Me — Emily Van Hoff

Hi!

I’m Emily.

Handletterer, art director, graphic designer, maker of things. The more of those passions I can fit into one project, the better.

I live in Chicago with my husband and our cat, Laszlo.

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Going through my studio and trying to weed things out and I found this little ampersand I stitched ages ago! I love it so much. Also I’m having such a hard time getting rid of my pre iPad paper lettering sketches, I’m finding inspiration in my old explorations. Do you keep yours? If so, do you store them in a way that you can easily reference?

Hi 👋 it’s me! I spent some time this week away from my screen cutting tiny paper pieces, my happy place. Here’s a cute pic of shooting the thing I made the last time I played with tiny paper pieces. This lil stop motion is the H a few posts back on my feed. Today’s finished product coming probably tomorrow! Thanks for the 📸 @melissamorley. 😊

Our sweet goddaughter was baptized today! It’s such an honor and joy to be part of her life and watch her grow up. 🥰

Patterns for some very special gloves that I can not wait to show you! But I was in a wee bit of a hurry to get them done so I have almost zero photographic evidence of their existence besides a cameo in a sideways video at our Airbnb in New York State and one very partial shot of stitching them with my fur niece Abby in Colorado. I will have to wait for @melissamorley’s wedding photos to come back to show you the final product! 🙌

I finally finished this piece! I think satin stitch is bad for me because while it is possible to make it nearly perfect, it takes a million hours. So of course I take a million hours and now it now it essentially looks machine made and then what’s the point of hand making it? But I absolutely love it. Now I just need to figure out what to do with it! Patch for my backpack? #embroideredlettering #letteringembroidery #surfacetype #goodtype #handmadelettering #physicallettering #embroidery #tedioushobbies

@goodtype reminding me that’s been a minute since I made a new @miseryforchicago post! #goodtypetuesday #goodtypesidehustle

I made FIVE new garments over my extended birthday weekend! I have a hard time prioritizing sewing clothes for myself because it doesn’t feel like it’s advancing my marketable skills. (I have zero desire to sew clothes for other people!) So it made for a great birthday weekend activity, something creative that is only for me. 🙂 What are your guilty pleasure hobbies? Those things that we’d love to do if only we had an extra 6 hours in the day. ✂️✂️ In order: #morningglorytop #wonderlandskirt #mitocami #selfdrafted & #cielotop

These two lovebirds got married yesterday!! 🖤🖤