To practice my hand-drawn type skills I’m doing a little series called “Lettering Mis Amigos” where I illustrate a defining characteristic of one of my peeps. Here’s Plax:
If Plax had a uniform, it would be this.
To practice my hand-drawn type skills I’m doing a little series called “Lettering Mis Amigos” where I illustrate a defining characteristic of one of my peeps. Here’s Gandalf:
To practice my hand-drawn type skills I’m doing a little series called “Lettering Mis Amigos” where I illustrate a defining characteristic of one of my peeps. Here’s Jim, my big brother, master of the over-share and filthy euphemism, able to make me laugh til I cry:
To practice my hand-drawn type skills I’m doing a little series called “Lettering Mis Amigos” where I illustrate a defining characteristic of one of my peeps. Here’s Luis:
To practice my hand-drawn type skills I’m doing a little series called “Lettering Mis Amigos” where I illustrate a defining characteristic of one of my peeps. Here’s God:
To practice my hand-drawn type skills I’m doing a little series called “Lettering Mis Amigos” where I illustrate a defining characteristic of one of my peeps. Here’s Resha:
Happy birthday, Resha!
To practice my hand-drawn type skills I’m doing a little series called “Lettering Mis Amigos” where I illustrate a defining characteristic of one of my peeps. Here’s Zoran:
To practice my hand-drawn type skills I’m doing a little series called “Lettering Mis Amigos” where I illustrate a defining characteristic of one of my peeps. Here’s Ivana:
Recently spent a few weeks volunteering up in the beautiful mountains of Quebec, a couple hours north of Montreal. It’s a delightfully remote area, without cell phone reception and with just a spot of wifi here and there.
I did a bit of designing, including a big ol’ sign (9ft by 3ft) for the vegetable stand where they sell off the abundance from the organic garden:
And also a couple of advertisements, here’s one:
But mostly what I did was run about and get dirty in the garden and swim in the lake and scrub pots and fold laundry and make new friends and see lots of wildlife (including a baby bear!) and eat wild raspberries and spend all kinds of time outdoors with the flowers and the woods, waking when the sun came up excited for life and sleeping like the dead when the sun went down. It was lovely and restorative.
What I noticed was that the longer I spent connected to nature and disconnected from my computer, the more and more creative I became. It began getting expressed in all sorts of fun little ways — making up games with the kids, assembling elaborate flower bouquets, ‘cooking’ raw.
But also I couldn’t wait to get back to work, filled with new ideas. More on those to come….!
The truth is I’m kinda in love with this poster I got to make recently.
For one thing, the client is the lovely Adaliz De Sedas, whose food is so inventive and fresh and delicious you experience eating in a whole new way.
A recently meal we shared: carrot salad with a vinaigrette made from papaya seeds, cashews and homemade pineapple vinegar / soba noodle pasta with shitaki mushrooms, pineapple, mustard leaves, and homemade coconut milk curry / and for desert: homemade avocado ice cream!
Have you ever heard a menu like this?! Are you not salivating? And did you notice the theme: homemade! Adaliz and her husband, Klaus, are what I’d call the real deal — sincere, compassionate, hard-working people who live their values with a sustainable, home-grown, home-made lifestyle. Klaus is a bamboo genius and recently completed a BOAT made from bamboo. A BOAT THAT SLEEPS SIX. That he MADE. WITH HIS HANDS. Yeah, think about that next time you’re sitting around bored!
Anyhow, here’s the poster:
(Click the image to see it in its detailed glory.)
Thanks to the PSD Dude for his tutorial on how to make text look chalky. The pretty font is called Alice. It’s available for free from Google Web Fonts.
