Recap - project 3

Here's the third project, text type:

Recap - project 2

This is my rebranding project - a jewelry line called "Hardwear."

Recap - project 1

Project 1, type specimen book:

Walter Benjamin body text

I changed the preface and folio (from Gill Sans to Bembo small caps) to make it fit more with the minimalist classical look.




Closeup:




Playing around with different chapter headings to look more "mechanical"

Mechanical reproduction cover

I'm getting close to a cover for Walter Benjamin.



A reverse chronological progression:

book layout, take 1

Here's what I worked on last weekend:








This is the start of a longish essay about the effects of photography, written late-nineteenth century. The design is still pretty preliminary. I'm going for a clean, inviting (not too dense) look, with humanist touches. The cover still needs to be fancified quite a bit.

Tool, packaged

Part of my instructional booklet. I'm reconceiving a wrench (and keychain and other small hardware, to come later.)

An experiment

While I'm pretty set on wanting to present the text in one long vertical strip ("cinematically," as my wonderful classmate said on Monday) I wanted to see what would happen if I scrapped that idea momentarily and made the poem into a poster. Here's what I have after playing around for a couple hours. Not sure how far I want to take it.

repost in pieces

I realized the large image wasn't showing up from my previous post. Here it is again, in sections.






The tail end of this is still a little raggedy - I'm going to keep working on it.

type specimen book - first attempt

Here's a type specimen attempt for y'all to peruse.

The text is (in my opinion)the world's best-written mid-life crisis - T. S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.


The poem stores as an accordion-book. I'll post a version with markings for the folds shortly.

Detail:




Fonts used, in order of appearance:

Verdana italic
Gill Sans
Affair
Bodoni Poster
Avant Garde
Adobe Caslon Pro
International Disgrace
Chicken
Futura
Candice
Cataneo
CG Nashville


Next step: incorporating color...

First post

Font overload!