On my train ride home today I was looking at graffiti and marveling at the typographic mastery that sometimes surprises me amongst walls of scrappy tags and figurative murals. Then this evening I read about Eine’s work, over at my love for you is a stampede of horses, and it tied in so nicely with what I had been pondering earlier. I’m also pretty grateful to be introduced to Eine, though I feel I am somewhat behind the 8-ball.
On Thursday, July 9 Carmichael Gallery will play host to The A – Z of Change, the debut LA solo exhibition of Eine. Internationally recognized for his super-sized lettering in urban areas, Eine will unveil a new body of works on canvas that combines his trademark typeface, a vivid color palette and provocative imagery to powerful effect.
If I were in LA and not four squillion miles away in Melbourne, I would surely be checking it out.
There is also a Google Map of his letters in & around Shoreditch, UK.
All photos from Carmichael’s flickr set.
Jessica Hische’s custom hand-lettering and illustration has been a very big inspiration to me. Letterpress, ornament and typography; where can it go wrong?
Amazingly, Jessica state’s in her site’s FAQ that she mainly works on the computer using her mouse:
I don’t use a wacom tablet (at least not yet), I’m a point and click kind of gal. People are flabbergasted by this but I used to work exclusively on the trackpad on my laptop. I will have carpal tunnel by the time I’m 30.
She also says she mostly goes straight to computer, without sketching and scanning. Keep all of this in mind as you view her stunning work…
Some of Jessica’s hand-drawn type
Jessica works for Louise Fili Ltd., a design firm in New York City that specialises in food packaging and branding for restaurants and delicious things, as well as logos and book design in general. You are probably familiar with the studio’s work.
Design*Sponge published a Sneak Peek into the fabulous studio of Louise Fili Ltd and it looks like a wonderful creative space filled with a gorgeous selection of ephemera collected by Louise on her travels.
Images from Design*Sponge
Jessica on which designers and illustrators motivate her:
So many its hard to say. I have a major design crush on Marion Bantjes and a brain/concept crush on Christoph Niemann (you should reread the illustrated article he did for Print a few years back (2005? 2006?) on being an illustrator). Of course Louise Fili is a major inspiration. I have a really talented group of friends that also keep my motivation high. I see work every day on sites like ffffound, the dieline, etc. that makes me seethe with jealousy. Envy can be a big motivator.
Some more of Jessica’s gorgeous custom lettering and illustration is below. This Boston Globe cover is amazing. Her attention to detail can’t be faulted, I love the ornamental decoration and the way each letter harbours more delights.
A cover from the Boston Globe, May 3. I love the little fella in the ‘E’
More gorgeous custom lettering
All images and quotes are © Jessica Hische
Visit her at http://jessicahische.blogspot.com/
I had to share Wiley Valentine’s photographs of this wonderful Anthropologie catalogue by Hatch Show Print.
I love overprinting!
You may be familiar with the name Edward Johnston, of London Underground lettering fame (the above image set in P22 Foundry’s digitisation of the typeface).
This phrase is an English translation of a Latin plaque that summarises the ethos of an artisan community to which Johnston belonged in the early twentieth century.
In the early 1900s Johnston followed [Eric] Gill to the village of Ditchling where, with a group of other fellow craftsmen, they began a community of artists that eventually led to the formation of the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic. This organization focused on ideals of Catholicism, craftsmanship, cooperative living, and beauty in production — attracting a wide variety of artisans to Ditchling until the group’s disbandment in 1989.
Their little ethos sure does sound lovely — even though it turned out that Eric Gill was not the most angelic of souls after all.
Via a post on the MyFonts blog about Johnston and his writing desk.
