Electric Sheep

Five things from this week

Mar 08, 2024

1:

I finished my font! Say hello to Electric Sheep.

The name of the font is inspired by Philip K. Dick’s book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Rick Deckard had an electric sheep and now you can have one, too.

Download the font!

The button will allow you to download the “electric-sheep.ttf” file. Here are links explaining how to install a font: Mac / Windows.

It doesn’t have every character but I made the “®” symbol into a sheep so hopefully that makes up for it.

Have fun! Let me know what you think.

2:

I’m working on a type specimen zine for Electric Sheep.

The specimen will showcase different aspects of the font and allow someone to buy the zine from me and get a font (or buy the font and get a zine).

If you’re unfamiliar with type specimens this is a good (and very cool) place to start.

3:

Later this month I’m going to an art book fair in Boston. I was digging through my archives looking for things to bring and I found some daily zines I made back in October.

I wanted to capture the day in little moments. I thought, “It would be great to do this every single day!”

That enthusiasm lasted one more day.

4:

Seth Werkheiser over at SOCIAL MEDIA ESCAPE CLUB posted this and it reminded me of a bumper sticker I saw that said, “Born to chill, forced to work.”

Now that we all have to fight algorithms that bumper sticker could say, "Born to create, forced to generate content."

Some other phrases I’ve been kicking around:

Born to make art, forced to feed algorithms.
Born to share, forced to sell.
Born to make, forced to monetize.
Born to create, forced to crosspost.

5:

Liana Finck’s new book You Broke It! is VERY good. It’s a humbling reminder that I used to be a kid and I can’t believe how fast I forgot.

Liana Finck and Demetri Martin are the only two people who live in an exclusive part of my brain labeled, “Able to make me laugh out loud by drawing a couple lines.”

P.S. Liana Finck’s weekly comics newsletter is great.