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You regular viewers may remember this image from a few weeks ago. My school is putting on a tarot card themed print exchange this year, and I finally printed these up late last week. I made a polymer plate of the image and letterpressed them (at the IPRC) onto French Paper’s Pop-Tone Whip Cream paper.

The first 41 prints of the limited edition of 48 prints are for the print exchange, so I’ve only got the last seven up for sale in my Etsy shop.

Also: There’s about three weeks left to turn in your BEARFIGHT submissions!

The building that houses my studio also has a mural-only space in the entryway called the Ephemeral Gallery. A different artist comes in each month to paint a mural on this 15 by 8 foot wall space, and at the end of each month, it gets whitewashed. I got asked to do it for February, and finished it all in about 7 hours yesterday.

The phrase came from a conversation I had with a friend last week. We were discussing how many friends we both had who are artists, craftspeople, small business owners, and how we really try to support them when we can and that we sincerely wished that everyone we knew could be famous for what it is they do. That sentiment seemed appropriate for a building full of creative offices.

Here I am hard a t work. Photo by Sarah Oleksyk.

If you happen to be in Portland, it will be up the rest of the month at 412 NW Couch St. It’s right by the entryway doors, so you can even see it well at night if you come by and the doors are locked.

Progress shots and whatnot are up on my Flickr.

This is what I do when I’m bored at lunch. Usually I just write little lists of words in series, changing a single letter as the words progress, or playing around with spelling or simple phrases, but since this wordplay was a little more fancy-looking than usual, I thought it would be appropriate for Typo Friday this week.

Just playing around with a phrase that’s been running through my head lately. I watched a biography of Ben Franklin a few weeks ago and it informed me that on the earliest paper money in Philadelphia, which Ben Franklin printed himself, the phrase “to counterfeit is death” appeared. (See below) He also made copper plates of actual leaves and their unique vein structure as another deterrent to would-be counterfeiters.

For the entire time I have lived in Portland, this building in my neighborhood, once a convenience store, had been in great exterior disrepair; this included the ghost image of the sign for what was most likely the original tenant of the building, dated 1891. A few months ago, I noticed workers preparing to repaint the exterior of the building, and I was worried because it’s on a much-used bike route of mine and seeing even the remnants of old, hand-painted signs always warms my heart. Much to my surprise, when they repainted the rest of the building, they repainted the original signage as well!

I had never seen that done before, and certainly would not have assumed they would do it with such a basic sign like this one, but it made me happy and I thought it deserving to be part of Typo Friday this week. Has anyone else seen an old sign get repainted when the new tenants refurbish the space?

Whoa, dang, it’s my first cover! I was commissioned to illustrate the cover and hand-letter the headline for this week’s issue of Willamette Week, one of Portland’s free weekly papers. It’s so exciting to see my work staring out from newspaper boxes around the city!

The article it illustrates is about Wieden + Kennedy, an international ad agency based in Portland, launching a new idea, Wieden + Kennedy Entertainment, in which they create entertainment content first and look for ways to make it worth their time and money afterward. The WKE team is currently headed up by Aaron Rose, the man who put together Beautiful Losers. That’s Aaron on the cover, illustrated as a 1950’s pitch-man, which is actually pretty easy because he wears a hat like that all the time, seriously.

My friend Doug Merritt recently created this wonderful typeface, which he calls “Hoffee,” inspired by Portland’s two favorite beverages, coffee and beer. Doug painstakingly arranged roasted coffee beans and hops leaves into letterforms and photographed the results; no Photoshoppery here! I was incredibly impressed when Doug showed me this last week and I knew I had to feature here on Typo Friday. I love the little touches like the single leaf as the dot on the i and j, and how some of the leaves still have some of the vine attached. The whole set just has such great character. Drink up and enjoy!

For this week’s Typo Friday, I thought I’d show you the next piece in my “rules to live by” book which I started posting on Monday. I had a good time trying to recreate the look of ballpoint on faded notebook paper, using no actual notebook paper and only grayscale scans of some ballpoint scratches; otherwise it’s finished the same way I do all my illustration work.

I turned one ballpoint scribble into a brush in Photoshop, and while doing some experimenting, came upon a custom brush setting that makes a really wonderful, soft, crosshatching effect that I will almost definitely use for something soon.

I wasn’t sure how much I liked the doodled version right away, so I made another “clean” version without the doodles. It also just so happens to be available as a high quality print in my Etsy store.

I also just added a Fan Page for my art and comics and such on the Facebook. Feel free to become a fan, if you’re into that sort of thing.

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Winter Sale: 15% discount on orders of $20+ (before shipping) from the radrobot.org store or my Etsy shop.

Most of the letters I post on Typo Friday will be of the hand-drawn variety, but in the last week I’ve taken two letterpress classes at the IPRC, and I’m sort of in love with setting metal type, so I thought I’d show you what we came up with during the Intro to the Poster Press class last night. The teacher, Michael d’Alessandro set and printed the green, wooden type while showing us how to use the table top poster press. Then, each student got to set a small chunk of text and/or imagetype and that was locked into the press bed and everyone got a go inking up and rolling the paper over.

I did the eagle, ZAP, and stars, as if you couldn’t guess, so here’s a close-up.

Remember: 15% discount on orders of $20+ (before shipping) from the radrobot.org store or my Etsy shop.

I’m adding a new feature for Typo Friday posts. When ever I see some lettering or signage that strikes my eye around Portland, I will try to snap a picture of it if I can and share it with you folks. For the first one, I thought it appropriate to start with one of my favorite signs in town, and a favorite store as well, the Portland Outdoor Store on SW 3rd. It’s a huge store, and you can still buy all manner of western and outdoor wear here, in fact I just bought a new belt and shirt when I stopped by to take these pictures. Enjoy!

The store has been around for a while and the original painted signage on the building is starting to fade a lot.

Close up.