Final Senior Show Posters

Senior Show No. 2 Posters

The show's opening this weekend, by the way; Saturday
at 6:00. If you're in the vicinity of Sioux Center consider dropping by!

Oh, and:

Bauer Bodoni Black Italic,
Voluta Script Pro,
Times New Roman MT Condensed Bold and
Adobe Garamond Pro, respectively.

Any favourites?

Day #40: Piper

Another Angeleno.

Trade Gothic Bold

Day #39: Jacob

Keeping with the trend of people I know who live in LA: Jacob.

Akzidenz Grotesk Light

Day #38: Jack

Helvetica 75

Day #37: Laurel

Another experiment with a bit of stretching and drop shadows. It's been a few months now since I experimented with stretching, and I must say that I still do kind of like the results sometimes. This is about 75% width and 105% height. I don't know that I'd ever push it much more than that. At some point it shifts from somewhat interesting typographic experiment to direct-mailer. Like fashion, experiemental/throwback typography exists on a continuum. As Eddie Izzard puts it, at some point looking groovy starts to bleed into looking like a dickhead.

Carefully executed, stretched fonts can look kind of groovy.

Helvetica 75

Day #36: Ethan

So I made this last week in honour of my friend, Ethan, being in town AND it being his birthday, but I obviously didn't get around to posting it. So, Happy Birthday, Ethan, even when your birthday's through.

Glypha 75

Update

I haven't given up on the names project. Things are busy right now and so it's fallen into the background a bit. I'll be posting more names soon and will do a better job of keeping up with it than I have the last couple of weeks again.

S.

Day #31-35: Betsy, Dane, Neal, Laura & dee

Avant Garde Bold, Frutiger Bold, Cooper Black Italic, Voluta Script & Courier (modified)

Day #29 & 30: Andrew & Lynda

Helvetica Heavy & Didot.

5 more tomorrow and I'm current.

Day #26-28: Laremy, Becca & Corrie

Sorry for the delay – here are 26, 27 & 28.

See revision for Corrie.

Univers 85, Kepler Semi-Condensed Italic and Helvetica Roman.

Spring Break

Readers: I'll be out of town for a few days – and probably without access to Adobe software – so I won't be posting names for the next few days. I know that that's technically cheating, but there's not too much to be done about it.

In the meantime these are the names I will do to catch up when we return.

Day #26: Laremy
Day #27: Becca
Day #28: Corrie
Day #29: Andrew
Day #30: Lynda
Day #31: Dane

Have a good weekend.

Day #25: elbert

Rotis Semi Sans

Day #24: Alvin

Helvetica Bold

Day #23: Skip

Univers 65

Day #22: Ross

Franklin Gothic Demi

Day #21: Autumn (sister-in-law)

Bulmer Display

day #20: Josh (brother-in-law)

Univers 75.

I'm quickly coming to the close of immediate family and in-laws here, any requests (other than a self-portrait)?

Day #19: Suzi (niece)

Futura Bold.

Day #18: Bethany (sister-in-law)

Century Schoolbook.

Day #17: Daniel (brother-in-law)

Franklin Gothic Book.

Below: There is a group of typefaces known as the grotesques, which were very common in Germany through much of the 19th century. Characterized by bold, straight lines and even strokes these letters were ideal for things like posters and advertisements – and propaganda. Among these typefaces there was one called Akzidenz Grotesk, which emerged at the beginning of the 20th century. It gained widespread popularity and usage throughout Europe and eventually spawned a whole family of new typefaces – the neo-grotesques, like Helvetica, Univers, Folio and Franklin Gothic (the American). We all, of course, know Helvetica quite well.
One thing that I like to ponder while looking at typeface is the lower-case a. There seems to be a lot of personality there. Below are 4 lower-case a's presented for your consideration. Compare them, see what kinds of relationships are there. It's fun.