Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Handmade Lettering 4


This headline was made before and during a late 2006 holiday trip to Barcelona. I tried to get all letters done with one line but of course the holes in some letters are separate. Made with ball-point pens.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Handmade Lettering 3

Sir Spend-A-Lot is a repeating headline I'm using while traveling to keep track of how much money I'm spending. Since these pages can be in active use for more than a week they naturally need nice headlines. This one is from early 2008 trip to London and Paris. Made with gel and ball-point pens.

Friday, October 17, 2008

Handmade Lettering 2

On the weekly work meetings I seem to get lots of lettering done. I trust someone else to take care of actual notes, of course, and concentrate only on the headlines.

"Palzu" means a meeting in sort-of-finnish. Made with felt-tip-, ballpoint- and silver gel pens.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Handmade Lettering 1

I'm starting a series of handmade lettering images scanned from my sketchbook and notes. 

The images will not be cleaned up too much to maintain the handmade look I personally like about these.

This text is a random note from the sketchbook for no real purpose. The flat letterforms looked like they could be "ribbonized" so I tested that. Made with red felt-tip and ball-point pens.