Archive for March, 2009
One Wicked Little Font
Monday, March 30th, 2009 | STUDIES | No Comments
Here is my Typography for the Mental final:
CLICK ME! YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO!
Anyway, throughout the course history (or the history of this course), I managed one specific comment from the professor that made me nearly crap my drawers:
Unforgiving superior work!
How does one manage “unforgiving superior work”? A very forgiving superior God.
THAT is the only explanation – logical or otherwise. I did not crap my pants, however. I did eat 5 Fig Newtons.
Experiments in Terror
Saturday, March 28th, 2009 | STUDIES | No Comments
Ahhhh yes – AS IF I could do THE BIG LEBOWSKI typographical justice…
Advanced Typography for the Mental
Sunday, March 8th, 2009 | STUDIES | No Comments
Before you I present typographical studies. I am not so thrilled with the first two. The third in this series, however, has a personal value on it for me.
Personal Monogram
Notice the faces? I thought I was being genius by arranging the counter and the negative space. Of course, I think I’m genius when I manage to roll out of bed. That takes a lot of skill for me. It disturbs me that it is reminiscent of PBS. It seems it doesn’t actually detract too much, I guess. Great, now I am going to obsess.
godley beer. I’m not sure what it wrong with me, other than I drank a couple of pints. I started with the lower case “g” and managed to come up with some ideas for the image. I chose a font that didn’t have a bowl & loop – although that was interesting to play with also. Then I put a devil’s tail onthe “Y” and that was it. I chucked all the G work in favor of marrying the tail.
I splattered RED as the primary focus color totally against my better judgement. I was commended for making such a “bold statement.” I gave an exhale of relief and continued on my fontabulous journey.
42
These are pages from 2 different versions of the Guttenberg 42 line Bible. The idea was to take a famous historical document and typographically deconstruct it. The Gutenberg Bible was written based on St. Jerome’s Latin Vulgate. Since I love vulgairity – I figured it was a good choice. Do I still refer to Jerome as a saint even though I am not Catholic? Wasn’t Jerome a Jackson 5?
I could not make out the red Rubrics so I jumped directly to Genesis I:I.
The text is:
in precipio creativ dues celum et terram.
In the beginning God created heaven and earth.
My all time favorite Bible story: CREATION. The concept that God spoke and the world was. The power and significance of words is communicated in this story. Never think graphic design is not creative or an artform or powerful. OK, perhaps I didn’t change the world with any of the pizza boxes I arted – nor will anyone’s psyche be shook when they order Vito’s (its called FUNCTIONAL ART DAMMIT! Without the “dammit” though. Anyway – you KNOW what I am saying.
in the beginning