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So this was fun: A while back I was asked to design covers for a series of feminist classics, so I decided to go powerful, bold, vibrant, and (of course) Art Deco. The initial concept included the first three titles, of which this is probably my favorite (I'll post the other two in the coming week). As it often happens, the publisher decided to go in a different direction, but what a fun project to work on anyway!! 💛🖤💙

Experimenting with a more contemporary take on blackletter on this Tuesday evening. This G quickly became all about simplification, geometry, and especially negative space. I totally get lost in the details and I probably could keep fussing over this on Procreate for this another 2 hours... Lately, I've been finding it relaxing to spend quite a long time refining something on my iPad but have no patience for spending the same amount of time with vectors. Is anyone else out there suffering from bézier boredom?

On the days leading up the the World Cup final, I made this simple lettering to support l'équipe française. The idea is for it to look like it was quickly written out with a sharpie, but making something look gestural (for someone like me who needs to fuss over something for hours) takes FOREVER and a day and LOTS of Photoshop (praise be to the liquify tool). ➡️ Swipe right to see an animation of the unedited original and the touched-up version going back and forth.
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Here's a rundown of what I did:
• Made the x-heights and baselines more consistent
• Opened up the top of the A, the bottom of the U, the loop on the S, and the eye of the E in "les"
• Smoothed out the L-E and U-S connectors
• Reversed the bowl sizes on the B
• Made the E in "bleus" similar (but not identical) to the one in "allez"
• Ironed out the kinks in the swashes of the A, the bottom of the Z and exit ornament at the very bottom
• Questioned my life choices
• Made the S look less clunky by thinning it out and adding a more graceful curve
• Adjusted the overall letterspacing

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