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#Bradvent — Day Eight. | Londondesignz.com
Last one from me this evening… Eight — the horseman of Infinity. Just realised that I’m subconsciously channeling Roy Lichtenstein, but somehow I don’t think he needs to worry to much.
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#Bradvent — Day Seven. | Londondesignz.com
This one was a lot trickier than the simple shape of a generic seven might imply. I began with two separate shapes (e.g. the bar and the descender). Joining them together was trickier than I’d anticipated. But then, don’t knock the power of parallel lines to soften any ‘quirks’. It might even be a pair of giant fingers picking up a fleck of dust.
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#Bradvent — Day Six. | Londondesignz.com
Here’s day six of #bradvent. Day seven to follow (in case you hadn’t figured the pattern).
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#Bradvent Day Five. | londondesignz.com
Just catching up on the last few days of Bradvent. Only just realised that day five onwards haven’t seen the light of day on Tumbler just yet. More to come…
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#Bradvent — Day four.|Londondesignz.com
In which I feature the unsubtle nod towards Christmas trees and Baubles, four what it’s worth. See what I did there?
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#Bradvent — The first three. | Londondesignz.com
I had a great if unoriginal idea the other day: basically aim to do some form of hand lettering to mark each day of advent. It would have helped if I’d had the idea ahead of time — it only dawned on me on 1st December, so it was straight out with the Parallel Pen and run with the plan on the fly.
So in this spirit, I’ve only just realised that I haven’t been posting the results on Tumblr — here they are so far. If all things are equal, I’ll endeavour to post one a day throughout advent, but don’t hold me to that.
And the name of the ‘campaign’? Well I simply did a portmanteau on my own name and the word advent, then spiked it with a hashtag.
See what I did there?
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“Faster” — My contribution to Typism 2 | Londondesignz.com
Leading on from the black and white theme of my previous post, I thought I should finally get around to uploading my own contribution to the Typism book two.
Featuring the work of calligraphers, letterers and typographers around the world, the main consideration of Typism’s books is that all artwork featured is printed in black and white. So rather than playing around with gradients and grayscale images, I focussed on using just black, but in such a way as to infer that other shades were in use. Additionally, the colour limitation inspired me to do something beyond a ‘flat’ image, so I tried to give the illusion of three dimensions with as few visual elements as possible.
I think Typism 2 might still be available at the time of writing (November 2015), so go check out the site and pick up a copy while you still can.
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#Bradvent — Day twenty five. | Londondesignz.com
I thought a little bonus for #bradvent might be apt. I’ve included one whole extra day that less reputable advent calendars never bother with. So tonight, I give you…
Staying Alive… TWENTY FIVE (with added Brim Narrow font by @typeworship‘s Jamie Clarke).
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#Bradvent — Day twenty one. | Londondesignz.com
Transmogrificational warp unit ‘B’… TWENTY-ONE.
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#Bradvent — Day thirteen. | Londondesignz.com
..and just before the clock strikes 12… THIRTEEN!
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#Bradvent — Day nine. | Londondesignz.com
Dirty Gerty… NINE.
(Got a bit sidetracked and didn’t get around to pushing these up on Tumblr. They’re all on Instagram, but will try and get the lot on my blog before the year’s end.)
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