Jessica should i work for free

Yes I'm shocked you made it this far in the chart. You could have been done with the project already! Yes Don't be a dick.

You owe them. No Yippee. Enough to write an angry letter for even considering you'd work for them? No Respectfully decline. Yes But don't be their slave. Clearly define what you can and can't do for them. Yes Double karma points. No They probably have a budget for you if they're charging the client.

Build is a small, yet perfectly formed, boutique design conference where interesting, talented web practitioners from all over the world come to share ideas, techniques and inspiration. Some are on stage; some are in the audience. I was honored to work with veteran magazine art director Rip George on this cover for Long Island Pulse.

The lettering was ultimately printed in a shiny…. Oddfellows is an excellent design and animation studio based in SF and Portland. Collaborating on this logotype project was insanely fun—their work is heavily illustrative, modern, and inventive and they wanted a logotype that matched the vibe of both the work and the people behind the work.

Lettering for an HP Printer ad. This was a really fun assignment! BBDO contacted me to be a part of their new campaign for Dove Chocolate—I would create lettering, which would then be laser cut into 3d art and then coated in chocolate. The resulting images are really cool, and I particularly like how it looks in the commercial!

The lovely Tina aka Swiss Miss asked me to create a piece for a kickstarter campaign to help fund Creative Mornings and I happily obliged. Nothing makes me feel more creative in the morning than an amazing cup of coffee. I wanted to give myself a challenge so I decided I wanted the lettering to be modern but to use a….

Paul Tanners wanted to develop the first water that was fluoridated to promote healthy teeth. The label design was printed on clear sticker paper and applied to the water bottles for a very clean and modern look. The designs were then printed on t-shirts. In previous issues, a giant 40 was a prominent feature and, as I love giant letters, I kept that in my design.

Vintage inspired type for a book cover. The design of the cover is by Anne Twomey and I created the lettering used for the title and author name as well as the ornamentation around the title.

Bing put together a really fun campaign this year that I was pumped to be a part of—each day they had a letterer create a search term, something you would do in the summer. For a week, my lettering was posted one day at a time, but it was really fun to see what some of the other letterers did for…. This was a personal project that I sent out as a promo in the winter of It was a set of twelve postcards, each illustrating one of the twelve days of Christmas.

They were all held together with a belly band stating "Happy Holidays" in hand-lettering. These special silver gift tag ornaments were made for Neiman Marcus over the holidays, along side a calligraphic butterfly clip on ornament. This was basically a dream job: illustrate internet cat memes. I love the internet. I love cats.

Illustration for an article about a pet-only airline. The second illustration was for a follow up opinion piece. Juniper Park commissioned me to create a number of lettering only advertisements for Astral Digital using both English and French words — the result is a colorful and very lively campaign.

Lettering for a book cover. The final printed book design evolved quite a bit after I handed over final artwork. Bordo Bello is a really fun event set up by an AIGA branch in Denver Colorado where designers are sent a blank skateboard deck and told they can do whatever they want with it.

The decks were then auctioned off to support the club. This was my design, which I painted onto the deck. The tan areas…. Where does the name beyond tellerrand come from? It expresses the aim of everybody involved to look a bit further, look beyond the edge. It also reflects the global perspective of our event.

Moderated by Alexis Jones, it was an incredible night, with great conversation and everyone got to walk away with a free pair of jeans.

Available through my store, through myfonts and veer. Snowflake is a charming typeface based on cut paper snowflakes. Along with a full alphabet, numbers, accent characters, and punctuation, it also includes snowflake ornaments for borders or patterns!

It's similar to crochet work and papel picado,…. Logo for Bailey Quin, an interior designer specializing in whimsical spaces with a southern twist. He and I worked collaboratively on the logo and The Heads of State were also involved in the brainstorming process. Tattly is an amazingly fun shop started by Tina Roth Eisenberg aka Swiss Miss selling designy temporary tattoos. I made a one-off letterpress print for the occasion and printed it myself at The Arm in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

The issue is devoted to how some people are caring for girls — saving girls from slavery around the world, mentoring girls who are without a mother, etc. Cover for a student handbook given out at the beginning of the year.

