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- 08.23.10
Stag
Sye: I love Stag. It's actually almost become my default, although it's taken me a while to get use to it.… - 08.19.10
Making Geometric Type Work
Michael Critz: A great post, Ian. In our studio there’s a great deal of concern about how certain geometric fonts have “fatal flaws.” For in… - 08.17.10
Saul Bass Website and “Hitchcock” Font Are Back
keith morris: The lettering artist that did the lettering for the Saul Bass titles was Art Goodman. … - 08.11.10
Font Spotting the Thank You for Smoking Titles
Viktor Kaganovich: Mindy Marin is Corvinus Skylight. To not have recognized it... … - 06.30.10
U&lc: Influencing design and typography
Nick Shinn: The big format was important. I worked in an ad agency at the time, and we'd do posters and big newspaper and tabloid magazin… - 06.28.10
FontBook, 4th Edition
sheema mahmud: I would love to have this book, how could it be possible from where to buy? regards… - 06.27.10
Darka
Meave is One Badass MF | Typography Texas: [...] first heard about him when I saw Darka. I’ve been dreaming of designing a book about heraldry using that font. I … - 06.25.10
Archer
Tiffany: The biggest problem for Archer is going to be breaking away from being typecast. Martha Stewart did (does) a great job of usi… - 05.27.10
Fraktur Mon Amour, 2nd Edition
Chris Lozos: Well written and thoroughly done, Florian. I must admit that I enjoyed the Modern display faces more than you seem to have. T…
The look/feel reminds me of Letterhead Fonts.
This type of thing can indeed get extremely interesting, and often much more insightful than asking opinions from designers. I’m reminded of Armin’s superb man-in-the-street interviews he showed at TypeCon.
BTW, I also think it looks too “buccaneering”, although simply changing the colors (especially avoiding the gold) might promptly dispel that effect.
hhp
You can never have too much/many pirates, cowboys or ninjas. This rule applies to all aspects of life.
I believe there were some pirates, and quite a bit of high seas adventure in the Narnia series. I thought it looked a bit “gypsy”-like myself, or perhaps Persian, which also would have been appropriate, given the storylines.
I think it looks great. And hey, Pirate-stuff is certainly better than Trajan, which every other film title seems to be set in.
The logo has a rich mix of victorian styles, I think, with narrow caps, unexpected curves, and Lombard Cap remnants.
Plus, the R’s leg is a a lion’s tail, which is a big “beat-you-over-the-head” reference to a Lion being one of the series’ main characters, but I think that it is OK.
This has more depth than the Lord of the Rings logo did, in my opinion, and that was the last big fantasy series that needed a cool logo…