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Typography

Creating a Typeface from an Old Source

Type design can start from a lot of places. But one of my favorite places is from old “functional lettering”. I use the term “functional…
Mister Munn
Mister MunnAugust 27, 2020
Typography

The “Mysterious” Morgan Collection

Almost 15 years ago, I came into some huge binders of typeface samples when a professor was cleaning his office. I snatched up as many…
Mister Munn
Mister MunnJune 24, 2020
Hip Hop & Type

The Soul in the Machine

J Dilla is one of the most acclaimed beat-makers of all time. He did this over a relatively short career through the mid-90’s out of…
Mister Munn
Mister MunnJune 3, 2020
Typography

Searching for Farringdon

It’s not often an Internet search yields only a few or (gasp!) no results. The typeface Farringdon is one of those rare examples. I came…
Mister Munn
Mister MunnSeptember 16, 2019
BrandingTypography

Branding Literal Vampire

This past summer, I was fortunate to be a part of an improv comedy house team at The Push Comedy Theater in Norfolk, VA. Like…
Mister Munn
Mister MunnAugust 15, 2019
Typography

Sauvignon : Typeface Revival Process

For the past year, I've been working on-and-off on a typeface revival. I initially stumbled across an old one-off typeface specimen in the depths of…
Mister Munn
Mister MunnNovember 7, 2018
Field Trip

Lettering Workshop at House Industries

This past Friday (December 8), I attended a lettering workshop at House Industries with the master, Ken Barber. I laid rubber to about 500 miles…
Mister Munn
Mister MunnDecember 10, 2017
Typography

Found Type in New Orleans: Part 3

For a final entry in the series, I’m sharing all the found type I documented on the cemeteries from my recent trip to New Orleans. The type found in…
Mister Munn
Mister MunnNovember 24, 2017
Typography

Found Type of New Orleans: Part 2

This week, I’m sharing all the found type I documented on the streets of my recent trip to New Orleans. Focusing mainly on signage, I found…
Mister Munn
Mister MunnNovember 18, 2017
Typography

Found Type in New Orleans: Part 1

I decided to take a long overdue trip somewhere new at the beginning of November. New Orleans was on the short list and I decided…
Mister Munn
Mister MunnNovember 14, 2017
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HELLO THERE! I’M DEREK.

I'm a designer specializing in branding and type-centric solutions. What's that mean? Well, you choose your words wisely right? Well, it makes sense to chose how they look wisely too. That's where I come in.

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Finishing up the row for DIE LAUGHING, we’ve got Finishing up the row for DIE LAUGHING, we’ve got two promo graphics. The whole show was put together with a shoe-string budget and passion from a bunch of creatives. As a result, we had no money for marketing, but we had to get the word out. By the end if the weekend, we’d sold out one night and almost a second. It was amazingly successful given the circumstances. 

And one, great big shout-out to @shotbyjessag for capturing our good friend Alfred as this creepy clown for promotional materials.

#creepyclowns #hauntedhouses #lettering #grungeaesthetic #spooky #behindthescenes #graphicdesign #typography #eventplanning
“Great artists steal” —Said by Someone that “Great artists steal” —Said by Someone that probably stole it.

The lettering for DIE LAUGHING was largely stolen. Flip through and see how my version and the original match up. 

Sure I had to build a few missing letters, but if it weren’t for the 1960 film, THE LEECH WOMAN, they’d look completely different. It turns out there were a few different versions of this poster that feature different taglines rendered in the same type style. Maybe some distressed font collection should happen…

#letteringinspiration #customlettering #typography #lettering #horrormovies #horroraesthetic #leechwoman #graphicdesign #typespire #fontinspiration
Taking it back, with this logo and custom letterin Taking it back, with this logo and custom lettering project from 2020. The pandemic was very real, but my friends weren’t just going to let Halloween pass them by. They got to work and created an outdoor, socially-distant haunted experience. DIE LAUGHING was open for only two nights and featured a haunted maze, costume contest, and two original short horror films. The whole weekend was a frightening success and everyone stayed safe.
#lettering #hauntedhouse #customtype #typography #typographydesign #logotype #grungeaesthetic #graphicdesign

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