Each year they hire a different illustrator to do the cover and lend a hand with some interior decoration, this year's theme was centered around a vintagey space adventure. The stylistic reference was a clean woodcut illustration. Dansko commissioned me to make a typographic repeat pattern to be used on their special 20th anniversary edition clogs.

This was a really fun assignment, and also very challenging, as complex repeat patterns are never a walk in the park. I was really happy with how the pattern turned out and my mom…. With our upcoming SmashingConf New York , we'll explore real-life projects, workflows and hands-on insights that we all can learn from and use right away.

Same game, same rules: 1 track, 2 conference days, 7 workshops, 18 excellent speakers and just available seats. Semi-Permanent brings together internationally renowned designers, artists and creative icons for live events, presentations, workshops and parties. Be inspired. When looking at the masthead, he knew he could only push it so far by himself, so he brought in an expert me! An Event Apart is an intensely educational two-day conference for passionate practitioners of standards-based web design.

Brioche is a fun revival typeface ready for all of your fancy needs. The roman is modeled after a few 19th century samples with the exception of some special swashy characters of course I had to add them!

The italic is a new design. Final and two exploratory sketches for a book cover. The lead character lives in an institution for delinquent teenage boys. Rather than keep up a traditional blog, this page serves as a home for writing and as a repository for answers to frequently asked questions about me and my work.

For news updates, please follow me on twitter or subscribe for email updates. Please feel free to email comments or corrections. Daily Drop Cap, the first, was pure eye candy and helped jump start my lettering career. Are you a creative person that constantly submits to competitions but never gets in? Are you over 30 and bummed that you missed your chance to be a 20 under 30?

If you think you deserve an…. The main art direction was to give visual cues to each of the five bands, see if you can name them!

This is a full-spread illustration for the amazing publication, The Manual, put together by Andy McMillan, who is also the founder of the excellent web conference Build in Belfast, Ireland. A full page illustration for the cover of the holiday edition of the Style section.

This was the start of my career as a ribbon typographer. The goal was to illustrate phrases from action movies and sort of compete against each other to see who could come up with the best solution. This intimate environment has a relaxed anti-conference feel creating space for amazing connections and beautiful….

The Yellow Conference is a gathering for creative, entrepreneurial women who desire to ignite passion and bring goodness to the world through everyday living.

Editorial illustrations for Convene Magazine. The art director loved the way type was treated on another piece that I created, so I adapted it for the new content. All sales benefit the museum! It was really fun trying to figure out ways to fit everything in and keep things legible and after we settled on a style I created a Spanish and French version….

People voted for their favorite and the winner was produced. Title type for the Summer Movie Preview Issue. Inspired by vintage fruit crate type but with a much brighter color palette. Each year Frank Sturges Reps collaborates on a calendar with a design studio and a printer. This particular year's theme was color, each artist was given a color to illustrate. I chose the color white and illustrated "Follow the White Rabbit".

This is the first year but the lineup is filled with great names! This was a really fun editorial project for an article featuring fiction writing of Northwestern Alums. Papyrus really does go all out with the production of their cards sometimes! For this holiday card, they added all sorts of special effects to make it incredibly dimensional, sparkly, and special.

An illustration for an article about a boy that gets a concussion which leads to a sort of enlightenment about himself and his place in his family. Typographic ads for Avis. Join AAFUtah as I walk through my process, share stories from projects like my work on Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, and give plenty of helpful tips on how to better your analog and vector skills. Tickets on….

Airbnb hosts design talks in their beautiful space. Check in will start at 6pm and promptly end at pm in order to start the program. They will not be able to accommodate any walk-ins. Title links to RSVP. Collision is an enormous conference with over speakers including CEOs from top companies, captains of industry in tech, and influencery artist folks like yours truly.

