Know Your Artist: Jessica Hische

[jesse_the_k]

In 2nd grade art class, we were tasked with "draw anything you like." I made an uppercase letter A. The teacher complained, "that isn't art." With my typical modesty, I claimed "Yes it is!"

I adore letters, and I was so lucky to stumble on an artist who makes my heart sing. An expert with letterforms in any medium, Jessica Hische is awesome ... and she's not shy about it

http://jessicahische.is/awesome

is an overview of her many, many talents. (Yes, she's playing with the best Iceland TLD marketing hack I've ever seen.) Projects include fine and graphic arts in lithography, packaging, the web, and letterpress (my fave right now is her year-long "Drop Cap A Day" project). She's tweetable at jessicahische

Want resources? Here's her exquisitely useful list for those letter lovers, whether hand-drawn, letterpress, digital or web font.

http://jessicahische.is/heretohelp

Want to know more about web basics but not the coding details?

http://www.dontfeartheinternet.com

It's a free site that steps web-naive designers through enough HTML & CSS to understand initial constraints