About ITC Daves Raves Volume
ITC Dave's Raves I, II and III contain 300 cheeky and charming spot illustrations created by David Sagorski. A Kansas-born designer who studied at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale before taking a job on the oil rigs of Texas and Louisiana, Sagorski recently returned to his first career choice as a typeface designer. He tried his hand at image fonts, he says, to demonstrate that not all typeface designers are unable to draw anything other than letters. “There's not a great deal of digital stuff out there in terms of clip art,” he adds. “So much of it is either bland and boring, or artsy-fartsy.” Sagorski draws his inspiration from an eclectic range of sources, including vintage clip art, Aztec figures, children's illustrations, and the styles and motifs used by Miro, Picasso and Van Gogh. The result is a motley collection of icons and creatures, from a 1950s robot to a dancing monkey. ITC Dave's Raves make a useful complement to various type-only designs or small pieces that would benefit from a little embellishment, as well as being the obvious accompaniment to ITC Snap and ITC Juice. |
