The city of Santa Barbara put out a call to local artists for original work to adorn State Street storefront windows. As a font creator who spends my days designing letters, I’ve always loved those alphabet grids assembled out of butterfly wings or google maps images. I’ve taken hundreds of pictures of Santa Barbara signs […]
Helvetica is the font I associate with family trips to San Francisco in the ’70s and ’80s. As my little geek brain was becoming attuned to fonts and signs, Helvetica was one of the first fonts I recognized, on generic shopping center signs, the big painted text on the GAP store at the corner of […]
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been a fan of this sharp sans-serif font that I often saw on ticket stubs, newspaper ads and magazine covers from the 1940s, 50s and 60s: It was so cool and unique, with the sharp points on A & V, and skinny crossbars on Z & e. Even […]
I’m finishing up a new font, and decided to test it out on social media by telling the story of one of my first design heroes: Fred Gehrke, who designed the first football helmet logo. He’s a hero in my mind because he saw a cool possibility where nobody else did, and then just went […]
To countdown the final days of the Paradise Point introductory sale, I re-created nine classic surf posters using it and some swell surf pix by Swell’s own Forest Dempsey. […]