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16 pg specimen + 48 pg digital workbook focused on the “extras” of lettering

Created the May 2023 cover for the Best of the City of Owensboro.
AD: Jason Tanner

Communication Arts 2023 Typography Annual Winner
Top of the Town - 5280 Magazine Cover
AD: Dave McKenna

Logotype and custom Pickleball paddle design for Frank Anthony Davis

Limited Edition Headwear

Custom Needle Punched Rug created in Cool!aboration with San Diego based artist - Kris Butiong to turn my Cool!Cool! design into a physical object. Might be the coolest rug you've ever seen.

Unbox the Socks! Limited Edition Custom Crew Socks packaging for the holiday shipping orders of Footnotes

Swell Cold Co.Op is new venture that launched on Oahu, HI in 2014. The idea behind Swell was to create a series of products that could bring people together to share time and conversations. What better way to do that then with delicious cold refreshments including Cold Brew Coffee, Cold Brew Tea and Artisan Ice Cream. 

Visit online at swell-made.com

The bottle design was awarded 2015 Communication Arts Typography Award in packaging and featured in the Print Magazine Typography & Lettering Annual as well as the 2015 Type Directors Club Annual and traveling exhibition

Custom Neon Sign Lettering for Hammer & Stich Brewing in Portland Oregon

Created the May 2021 cover for the Best of the City of Owensboro.
AD: Jason Tanner
Additional Font used Hoss by pstypelab

Volume 5 features work created in 2020. Like the previous issues, Twofold is a limited-edition type and lettering specimen that consists of 8 posters printed on Salmon Newsprint and folded into a tabloid paper.

A variety of custom wordmarks + logotypes

Created the July 2020 cover, feature opener, and category headings for St. Louis Magazine. The goal was for the cover to be a dynamic, unique & celebratory type compositions.
AD: Tom White
Additional Font used Hoss by pstypelab

I worked with ServiceNow to create this custom lettering for an event in 2020 to inspire the employees.
Creative Director: Tim Kain

Studio 82 Degrees plants a tree with every order. We created these “Cer-Tree-ficates” as a way to say thanks to the customer and let them know that together we are making the world a better place.

Custom Lettering for the Jan 2022 cover
CD: Sara D'Eugenio

Limited Edition Bandana

Trying to do my part to be actively anti-racist and stand up against injustice. Say it louder. There is No Space for Hate.

www.pstypelab.com
A retail space for licensing original fonts to the world, and an avenue to experiment with letterforms of all shapes and sizes.

All Knit, No Quit on these custom Crew Socks made for the Designers who Trust the Process.

Created the 2020 cover for GoodTimes Magazine highlighting the Best of Santa Cruz County with custom typography and lettering.
AD: Tabi Zarrinnaal
Additional Font used Decoy by pstypelab

This custom lettered wall mural was created for the one year anniversary of a local tap room in Oregon. The quote is a modified version of the famous words of Bruce Lee "Be Like Water" - with the addition of the other 3 main ingredients in beer.

Poster Design
1 of 40 artists selected to create a limited edition poster for the 2019 AfterHours Show. Posters were used to raise funds and awareness for a local Austin non-profit

Only Nice Vibes is a limited edition shirt featuring the ductus for the design. Created as a special edition piece to bring to TypeCon later this year but available now for pre-order. Orders ship on or around August 10th 2019

Created in Collaboration with Neon Talk. Part of a woven blankets series titled Decore Deco. 100% Woven Cotton. Made in U.S. Exclusively for Neon Talk and in a Limited Edition 50 pieces.

Collaboration with Concept Talk to create a woven blanket as part of the Deco project

New Office Mural. I wanted to create an original piece to start the new year in my new office. The goal will be to continue to add something to it for the next 12 months.

Custom lettered artwork of one of Scout Books brand values.
This piece will be used in a variety of instances including notebooks, social media posts and eventually a wall mural.

Created the May 2022 cover for the Best of the City of Owensboro.
AD: Jason Tanner

All Knit, No Quit on these custom Crew Socks made for the Designer who knows that (Point) Size Matters.

Live Wild & Free in 2020. Holiday cards are almost always thrown away. So we created this card to have a second life. Screenprinted on wildflower seed paper and perforated so the card may be torn up into small pieces and planted.

Custom Lettering and photography for a Social Media Partnership with Away

Custom Lettered and Hand Painted Away Case

Created the March 2019 cover of San Antonio Magazine, highlighting various points of interest around the city in this whirlwind of typography.
AD: David Loyola
Editor: Rebecca Fontenot

I worked with ServiceNow to take their company values and bring them to life in this series of lettered pieces
Creative Director: Tim Kain

I was asked by the Society of Typographic Aficionados (SoTA) board to design and create the 2019 event branding for TypeCon. This year the event will take place in Minneapolis, MN - the land of lakes and letters.

