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erik truss is a friend of mine who finished up luthier school not too long ago and needed a logo for his guitar making business… um, yes please, we’ll take that gig. so, scribble render, render scribble and and below are a few iterations that have come to be. the shadows on the red one [...]
here’s a little preview of a new line that will be available in the lfb etsy and supermarket shops soon.
if there’s anybody out there that really just wants to buy something for live from bklyn, you can start with these fonts; pf handbook pro liza sign painter numbers
“the most striking result of this survey is that the respondents overwhelming reject free fonts.” i pulled this quote from a recent type survey preview i received in an email from gdusa magazine. it’s true, the vast majority of free fonts are chock full o’ wonky kerning, unpolished letterforms and are lacking certain essential characters. [...]
i found the work of matt lehman very inspiring this morning. even makes country music look cool.
here are a couple of pieces i’ve been wanting to show for while but are unpublished as of right now anyway. you can go see ‘em nice and big and read about ‘em on flickr.
our dear friends jessica and bill franks are in the process of adopting a child from russia. to raise money for the process, jessica has created and is selling a series of prints called “hobby hazard” in her etsy store. we do wholeheartedly support the franks’s and their desire to bring a child out of [...]
i like to call these “the greenest business cards in the universe.” perhaps they’re not, but they’re pretty close. they’re printed on the backs of cereal boxes, so it’s greener than recycled paper, it’s re-purposed paper. and terms of creativity, i think having the cereal box snippets on the back provide an interesting element, and [...]
the live from bklyn “thinking of u” postcards are finished and available for purchase. we will be opening our own live from bklyn design shop very soon, but for now, visit livefrombklyn.etsy.com
every once in a while one comes a cross a designer that makes one say, “oh NO! i’m gonna have to stay up late every night for the next month and a half to improve my design skills.” jessica hische is that designer. oh look, she also has a blog. super. it’s gonna be a [...]
last weekend i attended the wedding of melissa and brannon mcallister. as a gift for the guests, they had these fine, fine letterpress posters created by hatch show print.
friends of live from bklyn, i’m pleased to announce that we have opened a live from bklyn etsy shop (livefrombklyn.etsy.com). you can purchase fine art friday prints, as well as other prints of buildings in williamsburg, brooklyn and ornamental letterforms.
i’m always a tad jealous of this guy and all of the awesome vintage design pieces that he possesses, but i’m getting a turn now. a couple of weeks ago, my grandmother, the indomitable marguerite dailey (evans) crafton (from whom my name comes), passed away after complications from hip surgery. she left a legacy of [...]
another beauty from jim hargreaves. jim is currently working as a graphic designer at barnhart communications in denver, co. writes jim about this invitation, “this project was done in the spring on behalf of studio pattern, also in denver. the invitation was for a VIP champagne party hosted by casenet at the bubble lounge, san [...]
my friend christin sends tidings of this (orange)beautiful calendar. sweet idea to have the perforations to be able to save the typography as an art print. check out the rest of orangebeautiful’s offerings while you’re on their etsy page. the holiday card is just magnificent.
when you order chinese food from new hong kong kitchen on grand st. in williamsburg, they put little pieces of cardboard from sliced up boxes between the food, presumably so that your sweet and sour chicken container does not crush your sesame chicken container. and i appreciate that. last night as i was descending upon [...]
good grief. will someone please tell this woman to slow down and let the rest of us catch up? i mean there’s ornament and typography, and then there’s marian bantjes. her penchant for fabulously detailed and intricate ornament is just ridiculous. i give you the design ignites change poster, v1. there’s a v2 on her [...]
i remember the days when i was a just grunt designer at bju creative services and bryan rees was an even gruntier grad assistant. now bryan is a big shot creating things like this mean-lean-clean-needs-to-be-seen operational standards workbook. no, i have no idea how i ended up such a dork, but i guess that’s one [...]
samantha wiley has really got a handle on her typography, as evidenced by these beer desktop backgrounds. sam is moving to new york very soon, and is looking for a gig, so if anyone reading this is hiring, be sure to click the link above to review her portfolio. you can also see her portfolio [...]
joshua smith of hydro74 has created a brilliant poster for the smashing pumpkins. joshua nails the hand-lettering and ornament, going so far as to include the wave pattern within the type. stellar.
the public theater in new york have placed these ads (click header) all over the subway and buses and other places in the city and for that i am very glad. obviously a great concept with the ornamental hair on the skull and a dandy bit of execution too. i don’t know who designed them [...]
i’m classifying this one as type, though what i really like about this ad is the concept. i think it’s funny, mostly ’cause i’ve been there once or twice. click to see.
this is nice. the type at the bottom has a nice rhythm. by jack crossing. i just used nice twice, no three times in as many sentences. i am not very descriptive. i will now go to bed.
free fonts are generally a thing to be avoided, but this liberation serif has got it going on. love the taper on the serifs, four weights, pretty good auto kerning and a very extensive glyphs palette. this is definitely worth the download.
i wrote this post about brezinka design a while back. wayne has since updated with some dandy new work.
thanks to chantel ingram of BCIT’s school of computing and academic studies for bringing to my attention the work of orgut cayli. orgut pulls off the “maximalist” look with minimal clutter.
brad surcey via the ever-fresh serif. so very beautiful, i’m gettin’ misty-eyed just looking at it. this one made it into all three categories; print, ornament, and type.