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.
Recent Work
My Cryptids of North America playing cards are back in stock—grab a deck in the store.
Venture Brothers commission poker deck. Decks available here.
Commissioned LEGO Rock Raiders poker deck. Decks available here.
The Science of Creeping Animals—I have a few prototypes available in the store.
12-page Starfield advanced reactor assembly technical manual. Read it.
12-page Starfield advanced reactor assembly technical manual. Read it.
12-page Starfield advanced reactor assembly technical manual. Read it.
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
Data Visualization in Illustrator
A collection of tips and process notes when working on data visualizations in Illustrator. I’ve included links to resources and public data sets (and other goodies) to inspire and help you get your very own data viz project off the ground.
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… we also listen to a lot of electro swing.
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
The Inspectres
from $20.00
Memento Vivere Memento Mori
from $14.00
TurboGrafx-16 1989
from $24.00
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. 🤷🏻♂️