Tasty nacho of fun, Z!

I'm in! Good time to intro some of my stencil font too.

¡Nunca escapar de la rana headlock legendaria!

¿Nadie se atreve a luchar contra mí?

Churros y chicharrones son mi única debilidad. Pero son también mi fuerza. Ellos me hacen la grasa. ¡Ahora yo te aplaste!

Nice, Randy! I think this battle is off to a very good start :)

I think I need to lay off the Tapatio. BTW Rana Floja is sponsored by Google Language Tools.

This will be fun! I'm going to do El Pollo Con Labios.

I feel like I just fell off another planet and have no idea what is going on.

ChrisL

Chris: If I may suggest, your luchador alter-ego might just be: El Jugador de Palabras (The Punster - or some such thing). The rest of my taunting comments are indeed from another planet, no matter what language they're in. So you're right on there!

Muy bueno tu español, Randy "Cojones" Jones!

And El Jugador de Palabras would be just right for Chris -- nice one! :-)

Ricardo can be Zumo De Naranja Con Pulpo! Orange Juice with Octopus.

Ha!

Rana Floja y su archi-némesis Silla Plegable. Ahora una parejas increíbles!

Here is just the type part for now. The poster is to come. I thought I would design a blackletter typeface for this battle since it seems to be often used in Mexican street art.

ChrisL

Awesome! Your color choice helps make a strong counter punch. I had to resize the browser so to avoid both images on the same page at once... else seizures :-)

Rana

Ack, Dezcom beats El Pulpo to the punch!

Just wait till you see what I've been working on, Chris!

Here is my poster...

Todos al Gran Estadio Tipofílico este viernes! La batalla comienza! :-D

Ok so here's mine :)

Ricardo, that is a scream!

LOL!!!

ChrisL

hahahahahaha chris looking very tough.

elVetico- nice.

Here is the poster.

ChrisL

I have just been looking at the posters that Zara kindly posted as examples and realize that mine is too slick for the genre. Randy has done a masterful job of catching the flavor perfectly. I am assuming these posters are typically hand done and bargain printed. Unlike boxing or WWF posters where big money promoters were involved, Luchador seems more grassroots.

Great job, Randy!

Tezzu, What does Vetico mean? I seem to be the only person on this thread who does not speak Spanish :-)

ChrisL

Hey Chris, I don't know what vetico means in Spanish either,
it was just a quick visual pun (that apparently didn't work out that well :) )

Maybe this hint will help:

(h)elVetico

And anyway Chris your type looks great!
It'd be great to know more about the creative process that lead to that result.

"it was just a quick visual pun"

I of all people should have spotted that one!!! Good one, now that my brain got wrapped around it :-)

ChrisL

"It’d be great to know more about the creative process"

My concept for the typeface was to give it a bit of a razorwire flavor so I did it all with straight lines and allowed sharp protrusions where there were intersections but in a controlled manner so that the glyphs would interlock a bit. I limited the angles to one oblique of a bout 40 degrees and 90 degrees from it or the baseline. I may complete the typeface and see if there is a market for a modern blackletter perhaps with the rock band folks or some such thing.

The border is supposed to look like that tire chain stuff that is seen around license plates on cars.

ChrisL

phase one

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Chiba,
I like your graffiti tagging lettering style. It really works for this subject.

ChrisL

Hi Chris,
This kind of tag has its roots in blackletter (believe it or not) so I guess there is a connection.
I liked your techy blackletter approach and do think there is market for those nowadays. I've seen these around quite a bit, and think yours would work the same way:

http://www.veer.com/products/typedetail.aspx?image=JBT0000005

http://www.underware.nl/site2/index.php?id1=fakir&id2=overview

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/virusfonts/bastard

Cheers

El Santo
aka Chiba Chiba

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Check out this video from Mistico aerial wrestling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uzNYHOAvRk

Héctor

Gotta beware of this guy

Héctor,
I finally understand your avatar!

ChrisL

Frederico,

Thanks! I really love the one from Underwear--that is a terrific take on a modern blackletter!

Russ,
Running with scissors is brilliant!

ChrisL

Héctor, I was waiting for you to weigh in, given your auténtico avatar.

Re: Mistico
I don't care if it's all scripted. The high flying luchadors are athletes in my book. That is amazing.

Chris, I think while my designs have a folky quality, they are too designerly to be auténtico. Too much white -- er yellow -- space. Real lucha posters seem to leave no breathing room at all. In that regard, I think El Pulpo has it perfect. Information overload with a gradient for good measure.

