Home Sweet Home

After doing the thank you cards I have been eager to carry on with printing some more hand written phrases, I have decided to start out with a simple (and classic) Home Sweet Home. I didn't want to start with a very long phrase as it has been a while since I last did some serious hand drawn words so I wanted to ease myself back into the flow of writing by hand.

At the moment it is only in the development stage, I have used two different methods to writing out the phrase, one with calligraphy pens and one using 2 pencils taped together. So far I think I prefer the 2 pencil method

Hand Drawn Type

I been thinking lately about how I package all my etsy orders, up until now it has just been the print, business card and a quickly written thank you note that has been placed into an envelope. Now I'm starting to have thoughts on how I can package my orders so they don;t look like they have been thrown together inside an envelope.

I have decided firstly to create some thank you card / notes with some hand drawn type, obviously to thank the buyer for their order.

I started off by making some pencil drawings, none of which are perfect but I quite like that  about the drawings as you can tell that it has been hand drawn and not put together on the computer. It still needs some work but this is what I have got so far.

I will probably screen print these cards as proper thank you cards as well (obviously not in black but in an array of colours) to sell in my etsy shop. 

I am also thinking of venturing into doing some screen prints using hand drawn lettering in the next few months to add to my etsy store, as much as I like printing images I do also equally love doing hand drawn type and I haven't ever really combined the two together so maybe it's about time I do.

inspriation # 14 - Niels Shoe Meulman

I came across the work of Niels Shoe Meulman while doing the Typography Poster project. He is a visual artist, graffiti writer, graphic designer and art director, based in Amsterdam. His work fuses the two art forms of calligraphy and Graffiti together to create the art form Calligraffiti. His work has been featured in many international exhibitions throughout Europe and North America.

Gentletude posters

One of my projects for the first year is to create some posters for a competition that is held by Gentletude, for these posters I came up with a quote using the words Kindness and Attitude to use on the poster.

here are some of the posters I have come up with so far:

I have since changed all of the posters and here are some that I am currently working on: