February 2012
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Experimenting with this at the moment...
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Scary Movie
Another example of instantly recognisable film branding…
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Ringbearer
Is a typeface created by ‘TheHutt’ - it is a near perfect replication of the Lord of the Rings logotype. Been playing around with using this font with Pixar films.
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Trajan
Trajan is an old-style serif typeface designed by Carol Twombly in 1989. It is based on the inscription at the base of Trajan’s Column.
Over the last few decades it has been used in American film posters. Originally it was used more in ‘Epic Roman Films’. This has slowly changed and has since been used in a broader range of ‘Epic Films’. Nowadays it can be found in a...
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Personal Learning Agreement
Our final unit this year involves us writing our own brief…
For my professional project I intend to investigate the conventions of typography in film branding. I want to do this because I have always had a keen interest in films and in recent years I have started to notice more and more patterns, trends and systems used in film branding.
In previous projects I have honed my skills in...
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Research & Development
Earlier I was thinking about a presentation my senior tutor Neil gave at the start of this academic year.
In the presentation there was a slide with a diagram which showed a workflow for R&D.
The idea is that you should be broadening your research in order to narrow down your research at a later stage. The same goes for development.
Working on a poster based on this way of working....
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TJ Evolette
I first came across this typeface on when I saw Josip Kelava’s Identity for The Melbourne Dance Company on Behance.
I hunted around the internet and found out he had used an experimental typeface called TJ Evolette.
The really interesting thing about this typeface is that it has different experimental sets. One from each of the two designers that created it (Timo Titzmann & Jakob...
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Started using Pinterest this week
Pinterest (a portmanteau of Pin-board and Interest) is a website where you can post cool stuff you find on the internet and organize them into categories of your choice.
You pin things on boards.
For now I’m using the boards Future House, What I want, Already Own, Nice Use of Paper & Typography. Not entirely happy with these boards, but I’ll modify them at some point in the...
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