New Drop Caps

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

When I redesigned this blog a little while ago, the drop caps I used were always going to be a place­holder. Fol­low­ing an even­ing with my Sister-in-law–who hap­pens to be a tex­tile designer/illustrator by training–I com­mis­sioned her to pro­duce a com­plete upper­case alpha­bet based on Geor­gia. I’m thrilled that two months later, they’re live on the site. (if you’re read­ing this on RSS, then pop on to the web to see what you’re missing).

The brief was pretty simple. I wanted illus­trat­ive drop caps pro­duced that were aligned to the inspir­a­tion for this design; namely Renais­sance illus­tra­tions and carvings. They ended up being slightly broader in inspir­a­tion than that though. They’re hand painted on thick, tex­tured cart­ridge paper in black ink.

I planned on inter­view­ing Helen (and I still plan on doing that), but I just couldn’t sit on my hands until then. Here’s a few let­ters that are par­tic­u­lar favour­ites of mine. Inter­view com­ing soon…

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