Category Archives: Typefaces

October 28

Graphics created to celebrate the birthday I share with three friends.

Famous Logos Re-imagined

This is Universal Unbranding, a parodied makeover of some of the world’s most recognized logos by the satirical artistic collective Maentis. “It is tempting for us to hijack the positive messages that companies are trying so hard to deliver,” Maentis tells Co.Design. “[Plus] logos are generally very simple so they’re perfect for lazy artists like us.”

: Apple “Faith”

: BP “Angry”

: Facebook “Euro”

: Gillette

: Ikea

: Lacoste

: McDonald’s

: Nike “Labor”

: Nuclear “Flower”

: Olympics

: Peace

: Red “Bison”

: Rolling Stones

: Unicef

: USA Flag

From Mark Wilson @FastCompany

A Minimalist’s Approach

Michal Krasnopolski took a basic graphic template to create this set of revisioned minimalist classic movie posters. The designs rigorously adhere to the same mold: a circle overlaid by two diagonals, all inscribed in a square. I think the approach is very clever and modern. Click to see the slideshow.

: The Template

: Superman

: Pulp Fiction

: Around The World In 80 Days

: The Hurt Locker

: Midnight In Paris

: Rosemary’s Baby

: Singin’ In The Rain

: Empire Of The sun

: Stars Wars: Episode VI “Return Of the Jedi”

: Star Wars: Episode IV “A New Hope”

: Everything You Alays Wanted To Know About Sex* But Were Afraid to Ask

: The Hunt For Red October

: The Lord Of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

: The Lord Of the Rings: The Two Towers

: The Lord Of the Rings: The Return Of The King

: North By Northwest

: 101 Dalmations

: Jaws

: Lost Highway

: Indiana Jones And the Raisers Of The Lost Ark

From: http://www.fastcodesign.com

10 New CD Covers

I always enjoy seeing what’s being used for cover art on CDs. Here’s a sampling of some new releases that caught my eye. (click for a slideshow)

: Kurt Vile – Wakin on a Pretty Daze

: Kid Cudi – Indicud

: Tyler, The Creator – Wolf

: Iron & Wine – Ghost to Ghost

: The Flaming Lips – The Terror

: Phoenix – Bankrupt!

: James Blake – Overgrown

: The Knife – Shaking the Habitual

: Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Mosquito

: Ghostface Killah – Twelve Reasons to Die

Post-Computer Age Typefaces

In this age of branding some companies are letting their logos become distorted. It seems counter-productive when style guides are the bible for brands to follow. So why the change? Brands know their followers love to make it their own in this DIY age and they are loosening up to allow a new generation to become emotionally connected with them. Here are some examples of this as seen on Fastcodesign.com and some new trends happening with type.

Los Logos 6, Gestalten’s latest catalog of brand marks, compiles some of the best offerings from a global roster of type designers.

Click to view the slide show

: Trochut also created this type treatment for a limited-edition T-shirt for Nike’s Hyperdunk lab

: The letters of this Nike logo, by Barcelona-based Mark Brooks looks like liquid subjected to a burst of wind.

: For Strum, an organization that conducts music workshops at schools around London, the the folks at Hat-Trick conveyed the group’s mission with a vibrating logo, rather than hokey instruments or musical notes.

: The Wiesbaden-based design firm 3Deluxe created the identity for the sports-apparel brand Ion. Appearing to peel away in strips, the logo still packs a visual whollop.

: Barcelona designer Alex Trochut designed the Neo Deco typeface for Hype for Type, a type foundry. According to Truchot, it’s meant to be displayed “in a huge size.”

: Till Wiedeck, of HelloMe, hand-painted the visual identity for Troberg, an experimental electropop band from Munich, while listening to the group’s debut album.

: The full typographic alphabet.

: The London designer Melvin Galapon has built a career on glitch logos. This CGI postmodern emblem, made in collaboration with photographer Anne-Ceile Caillaud, is for Show Off Recordings.

: The Russian artist/designer Protey Temen developed this techno-collage identity for his experimental film titled “Passion.”

: The Amsterdam studio Thonik drew on the industrial heritage of the mining area around Genk, in Limburg, Belgium, which was the setting for last year’s European Biennale for Contemporary Art.

: “The interplay of lines,” the designers write, “symbolizes an underground world that covers a huge area to a depth of two kilometers.”

: Los Logos 6

KRÖLLER-MÜLLER MUSEUM, NETHERLANDS GETS A NEW TYPEFACE

The firm Edenspiekermann, created this new logo and typographic concept for the musuem with letterforms that look like they’re folding out right from surface they’re printed on.

The typography reflects Kröller-Müller’s indoor-outdoor offerings. It’s not a typical museum, where the art hangs flat against the walls, Kröller-Müller’s installations are more varied.

Things can be looked at inside and out, on two-dimensional canvasses, and in the round. The new logo’s 3-D type captures the feel of this in a stunning visual all its own.

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