Shine

I stumbled upon this song titled, "Shine" while searching for some music at http://ccMixter.org. Emily Richards aka Snowflake (the singer ) has an outstanding voice! I felt that Shine was a great song to try out my new typeface called, "high and narrow". The typeface featured in this video was hand drawn by me after taking a class from taught by Ann Oshea. Ann's class was based on an exemplar from a well known US Calligrapher Jean Formo. I chose to use a very tall letter form with my own shading technique. My typeface also contains a full set of capitals, numbers and regular special characters (not shown). The complete set is available as an Inkscape SVG file, also available for use in Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop. It is a refreshing departure from my regular form of calligraphy. This is far more casual than I am used to as a calligraphic style, but has great applications in chalk board signs -- you know the ones that appear at your nearby eatery / deli etc. These signs look so cool, especially when hand lettered. The typeface is commercially available at http://steveczajka.posterous.com/high-and-narrow-typeface Emily Richard's (aka Snowflake) music can be found at http://ccmixter.org/files/snowflake/34848 . There is also an interesting back story about the song and why she created it in the first place. Cheers Steve