Friday Typography - Three
Friday 22nd of August, 2008
I did put something up — if you were quick on the feed you might even have seen it (although I really hope you didn't). Anyway, it'll be back later, when I've had a minute to put something together that's not completely shit.
Friday Typography - Two
Friday 15th of August, 2008
Typography Friday! This week I based it on the wonderful Braid (I'm going to put up a full writeup of the game tomorrow). Again, it features a typeface that I've been wanting to use for a little while (the slightly wonderful Estilo Script).
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Friday Typography - One
Friday 8th of August, 2008
A few days ago, Jack Shedd pointed out the Typography Friday Flickr group — where a whole bunch of illustrators post weekly type-based images on a Friday afternoon.
Recently, I've been feeling a little depressed about how little personal work I manage to do these days, and quick, one-off images are exactly the sort of things I never find time for. In my first couple of years of college, I really enjoyed turning out pointless, purely decorative pieces which just summed up what I was thinking at the time. So I'm going to attempt to set my lunchbreak aside each Friday, and turn out a really quick piece which hopefully will become a little series. Here's part one!
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Playing Cards
Tuesday 24th of June, 2008
I've always been pretty fascinated by playing cards. Unfortunately, I have the memory capacity of a moderately stupid goldfish, which prevents me from retaining any card games I'm taught for longer than around twenty minutes.
As a format, however, playing cards are pretty enticing to me — combining illustration, sequence, typography and even ancient traditions. When I've come across 'artistic' playing cards before, I've generally been underwhelmed (with a few notable exceptions). I often feel that designers miss a trick by failing to respect the traditions present in playing cards — beautiful, characterful illustration of people, with an almost editorial necessity for layout. All too often, these decks of cards are simply a way of presenting 52 unmatched illustrations in a small format.