Kate Widdows

  • everything
  • lettering & type
    • lettering & type
    • Nike jersey numerals
    • Retail sign display lettering
    • "Turn!" neon sign
    • "Tu es gentil" neon sign
    • "Au Revoir" tee
    • "Create" tee
    • Oyster typeface
    • Fellini movie poster series
  • brand identity
    • brand identity
    • Neon Speaks festival
    • Begin Labs identity
    • Instarank
    • Sir Richard Bishop
    • Teresa Laughlin, Healing Artist
    • Shilshole West
    • Ballard Space
    • Richard Bishop Bookseller
    • Queen Shmooquan
  • logos
  • neon
    • neon
    • neon signs
    • neon GIFs
    • Neon Map + Poster of Portland Oregon
    • Queen Shmooquan neon posters
  • layout
    • layout
    • print
  • illustration
    • illustration
    • infographics
    • Scrubs company icons
    • Bgin Online blog illustrations
    • Resultli blog illustrations
  • music merch
    • music merch
    • Rangda LP/CD
    • Sir Richard Bishop LP/CD/cassette
    • Baba Commandant LP/digipak CD
    • Tanzania LP
    • Koudede 10"/7"/7"
    • Katharina Tunicata digipak CD
    • Hassaniya LP
    • Radio Niger digipak gatefold CD
    • band t-shirts
    • Sublime Frequencies 15th Anniversary poster
  • neon walking tours of PDX
  • Neon Speaks Festival
  • shop
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Kate Widdows is a designer specializing in lettering, branding, and neon.

Hire me to design your next logo, brand identity, or neon sign!

"Thank you" in a gentle mid-century script in bright orange-pink neon.
The North Beach Neon Tour brochure z-fold map with the neon chef photo on the cover, and art-deco lettering.
A teal question mark in neon, with Top 3 Favorite signs in art-deco lettering.
the neon word "Turn!" in classic blue script underlined by 3 curling lines in hot pink and clear red.
Neon Speaks festival program, a 16 page document with festival schedule, presenter bios, event listings, sponsor logos, neon photography, and the vintage Hotel Mapes neon cowboys, from Reno, Nevada, gracing the cover.
Sublime Frequencies silkscreened poster on black paper with bright green and bright red-orange ink. A woman's face appears from the cover of Princess Nicotine: Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar (Burma), with angled typography.
Black and white folded Map and Poster of Portland Oregon, with a map of the best neon signs in town on one side, and a poster featuring several sign designs on the other side.
Neon Speaks festival and Symposium logo in red with art deco style capitals, a cheerful script, a microphone, and lightning bolts, all in red.
​"Early Bird" neon in blue double stroke script lettering, flashing just like a neon sign might.
Instarank logo in blue, purple, and charcoal, with a rounded square icon, inside of which is the roof of a house.
A neon shoe sign, animated to take a step, with the words "San Francisco Neon" lighting up when the shoe is down.
animated neon GIF that says "Sold Out" in teal art-deco style lettering, flanked by neon red lightning bolts on each side.
"Energy, directed" in a white, knocked out, condensed, bold typeface, with an angled shadow behind the type in yellow. The background is a pale gradient from yellow to turquoise, overlaid with a thin-stroke zig-zag pattern.
Infographic with statistics, illustrations, arrows, charts, and numbers on the subject of medical insurance, children, illness, cancer, and drugs.
brush lettering mixed with shadow script, and vintage capitals make up a quote mural.
Timeline infographic for a construction and engineering company, with iconography such as shovels, t-square, magnifying glass, handshake, and building, representing blocks of time, and the different phases of construction.
horizontal turquoise blue logo with a three-ringed, open hexagon.
brush lettering christmas card with ribbon candy motif and saturated colors.
fire, heart, and vision iconography system, a neon-style linear design in animted GIF form.
abstract figure with a speech bubble emanating from their head.
