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This is my own hand

Listen… aha! There’s one! But what does it look like? Why are they saying that? Just start drawing – let’s see what shapes my pen creates, and go with it…

Some of my earliest visual thoughts come from keynotes at education-related conferences. I would try to zone in and capture just one thought the speaker was trying to illuminate. Then sketch, create and tweet the image before the speaker has finished. So it made sense to experiment with creating a font of my own hand, dipping my tow in the ocean of Typography…

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