New Website up!!!!!!

Hi Everyone, My new website launched today. Check it out!! http://jessicahische.com ! I'll no longer be blogging on this site, so please RSS the new blog on jessicahische.com for further blogging goodness. Woooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

Where have I been?

Hi everyone. I haven't posted to the blog in a while because Daily Drop Cap and freelance projects have been keeping me busy...but what's been keeping me MOST busy is working on the redesign of my site. It's launching next week, I will post again the day it goes live and it will be my final post on this blog site as I'm integrating a blog into my new site (but will keep this live so people can dig through the older posts). GET READY!!!

Above: Procrastination documented. You may have noticed I haven't updated the blog with new work in a while (aside from the Daily Drop Cap project). I've had a good deal of this-won't-go-live-for-months-and-months-so-don't-put-it-on-your-blog work that I should be able to put up soon(ish). I've also been working on my new website, which should launch as soon as I can get all of my content together (lots and lots of new stuff!). You web people will be thrilled that there won't be even a tiny bit of flash left in the site, all the thumbnails will be replaced by html navigation and I'll even have my own CMS so I can actually update it more than once a year. I'll be integrating this blog into the new site (though probably keeping the blogspot site up for the bookmarkers) and I am really excited about everything. My new studiomate Cameron of Fictive Kin has been working with his team of internet geniui (plural genius) to build the site for me. If I could fabricate a "You are effing awesome" trophy for him, I would.

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Check out this AWESOME application of my Daily Dropcap project!! Thanks so much to Bebel of São Paolo for making my month. And Happy Birthday!! Make sure to check out the cakemaster who created it!

oy oh Boy! I have a new type endeavor! Check out Daily Drop Cap! An illustrative initial every day. This is going to be a really fun project that I hope can evolve into a lot of different applications. But for now, prettify the internet! Anyway, I'm very excited about this project and excited to see how people end up using the caps!

Free(lance)dom

Hi Everyone,
Very exciting news: Tomorrow is my last day as Senior Designer at Louise Fili Ltd. In December of 2006, I sent Louise an illustration promo, not because I thought I would get any work out of it, but because I admired her work and wanted her to have one. That promo landed me an interview, which turned into a job offer — a job that has basically changed my life. Working for Louise has been truly wonderful. I've learned more in my two and a half years here than I would have learned in fifteen years anywhere else. She has really helped me grow as a designer (especially as a typographer!) and as a person, supplying many pastries along the way. I feel so lucky that I was able to learn under a true legend of the graphic design field, whose talent and professionalism is only surpassed by her generosity and kindness. I will certainly miss being a part of this tiny office, but am very excited for what is to come. I'll be devoting myself full-time to my freelance type, illustration, and design career (which has essentially been a second full-time job for the past few years), as well as working on self-authored projects (fonts, posters, letterpress, stationery, etc.) and getting A LOT more sleep. Replacing me at Louise Fili Ltd is Cardon Webb of cardoncopy.com and cardondesign.com.

I just finished letterpressing these posters, which are now for sale as an edition of 250, each signed and editioned. They are $100 each + $10 shipping and handling + tax. The print is 3 color and depicts a viney alphabet in black, orange, and green. They were printed with boxcar plates on Crane's Lettra 110lb paper on a Vandercook #4 at The Arm in Williamsburg. The dimensions are approx 12.5" x 18" (12.625" x 17.875" to be exact).