Alaina Johnson

I'm Alaina - a graphic designer from Seattle with a big fat love for typography and illustration. Currently I work creating infographics. Other interests include hair metal, glitter, mini golf and legos.

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My life's work: Baby playing with chemicals. 

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First draft for my company's Christmas Card. For some reason my boss isn't going for the copy. Something about it seeming like a death threat?

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O.J.

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This is James. He likes many things, apparently. 

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Fancy folks.

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I drew a train. A fancy train. 

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Referring to this post, all of the number have been crunched and organized. Time to start sketching!

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One of the designers at work illustrated a baby that no client wanted, so we adopted him. We created a contest within the office to do whatever you want with the baby. Since I am seeing KISS and Motley Crue this weekend, I made Kiss babies. 

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After moving and new jobs, I am finally getting settled in and giving procrastination the boot. My list of personal projects has finally been created including an illustration of a ship, creating typefaces, learning about gnomes, and also the project pictured above. I am merging my love for typography with data. I am an infographic designer, and have become completely obsessed with data of all sorts. I've been toying around with the idea of charting the different fonts I use throughout the infographics for about a year and am finally getting around to doing it. Not only have I logged all of the fonts, but also took note of how I used them (title, headline, body copy). I plan to figure out my go to fonts, see what fonts I prefer to use for body copy vs headlines, and even serif vs sans serif. So far what I have found, some of it was obvious and others not in the least. There are some fonts I knew I use way too much and others I thought I used a lot, but haven't. It's a complex project, but an interesting one at that that is going to take a good chunk of time. 

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Illustration for a personal project. Many more gnomes to come. 

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And ending the day with this. 

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Starting the morning off right. 

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My day has just been made. 

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Spent 5 days camping along the Oregon Coast and completely fell in love, and in less than 12 hours I will be on the road again to Oregon exploring Portland. 

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Another must have. 

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I NEED. 

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I promise there is some correlation amongst all the illustrations.