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Opposite page, top and bottom: Sandwich board signs for Witzend were based on profiles from a 1900 art nouveau sign book, and used hand-drawn fonts Ms. TenEyck has created over the course of her career. This page, top to bottom: Showcards for shop windows, including one for cats that need umbrellas to stay dry in the rain. The road signs were heavily aged and reflect the same kind of whimsy as those in the shops. century as a base, I filled in the segments starting with very primitive, tiny life-forms and ending with what they look like today—human bodies with animal heads. I also named each species and wrote a description. My personal favorite was Bunolagus H. Sapiens, aka Rabbit-Headed Human. Around the edge, I found some pieces of old illuminated manuscript art to enhance the design. Lost in Time. "It's what time?" "If I only had more time!" "Sorry, I overslept." "It can't be time already?" These are a few of the captions for the various characters in the "Lost in Time" clock gear maze I designed from scratch. At the top is Time's handwritten subhead, "A maze for my amusement, or a bit of payback for those procrastinators who take me for granted." I drew all the gears from scratch in Illustrator ® and arranged them in layers with openings from one to the next that act as an old-fashioned kid's puzzle maze. Characters are adapted from Dover clipart books. And yes, it really works. Ode to My Love. Poor Time, in love with the heartless Red Queen. With so much time on his hands, I thought he might have designed a valentine for her and that was the idea for this piece. Using an illustration of Helena Bonham Carter from the first Alice as a base, I drew over it with Illustrator lines, fattening them up to look like calligraphy. Around the edges, I used Shakespeare love sonnets for the copy and put it all against a Photoshop background of parchment. Signage and Shop Display for the Town of Witzend Based on an English market town, Witzend is where the Mad Hatter's Hightopp Hat Shoppe is located. All of its citizens have animal heads and human bodies. I was surrounded by some of the best digital and hand-drafting set designers in the business who created the most whimsical and beautiful scenery façades I had ever seen. Inspiration for it on the Art Department walls included French art nouveau, dark gothic spires, Antonio Gaudi architecture and traditional English thatched-roof, half-timbered cottages. The buildings were so intricate and lovely that it became clear to me that slapping signage flat up against it would ruin the whole effect. So, I opted for using mostly outriggers and sandwich boards which would add depth and interest to the scenery. I took my inspiration from dimensional signage I had seen in Salzburg and Barcelona. I then did a Google search on "dimensional outrigger signs" which added a flurry of wonderful images from all over the world to my research. Together, with set decorator Ra Vincent, we took the general ground plan of the street and decided which shop would sell what including the hero locations, the Hightopp Hat Shoppe and the Clock Shoppe. I then collected digital photos of ironwork, clocks, tolework flowers, animals, bugs, woodworking, sewing machines, buttons—anything that could be used for the various subjects. I used these images to do