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Typeface in about an hour

Here’s a typeface I created from scratch in about an hour in Adobe Illustrator as part of my Design Something Daily exercise. It’s not great, and there’s probably a typeface out there that looks just like it, but this was a fun experiment in creating something from scratch. Sorry, I don’t have it available in [...]

House Blend

Another coffee label design in less than an hour, this time with a house standing for “House Blend”. I sketched out the design early this morning. I was hoping to put in a little more texture and have a “Orange St.” street sign at the bottom, but I ran out of time. One of the [...]

Espresso coffee label

I decided to restart an old daily exercise I practiced about a year ago, which was designing something from concept to finish in less than an hour. I had created an assortment of coffee labels in the past under the fictitious name “Orange Street Coffee Roasters”. Here’s an espresso coffee label I put together in [...]