I mean Al Gore is also speaking. LetterWest is an incredibly intimate event spearheaded by Becca Classon in which forty attendees and the speakers share time in a collective space in Utah—the speakers giving talks or workshops. Target contacted both myself and Erik Marinovich to letter tag lines that would be used in an internal presentation to some important Target partners.

Book cover design for a book about how to be a budget savvy mom without making too many sacrifices along the way. And Ed, the manager of the space, kept the scotch flowing freely which made for an interesting night.

These were all over New York and super fun to see in person! For this gift card, I was asked to create a design that looks like a vintage tourism postcard. We used a bright color palette to keep the art fresh and modern and the design was created in English, Spanish, and French. Lettering for a t-shirt and other potential applications for this awesome Brooklyn-based letterpress shop.

Fellow ADC Young Guns and general awesome designer dudes Dan Covert and Andre Adreev commissioned me to do a bit of lettering for their site and general studio branding. It was a total pleasure working them, here's the lettering in and out of context.

Typographic patterns to be used for wrapping paper, cards, wallpaper, anything really. I'm working on several other holidays currently. Lecture and round-table discussion with Washington University students within the illustration and design departments.

Single-track conference with eight talks, carefully curated to excite, enthuse, and seek outcomes, affordable half-day workshops covering web typography, responsive design, prototyping and much more, and two floors of epic after—party action.

The HOW Conference is a massive annual conference that shifts location each year. I participated in the conference in Chicago. Title type and headline type for an article about The Real Housewives of Atlanta. The title type is made up of illustrated rhinestones.

This project was SO fun! Pro-Bono lettering and illustrative patterns for a gala announcement to help raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. A hand-lettered and letterpressed baby announcement for my friend John Hendrix and his wife Andrea. Tiny type is set in the typeface Coquette by Mark Simonson. Sarah Parmenter is one of my favorite ladies. When she asked me if I could help create a pattern to use on her iOS workshop site, I jumped at the chance. She owes me fancy drinks for life.

But not really. Love you, Sarah! Hear that honking sound? Mark your calendar for November 4, 5 and 6 and plan to join us in Two Rivers for our annual type conference. The artwork is meant to look like cut paper but is actually vector illustration. I specialize in redrafting, reinvigorating, and restoring logos for established brands—enhancing their beauty and legibility through sensitive and subtle updates.

Here are projects that have been archived for one reason or another. To see recent and unarchived work, visit the portfolio link below. To inquire about a new project or to license existing artwork, contact Frank Sturges Reps. I tend to name my typefaces after things that they remind me of. Ultimately though, you want to give it a name that showcases some of your favorite characters. I kind of wish Bourboncide existed Editorial type for an article about men Bust Magazine adores.

Was set opposite a photo of Will Arnett, whom I personally think is awesome. For a financial magazine article about getting back to work after the New Year celebrations are over. Branding for the New to You lecture series. The type design was used on promotional materials and I letter-pressed these postcards to hand out at my lecture. Design professionals from all over the world gather for four days of community, inspiration and skills building. Now in its 13th year, UX Week delivers new tools you can put to use immediately.

Book Jacket design for a book about appearing knowledgeable about things you really only have limited knowledge of. I could just set up a bounce-back, but I hate bounce backs and so do my clients so this…. I decided to create an alphabet to spell out all of the words and let interior textures and patterns conceptually show what the words meant. I had the pleasure of donating a poster for a fund-raising event at the McCarren Park Pool venue in the summer of in support of the Obama presidential campaign.

Ads for Orchard Park Mall. I had a ton of fun working on these advertisements, and this is a selection of all of the ads produced. Unfortunately this version of the cover did not end up being printed, but the art director was quite happy to let me show it to you here. An identity for a fancy deli in Germany. The owner wanted the store to have a vintage feel and wanted a logo that would have the quality of an early 20th century mark but still feel at home in the 21st century.

Adobe Max is an enormous cross disciplinary conference put on every year featuring leaders from all creative fields plus a few star celebrity keynotes.

