Here is Nate Williams’s cover for HOW Magazine’s 2012 International and Interactive Design Award Annual.  HOW video editor Phillip Grosvenor animated the cover, as can be seen here.  The HOW blog on the cover also features a sneak peak at Nate’s interview in the feature “10 World Class Design Firms.”

In What ways do color blindness and dyslexia influence your illustration process?
“Being dyslexic has had a huge impact on not just the way I see, but how I think. Because it makes reading difficult, you are constantly missing information so you have to fill in the gaps mentally, which over time makes you a very curious and creative person,” Williams shares. “I saw characters (letters/numbers) as abstract shapes instead of the symbols they represent. Because of this, I developed an interest in typography from an early age.”

Read the rest and see the animation here.

Letter Playground is a place where illustrators, type designers, and hand-lettering enthusiasts can share letters in all shapes and forms.  Nate Williams has launched a new feature on Letter Playground called the Ransom Note Generator. Typing into the field will allow the user to generate letters using the vast database of letters on Letter Playground. Try it today!

Nate Williams designed a handlettered donor card for the Southern Poverty Law Center.  The SPLC is a nonprofit civil rights organization dedicated to “fighting hate and bigotry, and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of society.”

Nate Williams’s “Habla Espanol” was chosen to appear in the 2012 Communication Arts Typography Annual. Commissioned by Louis Fishauf of Fishauf Design for Global Brief magazine, the piece uses handlettering to communicate the growing importance of the Spanish language in Latin America.

Click here to read the accompanying article “The Forward March of Spanish” by Patricio Navia.

Nate Williams is one of nearly 40 international artists featured in Picnic: Pop-Folk Contemporary Illustration, written by Júlia and Juan of Spanish design agency Retina y Retinette and published by Promopress.

A visual celebration of retro illustration and modernist graphic design reinvented by nearly forty international artists, Picnic recalls the traditional, more artisanal styles of iconic graphic designers such as Saul Bass and Friz Freleng, showcasing a stunning presentation of artwork featuring silkscreen printing, hand lettering, collage, and typography, with a contemporary twist.

Nate Williams’ On the Road 63-piece puzzle is now available from Mudpuppy. Printed with nontoxic soy-based inks and measuring 18 x 14 inches, the completed 3-color puzzle reveals a whirlwind scene of weaving roads and quirky commuters. In his trademark style, Nate combines rich texture with big, bold graphics to create a fleet of vehicles, including a roadster, motorcycle, logging truck, taxi, firetruck, tow truck, police car, cement mixer and even a juggler on a unicycle! Intended for children ages 6 and up, the puzzle is made from 90% recycled paper and comes in cardboard canister with a rope handle.

Nate Williams designed handlettered elements for Middlebury Magazine. The article “Can Wit be Taught?” features student actress and comedienne Ele Woods.

Nate Williams created buttons and magnets for Badge Bomb

Notables from Nate’s mustache series include: Cop Stache, Facial Hare, Just-stache, Missing a limb Stache, Saturn Stache, Expresso Stache, and The Magnum.

Nate Williams illustrated the cover of Computerworld magazine.  Nate’s bold colors and naive style make for a striking composition. It appears in the November 2011 digital edition.

Nate Williams recently illustrated for Austrian specialty food company, Sonnentor. His playful artwork can be seen on the label for their I Love You chocolate bar, which is made with white milk chocolate, strawberries and pink pepper. It is one of six in a newly released collection of uniquely flavored chocolates, with each bar made by hand, using only certified organic ingredients. Sonnentor commissioned five other international artists to create the labels for other products in the line, including Romy Blümel, Pietari Posti, Carmen Segovia, Lesja Chernish and Daniel Egnéus.