Journal Assignment #13: Book Cover Redesign Roundup

Albus Dumbledore
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

"It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us."  

"You don't forget the face of the person who was your last hope."

"While the heart beats, hope lingers." 

“Monsters are not a joke"

"Life is the most spectacular show on earth" 

 "I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."

 "Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens" 

“The problems arise when we begin to believe literally in our own metaphors”

"WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH."

Journal Assignment #11: alphabet display inspiration

Costa PTF specimen designed by Tiffany Wardle, 2004.

Found on typofonderie.com

Stag by Christan Schwartz

Found on smashingmagazine

Tisa by Mitja Miklavcic

Found on smashingmagazine

DIN Next by Linotype

Found on linotype

By Jelmar Geerstma

Found on designerdaily

Suana by Underware

Found on designerdaily

By Michael Hochleitner

Found on gentlepurespace 

Pylar Mohabbat

Found on creativereview

Gill Kayo

Found on fontsinuse

Interpol Serif by Hannes Famira

Found on kombinat

Week 10: numbers and punctuation sketches

Week 8 Digital Journal Assignment - Typeface Name

Hip to Be a Square

My initial thoughts for the name of my typeface is hip to be a square. My slab serif has some square attributes, but unlike a regular slab serif, it also has rounded elements that stay within the bounds of a square throughout the face. Also, hip to be a square just reminds me of Sesame Street, not that I think my typeface is childish looking, but more-so I feel that it has the personality of the guy who sings the "It's hip to be a square" song. It kind of has a "I'm different but that's the way the cool kids do it" feel to it.

UpperCase

Week 6: UPPERCASE sketches

 

I am rather interested in the slab serif, second from the top, and the one on the top which I want to resemble my handwriting. I feel like if I go through with the first one, I will need to write the letters many many times to get the essence down better. And if I go with the second choice I want to give it something to make it a bit different from every other slab serif out there; possibly a low x-height like the a has.

Journal Assignment #5: Project 4 research

I'm thinking I want to design a typeface not necessarily to put in my portfolio as a project, but to present my projects in my portfolio. I usually tend to gravitate towards slab serifs when it comes to needing a display face so it's probably a good idea not design just another slab serif. I found some really nice display and script fonts and hopefully that's a direction I can follow in.

 

Rue Display is particularly nice. I enjoy the arched characteristics of the font, it gives it personality and its fun.

Candy Script is another fun one. I really like the swashes. They are quirky and have a big personality. I think it would be fun and challenging to do something like this.

Here's a good in-between of a script and a slab serif. I wanted to put it in here just as another option of where I can go with this. 

Beppo is really big and bubbly (in personality). It definitely caught my attention right away. I love the thickness of the letters yet the contrasted thinness of the script that connects them. Also, that little indent they played with on the top of the letters is definitely something different. I want my typeface to have a defining feature like that.

This picture below is just some inspiration when I'm designing... and a reminder to sketch first, digitalize later.

Darby display has really nice slanted/rounded serifs that caught my attention. I also am a fan of the e.

Miss Kitty Delux is a little girly for me but I thought the designer had something good going on when she was designing this. The uppercase A is particularly nice and I love the balls at the ends of some of the letters. I also enjoy the fact that everything is capitalized except for the i.

 

I added BD Hitbit into my research just because I really lot the way they made all the counters and negative space of the letters.

Gaisma is very organic looking and I enjoy that. I would probably make my face a little bolder than this one but I like its simplicity and its personality.

 

Pepita script is particularly nice. I love the different swashes you can turn on; the t is especially beautiful. I love its classic advertising look that was redefined in a modern way.

Week 4: Digital Journal Assignment - Customized Lettering

I really enjoy this logo. Although I can't exactly find the correct font for the logo it seems to go along well with some brush fonts that I found on MyFonts. From what I can tell, the designer probably disconnected the bowl of the e to go along with the curved steam coming out of the coffee cup, also forming the F's of the word coffee. They also probably emphasized the curve in the C more than the original typeface.


*** update*** I may have actually found the font - barrista on myfonts

This is a logo for Du Life looks like a modified Geometric font like Bauhaus or Avenir because there is no varying width and the bowl of the d is completely geometric. In my opinion they added another modified letter to make the tail of the d (or the letter u) and rounded all the corners to give it a more friendly feel.

Here is another typeface that received some help from alteration. This typeface seems to be a Neo-Grotesque font because it has little variation and the D kind of looks like it has a well defined coutner. If I had to guess, this logo kind of looks like Antique Olive except in a black face because of the horizontal line at the top of the A and the very pointy counter inside the A pointing to the top. They may have added some extra weight to the line width and obviously they added what looks like an extra road lane, to the left side of the A.

I also really like this logo. Its another geometric font like Avante Garde Gothic because of the little variation and the roundness of the o. The font was altered by rounding the connected horizontals and verticals and then pointing the different acenders, descenders, and horizontal lines.