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For our final project, we were tasked to create a handmade identification poster that shares the history of type. My main two ideas for the poster was to either make it look like a newspaper or a restaurant menu. After experimenting with different layouts in my sketchbook, I eventually settled on the menu idea.  Firstly,… Read more: Historical Type Identification Poster

For my historical artifact, I explored the origins of matchboxes and designed one myself. It’s interesting how much variety there is in matchbox label designs and how unique and detailed each one of them is. There’s a huge range of illustrations and typography that decorate matchboxes and I enjoyed studying the different styles. Back in… Read more: Historial Artifact

Winslow Homer 1836-1910

Behind the Wave That Became an Overseas Sensation. Even though you might not have heard the name Katsushika Hokusai, it’s almost guaranteed that you’ve seen his most famous work Under the Wave off Kanagawa, better known as The Great Wave. This renowned woodblock print is a part of a series of prints titled Thirty-six views… Read more: Survey 4

Zines were something I’ve been wanting to make for some time so I was pleasantly surprised when this project got assigned. For my design, I decided to go with a more modern and minimalistic approach because I thought that represented the typeface the best. With the use of whitespace, I brainstormed a lot about what… Read more: Typography Zine