I had no idea El Santo was a typophile?

I think it's time for the mashup royal rumble battle poster between all the luchadors in the ring.

And what happened to the luchadora Chicken Lips? Too much testosterone here? Most luchadoras have enough testosterone to match the most macho honcho. (please don't hurt me -- I'm just following the smack talk instructions)

Lucha
Libre Slice

(h)elVetico

good one.

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Real lucha posters seem to leave no breathing room at all. In that regard, I think El Pulpo has it perfect. Information overload with a gradient for good measure.

Aw, thanks, Rana! :-)

I have to say that the gradient was inspired by one of the posters Zara linked to... Usually I associate those kinds of gradients with certain old-time "vernacular" concert posters.

...my designs have a folky quality...

Definitely, Randy -- and you get lots of points for your great use of Spanish smack talk and excellent luchador names! "Silla Plegable" was espectacular!

And what happened to the luchadora Chicken Lips?

Yeah, I was wondering about her, too.

Yes Ricardo, the word here would be MAXIMALISM. :) dont know why I went minimalism :P

ChrisL

ChrisL

Re: Sitting on can
Do I spy a Tecate can no less? Bonus!

Chris, didn't notice the chains were part of the font. Cool. BTW, your biceps appear to have hookworms.

"your biceps appear to have hookworms."

Yes, but at least my naval still has a sunny disposition :-)

ChrisL

Randy,
Here is the typeface so far (I am calling it Deuterium).
I only have the lower case roughed out with just a few caps as needed for the battle. The last line is the dingbats which are kerened to eachother to set as chains.

ChrisL

WELCOME TO THE GUN SHOW!!!!

@Chris: Nice to see your typeface going! I'm really curious to see how the other capitals will turn out.

@Russell: thanks!

Haley shoots fro the hip but she must be firing blanks because we see no bullet holes yet :-)

ChrisL

I wanted to print it out for real :*(

Also added bonus of me in a blonde wig with "The Blue Orange"

YES!!!

Good work, Haley! Welcome to the death watch--see you Saturday with no holds barred! :-)

ChrisL

I love the wig! If you are not careful, I will post a photo of me ion a blond wig, too!

ChrisL

Your hair is so pretty!

It is the finest Dynel money can buy :-)

ChrisL

This battle is been enlightening.

Haley: props for printing. I think that might take it.

Good to see that the Blue Orange has some fans.

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¡ Diós mio, que sanvuerto locos !

David Sudoeix presenta:

Randy, that was a funny poster the one about the chair.

Chris, is that a real photo of you back in the good old days?

I think Haley has the most authentic poster of all. Originally these posters were cheaply screenprinted or letterpressed on cheap paper with flashy gradients to call for attention. Some posters are still done this way on small towns. Later when the wrestlers became movie stars the match posters started using full body pictures.

Haley the mask in your picture from "El Huracán Ramírez" is one of the coolest ever. Sample 1, Sample 2

Héctor

"is that a real photo of you back in the good old days?"

LOL! Back in the Photoshop Days! :-)

ChrisL

BTW, Happy Cinco de Mayo!!!

ChrisL

Hey, thanks for remembering, I would buy all a round of tequila shots if you were on town but I would prefer to welcome anyone when the real big party is thrown at 15/09.

Héctor

ChrisL

Whoops! Pardon my suckful Spanish!

Here is a better one.

ChrisL

5 de Mayo! Actually I don't know exactly what means the Cinco de Mayo - ¿Qué es Héctor?
(I can not upload a image for some reason... I will try later)

Q: Como se dice "pun" en espanol? A: pun-o.
http://www.bustedtees.com/cincodemayo

My reigning heavyweight campeones de Lucha-ville:

Best Original Typeface in a Lucha Poster: Chris "Jugador de las Palabras" Lozos
Most Authentic Lucha Poster Design: Haley "El Pollo con Labios" Fiege
Scariest Knowledge of Lucha Trivia and Best Masked Avatar: Héctor "Donsata" Muñoz Huerta
Best Photoshop of Chris Lozos: Ricardo "El Pulpo" Cordoba

And finally,

Best Legally Blonde impression in a Lucha Type Battle Post:
Chris Lozos (it was close Haley).

I got it! I needed a PC to do this upload! Here, the Cinco de Mayo "Je Je"
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Not really. I can see the text in the comment window, the image appears there, I can read it [xxxxx.jpg] but it doesn' do it... Later I will try again.

