GRAPHIC DESIGNER DUDES (font related)
Cosmo
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... I need some help!HAH! What else in new.NO seriously, I need to get my hands on a font that is teh same, or is somewhat like the jawn on the Fleetwood Mac jawn
Is that a real font? Point me in the right direction, player.
Is that a real font? Point me in the right direction, player.
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but certain typefaces have ligatures - two letters that connect together.
see the NT connection in Avant Garde:
I don't know what that Fleetwood Mac typeface is unfortunately.
Damn that Avant Garde shit is blaze as well. Yo 2600, I just dropped you a holler. Holler at me hus
is that a font you can use in illustrator etc? how do you drop in a grouped letter?
It was originally hand-drawn by the late, great typographer and graphic designer Herb Lubalin (me and AKO's favorite) as the logo for Avant Garde magazine. Issue after issue, he would use the same style of original lettering for various article headers throughout the magazine, eventually developing it into an entire typeface, complete with that great NT ligature. Unfortunately, the GA connection isn't there. Oh well.
Mine is scanned in from the Letraset rub-on alphabet sheet, so all my assembling is done letter-by-letter in Photoshop.
You can get the face here and do some hand-manipulating in Illustrator (ie: "convert to outlines" and then move shit around to your liking).
word thanks.
was figuring it would have had to be hand done somewhat. but then i re-read your first post and understood that they came in groups. i was just wondering if the font was somehow smart enough to know when certain letters are next to each other, similar to the way that ms word makes an ellipsis a special character. im not a graphic designer so im not on the fonts and graphics programs all day, but i have to use em quite a bit. was thinking there was some tool i hadn't learned about yet..
proper design homie
http://www.goines.net/
not really but he IS ill
It may not be what you're looking for, but dammit if it doesn't make you wanna eat a Guinness.
here's the lubalin piece i've been trippin off of for the last 24 hours...
There is a former master of this in my home town of SD named Jack Adler. Oddly enough he is an avid record collector and is currenty employed at San Diego's own Record City. If you get him started he will go on for days about all the crazy types of stuff they used to do in the print shop. Everything was one color at a time layered etc..
Listen to this crazy idea....Hand draw it!
-Algarth
-Can anyone recommend any good design forums/message board? What's the soulstrut of the design world?
-The Fleetwood Mac jawn definitely looks hand drawn.
that's an all time fave of mine... masterpeace!
beards and fonts rule...
example: coverty garden
not the same...there's plenty of fonts like that that can cross over or under because no matter what letter you use it's the same arc (in the case of this font, one of 2 arcs in either direction), that's what I meant by pre-determined. but there's no font that can simply cross across the letters without being pre-determined.
ya, in the sense of various overlapping, its not going to happen predetermined overlapping is always impresive though
yo, this is some sik shit... Tha City of Brotherly Love is DOOOOOOOOOOPE
I read that angels & Demons book, and was totally fascinated with those ambigrams (they look the same if they are rotated 180 deg.!!).
Is that guy's name really John Langdon???... isn't that also the name of the main character in the book???
(edit:... just remembered that it's Robert Langdon in the book - named after the artist)
typophile.com(i think mr casual male linked me to this in an older post)..
but anymore worth reading?