80,000 Instagram followers agree that Gemma O’Brien is causing a stir with her hand painted typography.

Gemma O’Brien will be taking over the LCAD gallery in Laguna Beach with a hand-painted typographic installation. The opening reception will be March 3rd 2016, 6-9pm, and the show will continue until March 26th.

Gemma O’Brien is a Sydney-based typographer, hand-letterer and illustrator. A stint learning letterpress while in college sparked a fervent obsession with typography. At 21 she produced an experimental video, in which she inscribed her body with hand lettering, that caught the attention of Font Shop’s Jurgen Siebert and earned her an invitation to speak Germany’s 2009 Typo Berlin design conference. Since then she’s been sprucing up words in pen, ink and vectors for clients including Woolworths, Vodafone, Smirnoff, Canon, and The New York Times. Gemma has also worked in art direction at Animal Logic, Fuel VFX and Toby & Pete. Her career highlights include directing a new title sequence for Australia’s longest standing children’s show Play School, creating a strawberries-and-cream scented typography piece for Woolworths’ Christmas campaign and having her Taronga Zoo lettering displayed for 400km on the travelling crate of Kitoto the Giraffe.

We are thrilled to have Gemma design and install a living, organic exhibition and share her creative work and process not only with LCAD, but also with designers, artists and creatives throughout Orange County, Los Angeles and San Diego.

Gemma is being hosted in Orange County by Laguna College of Art and Design. “We are thrilled to have Gemma design and install a living, organic exhibition and share her creative work and process not only with LCAD, but also with designers, artists and creatives throughout Orange County, Los Angeles and San Diego,” said Catharin Eure, chair of LCAD Design and Digital Media program. “To have a designer and typographer of her caliber interact with our students and with the public presents an outstanding educational and inspirational opportunity.”

“To have a designer and typographer of her caliber interact with our students and with the public presents an outstanding educational and inspirational opportunity.”

We couldn’t agree more. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity see Mrs. Eaves work off Instagram, and in real life!