Jessica hische should i work for free

I barely show assignments I did for clients in my portfolio or on my social media, and still, I get the jobs that suit me. Because my free work shows exactly what I can do and people hire me for that. So, you want to create editorial illustrations for magazines? Instead of offering to work for free, take an article of which you feel could use some great illustrations. A creative profession is a job, not a hobby You see a lot of illustrations in magazines these days.

A lot more than a few years ago! This is an amazing thing. Being an illustrator has become a dream job. One of the reasons for this is because they usually have another job to pay the bills. Long story short: this is killing for professional creatives that actually have to pay their bills with their creativity. You have to be able to communicate a message in an image and you have to be able to listen to a client, brainstorm and come up with an idea and to deliver that image in a professional way.

Be proud! First, they are making money of your work so you can set up a royalty agreement a percentage of the sales profit goes to you , or you can do a swap. Is swapping a solid idea at all times? Not always. Make sure you have the deal in writing.

I ended up with, well, almost nothing, although I worked five hours creating illustrations for her. Big fail, never again. The best swap I ever made In I had an accident in which I dislocated my knee. In a reflex I pushed it back. Bad idea. I ripped my knee muscles and my knee cab broke. It was a mess. Several doctors told me I would be dependant on walking with crotches the rest of my life as no surgery or physical therapy could fix it.

But there was one physical therapist that liked a challenge. I would make his logo, website, flyers, stickers, etc. It took almost two years but after that I could properly walk again. And he had the most fancy branding and shiny promotional items ever. I do realise he gave me something much bigger than I gave him. Have you met them yet? The people that offer you exposure.

It means you create a particular thing and they will mention you when the work gets published. Fingers crossed you get new assignments out of it! Is exposure working though? Firstly, you have to know what you would like to get out of it. In general we can state that mainly the target group of your exposure-client is looking at the work you did. Is this where you will find your new clients? Alrighty then, it might be worth it. No thanks. Of course, there are some circumstances where you might want to consider working pro bono.

Everyone else? AWS Deloitte Genpact. Events Innovation Festival. Follow us:. Between late and mid I traveled all over the U. Each cover dealt with a different topic, from excellent wintery foods to where to go on a winter date night. I am really in love with the Antimatter Series by Miaz Brothers, though an image that blurry wouldn't quite…. I am so excited about this new partnership with Paperless Post! If you have a wedding coming up…. Jacket designs for a series of murder mystery books.

I really love designing books where the full jacket is taken into consideration. Often, as a letterer, I'm brought in to do a component on a cover but not the full design. I thought this was a fun and whimsical way to really activate the whole…. When the New York Times contacted me this year to do the Buzzwords of , I was jazzed because I thought it was a perfect excuse to collaborate with my studio mate!

He and I each did a sketch and then took turns working toward the final from the chosen sketch. I think it turned out great, and you…. Paravel, a wonderful digital agency in Austin, was working on an overhaul of the online coupon site Retail Me Not. This was an incredibly fun but also challenging project. It was…. The folks at Eventbrite had seen the logo update for MailChimp and contacted me to give one of their marks a similar facelift. I definitely kept that use in mind when working on the update.

This illustration was used alongside a very descriptive essay about a stroll through nature. This piece accompanied an advertorial article for OnStar subject obvious.

My goal was to keep the lettering monochromatic so it could be placed over a dark photographic background and to give it a vintage holiday card feeling. Oxfam is a wonderful organization that encourages people to buy charitable gifts on the behalf of others.

This campaign was for their holiday season and the ads were displayed on everything from bus shelters to magazines. It was particularly fun to see the ads, printed enormously, in airports…. Limited enrollment and longer sessions allow for more meaningful interaction with our expert speakers and fellow attendees.

Join us to expand your skill set and use updated techniques…. Kerning is the first international conference in Italy dedicated solely to typography and web typography. On June 5th only workshops and 6th conference day we will gather in Faenza, in the very heart of Italy, top notch speakers from the whole world of digital and web typography to create…. I created this fun viney alphabet for a letterpress print, which I printed myself and are available in my store.

I also decided to make it into a repeat pattern for fun, which has been my twitter background for some time. This was a really fun assignment and one of my first major illustrative lettering assignments. I was hired to do a typographic cover for the magazine as well as headline type for the cover story article and a full page illustration.

The article intended to up your New Jersey smarts but illuminating…. I had a blast working with DDB on these ads for Bertolli. We spent the first bit of the project honing the style of the lettering and then worked to keep it consistent throughout the campaign. The result is elegant and eye-catching without being overly decorative. Proceeds from poster sales go to both the Memorial….

This is unfortunately a killed project as I was really loving the direction! The art director and I had grandiose plans to use all kinds of foils and fancy materials, but sadly the author and publisher went in another direction. Jez Burrows started a wonderful little initiative to help support Radiolab, which is an amazing podcast. I was happy to be a part of it!

My contribution references my favorite episode, which is about Parasites. I decided to make a pattern of the bird just for fun. Tyler School of Art, my alma mater, commissioned me to create this poster for their continuing education program's Weekend Art Workshops. This was one of the first pieces I created after graduating college, and is one of the very first in which I illustrated in what has now become my main…. The Watkins Visiting Artists Series is an annual yearlong program that welcomes nationally and internationally recognized fine artists, designers, filmmakers, educators and critics to the campus and the community.

This will be the first of two talks I give in Nashville, they will be different talks…. This lettering was created as a poster insert for Mohawk Quarterly. Hybrid hired me to illustrate this Wes Anderson quote as I had worked for him on the Moonrise Kingdom titles and it was a fun tie in. We kept the color scheme relatively monochromatic, and the poster was printed with a metallic…. Each issue features lists curated by different people and for this issue I chose to make monograms for each person asked to contribute.

The cover is pretty glorious to behold, 2 color…. Aside from wanting to generally tighten up the logo, there were some very specific slightly hilarious asks—one problem with the logo was that some people accidentally misread it as a certain male…. I also created ornaments and borders to match the opener that were sprinkled throughout the article. Hand-lettered titles for a story about the best golf resorts in North America.

Another illustrator was hired to do oil paintings of the various resorts which were then combined with my hand lettering to make excellent vintage golf poster illustrations for the magazine. Chocolate label and box design for a wonderful company that specializes in delicious natural chocolates. The turnaround was quite tight, but I was really happy with how this turned out.

The keepsake is two parts, a beautiful letterpressed postcard and a temporary tattoo of the TDC monogram. Be there as the design community comes together for provocative speakers, nightly networking receptions, live competitions, exhilarating exhibitions, innovative professional development sessions,…. Alt Summit was founded in Since then, there have been 14 major events — seven flagship conferences in Salt Lake City, two flagship conferences in Palm Springs, two summer conferences in New York, one summer conference in San Francisco, and two more summer events in Salt Lake City.

Josh Higgins asked me to be a part of a project to help celebrate the life of Doyald Young after his passing and of course I jumped at the chance! Doyald was an incredible inspiration to me and of course countless other designers and letterers. These posters were letterpressed and then sold on Etsy…. We Love Graphic Design is a celebration of the world of graphic design in the shape of an annual one day seminar featuring lectures from some of the most important, inspirational and insanely creative graphic designers working today.

The Baffler is a quarterly journal of cultural and political analysis which was started in but revamped and redesigned recently. For this issue, I was assigned a featured called "The Politics of Virtue" and created this piece of lettering as full page art.

The lettering needed to anchor the…. When Ron from Mail Chimp contacted me about helping them out on a logo revise I was totally tickled pink. Julie Ann Horvath is a badass. She asked me to help with the logo design and then later to brand a conference in a similar style and I was of course on board.

I was also happy to…. United Pixel Workers puts out limited edition awesome t-shirts designed by design nerds. This was my contribution and I wear it constantly. I had the pleasure of creating a big collection of work for Papyrus as a part of their Valentine's line. These designs were put onto bags of various sizes, wrapping paper, gift card holders—you name it.

And of course, because it's Papyrus, everything was executed amazingly with velvet…. Never in a million years would a…. The approach of using subpages for storing content sections of a page can also be very useful for creating a one-page website, featuring very different kinds of content.

This assignment was incredibly fun—I had to illustrate an article about badmovies. Wrapping paper design for a Bonds mailer. Jingle bells is revamped to suit the Aussie summer heat near christmas, complete with native fauna in underoos and kangaroos on surfboards. Born from the idea of creating a platform that fosters art and design within our community through hands-on experiences, workshops and design in action initiatives.

WeMake hosts sketchXchange a monthly night of inspiration and drawing and a chance to peep into the sketchbooks of some of…. The lecture will take place in the Ward Lecture Hall. Reception at 5pm in the John C. Hutcheson Gallery, talk at 6pm! The talk will be an in-depth look into my process, with tons….

Cover for a book of short stories about teenage defiance. This cover was really fun to work on and pretty tricky to execute. The Society of Design in Pennsylvania put together this epic invite in which they ordered custom vanity license plates to spell out a message to me and now drive around with them on their cars! Of course I said yes! Full page lettering and numbers to accompany an article about creatives bringing an indie spirit to mainstream design. Helena Price is a dear friend and very talented photographer.

The brief was very open, but she wanted something bold…. This series of ads for Starbucks was really fun—I love seeing my lettering made into physical things especially when those things are delicious! Each book in this now large series uses similar design and production constraints two-color foil, similarly detailed borders, and a consistent typeface for the author so that they look…. Insight Editions released a very deluxe book featuring all the concept art from the films.

I was chosen to create the lettering for the cover, which as embossed and printed with a lightly holographic UV gloss. The book is huge and beautiful, and as a fan of the books and films it was an honor to be…. Alexander Isley and his team have worked with The Girl Scouts on many many wonderful projects.

Editorial illustration for an article about prepaying a dinner that you have out at a restaurant. Various illustrations for Harvard business review for articles about how gamers make better employees, personal limits on cheating, debt education, and more. Over the course of a year, 8 faces is releasing eight A3 mm x mm artwork prints, each one limited to individually-numbered editions.

I created the second in the series, which is pretty and informative. Giftcards for all occasions for Samsung Korea. Some called for lettering and some illustration but they all needed to work together.

It was a great show I was able to attend the…. The future of fonts as we know them is ever-changing. To help prognosticate, we're collecting some of the industry's leaders and asking them to explain what's coming next, why and how it will effect our everyday.

We'll touch on lettering, foundries, collectives, technology and applications as well…. I created the opening full page artwork, and had a ton of fun making a bold, colorful, vintage inspired design. Pictory is a showcase for people around the world to document their lives and cultures.

This is a headline I lettered for one of the themes, a portrait of Paris through pictures. Lettering for an advertisement that was later made to look like it was drawn in caramel. I mocked it up here, but for the final ad another illustrator dealt with the caramel effect.

As you can probably tell from my thoughts and resources pages, I love to share what knowledge I have to whomever will listen. An editorial illustration for The New York Times about whether or not European literature is superior to American Literature after a controversial comment was released by one of the Nobel Prize judges. This makes me long for indian summers and fireflies in Pennsylvania. An illustration for an article about a group of scientists that visit the Creation Museum in Petersburg Kentucky.

Various illustrations for Wired Magazine for articles about a fancy dog hotel, a jedi training class in lower manhattan, the NFL archives, and a guy who answers every spam email he gets for a week. This was a fun project that involved a ton of hand-lettering and actually inspired me to adopt two kitties of my very own.

Logo and illustrations for culinaryculture. Illustrated poster to promote the residential life program of Arcadia University in Pennsylvania. The illustration was also used on other promotional materials. I was asked to participate in a calendar for a project run by fellow letterer Luke Lucas. His side-project Life Lounge put out a series called Some Type of Wonderful in which 12 letterers were asked to contribute a design for every month.

Mine was for the month of July, and while July is winter for…. For two and a half days, join the ACC for a convening of moderated conversations between…. I found out about the company Keep Cup on a trip to Australia and just fell in love with their product line.

When Andy contacted me about doing a bit of work for a Keep Cup ad campaign it felt like the planets had aligned. These were my contributions to the campaign, but they also worked with a….

Young Jerks. I happily illustrated the motto for my…. Every year, AIGA Nashville builds a power-packed day filled with unrivaled industry talent and the most innovative and thought-stirring content.

Attendees will be treated to world-class presentations, catered lunch and a roundtable discussion where the audience has the opportunity to ask questions…. I made monograms for each of the main characters as well as a…. Full page ad which ran in the New York times to promote the movie "Acid Test" which deals with the environmental troubles the ocean is experiencing and hopes to motivate viewers to consider the oceans as well as they take steps toward living greener lives.

They wanted something that had a touch of history but was still modern and forward thinking. The end result is a brush script that has a lot of energy unto itself and here you…. I was really stoked with how this turned out. Papyrus has been a wonderful client to work with and they always go over the top with the production of their cards. Magazine cover about bargain finds in Denver. The text looks a little overprinty to reference limited color screen printing—a cheap way to achieve great printing results.

The barcode went on the white tag in the bottom left corner. Full page illustration and spot illustrations for an article about how Christmas is celebrated in different cultures. Editorial illustration of seed packets for fictitious plants that can help kids save the environment. Honey lettering for a Special K ad which was later made to look like three-dimensional honey. This was used as a logomark for an event put on by Ball Horticulture Company. It could be quite illustrative since the main purpose was for signage.

I love collecting random phrases that are a part of pop culture this one on the wrapping paper of all florists to future illustrate.

Build is a small, yet perfectly formed, boutique design conference where interesting, talented web practitioners from all over the world come to share ideas, techniques and inspiration. Some are on stage; some are in the audience. I was honored to work with veteran magazine art director Rip George on this cover for Long Island Pulse. The lettering was ultimately printed in a shiny….

Oddfellows is an excellent design and animation studio based in SF and Portland. Collaborating on this logotype project was insanely fun—their work is heavily illustrative, modern, and inventive and they wanted a logotype that matched the vibe of both the work and the people behind the work.

Lettering for an HP Printer ad. This was a really fun assignment! BBDO contacted me to be a part of their new campaign for Dove Chocolate—I would create lettering, which would then be laser cut into 3d art and then coated in chocolate. The resulting images are really cool, and I particularly like how it looks in the commercial! The lovely Tina aka Swiss Miss asked me to create a piece for a kickstarter campaign to help fund Creative Mornings and I happily obliged.

Nothing makes me feel more creative in the morning than an amazing cup of coffee. I wanted to give myself a challenge so I decided I wanted the lettering to be modern but to use a…. Paul Tanners wanted to develop the first water that was fluoridated to promote healthy teeth.

The label design was printed on clear sticker paper and applied to the water bottles for a very clean and modern look. The designs were then printed on t-shirts. In previous issues, a giant 40 was a prominent feature and, as I love giant letters, I kept that in my design. Vintage inspired type for a book cover.

The design of the cover is by Anne Twomey and I created the lettering used for the title and author name as well as the ornamentation around the title. Bing put together a really fun campaign this year that I was pumped to be a part of—each day they had a letterer create a search term, something you would do in the summer.

For a week, my lettering was posted one day at a time, but it was really fun to see what some of the other letterers did for….

This was a personal project that I sent out as a promo in the winter of It was a set of twelve postcards, each illustrating one of the twelve days of Christmas. They were all held together with a belly band stating "Happy Holidays" in hand-lettering.

These special silver gift tag ornaments were made for Neiman Marcus over the holidays, along side a calligraphic butterfly clip on ornament. This was basically a dream job: illustrate internet cat memes.

I love the internet. I love cats. Illustration for an article about a pet-only airline. The second illustration was for a follow up opinion piece.

Juniper Park commissioned me to create a number of lettering only advertisements for Astral Digital using both English and French words — the result is a colorful and very lively campaign. Lettering for a book cover. The final printed book design evolved quite a bit after I handed over final artwork.

Bordo Bello is a really fun event set up by an AIGA branch in Denver Colorado where designers are sent a blank skateboard deck and told they can do whatever they want with it. The decks were then auctioned off to support the club. This was my design, which I painted onto the deck. The tan areas…. Where does the name beyond tellerrand come from? It expresses the aim of everybody involved to look a bit further, look beyond the edge. It also reflects the global perspective of our event.

Moderated by Alexis Jones, it was an incredible night, with great conversation and everyone got to walk away with a free pair of jeans.

Available through my store, through myfonts and veer. Snowflake is a charming typeface based on cut paper snowflakes. Along with a full alphabet, numbers, accent characters, and punctuation, it also includes snowflake ornaments for borders or patterns!

It's similar to crochet work and papel picado,…. Logo for Bailey Quin, an interior designer specializing in whimsical spaces with a southern twist. He and I worked collaboratively on the logo and The Heads of State were also involved in the brainstorming process.

Tattly is an amazingly fun shop started by Tina Roth Eisenberg aka Swiss Miss selling designy temporary tattoos. I made a one-off letterpress print for the occasion and printed it myself at The Arm in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The issue is devoted to how some people are caring for girls — saving girls from slavery around the world, mentoring girls who are without a mother, etc.

Cover for a student handbook given out at the beginning of the year. Each year they hire a different illustrator to do the cover and lend a hand with some interior decoration, this year's theme was centered around a vintagey space adventure. The stylistic reference was a clean woodcut illustration. Dansko commissioned me to make a typographic repeat pattern to be used on their special 20th anniversary edition clogs.

This was a really fun assignment, and also very challenging, as complex repeat patterns are never a walk in the park. I was really happy with how the pattern turned out and my mom….

With our upcoming SmashingConf New York , we'll explore real-life projects, workflows and hands-on insights that we all can learn from and use right away. Same game, same rules: 1 track, 2 conference days, 7 workshops, 18 excellent speakers and just available seats. Semi-Permanent brings together internationally renowned designers, artists and creative icons for live events, presentations, workshops and parties.

Be inspired. When looking at the masthead, he knew he could only push it so far by himself, so he brought in an expert me! An Event Apart is an intensely educational two-day conference for passionate practitioners of standards-based web design. Brioche is a fun revival typeface ready for all of your fancy needs.

The roman is modeled after a few 19th century samples with the exception of some special swashy characters of course I had to add them! The italic is a new design. Final and two exploratory sketches for a book cover. The lead character lives in an institution for delinquent teenage boys.

Rather than keep up a traditional blog, this page serves as a home for writing and as a repository for answers to frequently asked questions about me and my work. For news updates, please follow me on twitter or subscribe for email updates. Please feel free to email comments or corrections. Daily Drop Cap, the first, was pure eye candy and helped jump start my lettering career. Are you a creative person that constantly submits to competitions but never gets in?

Are you over 30 and bummed that you missed your chance to be a 20 under 30? If you think you deserve an…. The main art direction was to give visual cues to each of the five bands, see if you can name them! This is a full-spread illustration for the amazing publication, The Manual, put together by Andy McMillan, who is also the founder of the excellent web conference Build in Belfast, Ireland. A full page illustration for the cover of the holiday edition of the Style section. This was the start of my career as a ribbon typographer.

The goal was to illustrate phrases from action movies and sort of compete against each other to see who could come up with the best solution. This intimate environment has a relaxed anti-conference feel creating space for amazing connections and beautiful…. The Yellow Conference is a gathering for creative, entrepreneurial women who desire to ignite passion and bring goodness to the world through everyday living.

Editorial illustrations for Convene Magazine. The art director loved the way type was treated on another piece that I created, so I adapted it for the new content. All sales benefit the museum! It was really fun trying to figure out ways to fit everything in and keep things legible and after we settled on a style I created a Spanish and French version…. People voted for their favorite and the winner was produced.

Title type for the Summer Movie Preview Issue. Inspired by vintage fruit crate type but with a much brighter color palette. Each year Frank Sturges Reps collaborates on a calendar with a design studio and a printer. This particular year's theme was color, each artist was given a color to illustrate. I chose the color white and illustrated "Follow the White Rabbit".

This is the first year but the lineup is filled with great names! This was a really fun editorial project for an article featuring fiction writing of Northwestern Alums. Papyrus really does go all out with the production of their cards sometimes!

For this holiday card, they added all sorts of special effects to make it incredibly dimensional, sparkly, and special. An illustration for an article about a boy that gets a concussion which leads to a sort of enlightenment about himself and his place in his family. Typographic ads for Avis.

Join AAFUtah as I walk through my process, share stories from projects like my work on Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, and give plenty of helpful tips on how to better your analog and vector skills. Tickets on…. Airbnb hosts design talks in their beautiful space. Check in will start at 6pm and promptly end at pm in order to start the program.

They will not be able to accommodate any walk-ins. Title links to RSVP. Collision is an enormous conference with over speakers including CEOs from top companies, captains of industry in tech, and influencery artist folks like yours truly. I mean Al Gore is also speaking. LetterWest is an incredibly intimate event spearheaded by Becca Classon in which forty attendees and the speakers share time in a collective space in Utah—the speakers giving talks or workshops.

Target contacted both myself and Erik Marinovich to letter tag lines that would be used in an internal presentation to some important Target partners. Book cover design for a book about how to be a budget savvy mom without making too many sacrifices along the way. And Ed, the manager of the space, kept the scotch flowing freely which made for an interesting night. These were all over New York and super fun to see in person! For this gift card, I was asked to create a design that looks like a vintage tourism postcard.

We used a bright color palette to keep the art fresh and modern and the design was created in English, Spanish, and French. Lettering for a t-shirt and other potential applications for this awesome Brooklyn-based letterpress shop.

Fellow ADC Young Guns and general awesome designer dudes Dan Covert and Andre Adreev commissioned me to do a bit of lettering for their site and general studio branding. It was a total pleasure working them, here's the lettering in and out of context. Typographic patterns to be used for wrapping paper, cards, wallpaper, anything really.

I'm working on several other holidays currently. Lecture and round-table discussion with Washington University students within the illustration and design departments. Single-track conference with eight talks, carefully curated to excite, enthuse, and seek outcomes, affordable half-day workshops covering web typography, responsive design, prototyping and much more, and two floors of epic after—party action.

The HOW Conference is a massive annual conference that shifts location each year. I participated in the conference in Chicago. Title type and headline type for an article about The Real Housewives of Atlanta. The title type is made up of illustrated rhinestones. This project was SO fun! Pro-Bono lettering and illustrative patterns for a gala announcement to help raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

A hand-lettered and letterpressed baby announcement for my friend John Hendrix and his wife Andrea. Tiny type is set in the typeface Coquette by Mark Simonson. Sarah Parmenter is one of my favorite ladies. When she asked me if I could help create a pattern to use on her iOS workshop site, I jumped at the chance.

She owes me fancy drinks for life. But not really. Love you, Sarah! Hear that honking sound? Mark your calendar for November 4, 5 and 6 and plan to join us in Two Rivers for our annual type conference. The artwork is meant to look like cut paper but is actually vector illustration.