I have done some freelance work for my fried, Jill Bates; who is doing a photo exhibit at the local library in Denton, Manchester.
She needed a poster and some business cards designed for her and I was more than happy to help her out.
Since it was a photography exhibit, I focused on the frame aspect of the designs as well as evoking her girly nature through the typography and the font type. It has a somewhat vintage-esq style to the frame, and this mirrors some of her photography that she has taken.
It’s very simple in design, but tell me what you think!
As well as the science aspect of information in the last post, The Open University has done a couple of short animations to explain the history of English in 10 minutes (as the name would suggest).
I thought I would show them to you as it’s a lovely way of learning something new in a not so boring way!
“THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG” If you work in design you surely have heard, if not designed, this sentence, at least once. It’s called a pangram – a sentence using all 26 letters of the alphabet – and it’s used to show how a typeface looks like. This pangram is the most famous one, but surely not the only one. Hundreds of them can be found in various languages. In English, their common point, besides having surrealistic evocations, is one recurring adjective “quick” as well as the adverb “quickly”.
So what’s all the fuss about speed? What links a “quick gloved jab”, a “quick frozen valium”, a “quick zephyrs blow”, a “quick jive form” and the notorious “quick brown fox” ? Is speed a key component of the alphabet, of pangrams, of typefaces?
The etymology of “quick” tells us that this adjective gives “life” to something. Do these five letters, out of 26, have a special power on the rest of the pangrams? Is it the key word that gives life to pronunciation as well as typeface design? To find out about this I asked a few designers about these quick and lively questions: “It’s not for nothing that the word ‘quick’ gives so much points when playing crosswords” Johanna Roca answered. It’s hard to insert in the same sentence a “q” and a “k”; therefore “quick” appears to be the perfect word for this. Memorability and impact is also “de rigueur”. A lot of pangrams can be found on the web but few try to evoke something. “When showing a typeface in a witty way, that is readable, it will have more impact” Johanna added.
To choose a typeface, clients should therefore be able to evaluate the readability of it, naturally. So why not having a sentence that makes sense, something serious? Because, the shorter the better and the catchier the more memorable it will be. If it’s assumed that typography can modulate the tone of a text, it is less obvious to think that the message has as much impact on typography.
In a nutshell, Pangrams give life to typography. So, next time you have to create and sell typography, write it using a witty pangram, if no reaction is perceived, just drop your typeface for another one. If it triggers a positive reaction, you’re on the right way towards a successful design.
For my Typography elective, we have to design the sentence ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’, into an interesting and unique style.
Here are a few examples that I have found on the internet that are done in a creative manner.
I think that this site is really cool :)
The interactivity and the way the graphics coincides with the scrolling bar is rather lovely and ingenious. Its a very creative way to involve the viewer. It makes you want to read more and carry on with reading the rest of the information.
As well as this, there is an interactive quiz which calculates how many slaves you ‘use’. This is worked out by what you use, what your living conditions are like and which country you live in. It makes the user aware of what is happening about slavery and how it affects them.
Try it for yourself at http://slaveryfootprint.org/
I found this picture whilst looking at different types of fine line pens, and this image stood out to me.
I lihave these pens, and I like how it states the obvious, as well as the style the person drew the type.
It’s very simple in design, but tell me what you think!
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