Sublime

My new flexible schedule allowed me to work on side projects, one of which became the biggest burst on my career constellation: Daily Drop Cap.

If I had to represent my career visually, it would look like a constellation—a line, interrupted occasionally by bursts of energy that slightly or dramatically shift the direction of the path. Finding design was one of these bursts—an ah-ha moment, reaffirming all the decisions I had made up to that point.

didn’t want my typographic muscles to atrophy—I had spent too much time training them while working for Louise. I gave myself a goal: I would draw one letter a day until I worked my way through twelve alphabets (choosing twelve because maybe I could make a calendar or something at the end of the project). I would work in whatever style I wished and

When making decorative lettering, the decorative bits, no matter how over the top they may be, should make sense and feel like natural extensions of the letterforms themselves, not tacked on and unnecessary.