After attending this years Semi-Permanent in Sydney I was inspired by the ‘young’ American typographer and illustrator, Jessica Hische. Her work displays a keen eye for detail, love of hand-lettering and a body of work to die for. What also caught my eye was her use of a retro colour pallet which made her designs and illustrations come to life and gave them personality.
Jessica’s story showed that years of hard work, pure determination and love of type has led her to pursue a successful freelance career. She has worked for such clients as Tiffany & Co., and The New York Times along with being featured in most design and illustration publications including Communication Arts, Print Magazine and The Graphis Design Annual to name a few.
And just as they say ‘all good things take time’, Jessica says some of her styles like ‘ribbon type’ take ‘FOREVER’ and that’s a long time in the commercial world. And you would need a client that is willing to pay for whatever ‘forever’ costs.
In the meantime we will keep waiting for that client to come along and I’ll keep appreciating hand-crafted lettering (and cats).
Check out her site and be inspired…
http://jessicahische.com
Tags: design, Hand-lettering, Illustration, Typography