Ryan Hamrick / Projects / Lettering

Hey You

December 03, 2012

Last year about this time, I tried my hand at painting a lettering piece on canvas for my wife. Her birthday and our anniversary are right around Christmas, so I figured I'd do something similar this year. I was asked to hang a few pie...

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Type Rock Poster

November 30, 2012

Turns out this one won't be ready for the show tomorrow after all. Still making prints though, so let me know if you want to be added to the "interested" list for pre-orders. Full poster attached.

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Saturday Preview

November 29, 2012

A little preview of one of the pieces I'm hanging at the Commonwealth Press / Sapling Press art show/party Saturday night. More soon.

Plainly Logotype

November 26, 2012

New logotype I created for a no-nonsense web development studio. I was thrilled when the client decided to go with this almost ironic script version to contrast their minimal and clean approach to web design. Larger version of the sket...

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New Logo Vector [w/ Build Elements]

November 19, 2012

And here's the vector. I played a lot with the width tool in Illustrator tyring to figure out a way to hack it into commercial-ready use, but in the end I ended up single-stroking the line work and then drawing the thicks over it with th...

New Logo Sketch

November 19, 2012

Final sketch of the new logo I made for myself over the weekend. Extremely happy with this one, and hoping to actually keep it for a while this time...seriously. Biggun' attached.

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Lettering Talk [GIF]

November 14, 2012

I had the great pleasure of speaking tonight at Refresh Pittsburgh about getting started with lettering. Naturally, I decided to hand-letter all the words for my slides this morning. These are just Pentel Color Brush quickies (surprise...

Revolution Sketch

November 07, 2012

I had the pleasure of whipping up a new logotype for a small web design firm rebranding themselves as Revolution Media Group. This was the final sketch before vectoring and making a few changes, including to the name, but I really like...