Post-date Serendipity May 2015

A stroke of care-less-ness.

It's the time of the year again!

Can't wait to work on it!

To Another Wonderful Year Ahead!

End of Vacation

Tomorrow begins a new semester and I am glad to have spend a good deal of 'me' time. Never give up on the hope on spending more time with my type babies though!

Gorgeous Bilingual Union

I am totally in love with how foreign identities can come together and form such a beautiful and clever union. My hopeless admiration ended up in my own rendition of it ❤ ❤ ❤

What's in a Word?

Hey Life! Love You :)

This is a closing entry to give thanks to my wonderful vacation that is coming to a swift end. Typographically speaking, it has not been a prolific year but I am not one to be too hard on myself. Nevertheless, here are some drawings to prick myself, instead. On a side note, what have I been indulging in besides fussing over my four-month-old abode?

♥♥♥♥♥ K-Pop and Mando-Pop ♥♥♥♥♥

蕭敬騰 is literally a human jukebox. He is not exactly spanking new. I am three years late to discover this musical gem. He is especially good at doing old songs like 衝動的懲罰 (originally by 刀郎), 記得 (originally by 张惠妹), 我怀念的 (originally by 孙燕姿), and 新不了情 (originally by 万芳). Not that he does not have anything original: 只能想念你. I will be getting his 蕭敬騰同名專輯 **幸福**

秘密花园 is my other ****幸福****. I am one year late for this one. So I was not in the frenzy (last year) when Hyun Bin went to serve his National Service. I have never gone out of my way to purchase a drama serial until 秘密花园 came along. It was a out-of-body experience and I LOVE out-of-body experiences.

So, this vacation has done me super good and I am totally feeling very **幸福** and inspired indeed. I am glad to be where I am.

To Another Wonderful Year Ahead.

Handsome Pig & Chewy Bag

Almost forgot about the 2 (fav) logos I did earlier this year.

WTF

Winnie Tan Fonts

A Tall Face

The possibility of the next face, a tall one.

The Paranoia of Working Alone...

“It is a calamity, to say nothing of the time wasted, to labour over details in a poorly conceived design.”
- Sallie Tannahill, B. P’s and Q’s; A Book on the Art of Letter Arrangement.

"The reason is, when there is a hard problem, one has to work a long time and has to be persistent. In order to be persistent, you have got to be convinced that it's worthwhile working so hard, that you're going to get somewhere. And that takes a certain kind of fooling yourself."
-Richard Feynman, Feynman's Rainbow by Leonard Mlodinov

The 'S' Font - Part 2

It began with the usual latin alphabets... followed by a series of icons and soon it was an avalanche of chinese characters! But why not? Yes, daunting but why not? Been a month and with 550 glyphs to-date. Scheduled to debut as a calendar font in 2011. Still no name in mind, so 'S' font it will stay till then.

Such a turn of events. This will be my first bilingual font.

On a side-note, I found an image of a hundred 福 character somewhere on the internet but lost track of the source. Fascinating image! 百福圖.

The 'S' Font

These are some preliminary sketches for a new font. The vague idea is that it is pixel-based. Maybe it's the influence of currency/stock/weather-watching during my convalescing, or even Tolstoy's 'War&Peace' or Dawkins's 'Selfish Gene'... it's always good to identify some reference point(s).

Regardless I have shortlisted some names for as follows:
1) Saturn (a spacey feel...)
2) Spacey!
3) Scone (simply something I have not eaten for ages)
4) Spider (a tedious metaphor?)
5) Speaker (think Kylie Minogue)

Oh well, maybe typesetting 'Eyjafjallajokull' might bring me somewhere...

So Long

Gone but not to be forgotten.

2010

Make love not war. Snog the White Tiger to a brand new 2010!

Food Font - bon.appetit

‘bon.appetit’ is a customised hand-lettered display type inspired by the visceral experience of food. Exuberant and spirited in form, it is flexible to dress up in quaint and classic or sleek and modern. Organic and ornamental, ‘bon.appetit’ is a dramatic exaggeration of ‘rue italic’ in both spirit and form. When used in tandem, its complimentary contrast creates an unprecedented union.

Alice Font2

Said the mouse to Alice:

Alice Font

Audio books rock!. I am currently with one on 'Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures In Wonderland'. Something about the shrinking potion labeled 'DRINK ME' hits me in a typographic sort of way. This is the essence of 'Alice' for me at the moment.

This is the nip, tuck version.

This is the raw sketch.

Visual Predicament