Retro illustrations by Paul Thurlby

I noticed British illustrator Paul Thurlby on Flickr, where his wonderful alphabet illustrations seemed to pop up all the time. I immediately checked out his portfolio and it was packed with retro style illustrations that makes me want to watch 50s cartoons and eat caramel popcorn and pizza. I especially love his Space Junk illustration and would love to get it as a print for my bedroom. His alphabet illustrations are also very quirky and something I can imagine myself using to teach my future kids about letters (as well as fonts haha). Paul was also featured in the third edition of Illusive by Gestalten. Have a look at Paul's portfolio for more gleeful illustrations.

009 - Cookie Font

Okay, so I've wanted to do Cookie lettering for quite some time now but I didn't quite know how to go about it. As I want big crisp letters I've used a big stencil. That means I have to use a lot of cookie dough if I want to create the entire alphabet. So before I start making all the letters I want to try different types of dough in order to find the one that looks the best for this typeface. My first one is Double Chocolate Chip and is an all brown dough, and I'm going to focus on the word POULET.

Daily Drop Cap

I'm nuts about typography but I'm not patient enough to make my own font. Luckily I get all my font viewing needs fulfilled by the wonderful blog Daily Drop Cap. Every day a new handcrafted letter will be added to the site and they are all so different and exciting to look at. So if you're like me and know how to appreciate the beauty of good lettering, then check out illustrator Jessica Hische daily updates on this wonderful blog.