This past weekend was my first real craft show! I prepared by researching the heck out of booth displays, selling tips and pricing, but the real lessons came from the actual experience. Here are some helpful craft show tips that I learned first-hand.
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RVA Q+A: Willie Kirby
Talk about pressure to create flawless lettering! This month I interviewed tattoo artist Willie Kirby. Read on to find out how he got into it, what his process looks like, and the strangest phrase that he’s permanently inked on someone.
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Why You Need to Stop Working
Your assignments are piling up, deadlines are looming, and the hits keep coming. You go into "grind mode" and keep pushing through everything: through lunch, through dinner, through off-the-clock hours...everything. You desperately need a break but it's clearly impossible given everything you have to finish, right? Wrong.
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20 Ladies Who Letter
I started this list a while ago in response to a question I often hear on the Drunk on Lettering podcast: Who are some of your favorite female letterers? The hosts, Roxy and Phoebe, feel that there's a lack of recognition for women who are killing it in the lettering world. This isn't supposed to be a rude post to them...it just got me thinking about why it's so hard for people to come up with an answer. So, I present to you a small sampling of lettering ladies you need to know about (besides me).
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What is Typography? (Part 2)
Last week, I defined typography. A while ago, I covered the basic typographic guidelines in my post on alignment. Here, I'll dive into type anatomy. Each character (defined as any number, letter or punctuation mark in a typeface) is made up of various pieces. Just like you have hands and feet, characters have specific body parts.
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