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Designer | Letterer

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A social media banner ad for a ongoing training class at my church.

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This is the final design for the calendar for the new Inspire Metro office. You can see a larger version here.

As mentioned in the previous post, one major problem is to find a great placement/treatment for 2017 where it can be both easily seen but not take up unnecessary space. I decided to scale it up, put it dead center and turn down the opacity. By doing this, the large size of the letters can be easily spotted by anyone walking in the room where it is and won’t mess up the visibility of texts written on the calendar for scheduling/planning.

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In this iteration, after working our the base structure of the calendar, I added in color highlights and a relevant quotation on planning. (I should also be better at planning. 😅) 

The most problematic thing to solve here is the placement of the year 2017 in the layout. It should be somewhere it can be both easily seen and won’t take up unnecessary space. I’ll show how I solve this in the last post.

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A snapshot of my logotype design process. Working on refining a logotype in Adobe Illustrator.

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Initial drafts for the calendar design I’m doing for my church’s new office

Our pastor asked me if can design a calendar like Do Over Year. He told me that I can do it as is but I think the current design is a bit noisy. That’s  why I’m exploring ways to make it cleaner while highlighting key navigational parts like name of the days and start of the months.

I would say that the solution I’m going for is very Swiss with faithfulness to grids.

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Some 3D illustrations I made with Blender. See more at http://crafffter.tumblr.com/

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I can’t sleep so I’m going through a typeface design project design I started in 2015 but had bee put aside. It's the typeface called Traffic. I plan to finish it this Q1 2017.

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How to not run out of blog topics

Answer your own questions.

We all have things that make us curious and writing in down is a great method to think through them. 

So start with a question. Get to know it deeper. Explore possible answers and see what works for your case. After that, you'll have something to edit and post. 

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A time lapse showing how I vectorized the Betterfocused logotype from my pencil draft.

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A type-based social media banner for a meetup for Indigitous — a nonprofit organization I’m involved in.

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A WIP website design for ikan — a platform for learning online how to share the Gospel of Jesus.

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A wedding invitation I worked on with a friend. 

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Here’s a great introduction to FontForge.

I'm still on the way to create my very first typeface, Traffic. I've been looking around at a few options for a font editor which includes Fontographer, Glyphs and Robofont. Yes, the options doesn’t include the open source and free font editor, FontForge. I was adamant to using it instead of paid versions because I onced played with it and didn't like it.

I did look at it again a few days back, installed it in my machine and started watching some videos about it and how to use it. More and more I fell in love with what I used to hate. I can tell that it is capable enough for my use as someone starting in typeface design and saves me around $400.

By the time this post is published, I should have created a custom font for my client using the mark in their logo.

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An illustration for Zoodeo’s social media banners.

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Logo design and social media assets for NextGen Shapers, “[a] network for emerging policy makers interested in conversations that explore connections between the nuclear debate and other global challenges.”

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Suscia is an Italian restaurant which serves sushi using exclusively ingredients from the country.