my voice is my weapon of choice

love & art & activism

01 Aug

You know what drives me bonkers?

When people label all serif fonts as ‘Times New Roman’.

10 Jun [Graphic: 50’s style graphic that says, ‘Guess what, kids? Hipster racism is still racism.’]

[Graphic: 50’s style graphic that says, ‘Guess what, kids? Hipster racism is still racism.’]

09 Jun ‘I love you because we hate the same stuff.’ 

‘I love you because we hate the same stuff.’ 

08 Jun [Text: ‘Kindly Sod Off’ on a white circle, on a burnt orange textured background.]

[Text: ‘Kindly Sod Off’ on a white circle, on a burnt orange textured background.]

08 Jun

eckstatic:

I stumbled onto Michael Doret’s work while reading “Logo and Lettering Bible”. In the section I was reading he states that he still likes to make tight pencil comps before bringing his work into illustrator, and it shows. Basketball fans may know his work, as he was the one to design the New York Knicks Logo.

Vectuts has interviewed him if you’d like to know more about his influences and process.

reblogging for MOAR MICHAEL DORET

08 Jun I LOVE Michael Doret’s lettering art. He’s got this really punchy, vintage-New-York-inspired style that makes me think of a mixture of carnivals, glitzy musicals and midcentury sitcoms. (Yeah, I know, random comparisons, but they make sense in my head.) 

I LOVE Michael Doret’s lettering art. He’s got this really punchy, vintage-New-York-inspired style that makes me think of a mixture of carnivals, glitzy musicals and midcentury sitcoms. (Yeah, I know, random comparisons, but they make sense in my head.) 

06 Jun Tobias Frere-Jones and Aoife Mooney of H&FJ have just released Idlewild, a really neat wide sans-serif in the vein of Bank Gothic or Copperplate (well, Copperplate’s a serif, but…similar letterforms). Not getting it right now—don’t have the cash to do so, nor do I have any particular need for a font like that at the moment—but it would be great on film posters to replace the dreaded Bank Gothic.  I am kind of a fanperson of H&FJ, considering my (over)use of Ideal Sans on ALL THE THINGS. 

Tobias Frere-Jones and Aoife Mooney of H&FJ have just released Idlewild, a really neat wide sans-serif in the vein of Bank Gothic or Copperplate (well, Copperplate’s a serif, but…similar letterforms). Not getting it right now—don’t have the cash to do so, nor do I have any particular need for a font like that at the moment—but it would be great on film posters to replace the dreaded Bank Gothic. 

I am kind of a fanperson of H&FJ, considering my (over)use of Ideal Sans on ALL THE THINGS. 

30 Apr ‘Fuck This and Go to Art School’

‘Fuck This and Go to Art School’

28 Apr oi universe,  this is the message I have for you. :P 

oi universe, 

this is the message I have for you. :P 

23 Apr (fancy script ‘fuck you’ in a red circle.)  (basically my feelings about Certain Projects I’m working on. And would rather not be working on.) 

(fancy script ‘fuck you’ in a red circle.) 

(basically my feelings about Certain Projects I’m working on. And would rather not be working on.)