Welcome

After many years of experience as a designer, illustrator and a letterer on a variety of well known brands in both packaging and corporate graphics, I am now specialising in Lettering, Logo and Typeface Design in its many forms.

I would like to thank Bruce Bennetts, Doyald Young, Mortimer Leach, Tom Carnase, Herb Lubalin, Toni DiSpigna, Maurice Schlesinger, Graham Wade and Phyllis Brown for the knowledge and skills that they have imparted through their work, books, teachings and work associations that live with me always. Also, a special thanks to my first primary school teacher Miss Dennis at Clovelly Public School, Sydney, who taught and inspired me how to write through her wonderful blackboard examples that began a love of lettering, design and typography. How fantastic to come into the classroom and see the blackboard adorned with horizontal and sloped chalk lines with beautifully drawn Caps and lower case letters in the Roundhand English Copperplate style. A wonderful teacher! I might also mention I loved drawing and was totally inspired by Australian illustrators, the late Keith Howland, Noel Stapleton, Patrick Russell, Wes Walters, Harry Rogers and Maurice Schlesinger in the fields of fashion, general work and posters for Qantas Airways. The late Morris Toohey was a great and humourous influence too.

The following portfolio exhibits an extensive variety of work executed for Design and Advertising agencies both here across all cities in Australia, Zurich, London, Hong Kong and New York.  Some ‘concept’ work can’t be shown for confidentiality reasons. The ‘Pencils’ section demonstrates how typical work is created. A very important stage!

I have also been doing added corporate work such as ‘Wordmarks’ some of which are included in the ‘Logos & Corporate’ section. The ‘Fonts’ section shows typefaces custom designed for clients as well as new typefaces ‘Libran’, ‘Rumo Script’ and ‘Waratah Gothic’ under the name of Bean & Morris for purchase from www.myfonts.com - these are part of a series of typefaces to be issued.

‘Get in touch’ includes contact details and my profile as well as ‘responses’ from my clients regarding work that I have done.

‘Other work’ contains an assortment of different items from design and artwork to some illustrative work and a sample of lettering from my archives rendered in brush and ink from around 1976. The influence of Lubalin & Carnase can be seen!

Keith Morris.