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 […]
Five years ago I had the mind-bending experience of visiting the Mendenhall Museum in Buellton, an incredible collection of road signs and other car memorabilia. It sits only about 45 minutes north of me, but it felt like a time machine that took me back 70 years: I was especially fascinated by these road signs, […]
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 […]