Custom hand drawn lettering I’m working on for Blood Loss

Love everything about this. 

I finished making this book today, all ready for my deadline in 4 days. It’s based on the theme ‘testing’ and so I’ve been testing my dreams for several weeks, by doing various activities to see how they take affect on my dreams, I scribbled the results in a dream diary and then made the whole experiment into this very book! It’s full of hand drawn type, humorous illustrations, pastel colours, gatefolds, french folds, nice paper, and an insight into a weird but wonderful world that is brought to life in dreams. Took me forever to bind it (Japanese stab bind) through the layers of thick paper and making sure to miss the gatefolds, but heeeere it is:

Please excuse the slightly shoddy set of photos but.. I’ve finished, printed and bound my Weston Super-Mare zine, yay! I’m fairly pleased with how it’s turned out, I’m really chuffed with the Japanese stab bind though, this was my first time doing it and I think it’s come out rather nicely, it’s still sturdy seeing as i’ve just used doubled up cotton thread to stitch with. 

It really makes me happy that all of these people liked my ‘U’ drawing. 

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Hand drawn type. The letter U. Inspired by pond life.

A sneak peek at a spread from a book-in-process for a project I’m currently working on. It’s a testing project which involves me carrying out different processes to affect my dreams. I’m recording the results in a dream diary then transferring them into a more organised fashion. Headings are hand drawn. 

On Monday morning I received this beautiful map table. It’s belonged to my Nan and Grandad for many many years, and my Dad says he can remember the day it was brought home by my Grandad as a gift to his business from a mysterious American company.
My Nan passed away a year ago and so my Grandads health has been deteriorating, a couple of months ago he fell and broke the table, snapping the legs. He was terribly upset about it and just wanted it removed from the house. I’ve always loved it for as long as I can remember, and so asked if I could keep the table top. I discovered that the brackets for the legs were an exact match to a thrifted £5 table I already owned so after a bit of simple DIY, it was repaired and given a new lease of life.
It’s now completely one of a kind and the map on there is a very old version, with extinct lands, different names, smaller seas, and lands that were not yet discovered. To a lot of people it’s just a table, but I love having it because I think of my Nan and Grandad every time I look at it.

This is the best thing you’ll watch all day.

I love lino cutting. It’s so therapeutic. This type is for a current project; it’s a little rough around the edges but with more practice I really hope to be producing better ones. Prints of this to come soon..ish.

Hand drawn type for a current project