Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art

OCTOBER 30, 2013

This is a bit of a jump from my previous post 'Cheetah chase' (more on that later). Below you can see a detailed rough of the next animal painting to go with my recent series of work. I've decided to call him Captain Ratbeard, his long beard is braided but unlike Blackbeard it's not smouldering - I didn't think his hairs would stay lit in such a terrible sea storm.

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Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

OCTOBER 28, 2013

What makes a good web font? Before we wrote the first line of code for Cloud.typography , or lit the first pixel of our first ScreenSmart font, we began the search for a solution to this riddle. The answers are unexpected: a good web font is more than just legible, and more than just attractive, and some provocative solutions come from some unexpected places.

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Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art

OCTOBER 25, 2013

I took this photo on my mobile a couple of days ago. I'm now close to finishing but I have to wait until Monday before I'm back in my studio rummaging in my drawers for gouache paints. *Frustration*.

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Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

OCTOBER 21, 2013

“I never wanted to draw typefaces, I wanted to have typefaces.” I found myself uttering these words to a filmmaker this past spring, who shared them first with an audience of design luminaries , and then with the entire internet. It’s a strange sentiment, but one that’s familiar to anyone who makes things: as a designer, I couldn’t find the tools I needed, so I made my own.

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Speaker: Amber Asay, Creative Director and Founder of award-winning design studio Nice People

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Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art

OCTOBER 15, 2013

No I'm not having 'an episode', it's the detailed rough for my next watercolour painting which I developed using my perfectly 'rational imagination'.

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Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art

OCTOBER 13, 2013

My first house portrait completed, although it's not a private home but a boarding house instead. Cotton House is named after George Edward Lynch Cotton a well known victorian bishop and former headmaster of Marlborough College. Bishop Cotton left the college in 1858 to take up the office of Bishop of Calcutta, India. While in India, Bishop Cotton organised for shipments of clothing especially socks to be delivered to the poor Indian children he encountered on his travels.

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