Our latest design inspiration comes from Elaine Chernov. Elaine has a BFA in Visual Communication from Long Beach State and is currently working as an Art Director at a small ad agency in Chicago, as well as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer.
Born in the Soviet Union, raised in Los Angeles, and currently loving Chicago, Elaine also has a passion for travel. Her most recent trip was to Thailand, where she found inspiration in the written language.
When you look at the characters of a completely foreign language, especially one as ornate as Thai, all you notice is form, line weight, and relationships. It’s the kind of total blindness that made me just stare at all the signs, applying the same type-sensitive eye I would to a romance alphabet but without any bias towards connotation. It’s an exercise in pure typography.
Elaine shares her favorites below, but definitely check out the full set on Flickr for more Thai-pography goodness.
