wildclover fontstruct Currently working on wildclover, a Fontstruction that is trying to explore the boundaries of…
safehouse/crackhouse
glyph overview For links to and downloads from Fontstruct, see the former post.
safehouse/crackhouse
new fontstructions Two new small grid fontstructions I made in FontStruct. Safehouse is a minimal stencil font….
Wizard of Oz
Power type! A cheap pocket edition in glossy orange ink on a fake leather embossed paper….
Two sisters?
needlework type To finish the series on needle-crafted type with a sunday feeling, here are two…
Blink!
Primetta In Blink! I show stuff that tickles the corner of my eye. Shop window in…
Book design
grand openings 2 Another flea market finding, this book by Léon Bloy first struck me for…
Analog pixel art 5
faience? Ninove, today. Postscript has taken over the market…
Analog pixel art 4
Another stitched alphabet Another great exercise, dated 1921. While she has all the other N’s right,…
Analog pixel art 3
Bonsoir! This piece comes from a lot I found in a ‘brocante’ in the Blaesstraat (Rue…
Label
Bijloke bier For this beer label, I adapted my Peghole Fontstruct to hang from the top…
analog pixel art 2
Martinas Today is mosaic day, or tiling day if you like your mosaic a little more…
analog pixel art
When I was a kid, we had no computers. But did we have pixel art! It…
g-thing three and a half
off to sleep.
g-thing three
g-thing two
g-thing
An old sketch with new digital layers on top.
More incisions…
Me just continuing the path set out by the incision sketches, my son claimed this…
Some b’s
Less abstract, this lettering. My pencil definitely wanted to draw some b’s. Number three is funny,…
incisions
Sketches below and in earlier posts are to some extent absent minded. The hand moves over…
Abstract lettering
Some R’s These were done some time ago. New sketches coming up…
Abstract lettering 2
another useless scribble from my time-buyer/time-killer series…
Abstract lettering
Letters are as much about the inner spaces as about the printing part. No new thought…
freewheeling
blind lettering! Fontstruct is fun, but square. Time to break out of the grid. Let’s play a…
Peghole Narrow Black
A wide version called for a narrow one. But narrowing a 3 block letter meant sacrificing…
Peghole & Peghole Wide
After my avantgarde adventures, back to some working stuff: Peghole is finished, including punctuation, accented letters…
rock bottom…
Always searching for less, one is bound to hit the bottom. In my quest for ever…
Tyrone is feeling better…
Glad to inform that Rob downloaded and printed Tyrone from Indesign. And had no spacing troubles….
Alas! Tyrone stutters…
My Tyrone Struction had a flaw that seemed solved, but now strikes back. In the review…
peghole
3 block fontstruction Working on peghole. The rules: only 3 block-shapes and their rotations or reflections:…