Design Heroes: Fred Gehrke, creator of the first football helmet logo

Design Hero: Fred Gehrke, creator of the first football helmet logo

Posted on April 29, 2022 by jroshell

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 […]

Painting letters on the high school walls

Posted on April 19, 2022 by jroshell

I took some time off this week from making letters onscreen to make some on walls! ⁠At the end of last school year, my son’s high school principal asked if I could help liven up the campus over the summer with some signs to help new (and even current) students to find their way around […]