Henzel Design Blog

The design behind Greece 2004 was truly inspired. Not just in the pictograms, but in all the iconography and graphic design used throughout the Athens games of that year. Happy to say I saw it first hand!

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Happy 20th Birthday Photoshop

February 23rd, 2010

I’ve been there since the beginning. (1.0.7, 2.5, 5.0, 7.0, CS2, CS4). It’s been a creative ride!

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Early last year, the website revision project for Diversionary Theatre was completed. The site takes full advantage of CSS and Javascripting. This content rich site will be using CMS in the next phase. We gave client access to their own updates. However, we continually offer maintenance, upkeep and content updates.

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A Dozen Chickens Day 6 of 12

September 12th, 2009

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A Dozen Chickens Day 5 of 12

September 12th, 2009


Sweet AND Sour? No, he was just sweet.

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A Dozen Chickens Day 4 of 12

August 30th, 2009

Fly the coop! Looking forward to a flight, myself.

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A Dozen Chickens Day 3 of 12

August 24th, 2009
Ooh look! Something shiney!

Ooh look! Something shiney!

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A Dozen Chickens Day 2 of 12

August 22nd, 2009
The Chicken or the Egg?

The Chicken or the Egg?

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A Dozen Chickens Day 1 of 12

August 21st, 2009
Clyde was a chicken!

Clyde was a chicken!

Here is another challenge my design partner and I are embarking upon: A Dozen Chickens. Why? Maybe it was the liquid lunch talking.

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Font Nerd Friday v.7 Revealed

February 22nd, 2009

The font evolved from the lettering used for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Baily Circus logo is Modesto developed by Jim Parkinson. See the original post here. Congratulations to MikeRDzign for naming it!

Modesto can be purchased from MyFonts. From Parkinson’s site:

Modesto is based on a signpainters lettering style popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. It evolved from the lettering I used for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Baily Circus Logo.

From MyFonts:

Modesto is based on a hand-lettering style that Parkinson often used in the ’60s and ’70s for ads, book covers and posters.“It was my fall-back position, hand-lettering-wise. It was easy and readily accepted,” says Parkinson. Eventually, it became the Ringling Bros logo, which, in turn, became the Modesto type family. Its classic forms and small serifs recall Goudy’s Copperplate Gothic, although it’s more fancy in its details. Modesto Text has an idiosyncratic lowercase alphabet, the Initials font has a gorgeous outline and the Open Caps have distinctive inlines.