Professor's Website

I was surprised when I discovered that this site belonged to a medieval history professor. The old german style fonts and distorted serif typefaces give this website a distressed appearance.

Brooke Garner

Young House Love by Sherry and John Petersik is a book intended for do-it-yourself home improvement projects for people looking to improve their home décor with budget friendly ideas. The couple shares their tricks and techniques for ways to craft, paint and show your own home some love. I found this book on my friend’s coffee table and began to browse through and found some interesting ideas and tips to improve my home. The typeface on the top half of the cover is a san serif in all caps. The word “love” in cursive with a picture of the Petersik’s in front is important because it suggests that the couple is close and that their ideas intertwine and flow well together. The front includes materials such as a paintbrush and wooden letters that symbolize and foreshadow possible projects that are within the book. The type used is very appropriate because it feels very fresh and modern. The white space surrounding the title of the book is nice too because it allows focus on the type as well as symbols on the type. I do not believe that this cover would work if the type were to be taken out. This example will influence me to allow more white space in my work and let the type speak for itself, rather than having distracting designs within the background.

Madison Hanlon

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I happened upon this typeface while scanning through my Pinterest feed. I believe this window is from a city building, probably New York. I love how the white of the type color stands out on the window. I think this typeface is a fun and new way to design type. I was really attracted to the choices the designer made. I like the idea of making some letters open while filling some letters in. If you look at each individual letter you notice that they are all different in their own way. Some of them look almost 3D while others look broken or offset. I think its interactive with ones eye and draws the attention of viewers. This image makes me want to play around with different ideas and shapes dealing with type. I love it, it's so creative!

Lets take a moment to "appreciate" how much this sucks...

So I've been waiting to get my certificate for dean's list this semester... and oh my gosh the type this year SUCKS! The bold Bubbly font the university chose for 'dean's list' looks as if it came from an elementary school, completed with non kerned letters. Then the next three fonts are completely different, messing with the hierarchy of the document, then last but not least at the end of the document the university left some letters bleed into the red ribbon... our university has administered an awfully designed document for being a design school, surely with how much we pay as students they could hire a designer to prof these things.

Ye ol' Power Plant

We've all seen it. This typeface originates from the sans serif category as humanistic, which is noted for the obvious weight contrast. The typeface also seems to be a throw back to art nouveau, a particular art movement near and dear to my heart. This inspires my future designs because type can be as phenomenal as any building. Type can be a literal landmark.

Deyton #4

I was stuck at my aunt's and uncle's house all weekend in Dallas and we were all very sick, so I just went through their magazines and I found a spread that I liked to blog about.

I do like this spread because it is simple yet grabs the reader's attention and I liked their layout and grid, but I do see some stuff I would have changed. For one thing, I count at least 5 different type faces, and they do not really work together because of how different the styles are, especially the weights of the letters. The types faces also cause a hierarchy problem with the headlines on the second page. The subheads are much more bold and draw the eye, while the headlines are thin and compressed and hard to read, especially when they put it with the purple background. All the being said, the fonts are actually very interesting if you look at them. The word "cruising" on the first page looks cropped, and I can't tell if the subheads on the second page are the same typeface, but instead of all caps they are all lower-case, but it is just an interesting font. I like the font very much, but I think the rest of the article feels too professional or classy for it.

P.S. This is awesome: