For as long as I can remember I have created hand-drawn lettering - everyone I know shares the baffling experience of receiving a birthday card from me adorned with an illegible new script.

I have no formal grounding in the design of fonts, however, so it is probably a crazily ambitious goal that I have now set myself: to design a different alphabet, every month, for a year.

Apologies in advance to genuine graphic designers for crass errors, accidental plagiarism etc.!