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That's his old man's 32. It won the TJJ award at the RoundUp a few years back. Essentially, Andy is a member of the first family of modern American design. Hero. Sent from my iPhone using H.A.M.B.
I have been a fan of House Ind. for many many years. Their fonts are the best, I wish I could afford them now,(I convinced my old employer who important they were,, for RV's lol)
I really LOVE the House Industries font designs, but unfortunately I am not a "target customer". I have little, if any, need for digitized templates for electronic graphic design. Just got off the phone with them and they do not offer printed reference materials, only digitized templates. That being said, I would love to have some printed reference, similar to a Speedball Lettering book, of some of the House Industries fonts. Would anyone here be willing to provide reference printouts of a few House Industries fonts? If so, please contact me by "conversation" or email.
Awsome display . In Florida ,I painted names on a lot of customs,hot rods an just mild cars in the late 1950s an in to the 60s. Old English style was asked for by most times for cars,some time actsented with extra color. I also pinstriped an did T-shirts. My art name was "The Bat" out of hell. Most T-shirts I used bubble letter style on,it was fast an with some shadow stood out well with all the other stuff going on,monster an wild cool car. Bubble lettering could wrap over or around,and still read, Time for each shirt at a show between 8 to 12 min. including asking about car an name to put on stirt,some times on monster I would draw glasss or the hat the owner had on. But if I didn't have gays an gals standing around looking an wanting a shirt,I would take longer to complete. Hindsite on my part is,I should of stopped doing one off art on every shirt,an gone to pre 3/4+ done silkscreens,an just throw a name,little color on an get the $$. At the time that seem to be a cop out on my art too me!
Lots of people don't understand the Art involved in any sort of design work where the goal is an end result that's pleasing to the eye. Think of how Chip Foose or Dave Kendig can take a ratted out pile of junk and turn it into something really nice, and compare that to some of the other TV clowns who can start with a new $250,000 Ferrari and by the time they finish with the "wrap" on the exterior and some "custom" work on the interior, they end up with some garish pile of crap that looks like the clown car at a hog calling festival.
When I was working at WDRQ-FM in Detroit in 1972-1973 the Henry Ford Museum was my "home-away-from-home" ! Was there at least twice a month...you couldn't see everything at one time, and the cool stuff that you'd seen before kept calling you back to see it again! Wish I was able to get there to see THIS Exhibit ! It looks amazingly-awesome...and the work House Industries does (creates) is always spot-on-perfect ! PS: While you're there, make sure you visit Greenfield Village too. It is a pure "Time Travel Trip" into early-Americana that will blow your mind ! Jonnie www.legends.thewwbc.net
I've been a big fan and supporter of House Industries since their early days (I've still got my Sign Painter fonts on floppy disks!), and I pretty much loved everything they did until they veered off into selling bicycle clothing, housewares and ceramics (although I didn't mind them selling hot rod and pinstriping t-shirts... double-standard... go figure ). Damn talented group of people.
House Ind. pretty much rules. If you are in the know or dig deep enough you will find how widespread their work is with designers
Yeah and prominently featured too.......from the photos here: http://autoweek.com/article/wait-theres-more/house-industries-invades-henry-ford-museum
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