More Ampersands!

These beautiful ampersand earrings arrived a few days ago. I love earrings and I love ampersands so this seems to a perfect kind of jewellery for me!

I got them from Etsy.

Font Aid IV: Ampersand

"The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) is proud to announce the release of “Coming Together”, a font created exclusively for Font Aid IV to benefit the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti. The font consists entirely of ampersands, to represent the idea of people coming together to help one another. Type designers, graphic designers, and other artists from around the world contributed artwork to the font." (and more about where to get the font from: http://www.typesociety.org/fontaid.html)

I submitted three ampersands and I must say it feels really good to be a part of a project like this.

Here is my contribution:

I love ampersands, so I couldn't resist to create just one. I spend half a day drawing different forms that would incorporate the shape of heart in a very subtle way. That's what I ended up with:

You can find first sketches and full sized versions of my chosen ampersands here:

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Ampersand-Love/405328