LOVE | Private Commission
Private Illustrated Lettering Commission
project background
In August 2016 my good friends, Lauren and Filipe Vilitati, surprised everyone with a secret wedding celebration in Fitzroy North, Melbourne. LOVE is a private illustrated lettering commission.
DESIGN CONCEPT
The idea behind the illustration is combining Australian (Lauren’s background) and Fijian (Filipe’s background) native flora and fauna to build the LOVE message. The artwork features rosella birds, waratah, birds of paradise and hibiscus flowers.
A rosella is one of six species of colourful Australian parrots. Rosellas are native to Australia and nearby islands. Male and female always travel together and they enjoy bathing in puddles of water in the wild.
LOVE is my third typeface design. I first drew the lettering “absinthe” for an illustrated cocktail artwork featuring the classic French drink. A year later, thanks to the project @36daysoftype I found the motivation and most importantly, the deadline to push the rest of the twenty-six letters out there.
In May 2017, I released Green Fairy commercially at MyFonts. Currently the font is distributed at Adobe Fonts and Type-Ø-Tones font foundries.
ARTWORK info
Final artwork size: 120 x 65 cm
Paper stock: Moulin Du Gue 270gsm
Pens: Rotring Rapidograph, Posca marker and Pentel Touch brush pens
Services
Lettering design
Illustration
