Reddit reviews Hand Job: A Catalog of Type

She has a lot of videos online that you can reference. I know a few people who do hand done type that were published in this book.

Here are some videos:

http://vimeo.com/16856820

http://vimeo.com/45877188

Lots of experimenting, drawing, scanning, and wacoming. Also, practice is pretty important.

One of my all time favorites.

http://www.amazon.com/Hand-Job-Catalog-Michael-Perry/dp/1568986262

I like to find some of the weirdest shit imaginable that I would still treasure. Also, some stuff for hobbies that some people might think is pretty weird if they don't know anything about the hobby. Or in other words...normal.

BOOKS:

• A Gronking to Remember (Rob Gronkowski Erotica Series Volume 1--because there are several)
  
• Adventures in Yarn Farming
  
• Hand Job: A Catalog of Type
  
• The Medieval Household: Daily Living c.1150-c.1450
  
• Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with Special Reference to the Aegean
  
• Rampaging Fuckers of Everything on the Crazy Shitting Planet of the Vomit Atmosphere (Three Novels)
  
  NOT BOOKS:
  
  
• A Christmas tree ornament of an anthropomorphic Unicornman wearing pink lederhosen
  
• A Christmas tree ornament of a bare-chested, beefcake Santa Claus, as a centaur
  
• A CD from a Mongolian folk-metal band that uses traditional instruments and polyphonic singing
  
• A big, wooden thing that spins and stretches out
  
• A leash and harness so I can take my pet rabbit for a walk
  
• Poison
  
• Textured Vegetable Protein ("Bacon Bits"--Who wants to come over for dinner? :D )
  
• A comic that has the following, riveting synopsis:
  
  Catfish's daily grind of 'enhancing' poultry comes to a halt when he is accidentally tripped up by a loose chicken, causing him to fall victim to his own process. What proportions of his that were once human are now beyond anything normal. Add villainous corporate and military big wigs, a roller-skating weapon-toting chick named Kitten Kaboodle, a gang of tattooed babies, and there's still that enormous beach monster... And what you have is MONDO, in all its raging glory!

DKNG has some awesome videos about poster design process. Check out their Vimeo page You should definitely ditch PowerPoint. Have you played around w/ Illustrator at all?

There used to be a really killer site called gigposters.com that shut down last year. Not sure what the best place on the web is for poster inspiration now. A few good design books to check out:

Thinking With Type

Hand Job: A Catalog of Type

Making and Breaking the Grid

Gig Posters