This is a collection of self-initiated lettering projects. Whether it’s just drawing decorative characters or using a laser cutter to create a sculpture, I really enjoy exploring materials and styles with lettering.

My band, The BenYays, plays gigs every so often around Denton. To promote the shows, I build a square graphic to use on social media. I've taken this as an opportunity to explore different approaches to design and typography, and I think they're a fun series.

To launch our company, Landry Print Co., I designed our first collection of products around a custom ampersand. The collection includes a t-shirt, an enamel pin, 2 temporary tattoos, a sketch book, and an 11 x 14 inch screen print. 

This is a collection of art prints I have designed and screen printed over several years. They range in content, colors, and styles but are all 18 x 24 inches in size. From top to bottom: Octopus Vulgaris, E Pluribus Unum, King of Beers, Bottoms Up!, Denton Courthouse 1, Denton Courthouse 2, Vinylcycle, and Louisiana Egret.

This is a collection of various illustrations I’ve created for personal use.

A collection of various event posters created between 2007 and 2010.

This collection represents a 50 day creative project. I discovered that the Merriam-Webster website releases a “Word of the Day” through its social media accounts. As a person interested in lettering, this seemed like the perfect content for me. For 50 straight days, I created a customized type treatment for the word of the day. Here you can see a poster and some of my favorite results from the project.

In order to facilitate a speedy methodology, I set many restrictions for myself. No typefaces could be used; each letter would be drawn from scratch. I only used the color black. Each word would have to be finished that day, and I would try to spend one to two hours per word. I tried my best to not repeat the type styles. Sometimes, if a word lent itself to a conceptual treatment, I would attempt it. Many days though, I simply pursued a typographic design that I wanted to try, without regard for what the word meant. Planning a daily creative project, and actually sticking to it, was a very rewarding endeavor. The daily work expanded my vocabulary as well as my lettering abilities.

I designed and screen printed this poster to promote the 2013 Prairie Arts Festival in West Point, Mississippi.