Camp Cup with custom lettering.

Volume 4 of Twofold follows the format set forth in the last 2 issues. A limited edition type and lettering specimen. The design consists of 8 posters printed on Salmon Newsprint and folded into a tabloid paper.

Driven to Create / Live to Create.
Artwork turned into a 2.25” button design for the 2019 Creative Works conference. Attendees will be able to press their own buttons.

Wordplay is an ongoing exploration into the possibilities of letterforms, words and alphabetic manipulation.
With the goal of making the viewer look twice, these pieces take shape in the form of ambigrams and word in word art.

Custom lettering for the 2018 AfterHours event.
Design was used for volunteer shirts, attendee buttons and general promotion

Another Nice Piece created for the TypeCon 2019.
This one beautifully letterpress printed by Mama’s Sauce.

I worked with founder of GoodType - Brooke Robinson - to design this custom lettering intended to help raise money for Flatwater Foundation.

I worked with founder of Dapper Notes - Enon Avital - to design this custom lettering his most collaborative and largest book launch to date.

Custom Logotype for the rebrand of EMyth. Worked closely with the CEO and Marketing Director to develop a new script wordmark to anchor the new identity.

Lettering created for the 2020 Los Angeles Chinatown Firecracker event.

I worked with ServiceNow to develop 2 lettering pieces for use in various applications including wall murals and online visuals.
Creative Director: Tim Kain

Custom Lettering and Spot Illustrations for an article in the March 2019 issue of AirBnb Magazine.

Custom Lettering and design for a new LetterFarm shirt

Good Luck 2.0 - Updated design used for enamel pins in 3 variations Originally created as a promotional sketchbook and giveaway featuring a custom lettered type treatment playing with the form and counter space to deliver the message.

Twofold is a limited edition type and lettering specimen. The design consists of 8 posters printed on Salmon Newsprint and folded into a tabloid paper.

Worked closely with the founder of Amplified IT to develop this custom lettered artwork to highlight the company values and goals.

I worked with Austin based DJ Cameron Rogers a.ka. Mixer Rogers to create a custom logotype.

Custom Lettering done in collaboration with Bob Ewing for the 2018 Creative Works Conference.

Worked closely with Inman to develop this event branding for the 2019 Real Estate conference in Las Vegas Nevada.

New Pencil Pushers T-Shirt Design and exploration.

The Downtown Santa Ana coworking space Batch is expanding to a new office. With the expansion some new walls opened up and needed to be filled. I worked with Sarah, founder of ANBCo and Batch, to concept and produce this custom lettering piece that graces the wall of the conference room. With all the gabbin' that can go down in meetings we came up with this idea to remind folks that in the end you need to produce and not just talk.

The final piece was router cut from sheets of foam and clocks in at a size about 95" x 85" 

All final production images by Sarah Armstrong

This custom lettered wall mural created originally as a sketch for a GoodType Tuesday prompt but ended up refining the design and painting it on the studio wall for 82 Degrees.

Adidas commissioned me to create artwork for a wall dividing the new employee game room in the Montgomery Park satellite office in Portland Oregon. The original goal was to have the artwork show through and read on both sides. After various iterations and structural revisions we ended up focusing on the center portion of the artwork to read the same on both sides. Two styles/treatments were executed with the theme “wake the game up.”

Concept Direction: Romeo Castillo
Wall build out: SteelLabs

This custom lettered wall mural was created as the second portion of an ongoing garage mural.

As part of a recent event focused on Hand Lettering, I was invited by Adobe to join a small group of lettering artists from across the US in San Francisco for 3 days of live streaming. I chose to show my process from hand sketching to vector digitizing with Adobe Illustrator.

Poster design commissioned by Facebook Executive Creative Director Josh Higgins. The statement is based on slide from a talk Josh has been giving. He wanted the message to be delivered in a bold, substantial and impactful way.

Worked closely with the creative minds at UnderConsideration to create a custom wordmark that would be used in the studios brand refresh.   
Client: UnderConsideration LLC
CD: Armin Vit

Read full post about the design on the Brand New Blog
 

Limited edition font promotion for an upcoming typeface design to be released via my digital type lab and to drive traffic to the new site
www.pstypelab.com

Wall mural created specifically for all the Lowe's break rooms. The goal was to deliver the purpose statement and core values in a way that gets the employees excited to help people love where they live. Collaboration between the inhouse design department and the marketing agency Alice Blue.

