Hello there! My name is Tais, I'm a graphic designer from Rio, Brazil living in San Francisco since September 2012.

When I enrolled for this class I was very excited to learn from Jessica Hisch and to develop a single letter in the form of a drop cap. But once I started, I saw the opportunity to develop an anniversary gift to my husband to celebrate our 4 years of marriage. So, instead of designing a single letter, I thought, why not a number? That's why I decided to develop the "drop cap" 4 and later finalize it as a poster as my first lettering project, made with tons of love.

Here are my initial sketches.

4 year Anniversary, with love. - image 1 - student project

4 year Anniversary, with love. - image 2 - student project

4 year Anniversary, with love. - image 3 - student project

Once I got to the idea I liked the most (the one on the right with the heart and the arrow) I worked on it on Illustrator

4 year Anniversary, with love. - image 4 - student project

And then started to work on the poster:

4 year Anniversary, with love. - image 5 - student project

4 year Anniversary, with love. - image 6 - student project

4 year Anniversary, with love. - image 7 - student project

My husband has already seen it, but I haven't self-critiqued yet, so any feedback would be very appreciated. :)

APR 2014

I've made new studies and I guess shape improvements and also worked on the 3D aspect I sketched before.

4 year Anniversary, with love. - image 8 - student project

4 year Anniversary, with love. - image 9 - student project

I really like this new version, and soon I'll come back with color studies (not sure the black background would still work) and new ideas for the inside ornaments.

Tais Horta Trovao

Graphic Designer

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