I'm a Chicago designer who graduated from Columbia College May 2010. I believe inspiration comes from unexpected places, and therefore it is necessary to look beyond the familiar to bring new ideas to light. This Tumblr allows me to record my discoveries in hopes of providing some nugget of truth or inspiration to the next fellow.
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So we beat on,
boats agaisnt the current,
borne back ceaselessly
into the past.
I love to experiment with combining different type, this is a pair that I’ve found compliment each other quite well. Whats really great, is that Vollkorn is available for free under a Creatives Commons license!
(Photo— Le Corbusier in his studio)
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‘As both noun and verb, book and exhibition, CATALOG recasts the deconstructed components of finished design projects as new work. The result is an exhibition that is an exploded book, and a book that is a collapsed exhibition.’
I love this website, so much to look at.
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Eye Magazine & Port Magazine for iPad
My favorite design rag, Eye, focuses it’s sharply tuned EYE on the current state of typography in an increasingly digital world in their latest issue, #79.
But the real kicker is the feature about Jeremy Leslie (founder of blog magCulture) talking about the amazingly beautiful Port for iPad. (Eye’s website is terrible, best find a printed version)
If you don’t have an iPad, the printed version looks solid as well. I geek out big time over type and this magazine has my head in a swirl. I hear Vetted has a few copies left…
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Working on a shirt for Shop Colum using a typeface I created specifically for the shirt. I wanted a shirt I could wear to represent my school but hated all the ones available, so I thought I’d just do my own.
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Interesting combinations of type provided by Erik Spiekermann
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This is a graphic for a tee I’m working on, inspired by one of my all-time faves, Alan Fletcher.
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