Andrea Zambrano

Digital Media

Professor Beaur

10 May 2016

Jessica Hische: The Master Behind Lettering

A graphic artist that has influenced me through my years of school has been

Jessica Hische. From my first semester until now, she has been a huge inspiration in what

I would like to achieve for myself as my career develops. Something that I would like to

begin to do is create my own lettering as well as illustrations.

She is one extraordinary creator at what she does. Jessica Hische is an American

letterer, illustrator, and type designer. Luckily, she is one of the most wanted female

designers by many different companies because of her awesome creations. Hische grew

up in Pennsylvania where she fell in love with the field during her first two years of high

school. Thankfully her parents were very supportive of the idea and her teachers were

interested in her talent as well. She went to college and graduated in year 2006 and was

shortly hired as a freelance designer. Later on that year, she departed from there and left

to work in Brooklyn with one of her idols.

Hische has been a letterer, illustrator, type designer, ever since 2009. She has

worked for many popular companies! Some of her clients include Wes Anderson and

Penguin Books. She spends her time coming back and forth from Brooklyn to San

Francisco. San Francisco is the place she calls home because she has a collaborative

studio and workshop space with long time friend Erik Marinovich. Besides working on

her important projects and designs. She now spends her time going to a speaking

engagements where she talks about her work and her upcoming ideas. She now has an

upcoming event around states in the United States. Aside from her being an alcoholic, she

is married and has a daughter with him as well.

Jessica Hische is also know for her site called the “Daily Drop Cap” where she

posts the different alphabets she has created. There are plenty of styles that she has

created by hand, her designs are fun and modern. She also did a book. She published "In

Progress: See Inside a Lettering Artist's Sketchbook and Process, from Pencil to Vector"

in September 2015, which gives insight to her creative process and work she has

completed as a hand lettering artist. Hische is just an awesome human being with a great

creative mind and my idol.

JESSICA HISCHE ARTWORK EXAMPLES

Links

1) http://jessicahische.is 2) http://www.dailydropcap.com 3) http://methodandcraft.com/interviews/jessica-hische 4)