Support Independent Typeface Design
The typeface Bushwick was conceived of about a year and a half ago after a day of documenting signage, murals and graffiti around St. Nicholas Avenue and Jefferson Street. The letterforms that I started drawing soon after that day evolved into the first iteration of Bushwick the typeface. Currently, I’m about halfway through the lengthy design process and I need your help to finish the typeface in classic DIY fashion, without client or commercial limitations and purely for the love of designing typography.
Independent typeface design is a process that requires two things: time and proper funding. With your contribution, you will help us finish the expanded version of Bushwick the typeface executed completely independently of commercial limitations.
I've set the funding goal at $7,000, but as any artist or designer who works on self-initiated projects can tell you, it is not only project expenses that one has to cover but also living expenses, so I hope that we go well beyond conservative goal that I've set. Below you can take a look at some of the expenses necessary for about six months of work dedicated exclusively to this project.
Here's the t-shirt:
Pablo Medina has an BFA in drawing and a MS in communication design from Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute. Fresh out of grad school he set out to infuse the design world with his typeface designs that drew from his love of Latin-American popular culture. In 1999, his work was exhibited at the prestigious Design Triennial exhibition at the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt Museum. He is also a recipient of the Art Directors Club Young Gun award. He has taught art and design at Parsons School of Design, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and at California College of the Arts (CCA). He now runs his own studio called Design is Culture based in Bushwick, Brooklyn (www.designisculture.com).