Newsletter Type Specimens
FontShop publishes email newsletters on a bi-monthly basis. Each newsletter featured either new releases, previous type face releases now available in OpenType, FontShop website updates and other related information. I was responsible for designing the type specimens and headers for each newsletter, then coding HTML and email versions for the 90,000+ member mailing list.
The challenge was to concisely convey the versatility and appeal of the typefaces in a three or four-line specimen. Display fonts were allowed one or two lines.
Sorsastus
The N-Gage Developer Department in Vancouver approached me to design animal characters and title screens for a game that would demonstrate their gaming API. Because this was a demo version, I had a lot of flexibility to design the animal characters.
The Book of No
One of my favorite typographic assignments from design school, this was from our Mysterious Signs project. Our task was to create a set of six signs, install them somewhere temporarily, photograph them and then create a book illustrated by them. It was up to us to create either a book that explained or further compounded the mystery.
Mustn’t Grumble
A logo for one of my grad year projects. Mustn’t Grumble was a line of knitted accessories that used intarsia (a technique using multiple strands of colored yarn) to render enlarged, pixelated typefaces. I used typefaces specifically designed for flash animation.
London Wordmark
The challenge for this student project was to create a wordmark that captured the essence of a city. London is a city of movement, with lives intersecting and dispersing. People from all over the world move through the city, either for a few days, a few years, or for a lifetime. The angular serifs and intersecting lines of the London wordmark reflect the movement of people through the city.
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