Juliette

Juliette

First illustration of the new year and it is a sketch of Rebecca Ferguson as Juliette Nichols from Silo, now streaming on AppleTV+. Follow along here and our socials below for all of our projects and realeases.Our Social NetworkHave an idea or want to...

Evelyn Carnahan

Evelyn Carnahan

Portrait sketches of Rachel Wiesz as Evelyn Carnahan, ultimately Evelyn Carnahan O'Connell, from "The Mummy" movie franchise.As with many portraits, one is merely is state moving towards another purpose. The top stage involved the most painting and work...

Batman Day 2024

Batman Day 2024

Portrait of the one and only Batman, as played by the one and only Michael Keaton, in his iconic role from Tim Burton's "Batman" for this year's Batman Day.Our Social NetworkHave an idea or want to work with designomatt? Enter your name, email address,...

Macrinus

Macrinus

Art, illustration, design is never simply a straight line to completion. Often times it takes not only fits and starts but also winding paths to reach a destination; which might be temporary. This portrait of Denzel Washington exists in multiple states...

Batman, Samurai

Batman, Samurai

Illustration of an alternate reality Batman; dressed as a traditional Samurai warrior. With the popularity of Shogun streaming now, I wanted to revisit an earlier version of this treatment with a bit more natural media feel to the piece.  Follow along...

Eccentric Iterations

Eccentric Iterations

Iterating one of the latest projects on the drawing board. A font derived from the posters of the early 20th Century – Eccentric Display. Also resurrected an alternate typeface specimen sheet for this post.

Eccentric

Eccentric

Eccentric Display is a decorative display font based on typography from the Parisian posters of the early 20th Century.

Ballpoint Sans Flat

Ballpoint Sans Flat

An update to the Ballpoint family and an additional San Serif Flat style of letterform that continues to expand our ever-growing family.

Ballpoint Label

Ballpoint Label

As the result of simple prompt, this is the limited display font, Ballpoint Label, based on the label makers of my youth.

Mono versus Regular

Mono versus Regular

Designing a complete font set and comparisons between a regular character set and a mono height version within the same family.

Font Display

Font Display

Continuing our experimentation with different code options to most appropriately showcase our fonts on the website.

Lydia alpha

Lydia alpha

An test of our new display font-in-progress, Lydia. A sans serif display font derived from a sign painter’s sample sheet from last century.

Progress and process

Progress and process

Continued progress with the new sans serif font, Lydia, as well as an example of some of the process used in the creation of our newest font.

Lydia

Lydia

New sans serif display font in development based on the sign letters brushstrokes of the early 20th century.

Loki

Loki

A sketch of the wonderfully talented Tom Hiddleston in his role as Loki, the Norse god of Mischief, from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Uncial, alpha

Uncial, alpha

Update to the latest font in our product line, an expanded Uncial-style face and the first test of our font preview tool.

Uncial, round 2

Uncial, round 2

Second round of development on the new Uncial Display font and expanded the character set to include several ligatures.