Artist Spotlight: Jude Landry

While I've featured artists on my blog before, this is my first official artist spotlight post! Today I want to introduce to the work of Jude Landry.

Jude Landry does graphic design, illustration, and lettering quite well. I heard about his work first through seeing his "You're Just My Type" poster featured on FPO, and that poster is pretty cool. The typography is custom done in an font he designed.

I like the way the letters are laid out on an angle—that makes it more interesting. The print process was also interesting to read about. He used silver ink screenprinted on dark paper.

Another poster he designed using a similar technique is this one for a Jessica Hische lecture. I love the pretty, ornate J. It's kind of like Jessica Hische's own work which was intentional - it says on Jude Landry's site that the letter was inspired by Jessica Hische's drop cap designs.

I love how simple and striking the design is. The J takes center stage, but the text is still prominent because there aren't a lot of competing elements in the design. The two color look makes it really eye-catching.

Another poster I like a lot is "Do You? Recycle." It's a different style from the first two, but it still has that simple, striking quality of design which is hard to achieve.

I like how he took the recycling symbol and reconfigured it into a question mark—very cool idea. It's also worth noting that this was designed back in 2008. I think it's admirable when designers have work over a span of several years that remains good.

And Jude Landry has also done some music-oriented stuff, which I really like. Band items and album covers are some of my favorite graphic design items. Here's a custom type t-shirt that he did for a band called Otis Ockley.

The typography is neat—I like seeing custom type that's not a swirly script font. Although those are great, it's good to remember that custom type is not limited to that style.

And here's the CD packaging for a bluegrass band called Nash Street. I love album covers, and this one is excellent. Great colors and style.

I like the way this has a collage, scrapbook kind of style to it while still looking cool and band-like. It's warm and inviting, but not warm and fuzzy (if you know what I mean).

All in all, from what I've seen of his work, Jude Landry is a versatile and good designer. He's one of many whose work I enjoy seeing. What do you think of his work?