After seeing his personal work on Friday night, I was able to see his strong passion for the work that he does. Although I have already seen the majority of the work that was already shown during this event, I was just as excited to see his work as I was the first time around. He mentioned that he started to see letters all around him that resembled letterforms: Band-aids, for example. His typeface design based on band-aids turned out bad, but as mentioned by him and any other graphic design professors I've had up until this point...you must have your fair share of failures because it is through those mistakes that will be used as a reminder to you as to what NOT to do when you come across the same scenario. Back in his studio in London, he was able to see a potential typeface design from chair that resembled the lowercase letter h. He created the entire alphabet with similar characteristics as the chair and it became pretty successful. He also came up with the idea of creating the typographic furniture for UCLA, and had put together a video for UCLA extension recently, but the video was actually taken at CSULB with CSULB students, not UCLA students
