Grey Cremer: 2011

Handlettering project

My client is using exclamation marks to describe the finished product that just arrived for his team.

That's good news.

Letters a through z were drawn by hand in the spring. That part is done.

Next is digitizing and getting them out to the world.

Michael Bierut gave a speech to AIGA Phila about 10 years ago. He said when a fax came through from the New York Times requesting an illustration, his partners would trip over each other to get the assignment so they could see one small thing completed relatively quickly.

Each day, I give myself that small assignment: one letter at a time until the alphabet is complete.

Meanwhile, the bigger projects march on.

Handlettering project

When I worked at Vanguard, HH was code for "much-needed stress-relieving camaraderie-filled after-work off-site function."

Happy Friday to all.

Handlettering project

Still can't complain.

One big project launch postponed. Smaller projects still underway. This handlettering project marches on.

Handlettering project

Still waiting to share views of the poster project. Meanwhile, the alphabet marches on.

Handlettering project

Can't complain.

Profitable work delayed this side project. Now rescheduled for a letter-a-day through October. Once the whole alphabet is digitized, I want to start typesetting some memorable quotations.

Suggestions for quotations welcome.

Stay awake

There are a few key moments in anyone's life. A person is fortunate if he can tell in hindsight when they happened.
—Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

What's next for you?

It's not luck, my friends. It's choice. One of the greatest lessons I ever learned was in a book by Og Mandino, entitled "The Greatest Secret in the World." The lesson? Very simple: "Use wisely your power of choice."
—Neal Boortz, Texan, lawyer, Texas Aggie, and nationally syndicated talk show host
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/boortz.asp

How far can you go?

Companies rapidly found out about us, and were actually offering written three-year commitments to hire our students, which meant they were promising to hire people we hadn't even admitted yet.
—Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture