Old School Type Poster

I picked up a copy of Computer Arts Projects the other day and low and behold it was the 150th issue and it was celebrating typefaces.  In this specific issue of CAP you got a disc (as usual), and on this disc was 150 fonts and Computer Arts Projects 150 fonts you cannot live without, which is fantastic.

I was reading through and came across a tutorial which was to design a classic Serif poster I was interested so tonight thats exactly what I did, using the typeface 'Baskerville' I let rip in Illustrator and this is what I came up with.  The poster was made up of using a Serif font and one of your favourite quotes, not knowing that many quotes off by heart I hit our dear friend Google and found this Albert Einstein quote that caught my eye.

Baskerville Old School Type Poster

I quite like this, the only thing that puts me off is the 'A' between Made and Mistake it just doesn't seem to fit properly.  

I would advise anybody interested in Typography to go and get this magazine (even though it is a ridiculous £7.50), did I mention the price of fonts on the disc comes to £450?

Cheers folks

JT

How to Be Nang!!

This year at Sunny Wolverhampton University I attempted my first ever Magazine Spread.  Ever.

The spread was for a magazine article called 'How To Be Nang'.  I found the article in The Times newspaper in 2006 by Ross Anderson.  The Inspiration from one of my boys from London, James Luisis and his brother Andrew (West Ham fan).

I tried to make the spread to look 'urban' and something that would be considered to be 'down with the kids'.

As far as magazine spreads go I think this is 'OK' for a first attempt, I think it's safe to say that as a creative magazine spreads are not my strong point but you know what they say.  Practise makes perfect.

I chose a bright yellow due to the simple fact that the colour is eye-catching and keeps your interest.  The two typefaces I have used are 'hit the road' and 'Baskerville' which work quite nicely together, Hit the Road is an Bold typeface where Baskerville is easy on the eye.

Opening Spread for 'How To Be Nang'

Spread 2

Spread 3

Thanks for reading

JT

Shakespeare!!

Bloody hell.

Meant to upload a few of these the other week, my apologies.  Anyway now that university projects are over I can finally get down with my personal projects.

Any way this project was to create 10 double spread images (20 pages) of 10 of the 156 Shakespeare Sonnets.  A big mistake.  It was the hardest project, in the world.  I am happy with some of the results but am a bit... meh on the others.

Feel free to praise and bash me folks!!

See ya soon

JT