for Clunkers), and Henri Ngolo—who supports orphanages in the Democratic Republic of Congo on his salary as a Sam’s Club Assistant Manager. My assignment included hand-drawn typography for the title and awardee names, as well as line art integrated into photography by Chris Walters.
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Sing and rejoice, fortune is smiling on you is the third entry to a recently initiated series on fortunes. Photographs were taken in Golden Gate Park (San Francisco, California), in October 2009.
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Everything will now come your way is the second entry to a recently initiated series on fortunes. Photographs were taken on Stinson Beach, California, in August 2009.
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I’ve lived in the Richmond District for 12 years, not far from a section of Clement Street known as San Francisco’s “other Chinatown.” The location provides easy access to fortune cookies, often sold in quantities of 50-100. There has been little price inflation since I first started buying them for $0.99 a bag. Cheaper than chips, and with equal nutritional value (not much), these cookies have made a great accompaniment to many a lunch. The happy by-product of all this? I’m the luckiest guy around.
Photographs were taken at the Whitmore Pool, a public swimming facility fed by natural hot springs just south of Mammoth Lakes. The text, as I expect you’ve guessed, came from a fortune cookie.
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This series of photographs was taken in Tuolumne Meadows, looking back at traffic on Tioga Road (aka Highway 120) which runs along it’s southern edge. The meadow is a well known feature of Yosemite National Park and the road is an undeniable feature of it, taking travelers up and over 3,031 m Tioga Pass when open in the summer months. Facebook’s photo tagging convention and the names of Facebook friends (through September 8, 2009) were hand-drawn.
I love Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, and feel so fortunate to reexperience it with our boys; at ages 3 (“I’m 3-3/4!”) and 2 (“I’m 2-1/2!”), they can recite every line. The story is reenacted daily at our home, and it is not uncommon to hear a terrible roar, the gnashing of terrible teeth, or see the baring of terrible claws en route to the kitchen. As such, it is a great pleasure to contribute to Cory Godbey’s wonderful project Terrible Yellow Eyes, a collection of artwork inspired by the book. View as slideshow (below) or click here to view as a single composite image.
Tags: Cory Godbey, Maurice Sendak, Terrible Yellow Eyes, Where the Wild Things Are
