Posters!

I was creating the top poster for a local theater when I fell in love with the little red arrow icon.
I just couldn't leave it alone- so I created a 2nd poster. This one typographical in nature.

I think I like #2 better. What are your thoughts?

House Industries

I recently received a fabulous catalog in the mail. Not from some new hip clothing company, and not on super slick oversized glossy paper.
This was a not-so-humble booklet from House Industries, a type foundry in Yorklyn, DE.
Upon opening the manilla colored envelope I was surrounded by the smell of REAL INK! not the heated ozone stench of laser printing.... but real, live, inky-ink. Mmmmmm... I love the smell of ink in the morning... or afternoon for that matter.

The cover was a nice cardstock from French papers... the inside? the inside was newsprint. Fabulous newsprint!
the orange and black and metallic gold of the ink was fabulous! It was font-porn for the designer in me.

Thank you House Industries. You have made my day.


Mentions of House Industries elsewhere on the web:

http://grainedit.com/2009/03/31/house-industries-interview/

Font-a-licious!

AHHH HAA HAA!
Success! I have created my own font: madmodiste_block
(see stunning example above)
What on earth has the world done all this time without my font! For all the font-e-philes out there: TOO BAD! THIS ONE IS MINE!!!

well, I guess you could click the link below and get your own font....