Part of a group art show launched with the opening of the Montgomery Park satellite Office for Adidas USA. The show theme was East vs. West. I took the approach of simplicity and selected one word that represented both sides. Rivals, in all sports, bring out the best in each player. I chose to cut the word from Astro turf to represent the field of play. 

I worked with The Sessions to create key artwork in the video announcement for the 2018 music festival Boston Calling. My contribution was custom lettering for the headliner Eminem - treated in the style of NY subway tile and the neon artwork for Natalie Portman & Friends as well as Pod Save America.

Agency: The Sessions
Direction: CJ Vinson
Special thanks to GoodType

This custom lettered wall mural was created to capture a bit of the busy life my wife and I have had in the last couple years. We’ve moved from Cali to Hawaii to Portland and now to Austin to explore and take in all the cities have to offer.

For the 30th anniversary of Die Hard, I had the pleasure of working with Mattson Creative to develop a graphic of the most recognizable line in the movie. 

Client: Mattson Creative
Creative Direction: Ty Mattson
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See the full set of graphics over on their site: Mattson Creative

 

Selected to be 1 of 26 international, national and local lettering artists to participate in a curated show presented by WeMake for the 2018 Portland Design Week. 

Twofold is a limited edition type and lettering specimen created originally to accompany me to Las Vegas for AdobeMax 2017. The design consists of 8 posters printed on Salmon Newsprint and folded into a tabloid paper

Limited Edition Antique Bronze Pin
Qty: 25

Limited Edition Poster
Edition of 50. 1 color screenprint
I was invited by the Netherlands based group High on Type to be apart of the 2017 Design Festival - All Eyes on Type. During the festival there are workshops and an exhibition of posters. Each designer was tasked with creating an original alphabet with a focus on the extraordinary letterform. My design took on a very organic free flowing aesthetic where each letter needs the ones around it to function. 

Pencil Pushers Lettering Dept. The custom lettering work created through pprwrk studio.

An amazing collaboration with the talented Nick Misani.
We both brought our typographic passions to this one with a combo of Ambigram turned Fauxsaic. It was a pleasure passing this piece back and forth to create the final artwork that blended both of our styles perfectly.

AIGA San Antonio brought me down to visit with their local chapter and give a talk about my process. In conjunction with the event, I also held a vector lettering workshop.

Letterfarm is an exploration into type/lettering and collaboration. Currently existing as a social media acct there are things in the works to bring this to a physical space near you.

Follow @letterfarm on Instagram for more details

Selected as 1 of 30 artist to contribute to the lettering compilation book "Ugly" An exploration in transforming ugly words into beautiful art.

We bombard ourselves with visual stimulation in every aspect of our lives. Sometimes you just need a little relief. (wink) 
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Limited Edition - Blind Embossed on French Paper (Construction White) 8 in x10 in

Custom lettered artwork of one of Scout Books brand values.
This piece will be used in a variety of instances including notebooks and social media posts.

Client: Scout Books

Promotional sketchbook for the July 2017 TypeThursday meet up in San Francisco.

Life Imitating Art or Art Imitating Life.
This 3Dimensional Ambigram was created for an exhibition of work in 2017

Cover illustration and custom lettering for the Hawaiian reggae band The Vitals. Artwork was used for their latest EP release and promotion.

Self-Initiated WoodType Pin created as a promotional item for the digital type lab.

Custom lettering / Ambigram for a door mat. This Home / Away ambigram looks great regardless of if you are coming or going.

2017, Ink on Fabric
48 in x 36 in
We are living in uncertain times.
How do we know what is real and what is fake?

Custom @ symbol designed with multiple functions in mind; side table, magazine/book holder or pure eye candy
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2013 Communication Arts Typography Annual Winner
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2013 Print Design Annual Winner
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2012 TDC Award Winner
Certificate of Typographic Excellence

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Material: Baltic Birch Plywood
Dimensions: 14.5 in x 15.5 in x 12 in
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Custom Orders Available

Custom Logotype for a Santa Ana, CA based bakery.
The restaurant is closed but the sign was rad
Art Direction:  Sarah Armstrong
Studio: ANBCo

I collaborated with the print shop Clockwise Tees to create a custom lettered t-shirt graphic for giveaways at special events

Custom lettered artwork for a poster included in the type/lettering promotional newspaper - Twofold Volume 2

Custom Lettering for the 2016 WeMake Celebrates Conference

Custom Lettering for the cover of the April 2016 issue of Hawaii Business Magazine
Creative Director: Warren Daubert