For the conference, I spoke on the publication date of my kids book! I strive to create beautiful and legible work with just enough personality and a high level of technical precision. In addition to updating existing brands, I love collaborating with designers, agencies, and in-house teams to create new logos or consult on logo development. Tyler School of Art, my alma mater, commissioned me to create these two posters to advertise their Fall and Spring open houses.

These lemonade labels were unfortunately never produced despite how much Markham and I and everyone else that laid eyes on them loved them. Quotation marks, accented characters, and dashes—we all need to use them but hardly any of us know how to type them. Here is a brief guide of how to quickly type smart quotes and accented characters and dashes on a Mac complete with occasionally humorous examples.

Illustrations for the Wall St. Logo for Kate Murphy Photography. Kate was an awesome client, everyone hire her to take your photos! The lecture was also live-streamed to TDC members that signed up. Search for:. Victory Here are all of the results that turned up when you searched for Inspiration vs. Imitation Every now and then I get a really lovely email from an aspiring letterer that is about to publish a passion project of his or her own. Productivity Quest: Email E mail is one of those things that people endlessly bitch about.

I am not a web designer. How do you deal with rip-off-ers? Do I keep my crappy job? Do you ever feel overwhelmed? How do I critique a sensitive person? Is my school holding me back? ICON The Illustration Conference [ICON] is a grass-roots, professional organization established in to serve the illustration community and promote the use of illustration in all media, provide a platform for illustrators and image-makers to address issues from a tight knit community and develop new….

How did you build your online presence? How did you become a letterer? How important is style? What's your lettering process like? Type Rugs As some of you may know, I purchased a Cintiq tablet a few weeks ago and have been having a blast with it. Design Indaba Since , Design Indaba has been committed to a vision that is built on the belief that creativity will fuel an economic revolution in South Africa.

Chill Vibes For a special music-focused edition of Pop-Up Magazine a live "magazine" featuring talks and performances , I and several other artists were asked to make art for special edition prints. Creative Mornings CreativeMornings is a monthly breakfast lecture series for creative types. What inspired you to become a designer? I love love. What advice would you give to a young designer? What do you do when you're not working? Design Thinkers Toronto DesignThinkers is Canada's largest annual graphic design conference, connecting designers from around the world.

The Peanut Gallery Google contacted me to be a part of a fun secret project that they were putting together to help showcase their Speech API in the most recent Chrome update. Code Mode Light So often I felt like I needed a sign above my head when knee deep in HTML, CSS, Jquery, email, writing—all the activities that require undivided attention—so that my studio mates would know that whatever questions they asked me where going in one ear and out the other.

Politics at the Dinner Table The Washington Post magazine ran a special feature on the one-year anniversary of the election, asking artists and contributors to propose one specific idea to help fix American civic life. What's the difference between Lettering and Fonts?

The Pussy Project Helena Price, a dear friend and talented photographer, contacted me about a project she was swiftly putting together before the election. Webstock Webstock will be bestest, greatest, most amazingly awesome conference ever. Sprint The team at Google Ventures hired me to create a unique design for their upcoming book about Design Sprints, which help companies test ideas quickly, promising that within five days you can move from idea to prototype to decision. Type Rug! Semi-Permanent, Sydney Semi-Permanent is a world leading design conference that to date has hosted 29 events in 9 cities, covering 5 countries, with over speakers and 50, attendees.

Shopping in Marrakech This fun guidebook was especially fun to design. Party Nails I love Party Nails. Nike Leave a Message Nike 6. NPR Calendar I was so excited to be asked to be a part of the NPR calendar, and even more excited when I found out my artwork was to be used on the cover! Interlink Interlink Conference is a small hand-crafted event created for all types of creative web professionals. Semi-Permanent: Auckland Semi-Permanent is a world leading design conference that to date has hosted 29 events in 9 cities, covering 5 countries, with over speakers and 50, attendees.

