Elephant

Another odd photo for Eatock's 'Thank You' page.

http://www.eatock.com/project/thank-you-photographs/

Tree paintings

Phan Thu Trang

Dairy today

I was just browsing through Pentagram's recent editorial work, partly in research for my project, partly just because I wanted to. Anyway, I love these magazine covers for 'Dairy Today'. I didn't even really know such magazines existed – so, it is very nice to see them with effective and simply designed/photographed covers.

Map of online communities

This is so good. Bigger version, here:

http://gizmodo.com/5656699/the-updated-map-of-online-communities

Monkeys & Typewriters

I love that Bill Nighy is narrating this.
http://www.costa.co.uk/whats_new/new_in_store.aspx

Drawing letters

First full day at university, second year. And it has been a full packed, tiring, 9.30–4.30 day.

The morning was mostly spent drawing As.

We were given a printed version of the typeface Centaur, B-Z. The first task was to draw the lower case A. Probably sounds easier than it is. But it was interesting, and pretty fun for a type geek like me.

And then, after being shown what the real A looked like, we attempted to copy that as accurately as possible.

Next comes tracing whole sentences, and then even a paragraph (or starting to).

Finally, started on a full hand rendered A3 poster. Grids and all.