Playing with Letterforms
Following are some examples of hand lettering that I have been experimenting with over the years. Some of them are stand alone artworks I posted on my social media and some are part of a larger story that I wanted to tell through my blog. I have linked the respective images with their blogs wherever relevant.
Hope you enjoy these drawings as well as the stories that they tell.
Client Name
Personal projects
Hand Lettering
Typography
Illustration
This is the logotype I designed for my product brand 'unibrow'. It is a new initiative started by my wife and me to reach out to more people through our work.
www.unibrow.in
www.unibrow.in
Some of my drawings were selected for an exhibition called 'Drawing is Dead' organised by Studio Khirki in New Delhi. The exhibition was about reinforcing the fact that analog drawing is alive and healthy even though our lives are becoming more and more digital.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2167853813445353/
https://www.facebook.com/events/2167853813445353/
Someone told me that he is coming to my city and would love to meet me. It left me to wonder which city does he mean? Which city can I really call as 'my city'? So I wrote and drew a poem on this confusion of mine.
Below is the link to the complete poem on my blog.
https://medium.com/dns-notes/my-city-61b70e9b295a
Below is the link to the complete poem on my blog.
https://medium.com/dns-notes/my-city-61b70e9b295a
I love to collect glass bottles and jars that I like. When it was time to discard this bottle I thought I might as well draw on it.
I was using this wine bottle to keep water on my workstation. When I finally got the markers I needed, I decided to create my own label for it.
I used this Moleskine to draw my Inktober 2018 series. After completing the series drew the title on it so I could remember.
Below is the link to the complete illustrated story on my blog.
https://medium.com/dns-notes/inktober-2018-bukka-bukka-9494fd535399
Below is the link to the complete illustrated story on my blog.
https://medium.com/dns-notes/inktober-2018-bukka-bukka-9494fd535399
Practicing lettering on a slow moving day.
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