Type Tattoo Week! Day 7: Apply (to) Yourself

Type Tattoo Week! Day 6: Look & See

Much rougher, much less type, but I've discovered recently that I'm pretty fond of creepy tattoos.

The idea with these is that one would be applied one to each palm.

Type Tattoo Week! Day 5: Shall Pass

Did I mention that the project is to design a henna tattoo? Because that detail is important to note for this pun.

Type Tattoo Week! Day 4: Above

More tattoo motifs! The typographic focus in this one is mainly the letter spacing and thin slab serif style.

The words mean nothing but are vague enough concepts to mean quite a few things. So that's nice.

Text Tattoo Week! Day 3: Ampersand

When designing the most generic typographic tattoo, it helps to use some of the most generic tattoo motifs. Hence this half-filled ampersand.

Type Tattoo Week! Day 2: Still

I chose this word for the second tattoo mainly because of the anatomy of the type. The lower finials of each of these letters forms a neat little hook motif that I think works well with the idea of stillness - keeping things in place and all.

Type Tattoo Week! Day 1: LOL

I'm back in school! And the first assignment for my new Advanced Typography class has been to design typographical tattoos. So I'm going to post a week's worth of those to get us back in the swing of things.

This might look familiar. It's sort of an extension/reimagining of the ROWA concept from an earlier typography project. I chose the LOL mark because I've always been fond of it's semi-symmetry and the cute little happy face incorporated into the center. However, in the process of drawing it larger I've somehow made it much, much creepier. So that's a life choice I have to live with now.