{"id":15554,"date":"2008-06-13T12:33:45","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T12:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/06\/type-as-illustrations-more.html"},"modified":"2008-06-13T12:33:45","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T12:33:45","slug":"type_as_illustrations_more-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/13\/type_as_illustrations_more-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Type as illustrations &amp; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0\">Letters as shapes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>Cameron Moll talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/cameronmoll.com\/archives\/2008\/04\/designing_with_type_characters\/\">techniques for designing with type characters<\/a>&#8211;creating shapes and illustrations using just letterforms.&#160; &quot;Don\u2019t attempt this in one sitting. I take it back&#8211;<em>this<\/em> is the most important tip. Not only is type character designing extremely time consuming, it\u2019s also monotonous work that requires a constant zoom in, zoom out dance to get things right.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>He points out some cool examples of these techniques in action, including the all-type design for the <a href=\"http:\/\/seedconference.com\/seed.php\">Seed Conference<\/a>.&#160; (I know I&#8217;m betraying my age &amp; lack of CSS currency, but I&#8217;m surprised by the typographic fidelity that&#8217;s possible in modern Web browsers.)<\/li>\n<li>He also points to Veer&#8217;s Flash-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veer.com\/ideas\/typecity\/gallery.aspx\">Type City<\/a>, an interactive journey through buildings made from letterforms.&#160; (Lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veer.com\/products\/merchdetail.aspx?image=VPR0005460\">letterpress prints<\/a> of the pieces are available.) <\/li>\n<li>Related bits from the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/01\/words_at_play.html\">archives<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bemboszoo.com\/Bembo.swf\">Bembo&#8217;s Zoo<\/a> is a fun bestiary from Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich &amp; Matteo Bologna&#8217;s; click any letter to see it turn into an animal made from letters.&#160; If that&#8217;s up your alley, peep their follow-up in the type-based portraiture in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordsatplay.com\/\">Words at Play<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">On other fronts:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li><em>Bembo: First Blood<\/em> is just one of dozens of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.septemberindustry.co.uk\/blog\/?p=271\">typographically inspired movie titles<\/a>.  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/08\/06\/15818.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Ever wanted to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.typophile.com\/battle23\">typographic love child<\/a> of Garamond and Zebrawood? [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/typblography\/2008\/04\/garamond_plus_zebrawood.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0\">\n<li>I haven&#8217;t tried it myself, but Macworld reviews &amp; recommends <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/133387\/2008\/05\/pathstylerpro.html\">Path Styler Pro<\/a> for creating stylized type &amp; logos.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letters as shapes: &#160; Cameron Moll talks about techniques for designing with type characters&#8211;creating shapes and illustrations using just letterforms.&#160; &quot;Don\u2019t attempt this in one sitting. I take it back&#8211;this is the most important tip. Not only is type character designing extremely time consuming, it\u2019s also monotonous work that requires a constant zoom in, zoom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}