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Favorite Font Zine

Caviar Dreams is the best!!!!

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Garamond Magazine Spread

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Download my first font at https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1385693/greek-lightning

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Deconstructive Grid Exercise Part 2

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Decunstructive Grid Exercise Part 1

For this assignment, we had to make a lot of various compositions using the same text. We had specific guidelines on what was required for each composition, and this is the result of mine!

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Breakfast in England! For Spring Break this year I am on a mission trip in England, and this morning When I sat down to breakfast, I couldn't help it notice the Tesco name on many of the breakfast items. Looking at the typography, I was reminded of the store brand items like Good Value from Walmart back in the states, since it has some personality, but nothing quite as creative as the script of the Galaxy brand hot chocolate or the PG logo that uses overlap/transparency and has another word skillfully placed inside the open counter of the G. Upon a little google research, I found that Tesco is, in fact, a grocery store here across the pond! I'm looking forward to seeing other interesting design while I'm here in England, and I'll make sure to share it here on my blog!

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Type Classification Part 2

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Type Classification Examples Part 1

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Beauty is in the design. Kerning is key.

For my first post, I’d like to share two examples of typography. The first is a piece designed by Marian Bantjes, whom I first came across about a year ago when I did a research project on her and her amazing work. I definitely recommend checking her out! “Seduction” is one of my favorites that she made. I love the way the letters seem to dance and sway on the page, literally acting out the word that they create, and I’m also a big fan of Bantjes’ ornamentation. The lines and letters are rendered very nicely, keeping the image crisp and interesting to look at without any irritating flaws.

Speaking of flaws... I think that it’s about time that we “Massage The Rapist” I mean, “Massage Therapist.” Oh, my. What an embarrassing thing to say. I’m not sure exactly where this sign is located, but I’m sure that whoever hung it up has had an earful! This is a classic example of poor kerning, which is the spaces between the letters of a word. If only the designer had been a little more careful with how far apart they spaced their letters! (They could have done a better job at centring their text as well.) The art director of an advertising firm once told me that you can tell an amateur from an expert simply by looking at how well their type is kerned.