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.
The seventeen images in this sequence were selected from projects completed over the past four years. Here, each is stripped of it’s original narrative and stands alone—as photograph with illustration and/or hand-drawn type.
Images were selected from: (Top row, from left) The Mallards of Gill Bridge, Cord, Fly Fishing, Montpelier, Sequoia National Park; (2nd row, from left) NYC/Hoover Wilderness, Birdfinger, NYC/Hoover Wilderness, NYC/Hoover Wilderness, Huntington Gardens (and Strybing Arboretum); (3rd row, from left) Huntington Gardens (and Strybing Arboretum), The Mallards of Gill Bridge, September 17th, Cannon Beach, Cord; (4th row, from left) Montpelier, and Yosemite.
Montpelier features photographs from the summer of 2006 in six parts: Hubbard Park, Capitol Plaza Hotel, Royal Orchid Thai, American Flatbread, Vermont College, and Fourth of July Parade. The series is overlayed with fragments of a hand-drawn map of Vermont copied from the 1930 edition of the Commercial Atlas of the World.
Tags: American Flatbread, Capitol Plaza Hotel, Fourth of July Parade, Hubbard Park, Montpelier, Royal Orchid Thai, Vermont, Vermont College
Cord was written by Jennifer Tolo Pierce. Photographs were taken in and around Havre and Helena, Montana.
Down the Long Road Comes was written by Jennifer Tolo Pierce. Photographs were taken in the Emigrant Wilderness.
Tags: American Illustration 27
