Amy Lesko: design blogger

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Monday, August 8

A DAY AT THE TATE MODERN

Before we begin I bet you’re wondering “ooh Amy that header image is a lil’ different than what you normally do” and you are very much correct my friend. You see, I love graphic design but seem to have been focusing primarily on my illustration work for the time being. So today I felt like branching out and playing around a bit, get my old designery juices flowing you know? Aye, so there we go, this blog is a playground for me and I hope you enjoy what develops!

To the post – A last minute family trip took us to London for the day. We had heard that the Tate Modern had a re-vamp and thus we headed on over to see what the old power station had to offer. I personally love the Tate; it’s a mixture of weird and wonderful with the gems in-between. So here's what we walked around and scratched our heads about.

Friday, July 29

FROM PENCIL TO PRINT

I have been plotting this print for about a year now and finally I have bought it to life! It was for my friend Becca’s 21^st, and I knew a year ago that I was going to make her a cute illustration for her room. She likes pink and cosmetics so I put two and two together. For this journey I thought I would take you along with me, from A to B, pencil to print. So this post is a nice little nosey into how I make an idea come to life!

Sunday, August 16

Sunday Summary No. 12

August 10th - 16th

This week has been full of many up’s and down’s, I don’t really know why but I haven’t been feeling myself these past few days. I’m sad about everything and I constantly compare myself to others. I easily let other people define my self-worth. It has to stop. Onwards and upwards!

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Nipped into town for a few bits a bobs

This cookery book I kept coming across in Ikea was designed beautifully! I couldn’t find it in store but I will be back to hunt it down

Pag against the groovy new 70’s style duvet cover I now own

Our furniture from Thailand! We have truly moved back to the UK.

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Tuesday, June 16

Tasty Type - Gill Sans

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This week I thought we could look into a font designed by an incestuous bastard.

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Alphabet image from: identifont.com

“Incestuous bastard” I hear you cry! Well let’s delve a little deeper shall we. A man named Eric Gill created the iconic Gill Sans typeface back in 1926, and he also created fear in his daughters, sisters and dogs eyes (yes, dogs.) You see Mr Gill kept a diary and in this little diary are tales of sexually abusing his two eldest daughters, claims of sexual acts with his sisters and it even goes so far as to say that he shagged his dog (omfg) Now I don’t know about you, but I’m glad this guy is dead, and fingers crossed, in hell. He died in the 40’s due to lung cancer so at least he left this earth in pain. There is many controversy surrounding Eric Gill, some say his artistic achievements should be withdrawn, yet others have found his reputation has strengthened due to this publicity. As they say, any publicity is good publicity. Now enough of the man, more of the font; Gill Sans is a British sans-serif typeface and was released by the Monotype foundry in 1928. Based off of the Johnston typeface used on the Underground, the humanist form of Gill Sans is distinguished throughout the world. The type was plastered all over the LNER (London and North Eastern) Railway System in its early days; the company’s menus, signs and promotional material all featured the font. With its roots set in British-ness, the BBC even uses it.

Oh I should probably mention that Eric Gill was also a printmaker, stonecutter and sculptor, but quiet frankly I don’t like him, so that’s all I’m going to say.