Jessica Hische
Lettering Artist & Author, Jessica Hische Inc.. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Jessica Hische is a lettering artist, designer, and author known for bespoke typography and logo design for clients like Penguin Books and Wes Anderson. She is also a bestselling author and illustrator of children's books.
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Everything Jessica Hische said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Heavy early brand investment is wasted money if a startup pivots
“And so if you invest super heavily on like the whole brand vision from the jump, sometimes it's like throwing away money if you have to pivot.”
Requiring a 500-page brand book signals an overly complicated brand identity
“I am of the mind that you shouldn't need like a 500 page brand book in order to direct the, how the brand is used moving forward. And that if you do, the brand might be quite complicated, you know, or there might be even just parts of the logo that make it dif…”
AI's novelty phase will harm illustration before becoming a useful tool
“I think overall it will become a tool and be very useful, especially in a lot of different fields. But I think this sort of time frame in which it's more novelty is gonna have kind of a not the best impact on things like illustration, but eventually we'll all …”
Product and team drive company culture, not logos
“Some people start a company and think the logo is going to drive the culture of the company, which I don't think that that is true. I think that, you know, like the product itself and the team you build and the people you put together are the thing that should…”
Custom typography prevents copycats from easily imitating a company's brand
“If you're using something that's available to everyone, the chances of someone else coming in and copying you are very easy and high. Like you might be one of these lucky companies that just out the gate is like outrageously successful, but with success comes …”
Jeni's Ice Cream logo required redesign because it looked like "penis"
“The one that came to mind immediately when you asked was when I did a refresh for Jenny's Ice Cream, which is a really, like, amazing ice cream brand based out of Columbus, Ohio, and they had a few utilitarian things in mind, like, they had this long J that Cr…”
Early-stage brands must prioritize instant logo legibility over abstract recognition
“You know, when you think about logos and things like that, you want it to be something that at a super fast glance, people can read it right away. You know, that doesn't mean that everything has to be simple, but it just means that everything has to be incredi…”
Adopting an industry's visual style immediately signals alignment with that sector
“What can sometimes happen is, like, some industry kind of usurps an entire style for a period of time. So then if you use anything within that style, it's like you're aligning yourself to that industry. And so that's why it's sort of important to, I mean, ever…”
Logos must be designed so non-expert team members can use them
“Like my goal always when designing a logo is to design a logo that's so easy to use that you don't have to be an extremely skilled designer to design well with it. Like that's my number one goal because I know not everybody is going to be at a stage where they…”
Brand identity matters most when repackaging commoditized or existing products
“They're taking a thing that is not innovative or isn't like, they're not the only ones doing it, but they're repackaging it in a way that takes that and makes it so accessible to so many people. In that case, brand can matter immensely, right? Where the brand …”
Highly homogeneous careers and daily routines rapidly accelerate creative burnout
“The more homogenous your life and career and job is, the faster you're gonna burn out.”
Avoid maximalist decision-making: categorize options quickly and pick "good enough"
“There's 10 good answers to every one question. You know, like some people are real maximalists about decision making and need to look at like every gray sofa that exists before they can choose the one gray sofa. Whereas I feel like I can look at 10 gray sofas …”
Chasing the final 0.2% of design perfection wastes valuable creative momentum
“I feel like there's some weird knowledge around understanding that nothing is ever a hundred percent perfect, and the most you can expire and, like, you know, get to is, like, 99.8 or whatever, and that last, like.2% You could spend your whole life trying to d…”
A brand's color story provides immediate recognition even when blurred
“I feel like people's color stories are something that, like, is an immediate, like, read, where if you blur your eyes and look at a brand, you can tell, you can recognize it by its color”
Type designers must break mathematical rules to correct human optical perception
“The thing to notice that is interesting within type is that, yes, you're absolutely following rules, but you're breaking those rules quite often to correct for optical tricks.”
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