hand lettering | Melinda Beck

Missing swimming outside: A Hudson river devil fish for New York Open Water’s Spuyten Dunville swim.

by Melinda Beck | Feb 6, 2019 | design, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

VOTE! I just added this design to my shop. 75% of proceeds will got to Vote Riders

by Melinda Beck | Sep 3, 2018 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

Vote Riders is a non-profit that helps voters secure IDs and know there rights in states with voter ID laws. Free shipping for orders over$45 till 90/10 code FREESHIP918cc3c05

An illustrated map for Parents Magazine, and all you parents with kids on summer vacation!

by Melinda Beck | Jul 25, 2018 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

Seven pieces of mine have been acquired by the Library of Congress for their permanent collection.

by Melinda Beck | May 17, 2018 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

The diverse and vibrant acapella community for the cover The Penn Gazette

by Melinda Beck | Mar 7, 2018 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

The fiery orange monster that hides under the editorial worlds bed for Columbia Journalism Review.

by Melinda Beck | Feb 20, 2018 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

Bookstore sighting of Lines, my first illustrated kids book.

by Melinda Beck | Sep 29, 2017 | blog, hand lettering, illustration, outside the studio | 0 comments

The poster I illustrated for 3×3 Magazine just came in the mail. Thanks Charles Hively!

by Melinda Beck | Apr 12, 2017 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

We Spoke #resist #trumpcare #muslimban

by Melinda Beck | Mar 25, 2017 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

Despite his HUGE size Donald Trump will be wearing.

by Melinda Beck | Jan 23, 2017 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

The roles woman play on Reality TV (and off) for Barnard Magazine

by Melinda Beck | Jan 10, 2017 | hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

New t-shirt art for CIBBOWS 3 or 2 or 1 mile swim out at Coney Island.

by Melinda Beck | Sep 8, 2016 | hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

Swim with the Devil! New t shirt art for NY Openwater Spuyten Duyvil 10K

by Melinda Beck | Sep 1, 2016 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

Sometimes you’re OK and sometimes you are just NOT, hand lettering for D.J. Stout a Pentagram Design

by Melinda Beck | Aug 24, 2016 | blog, hand lettering | 0 comments

Another illustration for @stuntbox at @ProPublica.: The Narco-terror Trap, is the DEA stopping threats or staging them.

by Melinda Beck | Dec 17, 2015 | blog, hand lettering, illustration |

An illustration about the dangers of labeling people Narcoterrorists for ProPublica.

by Melinda Beck | Dec 15, 2015 | blog, hand lettering, illustration |

Some Post-it nonsense for the Post-it 11 show at Giant robot.

by Melinda Beck | Nov 24, 2015 | blog, hand lettering, illustration, outside the studio |

More steamy murder and mayhem for Harlequin Romance.

by Melinda Beck | Sep 23, 2015 | blog, design, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

Five pieces in the 3×3 ProShow. Thanks to the jury, Charles Hivley, the art directors and clients who made these images possible.

by Melinda Beck | Jul 9, 2015 | blog, hand lettering, illustration, outside the studio | 0 comments

Limited edition poster for Dine Alone Records 10th anniversary. Never too old to scratchboard.

by Melinda Beck | Jul 1, 2015 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

Another Harlequin Romance book cover. A small town were everyone sleeps with everyone else and in a surprise plot twist someone gets murdered.

by Melinda Beck | Jun 18, 2015 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

A scientific-ish diagram of metabolism for Real Simple Magazine

by Melinda Beck | Feb 27, 2015 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

My limited edition silkscreen poster for Quicksand’s 2013 tour have just been added to my shop. There aren’t many left.

by Melinda Beck | Dec 14, 2014 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

Another bodice-ripping book cover for Harlequin Romance.

by Melinda Beck | Oct 21, 2014 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

The burden of college loan debt for The Key Magazine.

by Melinda Beck | Sep 24, 2014 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

Sending off a set of my artist prints, which were acquired by the Library of Congress

by Melinda Beck | Aug 27, 2014 | blog, hand lettering, illustration, outside the studio | 0 comments

2am and I filled the last bag for Jordin’s Dime Bag show with this little zine.

by Melinda Beck | Jul 3, 2014 | blog, hand lettering | 0 comments

Five of my posters were acquired by the Library of Congress for their permanent collection.

by Melinda Beck | May 29, 2014 | blog, design, hand lettering, illustration, outside the studio | 0 comments

Some drunken hallucinatory mayhem for The New Yorker.

by Melinda Beck | May 16, 2014 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

My first Harlequin Romance book cover.

by Melinda Beck | Feb 26, 2014 | blog, design, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

I am in The New Yorker this week.

by Melinda Beck | Jan 22, 2014 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

The creatures that spawned the US Congress.

by Melinda Beck | Oct 4, 2013 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

Some slightly naughty knitting for a good cause. An animation for Oak Knit Studio.

by Melinda Beck | Sep 26, 2013 | animation, blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

Five pieces in the 3×3 ProShow, I think that’s a royal flush.

by Melinda Beck | Jun 14, 2013 | blog, hand lettering, illustration, outside the studio | 0 comments

Thanks to the jury, Charles Hivley, the art directors and clients who made these images possible.

