Typophile - TYPE BATTLE: Week 8 (13 March) - Comments

mesa wins

pica pusher — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:42:37 -0800

mesa wins

Ahh - just found this,

MekOne — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 07:37:42 -0800

Ahh - just found this, coupla weeks old - outline for a graff piece saying MEK. My first real look at 3D letters that used their depth as an element of the letters rather than just a shadow. I started the experiment by cutting out 2d letters, and manipulating them and sketching the results...which incidently looked horrible. Once you get the x,y,z thing in your head though it becomes easier to draw abstract stuff. Sorry for the ramble, and the dirt over the skecth, it’s paint.

Just a quicky, I should be

MekOne — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 03:55:10 -0800

Just a quicky, I should be working......’Peggy’ is lovely btw, killing it with the letters :) ’Extruse’ has pretty elements to it as well. I think I choose SKY because it’s grey and moody in East London.

^ that’s pretty freekin

istitch — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 08:55:48 -0800

^
that’s pretty freekin sweet!

OK, we’ve had quite a

dtw — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 07:50:10 -0800

OK, we’ve had quite a variety of ways of rendering the 3d effect, so just by way of an experiment...

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Somebody had to do it: by

pica pusher — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:23:01 -0800

Somebody had to do it:

by the way Mark, Kellie, Cerulean: sweeet. I knew there was a reason to like handmade type, in spite of Urban Outfitters.

these are looking nifty :P

blflm — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 13:29:53 -0800

these are looking nifty :P this week gets a quick sketch from me as well. tried to put some optical illusioneske style to it (says “oh my!!”)

I think Nick and Glen’s

Kellie Strøm — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:23:49 -0800

I think Nick and Glen’s are the cleverest. The more I look at Glen’s ’Twisted’ the more it grows on me. It looks like it would taste good too!

istitch — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:35:23 -0800

I dunno what to say, but

tomjohnson — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:39:56 -0800

I dunno what to say, but all of the works are pretty good.

I agree with you paul, I also like Ti Buron’s lettering

Kris, you could maybe get

paul d hunt — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:58:55 -0800

Kris, you could maybe get work from Tim Burton.

i love yer style, kris. it reminds me of lettering illustrations from Roald Dahl’s books...so i can make the Tim Burton connection as well. >^D

BTW, I love the Peggy

Mark Simonson — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:36:06 -0800

BTW, I love the Peggy drawing. The drawings this week have been really good. Well done, everyone. Kris, you could maybe get work from Tim Burton.

Here’s something I found

Mark Simonson — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:32:47 -0800

Here’s something I found in my sketch files:

It’s a detail of a doodle I did during a meeting in about 1981. I realize there are way too many letters in there, but I cropped out a bunch of others. The cropped area shown above is about 2.5 inches tall in the original.

The Peggy lettering is

Typeology — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 06:19:58 -0800

The Peggy lettering is awesome! It’s really beautiful!

I switched to Internet

dtw — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 02:02:13 -0800

I switched to Internet Explorer and it looked horrible there, too. Must be some optional setting (?) as a lot of the other pngs looked OK in both browsers (including mine, I’m relieved to find!)

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TYPE BATTLE: Week 8 (13 March)

Christian Robertson — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:50:33 -0800

TYPE BATTLE: Week 8 (13 March)

Here’s your chance to stretch your type muscles on a weekly basis. Each game kicks off on Monday with a new challenge, and closes at midnight PST on Friday. Anyone may submit a design response to the challenge. You may enter as often as you wish. Post anytime. Critiques and comments are welcome throughout the game, from participants and spectators alike. Smack talk is encouraged.

Winner take all, no holds barred. May be the best designer win.

Link directly to this thread: http://www.typophile.com/battle08

Requirements:

- Size: 600 width x 400 height. 72 dpi
- Color: Black and white only
- Format: Please save your graphics as PNG
- Only respond with the characters posted in the challenge.

// THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE:
Use only black and white, design a word no longer than 8 letters using faux 3d letters. Here’s the catch: all entries must be done by hand.