What is a line project update.

Well, I have done some work for this project (honest Amber!). I have been heavily influenced by an excellent book: 'Playful type' that I just knew I had to buy as soon as I picked it up. I was meaning to post up some of my fave works from the book, but its actually difficult because I like the whole lot! So I will just link to amazon and say this is a MUST buy if you are into hand made and creative letter forms. (its also now cheaper than when I bought it grrr)

Anyway moving on. This is a piece I created the other week that I have just got round to finishing in photoshop today. Its pretty self explanatory, I was playing around with string and drawing pins to use as a continuous line to spell out words, I have gone for an extreme high contrast black and white style to highlight the stringiness and take out the background, (well I know what I meant)

Not all the letters are very clear because of the joined up style with the 'A's being the biggest problem but it was only ever a test piece and I have since moved on so something which I think is going to be far better.

Finally, 

This is by far the best thing I have seen today: This guy is making a series of musicians portraits out of just unwound cassette tape, I dont know if he has a web site but he seems to be putting them all up onto his flikr account. Bod Dylan is my fave so far.

Found here