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Michael Doret
Lettering Artist and Illustrator
www.michaeldoret.com
A graduate of the Cooper Union, Michael has run his own design studio for
many years - first in New York City - and currently in Hollywood. An eight
time winner of the New York Art Directors Club Silver Award, Michael is a
specialist in logos and letterforms. His unique typographic vision blends
elements of lettering, illustration and graphic design. The inspiration for
his work has come from such diverse sources as matchbook covers, theater
marquees, enamel signs, early and mid-20th century packaging, and various
other artifacts of this great land of ours. Although for much of his career
he executed his work in traditional media, he now works almost exclusively
in a digital format.
Among the projects he is most proud of he lists the six covers he executed
for Time Magazine (the artwork of two of which have been included in the
permanent collection of The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC),
the logos he designed for the New York Knicks and the Graphic Artists Guild,
the Federal Eagle postage he designed for the United States Postal Service
and the 3D "Bedlam Ballroom" CD package project for the "Squirrel Nut
Zippers" which was nominated for a Grammy for Best Recording Package at the
44th Annual GRAMMY Awards.
After assiduously avoiding font design for many years, Michael recently
confronted this challenge head-on. His first effort, called "Orion" (named
for the distinctive Winter constellation) is now available for purchase.
Click here to see a sample of "Orion" on his website. In addition to working on his own font designs, he is now available for custom font work as well.
MICHAEL DORET'S ALPHABET SOUP
Way before he became the 96 pt. all caps MICHAEL DORET he is today, Michael
was once once the diminutive 6 pt. lowercase little mikey, growing up in
Brooklyn, NY. So how were the wheels set in motion that pushed the little
runt of a kid onto the road to becoming the "Master of Letterforms" he is
today, you might ask?
Was it the many times he sat and played with his food,
a bowl of alphabet soup whose swirling letters held him transfixed-until his
mother swatted him upside the head, snapping him out of his
hieroglyph-induced haze? Was it the side of the Good Humor truck with it's
frosty highlighted letters and huge beckoning chocolate-covered vanilla pop
forever cementing the association in his mind between sweet confections and
graphic constructions? Or was it his proximity to the fabulous and iconic
Coney Island and it's Steeplechase, being just a bike ride away from this
land of dreams and of nightmares, whose raucous signs, vivid colors and
screaming graphics were forever etched into his young and impressionable
mind?
Well...yes, yes, and yes! Michael freely admits to being hopelessly in
love with letterforms. Not just flush left, caps and small caps letterforms,
but big colorful expressive letterforms, ones that can twist and turn, and
that have a point of view and aren't just a transparent medium to convey a
message, but ARE a message unto themselves.
So please click on Michael's link above and step into his world-check out
the design work he's created for his clients over the years. It's all done
with the same set of eyes that were transfixed by the Good Humor sign and by
all the other wonderful graphics of days gone by. Michael hopes to share
with everyone that sense of excitement in letterform and color that he grew
up with, and to try to mesmerize you all the way he was by that bowl of
alphabet soup.
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