{090709-091309} Bright Young Things (A Week in Type, Part 1)
Here's what I've been working on for the past week or so... A new show poster for Bright Young Things that's all typographic, pulling from signpainting traditions digitized from paint and paper. Hand lettering at large and small scales is always fun, but digitizing those specimens is surprisingly difficult. Sometime in the future (so vague, I know...) I'd like to take some time and really work on digitizing some consistent alphabets based on my handwriting, but for now I think these will do for the purpose they were drawn for. I'll post an image of the final poster as soon as I finish it later this week.
uhh... no coincidence! as a longstanding member of the b-team, i feel comfortable admitting that there's been some minor "cheating" in this post between naked gods and holy liars... glad you like it!
A Letter A Day is a personal project designed and maintained by Jaime Van Wart, full-time software designer by day and renegade typographer by night. The goal of the project is to increase production and generation of formal ideas and to ultimately create fully resolved original typefaces by gathering feedback and criticism from the design community. Jaime can be contacted at sauce@ketchup-mustard.com. Please click the link below to visit her site and view all work, or check out saucebomb, a home for process work, strokes of genius, inspiration, and other Internet musings.
Rules of the Game
1. Minimum of one character must be drawn every day. Posts can occur after the date of the drawing, but each day must be represented by at least one post.
2. Characters include letters, numerals, punctuation, and decorative elements.
3. Quality of renderings may range from rough sketches to formal vector drawings.
4. Posts may include single characters, words, headlines, and logotypes or word marks.
5. Drawings may build on previous entries (different characters within a single alphabet or formal idea), but each post must represent a new idea (revisions to existing ideas are excluded).
6. Inspiration may be posted where relevant and available.
nice dumb! good quirks. i love the holy o. also in gods. coincidence?
ReplyDeleteuhh... no coincidence! as a longstanding member of the b-team, i feel comfortable admitting that there's been some minor "cheating" in this post between naked gods and holy liars... glad you like it!
ReplyDeleteI'm starting a new band, immediately, in hopes that you can begin making posters for me again.
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