Happy Birthday Card – Flags on a Line

Following yesterday’s card, I decided to make another one today. The flag principle is the same, only that I folded the paper first and was able to have them actually hanging on the string and they can move around a bit, like real flags would. The words are hand written, which should be easy enough to tell. Everything else is a standard size card (DIN A6) of recycled sketch paper. …

Happy Birthday Card – Punch some flags!

I was playing around with the punch that came with my scoring board and I learned some interesting things. The first thing I want to share is a really simple way of making tiny flags by using a punch that creates notches. If you have thin stripes of card stock or other paper, you can really easily create a whole lot of tiny flags to use in card making. I …

Pica’s Proper Hand – Free Font

It was a long time coming. Earlier this year I decided to create my first font, based on my hand writing. It was created entirely digital with a tablet and in Adobe Illustrator. It does not contain all glyphs, but more than I had planned to begin with anyway. As of now it has already over 16K downloads on dafont, which is quite a bit surprise. I assume not many …

To Lorem ipsum or not to.

Published first on medium.com, July 7th 2015. A little excourse on the use of placeholders in design and why content is so important for the design process. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in …