Some kind of progress

Slowly starting to build up layers on this piece. We got my particular spin on illuminated manuscript, with all the letter forms taken from this old doodle from last year. Originally spelling "In the beginning" the famous phrase that begins a certain controversial old book, this is part of my attempt to recreate a science-based story about the beginning of the universe using religious visual language.

Not sure if it needs more doing to it yet but I'm liking where it's heading. Softened some of the rigid felt-tip lines with water to create a more organic look, to compliment the glass forms. Torn up graph paper, netting and stitching are used similarly to move away from the rigid outline of the squared paper. A lot of religious-based art borrows heavily from nature, so it wouldn't make sense to create an excessively man-made industrial-feeling piece.

http://dribbble.com/eristine
http://christinekawasakichan.com/

Just sharing the love, found a series of food pictures, turns out the lady who made them also has a super neat website. People should give her all of the money.

Links

In attempt to finish posting more of the links I wanted to write about, this week's post is typography-themed! The above video was created by Ben Barrett-Forrest if it hasn't been viralled-to-death already (it should, it's taken a hideous amount of work, and also it's awesome). I'm not going to even begin to pretend I know a whole lot about typography, I just like things that look exquisitely designed so I'm going to post things I think look nice and leave it at that.

http://www.fsemeric.com/
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2013/april/fontsmiths-fs-emeric-launch-campaign

http://www.swisstypefaces.com/

I Love Typography
Can I marry a website? ...is- is that allowed? Do people do that? Oh my god I think I've just found my new favourite thing on the internet.

AAaaanndd slightly less related to typography, more graphic designy:

http://www.basenow.net/
http://www.basedesign.com/home/baaaaase

http://www.non-format.com/

mmm...nicely designed websites

(appologies for the increased crazy-per-word ratio in this post)

Eleanor Glover

Found an old exhibition catalogue from an exhibition called 'Smile' at the Ruthin Craft Centre in Wales in 2010, appologies again for rubbish picture-taking. Kinda hit me today that that exhibition had a pretty big influence on the style of work I've been producing lately, espcially the lettering by Eleanor Glover because I've always had this nagging feeling in the past couple of years that applied arts and typography should be combined and the results would be glorious, and this little catalogue was just sitting dolefully on my bookshelves waiting for me to spot the connection the entire time.

A point of singularity

Hand-Stitched lettering done in my own fair handwriting, it may be illegible but I'm still fond of it

Moar Typography

This post is a liiittle bit immature but I wanted to make expletives look all pretty and painty a bit like Theo Olesen's Beautiful Swear Words (I'm super original like that). My original plan was to make a really nice love letter to the boyfriend that said how fucking beautiful he was, but instead I just painted the word Fuck all over my sketchbook and I guess these are the results:

Yes, I am fully aware that my Fs are a bit S-like :(

experimental typefaces using paintbrushes

In the Beginning