Professional Spotlight

Mark Caneso Swashes Surfside

Mark Caneso Swashes Surfside

Originally from Southern California, Mark Canesco graduated from Otis College of Art and Design in 2004 and then started a hybrid business after school. He is currently living in Oahu, Hawaii and freelances with some agencies and has his own clients. He also runs a digital type lab—ps.Type—which offers custom type design and retail products.

Sara Pastrana Mends Curse Words

Sara Pastrana Mends Curse Words

Sara Pastrana works as a senior designer for a non-profit in Santa Monica designing publications and create branding for events. She enjoys working at her "regular" job during the week where my designs are to fit within a defined structure. And then she works on her personal design projects that combine both craft and design where she's free to go as far as her imagination can go. And, far, she does go.

David Jonathan Ross Loves Contrast

David Jonathan Ross Loves Contrast

David Jonathan Ross works at digital type studio The Font Bureau, where he draws letters of all shapes and sizes for custom and retail typeface designs. From reversed stress slab serifs of the 19th century to Art Deco sans serifs of the 20th, he ransacks forgotten and pigeonholed lettering styles and searches for new approaches to the same old alphabet. He shares with us about his beginnings and some scans of Rob Roy Kelly's American Wood Type.

The Calligraphic Stylings of Kourosh Beigpour

The Calligraphic Stylings of Kourosh Beigpour

Kourosh Beigpour received his Bachelor's in Art at the University of Tehran, and his Master's in Malaysia, where he worked on Persian-Arabic font design and generated new fonts based on manuscript. We were inspired by his beautiful posters and asked him to share them with us.