Artscape's Alphabet

Artscape's visual arts coordinator Gary Kachadourian approached occasional Baltimore City Paper contributors Nolen Strals and Bruce Willen about adding a typographical exhibit to 2005’s citywide lineup, both designers pounced on the opportunity. They put out an open call for designers to create their own original alphabets. The resultant show compiles 60 alphabets by 47 artists, handpicked from an international pool of more than 150 submissions.

Here they intentionally displayed each letter together (rather then by submission), to show differences in typographical elements from one letter to the next.

This is a page from the As.

Artscape 2005’s Alphabet: An Exhibition of Hand-Drawn Lettering and Experimental Typography exhibit dedicated to original lettering designs

Before&After

Before&After magazine has been sharing its practical approach to graphic design since 1990. Because our modern world has made designers of us all (ready or not). Before & After is dedicated to making graphic design understandable, useful and even fun for everyone.

This is their credo, and I believe they have some great free downloads for learning some basic design techniques.

Before&After download page

Definition

bilk • \BILK\ • verb
1 : to block the free development of : frustrate
2 *a : to cheat out of something valuable : defraud b : to evade payment of or to
3 : to slip away from

Example sentence:
"I've been bilked of my food rights as a human member of this family!" protested Jason, when he heard the dog had been given the last hamburger.

Picture Worth 1000 Words

We made ESPN for something, I'll let this one speak for itself.

Images for Compare/Contrast

I was looking through pictures for my compare/contrast spread and I came across this one. Not the best for my layout, but I jumped off this cliff. It was pretty insane!

Po'ipu at Hanapepe in Kauai


I was thinking about using one of these pictures as a watermark or a spread any preferences?
Hanalei Bay (where Puff lived)

Napali Coast