Didn't have time to make a poster, but I have a couple of Lucha Libre FontStructions in the works:

Luchador
http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/14177

Letra Libre
http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/32846

double post, sorry

ChrisL

"Best Photoshop of Chris Lozos: Ricardo “El Pulpo” Cordoba"

I have to agree on that one! I laughed my cajones off when I first saw it!

"Best Legally Blonde impression in a Lucha Type Battle)."

That should read ugliest legally blonde in my case :-)

Tip o the old sombrero to Randy for his spirit and fun on this one and his best Spanish by a non-native speaker!

ChrisL

"Cinco de mayo" is remembered as the date of "La Batalla de Puebla" (Puebla's Battle) when the Mexican Army repelled the attack of the French Army invading the country in 1862 claiming the payment of debts and supporting the imposition of Maximiliano de Hasburgo as monarch.

Despite of this the french occupied the country until 1867.

It's a national holiday for schools but certainly not the most important date for the country. It has received lots of attention from the north american government as a political strategy and a symbolic celebration (america for the americans).

Pun would be "broma" "juego de palabras". A more witty and lascive pun would be called "albur".

Héctor

LOL!

Welcome Chicken Lips! YES! I want to see that poster in print! :-)

Now if only I could find a blond wig... dang! ;-D

Triple Batalla, YEAH!!!

P.S. I loved the bit about "el Estado de Typophile"... Our very own nation-state! (Besides San Serriffe, of course.)

OK. My ludic invention this time is the TEMIBLE GALLORDON, which was complicated and I had to place it somewhere else:
http://www.photoblog.com/storage001/2008/05/05/

The thing here is this Engravers, 19th Century? I don't know but I can say 1900s. It is just a alphabet, it doesn't even has punctuation, and ¡cuidaos! with the curve, because of its many singularities, if you touch it with a pencil, what happen is that it behaves like a rat trap and bang! Sometimes I think this stuff could just blast the monitor from within...

¡Feliz Cinco de Mayo a todos Ustedes!

Thanks Héctor, I knew about some french occupation or so but not so detailed.

André

Hey Nate, wonderful set of pixels, some of the mask I actually recognize.

Chris, that blackletter does look very mexican to me, specially red over yellow, kind of chopped paper for the day of the dead.

André, your Gallordón is very funny 80's like but I fear that it looks more like a box poster or tomato sauce advertisement to me, ¡LOL!

Héctor

...oops, spelling error.

Héctor, it is smashed... I don't know. The other day I was searching something on the web and I endded up on the page of

EL REAL BETIS BALOMPIE

It is very interesting the way they found a translation to football. It is a crazy thing as putting BALL and FOOT backwards, more and less like this:

BALLFOOT

And also to remember, colega, the few years I spent in Seville back in the early nineties. The Betis stadium, Estadio Manuel Ruiz de Lopera is very small if compared with their huge rival, ER Sevilla. Nonetheless their smallness they are leons. Not to mention that around in the neighborhood, which is residential, there are lots of cafés with good food and all the folks out at night, Y LAS PALMAS. A la sevillana. HUGE.

Cheers

André

I confess - 2 things:

1, When I saw this challenge and some to the lucha libre postes, I thought of a font I was already working on. So, I didn't invent mine from scratch. I just make a bolder, rawer font (Dischuffed Raw Bold) with the uber cool LI ligature that I stole from Randy's LO lig in his entry above.

2, I don't know anything about Lucha Libre and plan on taking som classes in...

(oh - I'm not late, am I :¬)

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Gallordon Dos Hyper

Props to Command Zed for the brief on this one.
I was a little worried at first, but people came on strong.
This was perfectly timed procrastination para mi. Gracias.
(Big project deadline ahead!)

I am not a very good letterer and this is very late but I am a Lucha fan so here we go:

I actually have a font called Mil Mascaras based on Lucha Libre. Here's the glyph palette.

Actually I was dressed as Barbarella :)

Patty, that's a neat dingbat font -- it even has an extraterrestial or two... ;-)

And I suppose Labios Barbarella could do battle with those evil aliens. :-D

I think the registration mark is the baddest hombre in that font, he can make you black and blue as well as red and yellow if you don't keep him in line :-)

ChrisL

i pick tiger man

When will we get a new challenge?

:D

For the full exposure :)

Ivan, your Gigante is big! I wonder if EL Gigante would sound like ER Gigante in southern Spain.

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