After a short hiatus, I picked up where I left off: with print support materials to flesh out Crystal’s branding and identity for a hard-copy portfolio.
These are the two I was most satisfied with, and given the type and palatte swap I feel I may owe everything an overhaul.
This has been a return to classic form, and I’m very satisfied with the combination of two classic typefaces, veering from my near-obsession with Gill Sans. Here, Futura and a Canada Type reinterpretation of a classic show that hand scripts and ultra modern sans serifs can play nice together.
This reminds me that I have found a typeface that straddles a fence between two hand type classics and looks a little like what Louisville Slugger’s logo would be if designed in Taiwan, circa 1955: Vitrina. I’m sure the designers might disagree, but I’m sitting with a stack of stamps from Hong Kong and a green tea wrapper that hasn’t changed in 50 years on my desk, and it’s spot on.
I’ve been missing my digital list-making, and have just been stuffing all my to-dos into my Field Notes, in cramped hand writing. Back to the task:
- Finish print identity work for Crystal. She’s mentioned an interest in Art Nouveau that I should check against some other patterns. History has deep stocks worth looting.
- Expand my personal site to include late portfolio work. I need a full revision, but it’s so much easier to work for other people than on my own material.
- I have a pulp-painting themed neighborhoods guide to Chicago that is so big it can only eventually be finished. I feel like I need to work on this before Chicago slips away from me. I love handmade maps, but they’re always instantly dated– if there’s no way to establish a continuous updating pattern for them, or even to give others the means to do so, they’re just interesting relics.
- I’ve built a few mockups for a drag and drop shopping application of scriptaculous, and should think about building them into interesting solutions.
- As long as I’m creating too-long lists (the threat of stagnation looms) I might as well keep track of my digital-clock themed personal site. It’s a two-hour detour from construction to inception, so here I file all my hills, hurdles, speedbumps, and milestones.
I have a few people I should get in touch with, and I sent out a few resumes today. With any luck, I should be employed by the time half of these are finished and the other half will get fully stewed in my brainpan until I wake up some night in a cold sweat and finish them in a single go.
I kind of like it that way.