A-Z of Birds - Illustration

Something i have been working on over summer - an A-Z of Birds that i have put into an A6 booklet. {more summer updates coming soon}

Hand Drawn Typography

I have loved typography for a while now and when i had the chance to study it at University for a few months, i took that chance but it wasn't what i expected. It was serious, hard nosed straight talking type. No hand drawn, no experimental type and no playing with letters and typefaces. It was a few months of solid layout, alignment, simple decisions and subtle changes with type, along with cold, hard facts, rules, regulations and restrictions. So once i had the basics down it was the old adage of "rules are meant to be broken" So having learnt a few rules im now ready to break a few! I recently bought the book (that has been on my amazon book wish list for a while now!) "Hand Job - a catalog of hand drawn type", by Michael Perry and have realised this is the kind of typography i originally fell in love with and so i will be sticking with this for a while!

David Pearson

I was looking through random blogs that i follow and found a link to this website. All this book imagery is perfect! i love book design so much, and as its the Easter holidays i have time to make some of my own books/notebooks. I love the consistency and repetition of these images below and i would love to have a collection of these books....







I also love how you can see the development of the logo.