More from the slimmed-down archives. Here’s a little item from 1991, when I was 19. St Luke’s Church in Wadestown, Wellington was holding a 1960s-themed dance and I designed and hand-lettered the tickets. You can see I was into Swiss modernism even then. The large type was drawn from memory: I didn’t go back to any specimen. I used to draw a bit, too: the Mini-Minor is my work. The body type—I had a love for ITC Esprit and ITC Veljović: these must have informed the look. Looks like I wasn’t that much of a stickler for Hart’s Rules as a teenager.
From memory, there were posters, too.
Of course we had home computers, but they were pretty basic, and hardly anyone had decent fonts. Therefore, I did a lot of stuff by hand to get the look I wanted, and because I could do this, print agencies hired me. At this point, my typeface designs were still being sent off abroad, though I had done a bunch of bitmaps, but that’s another story.
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