"Electric Letterland" in animated glowing and blinking neon lettering in an art-deco style.
dimensional lettering of the word zig-zag, animated.
Teresa Laughlin Healing artist logo including a circle, shield knot, medicine wheel, and red to purple gradient color scheme.
Smiling lady face with sparkles floating around her head.
art gallery projection of my HuffPo GIF "Access to one's state of pleasure is a fundamental human right" at Workplace Gallery in Gateshead UK.
red neon twin profile of a woman's face, with emanating purple neon lines around it.
the words "Comic Strips" flashing in fancy neon script lettering in deep blue, bright pink and white-gold.
the Polish phrase "Dzien Dobry" in white neon flourished script, with organic shapes and 3 little animated colored birds.
Neon Speaks neon logo on a black t-shirt.
The german phrase "guten tag" in loose script style in neon, in yellow with a blue/ green shadow behind it receding into the distance.
The german phrase "auf wiedersehen" in calligraphic blackletter style, with a cloud of swirly flourishes around it.
The word "bonjour" in ornate all capitals, in neon with flourishes and bright colored confetti blinking all around.
The French phrase "Au Revoir" in script lettering in white on a dark blue t-shirt.
syringe.
The word "hello" in ornate all capitals, in neon with flourishes and other linear elements blinking independently.
The word "goodbye" in copperplate style script, arced and with a pile of flourishes beneath it, and a little heart ornament at the bottom.
upright script style Tu es gentil blue neon sign hanging on the wall in a dark room.
black and white simple line drawing of a rotary telephone.
logo for Ballard Space on the front page of their website.
A ring of twinkling stars, indicating the shape of the sun, surround the Carl Sagan quote: "we are made of star stuff" with Sagan's name underneath, all lettered in animated glowing neon in orange, turquoise and white.
Juguya album cover for Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band, on Sublime Frequencies.
"Sir Richard Bishop" in fancy flourished Parisian gravure style lettering in white and red, with enlarged capitals on a black background.
Animated Parisian gravure style capital S in neon style with red shadow, white outline, striped insets outlined in teal, and light gray flourish.
Black and white photo portrait of Marcello Mastroianni, tinted brown with the title "La Dolce Vita" and the names Federico Fellini and Anita Ekberg in brush script style lettering.
profile portrait of a woman with a short bob, looking rather 1950s, in white neon styled lines on a grey background.
"J’ai accepté un moi qui est illimité –Anaïs Nin" in blue, yellow and white neon script and all caps vintage lettering, with "illimité" pulsing in brightness.
script style word "relaxed" painted in gold.
stethoscope.
back view of a yellow Nike volleyball jersey bearing the number 76 in white with an orange outline using the Kansas font.
animated neon GIF with art deco white lettering that says "Neon" and "Speaks" in a turquoise blue script, with a red speaker or microphone perched atop the lettering, emanating blinking lightning bolts from left to right.
brown t-shirt with the face of Syrian pop singer Omar Souleyman above Arabic text of his name.
Coup de foudre, love at first sight French neon GIF of an eye, heart and lightning bolt.
SW Shilshole West logo on the front door of the Ballard Seattle office building.
Duwamish Revealed neon lettering design for the front page of their website.
The Heretic's Bargain album cover for Rangda with horror novel style lettering, on Drag City Records.
Art deco style all caps sans serif neon animation of the phrase "30 years after we put a man on the moon we discovered the clitoris" with a crescent moon and twinkling stars.
Sir Richard Bishop album cover for Tangier Sessions on LP vinyl, CD and cassette released by Drag City Records, with Arabic Kufic style calligraphy lettering.
gazeuse, carbonated, French neon blinking animated GIF.
newspaper cover with masthead that reads 'Belltown Paper' on a 4-column grid with iconographic images, photography, and typography.
Nigerian guitarist Koudede on the album cover of Guitars from Agadez Vol. 7 on Sublime Frequencies.
