Work in Progress*

Printed via PhotoBox
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Well, I have a fond love of Ampersands as most of my readers will know. So I decided to create myself a mug with an Ampersand with the typeface revealed on the reverse. I am aiming to do a series covering the Adobe fonts.

This is a sneaky preview of the design. Hopefully tomorrow, when it is much brighter (here is hoping!) I have set up some natural elements to photograph the final product shot; I will upload the new images to this post when complete.

Looking for the right type
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My sister is getting married in September and I have the pleasure of designing her wedding invites/favours and general visual goodies.

So today we have decided on a font by which I am going to create a logotype to apply on the various designs; this will be used as a stamp and will be placed on almost everything.

With the wedding being in Cyprus we want the type to be a little bit tropical looking yet still quite traditional looking. The first typeface which caught our eye was the amazing Burgues Script from Veer.

Although traditional, the letter forms and stunning glyphs were something we would not consider to be tropical. So not looking too far away we came across another stunning typeface on Veer called Affair, which I must admit I have came across time and time again. The typeface is so beautiful and has a tropical decorative feel.

So with the font chosen, I am now going to create a logotype with first names: including the date of marriage and location.

The process of being ‘everywhere at once’ sums up the many roles of a graphic designer. My latest self-initiated concept is to create a typeface, or is it typehand, by photographic methods, the typography becomes hand rendered.

Photographer: Kathleen France
‘Hand Rendered’ with a touch of retro // letter A
Full alphabet coming soon.

TypeTrust.com offers a range of original typefaces. Having been signed up with them for a couple of months now, i’ve only now made my first purchase: EstaPro. The whole font family is so beautiful and has perfect spacing. This is the chosen typeface for my PDF portfolio, and i’d say it was money well spent.

When i get the Swashes working correctly (not working due to download problem), this would make an ideal logo with lots tweaking and below i’ve added my own Swashes: