Projects

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Chicago Printers Guild

United by my logo.

The Guild unites printers of all types to discuss secrets of the trade, networking and collaboration. I am honored to represent the best printers in town with my logo. It was democratically voted on by my peers, for my peers.

The mark is a nod to the Chicago Fire Department.

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Modern Mess

Another font made from shapes

There are a ton of these types of fonts out there. Someone has probably already made this one. Modern Mess is modular type not meant for traditional typesetting involving margins, leading or kerning. It’s about having fun with alignments, color, and space.

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Diet Strychnine

2.0

Check out the new site I designed for my friends over at Diet Strychnine. It’s a simple journey but an expansive concept. Over time the thumbnail nav will fill the screen.

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Trouble in Paradise

Pristine suburban homes and cars

As a continuation of my “Suburbia Series,” I bring you “Trouble in Paradise.” I spent a lot of hours overworking the gradient tool to make these uncomfortable, stock-looking scenes. It just makes me laugh.

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Bites

Letterpress & Graphite

This is a sample of letterpress and graphite studies I have been working on for the past month. It’s a combination of blind embossed shapes and hand-rendered forms and shading. The first explorations were shown at a letterpress art and design show I curated called Bite.

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The Tary

Rotary Reclaimed

The other day I was illustrating cell phones for a client and started designing concept phones for myself. Here is my pitch to the world for an ultra-hip, retro rotary cell phone called the Tary. I know rotary iphone apps exist and I think nokia actually built something similar to this but retained other common cell phone features. This is simple, call in and call out. done. no address books or mp3 players or apps that let you pour beer out for a homie. They would be relatively inexpensive and a warm return to simple times. If you would like to manufacture this wicked phone email me, info@alexfuller.com.

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Growing

The Academy for Global Citizenship

“The Academy for Global Citizenship is a unique Chicago Public Contract School, located on the Southwest side of Chicago. Our mission is ambitious yet simple: to empower and nurture children with a broader understanding of the world around them and the positive role they can play in it.”

I originally created this type treatment, with a slightly different orientation, for a benefit in the form of a poster. Now it is being applied to bags, bottles and other marketing devices to further the school’s mission. I love promoting concepts like The Academy no matter what form they take.

The typeface is Knockout by Hoefler & Frere-Jones.

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Local Paint

San Juan to El Yunque

I recently returned from a trip to the beautiful island of Puerto Rico. Warm sun, water and color everywhere. I quickly became obsessed with capturing as much of the local paint as possible. Wonderful combinations, weathering and texture. A true reflection of the island and culture.

Now I am fascinated by a possible cultural connection between house paint and geography. I grew up in a muted suburban development where home owners seemingly competed for “most likely to recede.” Zing.

Blogged at Colour Lovers

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Mmmm

mmmmmmmmmmm

What do all these foods have in common? One ingredient…

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The Highlights

Of Highlighters

Here is a little design exploration I did for some popular highlighter markers. I had a little too much fun setting type and playing with neons. Oh, the life of a designer.

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