have you hugged a type designer today? they do some good things...
3.22.2009
who needs a fleur de isle when you have type?
i love how the background texture is Rosa Parks - just type; a variety of it. close to the bg color but not exactly - enough to tel us what this thing is all about and make a pretty nice texture at the same time.
boring no more!
who says numbers have to bore people into a stupor? this annual report makes pretty good use of an otherwise uninteresting subject. Note the numbers are all at 90 degree angles: not TOTAL chaos. scale, color, transparency, composition.
if you had to pick
a word that said "lift," where would you start? i don't know either. and i think they basically nailed it, at least for this composition. me gusta mucho.
this aint no FONT!
this is hand drawn type, perfectly tied to the hand drawn illustration. and the type pulls everything neatly together.
ARE WE ALIGNED YET, fallout boy???
so this isn't chaos (pretty damn close, though). first of all, scale has been adjusted,BUT it's all at a 90 degree angle. and there is the arrows which lead us directly into the Y. so there is some logic in the mix, and a good dose of organic composition - a pretty nice blend.
****DIGITAL TYPOGRAPHIC THROWDOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ehem, check out the super kick ass hand-drawn type laid out on top of an image. this re-defines the "background image" website: not only is there depth to it, but the surface of it has a personality and adds value to the overall composition. if that were all left-justified ariel, it wouldn't kick nearly as much ass.
how much lightening can you HANDLE?
that's right - how about an illustration full? AND it's type, too. Yes, they make you work a bit to understand it. The type is pretty consistent - it looks like itself all the way through. They didn't bend the visual logic of the bolts so that it would be easier for them to lay out. so good job, chap, good job.
only type
so we have some typography, and... nothing else! it says it all, and you don't need anything else. no images, no BS - we know exactly what's being said. Sold, classic, worn, interesting.
LETTERS FIRST!!!!!!!
yeah, so first see the letter forms, then the animals - which is the opposite of a lot of typographic illustrations. I like how both seem to exist equally, in the same plane. very nice.
type in the fro!
I really, really dig the placement of the type in this piece. Yes it looks a little silly, but he sure had plenty of room in that awesome fro!
faces out of numbers
7 never looked so good... it's a unique number with interesting serifs & shapes that lend well to turn it into a face with such little manipulation. i dig it.
"i could do that..."
but you didn't!
i dig the sporadic line work in the letters - they're kind of mental, and they work well with the rest of the composition.
victorian type!
it's hard to not love this modern take on victorian type: it has the same feeling, but is also clearly a modern mix - the caps are outlined, and the curves have been straightened. this modern take on the type also reflects the modern composition, yet it's made of old-style images. the type pulls the whole thing together.
chan's the man!
this looks like banco, by emigre. it's fun, and slightly hipster Asian - has that fortune-cookie-at-a-Hong-Kong-rave feeling to it.
sunset rubdown
some pretty serious illustrating went down to make this type fit perfectly into the mouth of this monster. the lips are less legible, but still it's a totally unique type solution.
stretched slab
this slab serif looks like it's been stretched! very tall, but there's also something a little humanistic about the rounded corners - it doesn't feel too tough, either.
frank black
check out this type combo: a script, with a sans (that has some attitude), followed by a skinny slab serif - and it all comes together pretty damn well.
3.17.2009
hand made
handmade with (mostly) filled counters. i think this one feels a bit more down to earth than a lot of filled counter typefaces. the handmade feel seems to keep it more human (& maybe a little more legible, too).
3.15.2009
filled counters with style
these guys have some great modulation throughout - and a unique, lively style. very nice.
toga land
holy flipping contrast, batman! super skinny meets morbidly obese when counters take on a mind of their own & fill themselves in! the anorexic stems of the fat friends almost lose themselves in the massive contrast.
3.13.2009
soft & full
i like how the counters & negative spaces are filled in a way that isn't totally hard edged and geometric.
3.09.2009
crafty type
hatched / stitched / crafty pattern makes some type. i like the patter & the letter forms
3.08.2009
don't mess with my baby!
D&G layout with flourishes. can avenir (or a very similar type) be made ornate? is this "contrast" or amateur night?
libro hits a homer
type gone wild 3, getting vertical. love how it's chunked together, cut off, ligatured, scaled, colored, and set.
victor & susie!
victor & susie is a children's book for adults written entirely with letterforms and punctuation!
it takes a few seconds to get this one...
this guys is Michael C. Place - making folks think... but it's worth the pay-off!
labworks homepage
labworks homepage image is a picture of this hand made paper typography, hung with plastic tubing against a neutral background. love it.
hammer
i like how they made an object out of type without bending or damaging the type, or chopping any of it off. just good old type, different scales & colors.
amazing hand drawn type illustrations
what came first? the type or the objects??
it's not my style, but hard to deny the talent here.
verticle ligature
that "e" looks a little bit like a fish with a hook pulling his mouth down, but aside from that, this is a pretty cool way of joining letters vertically.
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