Author Archives: patyleemo
YOU + | 3
The temperature is finally going up here in Wisconsin. With this warm weather, it’s time to pull your hair back (or cut it short like me) and show off your earrings. If you don’t know what to wear, here are a couple of my favorites. 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 photo For other [...]
TYPOGRAPHERS | 2
Remember that post I did about the typographer Porchez? Now it’s Collin Brignall’s turn. I have been having fun learning the story behind different types of fonts and how they came to be. It also helps us designers decide when picking out fonts for projects. Today, I am going to talk about Collin Brignall. He has designed [...]
BACK TO FUN
I am delighted to say that I AM BACK! Finally. I’ve been the world’s worst blogger. The last weeks of school left me glued to the computer doing assignments and editing videos with little time for fun, but now I am back to the U.S. to get my American citizenship. I am stopping school for a couple [...]
CAUGHT UP WITH WORK
Hello everyone! I’m sorry I have been slow with posts, I have been working on projects for school non stop. As proof, I’m sharing with you my newest project. In the project, I had to make a visual identity for a hostel in Rio de Janeiro. The starting point for this hostel called DaGema is [...]
TYPOGRAPHERS
Have you ever wondered where the fonts you see come from? Every set of font you see came to be after years of careful design. If it’s better legibility for street signs or resemblance to calligraphy, the typographer usually makes a lot of decisions during the design process. Fonts are like jackets that words wear [...]
YOU+ | 2
Last week I picked a couple of necessary things to spend a day out during carnival. This week I’m back in Sao Paulo and it turns out that people here love to go to bookstores in the weekends. It’s a hangout spot for all of those that spend the rest of the week working, where [...]
END-OF-THE-WEEK THOUGHTS
I’m starting to feel sad about going back to the US for a couple of months to get my citizenship because that means i’ll have to stop school for awhile just as I was getting into it. I am finally getting used to things down here and surprisingly, out of nowhere, i’m feeling proud to [...]