Lucky number 13 for Macmillan books.

by Melinda Beck | Jun 5, 2013 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

I did some big illustrations for the little ones and Chicco baby products.

by Melinda Beck | May 30, 2013 | blog, hand lettering, illustration, outside the studio | 0 comments

10 things your mother never taught you for Real Simple magazine.

by Melinda Beck | Mar 7, 2013 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

Luke, I am your father.

by Melinda Beck | Jan 30, 2013 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

2013 Quicksand poster and 1992 Quicksand single

I got funky with the illustration and type in this poster for The Agency Group.

by Melinda Beck | Jan 10, 2013 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

Hand lettering in Mandarin and depicting Abby as the poor, tortured and lovesick Ophelia in a poster for Chan Can Dance.

by Melinda Beck | Jan 3, 2013 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

Having a little fun with some fonts I designed for Nickelodeon.

by Melinda Beck | Dec 19, 2012 | blog, hand lettering | 0 comments

I get paid for sex……. just working on some script lettering for Victoria’s Secret.

by Melinda Beck | Sep 21, 2012 | blog, hand lettering | 0 comments

Coney Island Triple Dip swim t-shirt. The design was Inspired by my childhood spent in this city and at this beach.

by Melinda Beck | Sep 11, 2012 | blog, design, hand lettering, illustration, outside the studio | 0 comments

Signing limited edition Quicksand posters at The Bowery Ballroom on Friday night.

by Melinda Beck | Aug 28, 2012 | blog, hand lettering, illustration, outside the studio | 0 comments

Hand lettering I did for Saveur’s summer BBQ and I got to go and eat some scrumptious food by great chefs including: Susan Feniger, Gavin Kaysen, Francios Payard and Ben Pollinger. It was like my own personal Top Chef Masters.

by Melinda Beck | Jul 6, 2012 | blog, hand lettering, illustration, outside the studio | 0 comments

wearing the big skirt of self-doubt for Real Simple Magazine

by Melinda Beck | May 31, 2012 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

I made some poison for The Wall Street Journal

by Melinda Beck | May 23, 2012 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

Dustin Hoffman as a dismembered horse for Grantland Quarterly Magazine.

by Melinda Beck | Apr 18, 2012 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

interview with CMYK Magazine

by Melinda Beck | Mar 27, 2012 | blog, hand lettering, illustration, press | 0 comments

working through my string obsession

by Melinda Beck | Mar 20, 2012 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

Something a little different for Ronn Campisi and Radcliffe Quarterly Magazine.

by Melinda Beck | Mar 1, 2012 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

Me and some of my art had a nice night out on the town at the Society of illustrators Editorial and Book show.

by Melinda Beck | Feb 4, 2012 | blog, hand lettering, illustration, outside the studio | 0 comments

We should leave the studio more often.

The girls getting some pointers from a book I illustrated for Macmillan.

by Melinda Beck | Jan 19, 2012 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

stocking stuffer

by Melinda Beck | Dec 19, 2011 | blog, hand lettering, illustration, outside the studio | 0 comments

My limited edition silk screen poster is now for sale online at the Spur Store. At only $24 it makes a nice stocking stuffer.

The objects in my house are talking to me.

by Melinda Beck | Dec 17, 2011 | blog, hand lettering, illustration, outside the studio | 0 comments

Spur Gallery show, Fall 2011

I like to draw food as much as I like to cook it.

by Melinda Beck | Dec 8, 2011 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

A spread from Caroline Hwang’s Communal Table cookbook.

Four days before the show at Spur and everything in my apartment seems to have something to tell me.

by Melinda Beck | Nov 15, 2011 | blog, hand lettering, illustration, outside the studio | 0 comments

Before or Since: Day 1

by Melinda Beck | Nov 1, 2011 | blog, hand lettering, illustration, outside the studio | 0 comments

I just finished my first two pieces for a show at the Spur gallery in Baltimore. I think things are off to a good start.

An art hurricane on my desk today.

by Melinda Beck | Jun 17, 2011 | blog, hand lettering, illustration, odds and ends | 0 comments

I’m not sure if this will end in victory or defeat.

I created this design for NickJr after spending the day with my kids at IKEA.

by Melinda Beck | May 11, 2011 | animation, blog, design, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

having fun with the letter N

by Melinda Beck | Apr 21, 2011 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

cover art for The Chronicle of Higher Education

my cuteness hat

by Melinda Beck | Jun 16, 2010 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

I put my cuteness hat on while creating illustrations and hand lettering for the Chicco baby clothing and accessory...

really big pants

by Melinda Beck | May 26, 2010 | blog, hand lettering, illustration | 0 comments

A woman with really big pants is what the cover of every magazine needs. Illustration for The National Magazine, Abu Dhabi.

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