Pupils+Ink

Watch my @CM_Austin @creativemorning talk on...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:26:51 -0500

Watch my @CM_Austin @creativemorning talk on ‘Backwards’ from last month: http://wp.me/p1agkF-C0 #CMATX

A three-color drawn illustration I did about Louisiana &...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:02:00 -0500

A three-color drawn illustration I did about Louisiana & gators about 3 years ago or so.

This is our Land.

Sun, 26 May 2013 19:57:43 -0500

This is our Land.

One of my favorite songs of all time: Get Back. You can grab...

Sun, 26 May 2013 11:37:00 -0500

One of my favorite songs of all time: Get Back.

You can grab this on Society6 if you like.

Go have an adventure.

Sun, 26 May 2013 09:21:30 -0500

Go have an adventure.

Yowzer Bowzer.

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:52:14 -0500

Yowzer Bowzer.

Year 3: Anything Goes I’ve been pretty bad about keeping...

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:48:00 -0500

Year 3: Anything Goes

I’ve been pretty bad about keeping up my Tumblr blog. The first year when I drew contour line drawings, I was on a weekly schedule. The second year when I focused on hand lettering, that schedule started to fall apart because I used my client and personal projects to practice lettering instead of this blog.

Now, we’re almost half way through the third year, and I’m just now posting a cover slide for it. So, in the interest of moving this channel forward, I’m stripping the format out and allowing myself to post any drawings here from now on.

I can’t promise that the drawings will be amazing, compelling or inspiring, but I need to shift my thinking for this channel in order to have a place to truly let loose.

So, here’s to the unknown! Thanks for following along.

Sidebar: Gerren Lamson

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:09:37 -0500

creativemorningsaustin: We sat down with Gerren Lamson at Draught House Pub & Brewery to get...

Howdy folks. It’s been a while! So, the 2nd year of my...

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:46:00 -0600

Howdy folks. It’s been a while! So, the 2nd year of my Pupils & Ink Tumblr was meant to focus on experimenting with hand-drawn type. Well, as I’m closing out the 2nd year, I noticed two things: (1) I didn’t post as much here in the 2nd years as I did in the 1st (when I was posting contour line drawings weekly), and (2) I brought my love of hand-drawn typography into much of my client work and side projects.

So, without further ado, here’s a look at all the places (outside of this Tumblr) that my hand-crafted type made an appearance over the last 12 months. Projects are listed from November 2011 to November 2012 from top to bottom, with the exception of the typefaces listed in #1:

1. Six (6) typefaces for sale: TerraStamp, NimblePen, HandBlock, HandSlab, Jaywalk, and Prova.

2. Holiday Venn: A limited run print that used the words Happy, Holidays, Home to create a venn diagram.

3. TastyTrailers: An iOS app that helped folks find food trailers near their location. I hand-drew the identity, iOS icon, and a food icon system for the app.

4. Bootstraps Fire Relief Shirt: An illustrated shirt for centraltxfires.org.

5. New Year’s Resolution Wallpaper: My 2012 submission to the To Resolve Project.

6. SoupPeddler: A new identity and website for a local soup food delivery business. I created custom headlines on the website that quickly turned into my first typeface, Prova.

7. SXSW 2012: Promotional digital wallpapers for a campaign.

8. Anamonograms: An experiment where I combined the concept of an anagram with a monogram for 8 custom tea-dyed hand-drawn pieces.

9. SXSW 2012 Sketchnotes: A batch of sketchnotes that I produced while attending SXSW 2012, including the following: Designing for Context, Design from the Gut, Everything is a Remix so Steal Like an Artist, The Curators and the Curated, Mixel: Art, Tablets and the Creator Economy, Go Forth and Make Awesomeness, Shut up and Draw, Why Should Ad Agencies Act More Like Tech Startups, Harnessing the Power of the Benevolent Internet, Digital Debauchery with Anthony Bourdain.

10. Friends Are Everywhere: a 12.5” x 19” silkscreen printed poster (or small print) of type and stars.

11. BbWorld 2012 Sketchnotes: a collection of illustrated collateral and sketchnotes for the annual Blackboard conference BbWorld.

12. Black Wolf Press: an identity for a small letterpress shop.

13. Money For Something book: illustrated cover and chapter titles for a short book about finances.

14. Two (2) Nature-Loving Screen Prints: hand-illustrated quotes by John Muir and Theodore Roethke for sale.

I hope you enjoyed browsing around the linked body of work above. I’ll be thinking about what theme/topic to draw next for 2013. Happy holidays, everyone.

Good One.

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:32:08 -0500

Good One.

Boulangerie.

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:25:04 -0500

Boulangerie.

Cool.

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:21:43 -0500

Cool.

Monster Love.

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:19:23 -0500

Monster Love.

Active Learner.

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:38:34 -0500

Active Learner.

Heck Yea!

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:57:42 -0500

Heck Yea!

3.P.0.

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:54:57 -0500

3.P.0.

Well? Deal with it!

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:52:53 -0500

Well? Deal with it!

Sometimes, you’ve gotta take a break. #sxsw #2012

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:00:00 -0500

Sometimes, you’ve gotta take a break. #sxsw #2012

Béla Bartók

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:03:25 -0600

Béla Bartók

OH?

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:56:27 -0600

OH?