Typography is one of my favorite themes, so I don’t know why
it took me weeks to decide on what to do for my heARTist Trading ATCs. There
were so many directions within typography that I tried three or four
approaches, but nothing was really working.
My family has been watching the old 1970s PBS show “Upstairs,
Downstairs”, so I wanted to do something with the Art Nouveau style. I puttered
for hours with Nouveau-inspired fonts and played with letters, words, and
fabric designs in Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator without too much success. Next,
inspired by the work of artist Lisa Occhipinti, I used portions of the swoop of
a Q, Z and M Art Nouveau backgrounds, an antique beach, and my own
designs—without success.
So, I went back to my old favorite—vintage advertising, and
layered Graphics Fairy http://thegraphicsfairy.com/ and other antique images in Photoshop to create this
month’s ATCs. I tried about 50 different ideas, and printed the five styles I
liked best. I surrounded a Pears Soap ad with text about cleanliness and beauty
in an old west-inspired font. The Monaco-Monte-Carlo card was the only one in
an Art Nouveau style; I layered a Mucha poster on one of my own designs. The
beehive/rose, bird in an envelope and French advertising all multiple vintage images
that were layered and softened in Photoshop.
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Love these ATCs. (via The Graphics Fairy)
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