If ever there was a goddess of type …

 
This would be she.
 
In the German promotional movie Write here, right now, which was made to promote legal graffiti walls, Gemma O’Brien aka Mrs Eaves was set into the world of type stardom with her hand-drawn-type covered body. After this campaign, the FontShop invited her TYPO 2009, the 14th European Design Conference in Berlin, where she spoke and then did some more body art for this video.
 
I love the concept and execution of the movie. I think it does a great job of showing just how much she loves type. I found this video though simple searching of type sketches that people have made since lately I have been doodling a lot in my various sketchbooks. It also made me realize that over the past few years of sketching type and letterforms that I have become so much more aware of movement throughout letterforms and type.
 
It’s also made me realize what makes being a type nerd so great: you can sketch until your heart’s content and have some really great drawings without actually knowing how to draw. At first, it’s the non-artists art form in a sense. It can be flowy and ornate or solid and ridged, but it still is a letterform that basically everyone knows how to draw at first. But like anything else, the further along you go, you start to see that it really is an art form once you leave the beaten path and begin to explore and accentuate lines and curves or terminals and spurs.
 
Who knows? Maybe one day I will be good enough at sketching letterforms that I’ll have the confidence to draw them out on my body. If only I was as sexy as Ms O’Brien.