Dante's Inferno book cover illustration bearing the rooftops of Florence Italy in the shape of letter A, suspended over a red glowing hell.
green pushpin holding up a note with unreadable words on it.
Allumettes, french for matches, in blinking neon with match heads on the ascenders of the custom script lettering which alight in succession.
CD cover art for Katharina Tunicata's Black Widow with an abstract watercolor painting in layers and calligraphy style lettering.
Cover of the album "Music of Tanzania" for Sublime Frequencies, with a black and white photograph of the face of a Tanzanian woman.
Animated GIF of the first line of Selena Gomez's song "Same Old Love" with neon style lettering a red broken heart and art deco and handwriting script style lettering.
Sideways glance black and white photo portrait of Giulietta Masina, cigarette dangling out of her mouth, tinted blue with the title "Le Notti di Cabiria" and Federico Fellini's name in brush script style lettering.
pencil sketch of black letter calligraphy style lettering of the word "create" with flourishes.
Animated GIF of the French word "jouissance" in neon style lettering as part of an illustration of a woman's head in profile, hair and shoulders with a winking eye.
Cover of the album "Hassaniya Music from the Western Sahara and Mauritania" for Sublime Frequencies, with a black and white photograph of a man and woman with instruments, superimposed over a tile pattern from that region.
Queen Shmooquan "A River Runs Through Her" poster with the Queen's peaceful but nose-bloodied face surrounded by linear blue neon and a cloud of dirty smoke.
type specimen of the font Oyster with various sizes of display and text type.
"Aubepine" in turquoise neon script lettering blinking inside the Hawthorne flower which pulses in pink neon.
infographic flowchart depicting the workflow including simple iconography representing a camera, the RIP process, a google doc, editing, and the final product, a deck or book.
Cover of the album "Radio Niger" for Sublime Frequencies, bearing a photograph of an old, rusty, hand-painted "Niger Radio" sign from the region.
Group Doueh lady t-shirt in Navy blue with a white screenprint of the band's name, a pattern of concentric circles and an image of Doueh and Halima playing their instruments.
"Joyeux Noel" (Merry Christmas in French) paper collage neon GIF with script lettering in string and blinking stars.
"Stupéfiant" in red neon with emanating dotted lines of different colors, extending above and below the word, with everything blinking cheerfully.​
Bandaid
"open for business" in neon surrounded by the outline of a cloud in purple lightbulbs, behind which a neon moon with a face is peaking, with a starry night sky as a backdrop.
A stack of business cards for Richard Bishop bookseller. The cards are tan with black text as well as a monogram design of "RBB."
"Queen Shmooquan" logo in colorful, animated, blinking neon lettering and bulbs.
line drawing of a seahorse, in white neon styled lines on a grey background.
black and white simple line drawing of a microscope.
Queen Shmooquan "I own me" poster with the Queen standing and leaning against the large shiny metal letters "I Own Me." The Queen's nose is bloodied as usual.
"C'est du Vol!" in green neon art deco style lettering in all caps, blinking on and off.
"Bienvenue à tout le monde" which means "welcome everyone" in French animated in blinking neon lettering in a field of twinkling stars.
"Crème Glacée" which means ice cream in French, animated in blinking pink and light blue glowing neon.
Black and white photo portrait of Saraghina, tinted purple, with the title "Otto e Una Metà" and the names Federico Fellini, Marcello Mastroianni and Anouk Anée in brush script style lettering.
"Electric Letterland" in animated glowing and blinking neon lettering in an art-deco style.
red Goup Doueh t-shirt bearing the group's name, an abstract design in yellow and Doueh holding his guitar.
"Access to one's state of pleasure is a fundamental human right" in animated neon with lightning bolt, curved horizon, sun rays and clouds.
the word "jouez" which is French for "play" animated in neon lettering with an emanating linear design surrounding the word.
the words "Hive-FX totally 80s holiday party" animated in colorful flashing neon.

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