Lamington Drive

“Jessica Hische’s work combines equal parts design, typography, illustration, brown sugar, and heavy cream.”

Noted Illustrator and Typographer Jessica Hische, appearing in Australia for the first time for Semi-Permanent makes a special visit to Melbourne to present a series of typographic works on paper at Lamington Drive.

Jessica Hische is a typographer and illustrator working in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from Tyler School of Art with a degree in Graphic Design, she worked for Headcase Design in Philadelphia before taking a position as Senior Designer at Louise Fili Ltd. While working for Louise, she continued developing her freelance career, working for clients such as Tiffany & Co., Chronicle Books, and The New York Times. In September of 2009, after two and a half years of little sleep and a lot of hand lettering, she left Louise Fili to pursue her freelance career further.

Jessica has been featured in most major design and illustration publications including Communication Arts, Print Magazine, How Magazine, The Graphis Design Annual, American Illustration and the Society of Illustrators. She was featured as one of Step Magazine’s 25 Emerging Artists, Communication Arts “Fresh”, Print Magazine’s New Visual Artists 2009 (commonly referred to as Print’s 20 under 30), and The Art Directors Club Young Guns.