... And Beyond.

I finished the Upper and Lower cases as well as a round of digits. And then, the horror of the empty page. I really love Bodoni and kept drawing those forms for a few days, then branched out and tried experimenting with other stuff.

This went OK for a bit, but ultimately it really bothered me that these pieces didn't communicate anything. Or they were inside jokes that made zero sense to anyone else. Or they were snarky.

Also, around this time I saw a piece from James Victore that kicked my ass. Here it is:

POINT TAKEN, James Victore. It's added a whole other layer to make the work communicate an idea beyond the engineering of lettering and type design. So with those words burned into my brain, new forms:

This brings me up to #95/366. 

The Lower Case

Coming down with a bug is never good for your process—or so I thought. Somewhere between days 39 and 40 of this year I picked up a massive head cold. Not wanting sickness to derail a relatively new daily project I was working on, I switched over to sketching. My original intent was to go back to converting my sketches to vector files once I felt better. I really enjoy working with pencil and paper and have stuck with that format since. (I'm using a Pentel GraphGear 500 and a stack of Field Notes notebooks for the trainspotters out there.)