Fun personal project! Puns and hand lettering. What more could you want?
See "Some Kind of Animal" here on my Behance portfolio!
See "Some Kind of Animal" here on my Behance portfolio!
15 December 2012
17 November 2012
Fairy Tale Hand Lettered Titles
I finally got this project online that I did last summer for a friend's wedding. Check it out on my Behance portfolio!
Enjoy!
16 October 2012
Excuses Don't Help Us Get Anywhere
When I was a Junior in High School, I had a no nonsense Chemistry teacher who was so intimidating that during class, you probably could have heard a pin drop. But while he was intimidating, he was also fiercely dedicated to helping students learn the subject matter. One day, a student was complaining about the difficulty of learning how to spell the elements and their atomic symbols in the Periodic Table, saying she wasn't a good speller and couldn't be expected to learn how to spell them all. He responded by telling her that if she put the same amount of energy into learning how spell that she did complaining about how she couldn't spell, she could actually become a good speller.
I've always remembered this, and have tried to use this logic in my life as much as possible. How often do we complain about not being able to do something instead of actually putting the effort into accomplishing it? Bottom line, you can always find an excuse not to do something. Be the person that doesn't need one, doesn't want one, and doesn't let one get in the way of happiness or success.
I've always remembered this, and have tried to use this logic in my life as much as possible. How often do we complain about not being able to do something instead of actually putting the effort into accomplishing it? Bottom line, you can always find an excuse not to do something. Be the person that doesn't need one, doesn't want one, and doesn't let one get in the way of happiness or success.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. ~Benjamin Franklin
08 August 2012
11 Lessons Jane Austen Taught Me About Life
As a long time avid Jane Austen reader, it is my pleasure to share some universally relatable messages I've unearthed from within her body of works. Below, I am indulging my philosophizing and over-analytical nature as the nerd that I am. So, enjoy!
1. Money isn't everything.
"He is rich, to be sure, and you may have more fine clothes and fine carriages than Jane. But will they make you happy?"
~Pride and Prejudice
"Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it."
~Sense and Sensibility
2. People are not rational creatures.
"Is not general incivility the very essence of love?"
~Pride and Prejudice
3. Don't let your ego get the better of you.
"Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief."
~Pride and Prejudice
4. Stick with what you like, and stand up for what you believe in, because there is always someone who will disagree with you no matter what.
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
~Emma
"One man's style must not be the rule of another's."
~Emma
5. What's right is not always easy. What's easy is not always right.
"The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety."
~Sense and Sensibility
6. Life is short. Don't wait to go after what you want.
"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"
~Emma
"It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do."
~Sense and Sensibility
7. Don't like something just because it's popular or do something merely because of societal expectations. It's your life after all.
"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!"
~Persuasion
"It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion to be secure of judging properly at first."
~Pride and Prejudice
8. Having everything given to you is really more of a curse than a blessing. Without adversity we do not grow.
"The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself."
~Emma
"There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves."
~Emma
9. The existence and common occurrence of the indirect boast: when a person makes a direct claim that they're not good at one thing, while implying that it is because they're good at something else, altogether a very clever bragging scheme. Sometimes people can also complain about something and brag at the same time.
"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast."
~Pride and Prejudice
10. Irony and sarcastic wit never go out of vogue.
"You know how interesting the purchase of a sponge-cake is to me."
~Letter to her sister Cassandra
11. Some things, throughout all of history, will never change.
"The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, 'Women will have their little nonsense and needless cares."
~Emma
1. Money isn't everything.
"He is rich, to be sure, and you may have more fine clothes and fine carriages than Jane. But will they make you happy?"
~Pride and Prejudice
"Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it."
~Sense and Sensibility
2. People are not rational creatures.
"Is not general incivility the very essence of love?"
~Pride and Prejudice
3. Don't let your ego get the better of you.
"Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief."
~Pride and Prejudice
4. Stick with what you like, and stand up for what you believe in, because there is always someone who will disagree with you no matter what.
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
~Emma
"One man's style must not be the rule of another's."
~Emma
5. What's right is not always easy. What's easy is not always right.
"The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety."
~Sense and Sensibility
6. Life is short. Don't wait to go after what you want.
"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"
~Emma
"It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do."
~Sense and Sensibility
7. Don't like something just because it's popular or do something merely because of societal expectations. It's your life after all.
"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!"
~Persuasion
"It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion to be secure of judging properly at first."
~Pride and Prejudice
8. Having everything given to you is really more of a curse than a blessing. Without adversity we do not grow.
"The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself."
~Emma
"There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves."
~Emma
9. The existence and common occurrence of the indirect boast: when a person makes a direct claim that they're not good at one thing, while implying that it is because they're good at something else, altogether a very clever bragging scheme. Sometimes people can also complain about something and brag at the same time.
"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast."
~Pride and Prejudice
10. Irony and sarcastic wit never go out of vogue.
"You know how interesting the purchase of a sponge-cake is to me."
~Letter to her sister Cassandra
11. Some things, throughout all of history, will never change.
"The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, 'Women will have their little nonsense and needless cares."
~Emma
03 July 2012
24 June 2012
Good Things
Inspired by an article in GOOD magazine called "The GOOD 100: What does tomorrow look like?", I decided to create this animated graphic based off of my favorites from the list. These look like good trends to me.
10 May 2012
Jane Austen Book Covers!
"No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with."
~Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1811Inspired by my most favorite authoress, I decided to embark on a personal project to design book covers for three of Jane Austen's novels. Featuring hand-drawn type and hand-painted illustration, the concept for these covers is influenced by the Regency Period, the novels themselves, and Jane Austen's own life.
View entire project here
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