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My friends call me Tommy. I'm a graphic designer living in Chicago. This is where I post some process images, some finished designs, some music, opinions, and other stuff.
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“This is not the typical book that you read whilst sitting calmly and still. In order to read the multiple directions in which the text...
Helping the @chicagodesignmuseum build out their space today.
Black Swan design comp using Volterra type.
http://www.hypefortype.com/browse-fonts/font-categories/decorative/volterra.html
Produce less waste. #UseLessDoMore @movingdesign with @nikolegramm @craigdstover @alyssalowww
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A postcard design I just finished up for 826CHI, based on text written by one of their kids. The script is custom drawn, but based on Wisdom Script, and the sans serif is Detroit.
The eventual result of my anamorphic typography experiment. I painted this in the entryway of the HOLLY HUNT showroom in Miami just before Art Basel. I finished a bit early so I was able to add the HH logo in the opposite corner.
Another sample of Volterra. I’m mostly done drawing the main characters. Next up: punctuation and ligatures.
People seem to be enjoying the anamorphic typography test I did, so I thought I’d post this crude video I took in the same space that shows the effect coming together a little more clearly. By “crude”, I mean that I just put a tripod on a skateboard and slid it across the room.
A couple samples from a new typeface I’m working on named Volterra.
Samples of my typeface Toews I released in 2010. It evolved from a typeface I released at the same time named Versteeg, which can be seen here. Available for purchase through MyFonts.
I just did a little test with something called ‘anamorphic typography’. Essentially, it is an illusion where the type looks just right when viewed from the exact right spot, but it looks stretched and warped when viewed from elsewhere in the room. We might be doing something similar in a HOLLY HUNT showrooms later this year, so I did this in a room above my parents’ garage to make sure I could pull it off when the time comes. For what it is worth, I certainly didn’t invent this sort of thing, and I’d like to give lots of credit to this project by Joseph Egan and Hunter Thompson for tipping me off to the idea, as well as the artist Felice Varini, who is doing this sort of thing on a much larger and much more impressive scale.
Samples of Huet and Niemi, two typefaces evolved from a typeface I released at the same time named Versteeg, which can be seen here. Available for purchase through MyFonts.
Samples from my typeface Versteeg, an experiment in which I tried to reduce each letter to the simplest block structure possible before it becomes illegible. I originally developed this lettering for this poster I designed, but eventually developed it into a proper typeface. Available for purchase through MyFonts.