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Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets
A souvenir from the Prague trip: about 50 small (17 × 14 cm) sheet music bi-fold leaflets from Czechoslovakia, 1935–1948.
Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets
Happy to announce the release of my latest font project called "Steak".
www.myfonts.com/fonts/sudtipos/steak/
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Here I am, once again digging up 60-year sign lettering and trying to reconcile it with the typography of my own time. The truth is I've had this particular Alf Becker alphabet in my sights for a few years now. But in the typical way chaos shuffles the days, Buffet Script and Whomp won the battle for my attentions way back when, then Storefront beat the odds by a nose a couple of years ago. Nevertheless, revisiting Alf Becker’s work is always a breath of fresh air for me, not to mention the ego boost I get from confirming that I can still hack my way through the challenges, which is something I think people ask themselves about more often as they get older.
You can never tell what may influence your work, or in this case remind you to dig it out of dust drawers and finally mould it into one of your own experiences. On my recent visits to the States and Canada, I noticed that quite a few high-end steak houses try their best to recreate an urban American 1930s atmosphere. This is quite evident in their menus, wall art, lighting, music, and so on. The ambience says your money is well spent here, because your food was originally choice-cut by a butcher who wears a suit, cooked by a chef who may be your neighbour 20 minutes from downtown, and delivered by a waitress who can do the Charleston when the lights dim and who just wouldn't mind laughing with you over drinks at the bar later.
So Steak is just that, a face for menus and wall art in those places that see themselves in the kind of jazzy, noirish world where one-liners rule and exclamation points are part of a foreign language. As is usual with my lettering-inspired faces, there is very little left of the original Alf Becker alphabet. Of course, the challenges present in bringing typographic functionality to what is essentially pure hand lettering gives the spirit of the original art a hell of a rollercoaster ride. But I think that spirit survived the adventure, and may in fact be even somewhat magnified here. This font is over 850 glyphs. It’s loaded with ligatures, swashes, ending forms, alternates, ascender and descender variations, and extended Latin language support.
Steak comes in 3 versions. According to your taste you can choose Barbecue, Braised or Smoked. It’s up to you!
Started the lettering on the rusty custom Harley project.. Applying 1-shot imitation gold, and need at least a couple of layers, as the "canvas" is pretty rough.. before the gold size and the gold leaf..
This old sign for Bellows Patisserie & Brasserie, open early to late, is so 80s & so Highgate.
I can only guess that its 80s but it is Highgate & not just Highgate, but Highgate Village.
Over the years the whitewash used to cover it has faded & revealed more info, but the sign itself is peeling away, so the passing of time is giving & taking away.
Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets
Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets
Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets
Beschriftung am Rathaus – Lettering on the town hall. Das alte Rathaus wurde im 19. Jahrhundert großenteils abgerissen und von 1873 bis 1874 in alter Form neu errichtet. Die Beschriftung ist demnach jüngeren Datums.
Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets
Super close up of some modern calligraphy I've been working on today : ) Drawn using a Sakura Micron fine liner.
This is my first shot at lettering. The text "Amazing Grace" was done by "hand" using Adobe Illustrator. The rest of the design was done in Photoshop.
Goal: Concept artwork for 2012 Easter services
Audience: Everyone in the church and the nearby community
Direction: Simple Easter. No big show or production, no fancy gimmicks. Just the simple message that It is by God's grace that we have forgiveness of our sins by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Project: Advertising materials (flyers, web graphics, service graphics, etc.)