Typography Humour
Papyrus walks into a bar and the barman says, “I’m sorry sir, but we don’t serve your type in here”.
Papyrus is taking over logos and products, print media and even websites.
Papyrus Watch sets out to document and expose the use of Papyrus.
http://www.papyruswatch.com/
Fight Club – Chemical Burn – Kinetic Typography
I encourage my students to watch this with NO SOUND first and see if they can identify the characters and the emotion
Typolution – Kinetic Typography
Demonstration of how type can be used as art and visual aids to create shape and form rather than simply being text that we read.
Saul Bass – Creative Genius
Saul Bass… Where do I start?… Possibly one the best and most prolific designers ever. From virtually all of Alfred Hitchcock’s movie poster (and incidentally some of the best posters all round), to movie credits for the like of Scorsese’s “Casino”…. This guy has a definite, and amazing style and artistic process. What amazes me [...]
West Side Story poster
This one’s a little exposure for myself. I love working with typography and flat colour comps. I had a little spare time so I started with this illustration of the girl in the poster. I just really liked the angle of the shot and felt it would look great if it was applied to a [...]
What is Type?
Here’s a little typographic animation about…. Typography! It runs through and explains the basic principles of typography and how they should applied. There’s a little but about anatomy of type as well. I really like this one as it’s well presented and it isn’t just another tutorial vid.. It’s actually got an underlying concept. [...]
What does Marsellus Wallace look like?
Excellent typographic animation. This one’s quite old again but it pack a piece… There’s loads of these type animations based on a movie dialogue going around on YouTube, but this one is definitely one of the best. Really simple simple and straight forward, and such a great quote….Quick profanity warning but well worth a look.
Sagmeister Goes Commercial
Stefan Sagmeister is arguably one of the best designers in the world, so when I heard he was dong advertising for a bank I was a little worried that he was selling out. I needn’t have been worried though as the ad is beautiful and the type inspired.
It’s nothing new – he’s been doing this [...]