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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Added some weight to yesterday’s letters. 〰️ which do like better?

It’s been a minute since I drew random letters for no reason. It really is my favorite thing. 💛

Why is it so hard to keep my Instagram updated? I’ve made things, but you wouldn’t know from looking here! It’s so much mental energy to think about writing a caption even though all my captions are basically: here, I made a I thing. 😆
So, here’s a little card I made for a sweet new baby!

Can we talk about how it’s 70 degrees outside right now, but was snow/sleet/slushing 2 days ago? I shouldn’t be surprised, I’ve lived in the Midwest basically my whole life. But I still am. #miseryforchicago #chicagowinter @miseryforchicago

Not like when you line your car up wrong and have to start over because you hit the curb a little too close, that happens to the best of us. I’m talking about the people who clearly have no understanding of the concept of parallel parking and try it anyway. It’s so painful to watch and also please get off my street. #miseryforchicago @miseryforchicago

A few more from our recent shoot featured in @imiragemagazine ! In which we used the best angle of my only half successful tulle glove. 😆 photo: @melissamorley model: @alenabrook hair: @miaczynski makeup: @symabrol

I made this as a gift for my old landlord to thank him 5 great years in our little apartment on 18th street. I don’t think I have many friends who would give their landlord a second thought after moving out, and I feel lucky to have had the very best. We asked him to be our realtor when we started looking for a house, so we got to know him even better before we left. He has lots of stories of growing up in our hood when it was rough, can cuss out a handy man like nobody’s business, has lots of opinions about local politics and knows all the neighborhood gossip. He adores his 16 year old miniature poodle named Lolita (who was occasionally dyed pink 🎀) and takes her in a special backpack on his motorcycle, calls me kid, gave me the master key whenever I locked myself out, and was VERY insistent that we get grout sealer for the new house. I hope he hangs this next to the giant swordfish he has hanging in his office. :)

This week I finally had a chance to get back to @miseryforchicago! It’s rough out there, be careful, y’all. #miseryforchicago

Cover of @imiragemagazine! If you’ve been following my stories you should recognize that glove. 😁 I had to take a break from my glove experiments because we moved recently, but I will be back at it soon!
Photographer: @melissamorley
Art director: 💁🏼‍♀️
Hair: @miaczynski
Makeup: @symabrol
Model: @alenabrook

Not super sure about the white in there. Uggg. But guys! For my first time doing legit satin stitch I’m kind of impressing myself. But I reiterate: it. takes. so. dang. long.