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AI-assisted digital painting with Procreate and iPad Pro.

 

This started out as a photo of graffiti. The base letterforms are still visible.

 

The first step was to retouch the graffiti getting rid of stray marks and some excess texture in TouchRetouch. The photo was then put through WOMBO dream to produce about a dozen variations. The best variation became the base layer and specific pieces of three or four others were collaged onto the top of it in Procreate.

 

After stacking and collaging the layers were flattened and, exported, and upscaled.

 

After upscaling the image was brought back into Procreate and multiple stages of repainting were done.

 

According to Procreate;

5hrs for stack and collage

17 hrs for repaint

"As time goes on, I realize

Just what you mean to me.

And now, now that you're near,

Promise your love that I've waited to share

And dreams of our moments together.

Color my world with hopes of loving you."

~ Chicago ~

 

CHICAGO ~ sing along with me!

 

Look closely, and you'll be able to pick out some of the letters from one of my favorite songs, as the shapes of the stacked pastels actually seem to become letterforms!

In The Crown pub, Belfast, they have 'snugs' which are enclosed booths for sheltered, private drinking. They each have a fancy glass window with a letter on, and a bell so you can order more drinks from the main bar. The interior of the pub is really elaborate. Apparently it was decorated by Italian artisans who were over in Belfast working on another commission. They worked nights doing the pub up.

One of the few pubs owned by the National Trust and an absolute national treasure.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Liquor_Saloon

Some paper typog I just made for an advertising gig. Those curving letterforms are a total challenge frankly. Luckily 'tangible' was on the design brief.

I decided to finally finish the alphabet that I’d begun some years back. The R through Z and the punctuation marks were added during the past 24 hours. It was fun to at long last call it a day.

Some stuff from my collection. I don’t have a lot of metal type specimens — I visit Letterform Archive for those — but the ’90s are covered!

 

Before the internet, printing and mailing specimens was a key part of foundry promotion. Today, there are very few who still do paper things. Most of those few who do, do it well (FontFont, Typonine, Typotheque, Commercial Type, Production Type, Storm Type, Briefcase).

 

Image for Type Foundries Today. Photo assist by Laura Serra.

 

Specimens shown: Emigre, Hoefler Type Foundry, Club-21, Font Bureau, LucasFonts, 2Rebels, Jeremy Tankard, Porchez Typofonderie, Virus, House Industries, PsyOps, The Enschedé Font Foundry, T-26, ShinnType, FontFont.

On one side of the Pompidou Centre, the modern pedestrianised quarter of the Horloge (Clock) owes its name to Jacques Monestier's famous clock which was installed there in 1979. -------- (PAR_0507_3262 - Image copyrighted).

For a few minutes every day this bike rack near Letterform Archive delivers a message.

German typeface brochure. Photographed at Letterform Archive, San Francisco

Packard Proving Grounds

Shelby Twp, MI

From the collection of the Letterform Archive, San Francisco

My first photo for a billboard for Heritage House of Kimball. (yes, that's me) Also shown are Kathy and (Melissa's) Grandpa George.

diana plastic camera. kodak 400UC film.

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (as they say: when you see red, shoot it) (known as the “red rule”)

from the archives. originally shot on 35mm slide, with contemporary digital post-processing.

Half the collection in my room

Henry Ford Museum -

Dearborn, MI

part of our 19th annual crew wall. we are 3 of the vice presidents and decided to rock together.

 

our crew is not into being matchy-matchy with themes and colors, but still like to try to flex some similar styles if possible. all 3 of us share a love of classic letterform/structure, but hopefully all kind of execute our own twist on stuff.

 

dever was my first mentor with piecing and taught me a good amount of what i know. con was someone i looked up to from afar before we became crew around 2000ish, and then it became okay for me to bite from him liberally haha. i still learn stuff from these guys everytime we paint and im glad to have such good friends in this sport.

 

the dever piece is my favorite thing on the entire wall

 

this photo was stolen from con's flickr

I haven't been uploading everything on flickr now that the website's up, but I'll continue to fill up this stream with more stuff as time goes on :-)

 

Since this is my final month at school, I won't be around flickr as much as I used to so my apologies for all of those who have sent me private messages and for the delays; I truly appreciate every message I receive :-)

"30 Years of Metafont" at the SF Public Library. Part of Type@Cooper West and Letterform Archive’s lecture series.

German typeface brochure. Photographed at Letterform Archive, San Francisco

The DOODLE OFF is throwin' down!

The American

The Scot

The German

**Total # of Blog Comments = the ULTIMATE DOODLE MASTER**

I'm still trying to get past writing rude words in beautiful and genteel letterforms. It just works.

collection of some of my hand made type work

Installation of paperclip letterforms and string

japanese knife, softwood, mask tape and own letterforms

An old alphabet I knocked up, based on Pixação letters (a Brazilian graff style - get to know) . This seems to have got around a fair bit, making a recent appearance in the new book from Black Dog Publishing: Alphabets: A Miscellany Of Letters, which you can cop at blackdogonline.com/all-books/alphabets.html

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