Ranger Naturalist is an all-caps typeface inspired by the hand-lettered WPA federal arts posters promoting national parks. Designed to be stretched and squished, the wide capitals, narrow lower case, alternate characters, and irresponsible amount of discretionary ligatures allow Ranger Naturalist to achieve bold and adventurous layouts. Font and posters now available in the store.
Urgent Help needed!
Help Our Good Girl Walk Again
Our wonderful and sweet little German Shepherd Isabelle took a nasty fall and tore her ACL. We’re raising money to help cover the cost of surgery, and get her back on all four feet again 🥹. Please help by donating to her GoFundMe, and we’ll give her snoot a loving boop from you!
For more about her, Isabelle has an Instagram she made with her own paws: Isabelle the GSD (@grumblesniff) • Instagram photos and videos
Recent Work
Starfield data visualization highlighting resources, difficulty, transit information, and more. Purchase a poster or read my Starfield outpost guide.
The Science of Creeping Animals available soon in the store.
Commissioned LEGO Rock Raiders poker deck. Decks available here.
Cryptids of North America poker deck. New batch spring 2024!
Crumpledfishskin dog treat brand explorations.
Swedish Classic shirt graphic.
Hot sauce brand explorations.
Ranger Naturalist typeface poster.
Ranger Naturalist typeface poster.
Ranger Naturalist typeface poster.
Ranger Naturalist typeface sample.
Illustrator & Design Tutorials
Howl’s Moving Castle Animated Illustration
Third in my series of Studio Ghibli vector illustrations, this half Illustrator, half After Effects breakdown covers illustrating and animating the castle into a short and extra bouncy bouncy walk cycle.
Twitch Creative Stream
Come watch Adobe Illustrator and graphic design projects streamed live every weekend at Twitch.tv/MattgyverTV. The show is presented in a tutorial fashion with a variety of personal and commissioned projects, and largely covers graphic design techniques, experimentation, and the business side of things.
Saturday Morning 7am-10am (East Coast)
Sunday Morning 7am-10am
Chat interaction, feedback, critique, and sharing your work is encouraged and always welcome. We all become better designers when we can learn from each other. Collaboration and the ability to give & receive feedback is an important skill of any creative, and these suggestions help refine ideas and give everyone a chance to see why some ideas work while others might not (and I truly don't mind exploring and explaining).
Missed a live show? All the past videos are saved in the video archive.
Tshirts & Apparel
Some of the design work and goofy nonsense from the Twitch stream winds up on shirts, prints, and more. If there was a design you saw on stream and would like as a shirt graphic (or notebook, poster, art print, shower curtain, etc.), contact Matt for requests and he’ll set it up for purchase and let you know once it’s available.
Defend the Frontier
from $14.00
Cryptid Card Back
from $26.00
TurboGrafx-16 1989
from $24.00
Krull Glaive Athletic Wear
from $25.00
Honk's Scampering Citadel
from $14.00
Crumpled Fish Skin
from $20.00
Glitch Mt. Rushmore
from $22.00
Screen Fiends Don't Wear Pants
from $20.00
Note: Not everything makes it into the store, or does but isn’t available for long. Some designs are fan art and therefore skirt the fine line of parody & protected intellectual property rights, and as such may not be around for long. Like the ‘great Ghibli purge’ or the ‘That kaiju clearly isn’t Godzilla, though the lawyers say it is...’ Que sera, sera. 🤷🏻♂️