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Serif Love – Flickr

Chris — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:14:52 +0000

Look! I’m an über-important designer!

Look at me cranking out the serious design work. Notice how grown up I appear by using a seriffed font in my piece. Also notice how important I am by the stance that I take by calling out other designers that don’t like using seriffed fonts in their work.

Whatever. Bodoni Poster is super-retro-trendy right now so it’s no stretch to use it in work such as this. Although I recently used FritzQuadrata on a logo that a client loved. So yeah, I’m a serified baller. Oh snap - serified! Another poster!

I’m a frickin’ genius!

Anyway, if you’re interested check out some of the other typo pieces I’ve posted on Flickr.

Gots Me A New Twit Back

Chris — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:25:52 +0000

Had a slight burst of creativity today. So I wasted it on a new Twitter background. Kindof a mishmash of crap I had in the Bridge (see what I did there?) so I cooked up something new with it. Got some trendy color circles that look like they’re floating with some of the far away. That was from some tutorial. If I find the link I’ll add it.

Then I switched up HARD and threw down with some Bodini Poster and Trade Gothic. Got my Swiss on without having to resort to the old standby. White letters left-justified on a black background makes it Swiss. I read that or saw it somewhere.

For those on displays larger than 20” who also stretch their browsers to fit that ridiculous size, I have included a special, personalized message. Enjoy.

Avoiding work by doing work

Chris — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:35:24 +0000

Been grinding out a site for the past few months but only the development, not the design. So I’ve needed to satisfy my visual fix by doing some posters. I’m all over the place with my styles recently. I want to try out everything. My feeling is that you need to try out everything in order to get a grip on it. When you do your own work, then you have a larger bag of tricks to work with.

UPDATE: Those below added after initial post.

Launching Some Helvetica Shirts!

Chris — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:57:27 +0000

I’ve had these Helvetica shirts on Spreadshirt for awhile now but never got around to completing a color selection. So I completed one. I also added some colors to the other designs I’m selling at the Webodega as well.

Swiss Font Porn

I’ve announced this with many different scenarios/metephors, but I think my favorite is what I put down on my Virb account. It’s in the backend, so only my contacts see it. Here it is now:

I’m providing a little bump for your font addictions. Have a taste of 100% Swiss perfection and wear it with pride. Let everyone know just how much of a problem you actually have. Nothing like big, plainly stated fonts to force people to look at you like you’re high. Luckily you are! High on the greatest Swiss import ever. That and the knife.

Damn I’m a wordsmith. Anyway, Helweights all jammed together with some tight-assed kerning/tracking and some ampersands to truly show I’m humping some shark-jumping shirt fads. At least I know what I’m doing and not hiding it.

If you like ‘em let me know.