Divinity of Second Chances In On the Divinity of Second Chances, Kaya McLaren portrays a family on the brink of dissolution-a mother besieged by middle age, a distant father lost in daily life, and their three teenage children struggling in various ways with the family's disintegration even as they conceal a secret that…. Minot Font Minot is a new display typeface that I had a ton of fun making and hope you guys have just as much fun playing with it.

Friends of Type Friends of Type invited me to guest post on their wonderful site. Italianissimo This book, written by Louise Fili and Lise Apatoff, is a wonderful visual guide of objects and activities that are quintessentially Italian. Where did you go to school and why did you go there?

Mom, This is How Twitter Works So I wasn't trying to make some sort of political statement about women in technology when I made this really fun and really useful website—it actually was originally intended for my mom, the most tech-savvy person I know over Penguin Drop Caps Penguin Drop Caps is a series of twenty-six collectible hardcover editions of fine works of literature, each featuring on its cover a specially commissioned illustrated letter of the alphabet by yours truly!

Ride for the Roses The Livestrong Foundation commissioned me to make a special edition poster to be given to a select number of donors at one of their biggest fundraising events, Ride for the Roses in Texas. Art of the Cap I love creating art for good causes and this partnership with Speedo was no exception. Tilda This typeface for Moonrise Kingdom set the tone for a sweet movie about youthful innocence. Inspire Conference Ready to Inspire is a brand new conference about the craft of web design, type and code.

Southern Living Robert Perino was in the middle of a major design overhaul of Southern Living when he contacted me to update the masthead. Academy Screenwriting Posters The Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting is an international screenwriting competition established to identify and encourage talented new screenwriters.

Stand Out with Moo The agency Full Contact put together this series of ads for Moo, commissioning yours truly to create the illustrative lettering.

Love Stamp I am beyond excited to show off this stamp design I lettered! Hallmark Signature I partnered with Hallmark Signature to create a special artist-collaboration series of Christmas cards. Gilda For the cover of Gilda, Eric wanted to use a still from the film with Rita Hayworth in all of her sassy glory.

DesignFest DesignFest, by its size and number of international and foreign visitors, is the largest design event in Mexico.

We the People I was invited along with 9 other prominent designers to create a poster about one of the Amendments in the Bill of Rights. Chic Shopping Paris A boutiquey guidebook on shopping in Paris. Church of the Dog Deep in Oregon farm country, Edith and Earl McRae are looking down the barrel of their fiftieth anniversary with none of the joy such a milestone should hold. Krai by Olga Bell Olga Bell is an amazing musician and dear friend!

Colgate Young and Rubicam commissioned me to be a part of this really fun series of ads for Colgate. Circles Conference Come and reignite your passion and imagination at Circles Conference.

Buenos Aires A guidebook for Buenos Aires. Goode Co. What's your favorite font? Should I Work for Free? Daily Drop Cap In September of , I started a little project that ended up having a dramatic impact on my career. Art with Heart I did this piece pro-bono for this wonderful organization which attempts to "heal kids through creativity". The New Science of Old Whiskey I had just returned from a Ladies Scotch Tour of Scotland, so was excited when The Atlantic contacted me to do a bit of editorial lettering for a piece about modern day whiskey makers.

Help Ink I love a good charitable art project. TDC 65th Anniversary I was honored to be asked to be a part of the Type Directors Club project to celebrate 65 years of typographic excellence. Snacks Quarterly Snacks Quarterly is a fun online publication that interviews creatives, giving them a list of silly but interesting questions and asking participants to create a piece of artwork to go alongside the interview.

Help Ink Tee I loved working with Help Ink on an earlier poster and was excited when they launched a new endeavor selling t-shirts to raise money for charity. Savoir Fare This guidebook for London focuses on inexpensive dining. City Walks D. Terroir Guides A series of in-depth travel guides. Buttermilk Font Buttermilk is a font I designed in which is available for purchase in my store, or at Veer and MyFonts.

Nuovo Femminismo The fantastic editorial designer and art director Francesco Franchi commissioned me to create lettering for the cover of IL Magazine.

