M2 Design, Inc.

02/03/2026

Getting Inky is published for the week! The readiness is all, so be prepared for your creative moments with a custom go-bag!

Keep your basic tool kit packed and ready for lettering.

15/02/2026

Check out my new Getting Inky post, with details relating to the well known Latin maxim “Festina Lente”.

Make haste, slowly...

07/02/2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/annbmiller/p/a-bag-of-serifs?r=nzfbb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
My new Getting Inky is up and out! In today's article I talk about the different basic styles of serifs we use in calligraphy and handlettering as well as their purpose in design.

Once you can draw a line, you can have fun with its ends!

02/02/2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/annbmiller/p/runes-and-art?r=nzfbb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Sharing some amazing outcomes from students in my runes classes.

25/01/2026

This week's "Getting Inky" is up! I talk about differences between fine art and craft, and how we can increase our perception and expand the reach of our art by using the reproduction process to create small things to share.

Exploring the difference between fine art expression and designing for a purpose.

18/01/2026

This week's Getting Inky is posted, covering the wondrous realm of Gestalt and what it means to your success and pleasure in your freehand writing, your art, and life overall.

Generating language that endures is a devotion, a meditation, and a puzzle to be solved.

12/01/2026

This week's Getting Inky is here. I talk about calligraphic gift-giving after the holidays and throughout the year, with more ways to write ON gift items, one little action that helps create strong, lasting connections. This is an expanded version of my recently published article in the current issue of Bound & Lettered, Volume 21:1.

Roots grow in winter; the trunk strengthens itself to play its part in the flowering to come.

04/01/2026

This week's Getting Inky is posted! Check out this closeup look at my new wall calendars for 2026, available in my pennib.com shop now.

https://open.substack.com/pub/annbmiller/p/bouquets-of-days?r=nzfbb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Excerpt:
"Looking deeply into a single flower provides the art for each month.
This is the second year I’ve produced a floral calendar, so there are now two 2026 calendars on the floral theme in my shop. Painting plein air with watercolor is such a pleasure, with the late summer breeze, warmth of the sun, birdsong, and the rustling of the drawing tools and watercolor on handmade paper."

Time is of the essence, and calendars for 2026 are now available in my shop!

28/12/2025

Check out "Getting Inky", now posted, covering the comprehensive article on my work in the winter issue of Alphabet.

"Alphabet" is the triannual publication of Friends of Calligraphy.

25/12/2025

22/12/2025

My calligraphy art calendars are ready for 2026! There are two floral watercolor collections and two Elder Futhark runic art collections. Check them out in my website shop at https://www.pennib.com/shop?category=Calendars.

14/12/2025

https://open.substack.com/pub/annbmiller/p/the-sweet-spot?r=nzfbb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Or, when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.