Type

o yeah, I created this weeks ago and it’s sat on my desktop since then. I’m finally getting round to posting it!

This little type adventure is born from a combination of things that happened to me around Christmas: Read more

etting into the spirit of the season this week I’d like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

To create this weeks type adventure I used some of the techniques I learned in a VecTips tutorial but mainly I was inspired by Jessica Hische’s Snowflake ornaments. I spent a lot of time playing with different combinations to create the background pattern, it is so addictive!

The colours are from this palette at Colour Lovers, the script font is HL Netco 1BK and the sans serif is Nevis.

I hope you have a fantastic festive period!

his week I’ve found two excellent resources which I’m sure will remain in my bookmarks toolbar for A LONG TIME.

Firstly, Lost and Taken which offers free high resolution textures. I’m completely in love with the Goodbye Summer set which makes me long for summer again, I’m sick of cold windy winter! Read more

ow! Two posts in one week, I think this might be some kind of record for me.

I’ve been doodling and came up with this little sketch with one of my favourite phrases. I then went into illustrator and traced a photo of an arm, drew the heart and added the shirt detail along with the text using the pen tool.

After adding a little bit of grunge texture in Photoshop this was completed faster than I’ve ever completed a design! I guess once you have in mind what you want to acheive then it really doesn’t take long.

his week I discovered Matilde from Type Depot. Such a beautiful, whimsical font. Perfect for a design blog, for scrapbooking or for a craft business logo.

One of the reasons I’ve fallen in love with this font is because it comes with some beautiful frames, flourishes, ornaments and patterns. I’ve used one of these frames to create the shape of the ice cream cone and a pattern for the background and ice cream cone detail.

I love fonts that come with extra ornaments so you can create borders or flourishes that match the text perfectly. My two favourites at the moment are Hoefler Text and Snowflake.

‘ve been sat on this for a few weeks now. Originally when I created it, straight after my previous type post but I wasn’t happy with it. I felt it was lacking something.

For a month I haven’t opened it until today when I looked at it again and decided to post it. Sure, I’m not great with the pen tool (that will come with time) and I wanted to do more type treatment (really go with the Oz theme) but I really like it. I’m really proud of my hand drawn type work so far!

I’ve been doing more and more of this lettering style. I designed a logo with it, wrote a letter to my friend and I’m thinking about entering the alphabet competition at Design Sponge based on what I have done here.

eek three in my type adventures and I have jumped straight in there with some hand drawn type! This is the first time I have done hand drawn type and I’ve really enjoyed the process.

I first drew each word on paper and scanned it, traced it in illustrator and arranged the words how I wanted them. Then I printed the phrase and hand drew all the roots that come out of the letters using a stock image as a basis. Then I scanned that in again and traced all of the roots in illustrator. Once everything was in the right place I headed to photoshop for the soil effects and colour based on the colours in my stock image. Read more

his week’s design is very much influenced by Liam McKay.

I joined Forrst for the first time this week and while taking a browse around for designers and developers that I might recognise I found Liam and a link he had posted a few months ago to the lovely Clumsy. Clumsy is a free font by Kyle Steed with a handrawn style and very cute split serifs. Read more