Royal Mail The Royal Mail commissioned me to do a piece for a specialty catalog they would be putting out to showcase some of their stamps. Graphika Manila Graphika Manila is the premiere multimedia and graphic design event in the Philippines. Re:Make Re:Make is a conference and festival designed to celebrate and explore the creativity in all of us.

Golf Guru Quirk Books is a small publishing company in Philadelphia, and I interned there when still in school. Heartwork Heartwork is a program that raises money for art supplies for kids who are staying at Target House and getting treatment at St. Paperless Post I am so excited about this new partnership with Paperless Post! Dandy Gilver Jacket designs for a series of murder mystery books. Buzzwords of When the New York Times contacted me this year to do the Buzzwords of , I was jazzed because I thought it was a perfect excuse to collaborate with my studio mate!

Eventbrite The folks at Eventbrite had seen the logo update for MailChimp and contacted me to give one of their marks a similar facelift.

OnStar This piece accompanied an advertorial article for OnStar subject obvious. Oxfam Holiday Oxfam is a wonderful organization that encourages people to buy charitable gifts on the behalf of others. Kerning Conference Kerning is the first international conference in Italy dedicated solely to typography and web typography.

Viney Alphabet I created this fun viney alphabet for a letterpress print, which I printed myself and are available in my store. New Jersey Monthly This was a really fun assignment and one of my first major illustrative lettering assignments.

The Night Circus This is unfortunately a killed project as I was really loving the direction! In Radiolab We Trust Jez Burrows started a wonderful little initiative to help support Radiolab, which is an amazing podcast. Weekend Art Workshop Tyler School of Art, my alma mater, commissioned me to create this poster for their continuing education program's Weekend Art Workshops.

Mohawk Quarterly This lettering was created as a poster insert for Mohawk Quarterly. Golf Digest Hand-lettered titles for a story about the best golf resorts in North America. Bel Chocolate Chocolate label and box design for a wonderful company that specializes in delicious natural chocolates.

Alt Summit Alt Summit was founded in Everything is Design Josh Higgins asked me to be a part of a project to help celebrate the life of Doyald Young after his passing and of course I jumped at the chance! We Love Graphic Design We Love Graphic Design is a celebration of the world of graphic design in the shape of an annual one day seminar featuring lectures from some of the most important, inspirational and insanely creative graphic designers working today.

Virtue The Baffler is a quarterly journal of cultural and political analysis which was started in but revamped and redesigned recently. United Pixel Workers United Pixel Workers puts out limited edition awesome t-shirts designed by design nerds.

Papyrus Valentines I had the pleasure of creating a big collection of work for Papyrus as a part of their Valentine's line. Kung-Fu Bikini Creatures This assignment was incredibly fun—I had to illustrate an article about badmovies.

Bonds Holiday Wrapping paper design for a Bonds mailer. WeMake Portland Born from the idea of creating a platform that fosters art and design within our community through hands-on experiences, workshops and design in action initiatives. The Kissing Game Cover for a book of short stories about teenage defiance. Society of Design The Society of Design in Pennsylvania put together this epic invite in which they ordered custom vanity license plates to spell out a message to me and now drive around with them on their cars!

Design Boom Full page lettering and numbers to accompany an article about creatives bringing an indie spirit to mainstream design. Dagmar Studios Helena Price is a dear friend and very talented photographer. Starbucks This series of ads for Starbucks was really fun—I love seeing my lettering made into physical things especially when those things are delicious!

The Art of Harry Potter Insight Editions released a very deluxe book featuring all the concept art from the films. Writing The approach of using subpages for storing content sections of a page can also be very useful for creating a one-page website, featuring very different kinds of content.

Everyone else? AWS Deloitte Genpact. Events Innovation Festival. Follow us:. By John Pavlus 1 minute Read. Impact Impact This new biodegradable glitter is made entirely from plants Impact Can this startup for home kitchen cooking create a new kind of takeout?