Jessica Hische

Jessica Hische is a letterer/lettering artist, which I had no idea was even a thing until I watched this video. She started to get more recognized in the design world after she started her website dailydropcap.com, which is a website she created where she would create and post a single drop cap a day - just to make sure she was always creating and spending time with her craft. Hische hand draws her letter forms, scans them into illustrator and follows the sketch closely to create her final product. She owns Title Case with fellow typographic artisan Erik Marinovich in San Francisco. She is a lover of type and that is very apparent in her work. She emphasizes type knowledge and the importance and beauty of type when a designer gets it right. Overall, she seems like the coolest of the cool and since watching this video, I bought her book In Progress and have been dabbling more in creating my own alphabets and letterforms.