I just posted Raleway on The League of Moveable Type. It’s free to download. If you find any problems with, please let me know. The font features old style and lining numerals, small caps, a pretty complete set of diacritics, and an alternate stylistic set.

I just finished my first project in AfterEffects for a Multimedia Design class here at SCAD. This is the result. It’s a title sequence for the movie Perfume. I’d never used the program before this but I think I might have to spend some more time figuring it out. I’m definitely excited about what it’s capable of.

Allerta is an open source signage typeface I’ve been working on for a SCAD class. This is one piece of that project, The Allerta Kit. I designed the kit using the Stencil version of Allerta. The kit contains a series of locking letters so that messages can easily be assembled and spray painted onto multiple substrates quickly.

I’ll post more about the entire project soon, with a link to download the typeface and kit.

This was one of the ampersands I submitted to FontAid IV. If you’d like to see other submissions, check out the typophile thread. FontAid will be releasing a font full of all of these ampersands in the very near future for $20. All the proceeds will go to Doctors Without Borders. I’ll post a link to the font when it’s complete.

Today on Read Between the Leading Aaron and I got a chance to interview Scott Thomas, Design Director of the Obama campaign. We got to talk to him about his work on the campaign and his new book Designing Obama. You can listen here or get the podcast on iTunes.

If you haven’t checked out Read Between the Leading before, it’s a design podcast I co-host with a friend. We try to have interesting guests on to discuss a wide variety of design related topics.

It’s been a little while since the last post. Since then I’ve been working on some more academic projects. Here’s a little peak at a piece of a new project.

This is my final packaging project for the academic quarter. The project brief called for us to design a brand and packaging for a hypothetical food company. The brand I came up with was for an all natural juice company that I decided to call Orchard & Grove.

The packaging solution I came up with is a bit different than standard beverage packaging. I decided on a standard size of 8 ounces per juice box. I designed the top of the juice box to unfold, revealing a drinking spout, similar to a milk carton. It uses no extra materials to drink, unlike the straw required to drink from a Juicy Juice box. The 8 oz juice boxes can be easily assembled into a four packs using the 4 pack case. The 4 pack case is made of two pieces of paper that can be slid together using simple notches on the top and bottom of each piece to create the case (no glue required). The hooks in each side of the case can then be used to hook into cut slots on the side of each juice box. If you look at the box and 4 pack case dielines, you’ll see both the hooks and and slots highlighted with red circles. This method of hooking boxes in place requires no extra glue. It also requires less material than some other packaging like the standard 6 pack for carrying beer bottles, that needs enough material to cover more than half of each bottle and requires glue to assemble.

I also designed a 1 quart container that features a screw top for multiple use. The 1 quart container takes up exactly the same amount of space as four 8 oz juice boxes placed together to create a modular system that allows for the most efficient use of space for shipping and stocking purposes.

My goal with this project was to use as little plastic as possible (only used as polyethylene coatings to keep the juice box packaging aseptic and a screw top for the 1 quart container), as little glue as possible, as little material in general, as well make for the most efficient use of space when these product are shipped and stored.

I just submitted my latest typeface, Raleway, for voting on The League of Moveable Type’s Typelog, so click through and vote

Raleway is an elegant sans-serif typeface, designed in a single thin weight. It is a display face that features both old style and lining numerals, as well as a stylistic alternate inspired by more geometric sans-serif typefaces than it’s neo-grotesque inspired default character set. If you’d like to see more characters, check out the PDF specimen.

This is a typeface I’ve been working on recently. So far it is untitled so I’m looking for a name for it. I want the name to highlight the most unique and characteristic letters. With that being said, what would you name it?

Orbitron featured on AmpDaily, a blog that features a new Ampersand everyday.

I just released Orbitron through The League of Moveable Type. It features 4 weights, a stylistic alternative, small caps, and even more alternate glpyhs. It’s free for download in OTF, TTF, and even EOT formats. It’s license allows for it to be used with @font-face, SIFR, or cufon, so use it freely on the web. If you get a chance to download it and try it out, what do you think?

This is an untitled typeface I’ve been working on recently. I’ve been tracking updates and critiques on typophile. If you’d like to provide any feedback, I’d appreciate it.