Helen Lee: Inspiration

Last year we had a visiting artist named Helen Lee come and talk to us about glass blowing and how she went through a stream of processes and materials all inspiring one another, until she had a font created from glass.  I have thought about her a lot this year and am especially thinking of her now as we create our own typefaces.  I love the idea of using a certain medium and it's attributes to create a typeface.  It adds the personality of the material and can lead to many further experiements, such as Helen did when she used her font on glass business cards.  I think she's so cool.