Anna Mills

Anna Mills (annam.lls) is a distinctive Bristol/London-based graphic designer known for playful, animated, hand-drawn typography and lettering for musicians like Wolf Alice, using rough edges, wobbly lines, and a blend of analogue/digital techniques. While her company annamills.co is dissolved, she creates moving posters, typefaces, and merchandise, blending digital art with organic, childlike qualities. 

Anna Mills on the “human” quality of her typography

The graphic designer talks us through some of her techniques for designing type, including the “ping-pong match between paper and computer,” AKA the “input-output dance.”

from her profile she documents her work on her highlights taking pictures of type as inspiration for later projects and just sketching in 10 different ways she continues to experiment and be playful and then creates animations with these.