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Ken Barber The First State

Letterer and typeface designer at House Industries.

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Flourish script sketch A formal embellished exploration for my upcoming Flourished Script workshop November 5–6, 2016 at Cooper Union in NYC: http://coopertype.org/event/...
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Brush Lettering Workshop in NYC Conducting another Brush Lettering workshop, this time at Cooper Union on June 11–12, 2016: http://coopertype.org/event/brush_lettering3 OK, admi...
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Fuse Logo Sketch Initial drawing of some promotional lettering for the script workshop I'm conducting in Indianapolis on March 7: http://fusesessions.com/ I began...
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You're The Only One, Round Two Process pic of the freestyle lettering that I drew for my latest Valentine's Day card. After the composition was roughed out in a preliminary sket...
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You're The Only One Print Package Not only did James Tucker of Aesthetic Union (www.theaestheticunion.com) do an impeccable print job on my latest Valentine, the cards arrived packa...
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You're The Only One Sketch An annotated pencil sketch for a card that I designed for my wife (http://www.etsy.com/shop/NewSwedenVintage) last Valentine's Day. This year I as...
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LK Monogram I drew this monogram for the missus on the occasion of our wedding anniversary. The mark was inspired by the elegant lettering of the consummate cr...
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Vive La Tote Finally got tired of hijacking the household grocery bags to schlep around all my typography and lettering books, so I decided to have my own totes...
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T&L The Brush Letter Cookin' up a little something for my Brush Lettering workshop at Cooper Union on June 28–29, 2014: http://coopertype.org/workshops/public_workshop...
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You're The Only One For Me Drew this bit of lettering for my sweetheart, @New_Sweden (http://www.etsy.com/shop/NewSwedenVintage), for Valentine's Day. The script is modeled a...
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Vive La Plume I'm happy to announce that the poster I designed for Print For Good is now available—and just in time for Valentine's Day! More info about the pro...
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Print for Good WIP Just finished selecting the ink color for my recent collaboration with Print for Good. The best part: profits from PFG projects go to help support ...
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Roundhand Script Lettering Work-In-Progress Work-in-progress detail of some condensed roundhand script lettering that I've currently got cookin'. The plan is to print the full piece of letter...
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The Script Letter A little lettering to promote a repeat session of my Script Lettering workshop at Cooper Union. Seats for the previous ones this Fall went pretty q...
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JK Monogram Finally took the opportunity to design a Scandinavian-style spegelmonogram as a wedding gift for some friends (and former students) who recently ti...
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New T&L Pencil Case Lettering Finally getting around to making more pencil cases after the first design sold out ( http://typeandlettering.bigcartel.com/ ). For the newest one, ...
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Cooper Union I drew this lettering as a warm-up for a number of workshops that I'm leading at Cooper Union this Fall. http://coopertype.org/public-workshops/ ...
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Allen and Anita Letterpress Print My folks celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in April, so I decided to make them something special to commemorate the occasion. With the help...
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Ampersand Ligature A preview of a logo that I'm designing for a friend. Drawn with a carpenter's pencil, then tightened up and embellished. It is important to the cli...
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Just My Type detail A detailed shot of the final letterpress piece printed by James Tucker from The Aesthetic Union. James slathered on the ink and hit the hefty 220 l...
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Just My Type Initial Sketch Here's the first draft for a recent personal project, a small print I designed with Valentine's Day in mind. Although the proportions of the final ...
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You're Just My Type sketch For one reason or another, I was set on drawing something for Valentine's Day this year. Steering clear of hearts and whatnot, I instead took a cas...
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Lettering Workshop I was so excited to be invited to conduct another workshop for the Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington (http://www.adcmw.org/civicrm/even...
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Type and Lettering After making do with a number of temporary solutions for lugging around my drawing materials, it dawned on me that designing my own pencil case wou...
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