Victoria Has Many Secrets

Even though catalogs come in the mail all the time, from the stores you've never heard of to Lands 'End, I always look forward to the Victoria's Secret catalogs.  Not just because of looking at the clothes, but I love seeing their design work.  I can't identify this type, so I assume it's handmade just for this particular catalog.  I love how it's chic in it's own way, portraying the essence of their brand and the catalog mailed to me at my house.  Though it's not the most perfectly written font without a baseline, this is a reason why I like it; because it looks someone's handwriting and people don't normally have a baseline for it.  Keep an eye out for Victoria's Secret because they definitely have great designs (and clothes!).

The King of Social Networking Sites

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This is the Facebook logo/wordmark, which I believe definitely creates an impact.  You know what it is from just looking at the wordmark with it's cleanliness and simplicity.  I would definitely aspire to create a logo/wordmark like this for our next project.  The font they use has been hard to identify, but many are saying that Klavika is the font of their choice (modifying the font a bit).

Research - Project 2

Source - LogoLounge: 2000 International Identities by Leading Designers by Catharine Fisher and Bill Gardner

For this particular logo, it was designed for Feed Magazine, which is very well-executed in the logo!  The idea of having the two e's connect in that way represents the idea of the two e's feeding off of each other.  It's also a very simple san-serif font and nothing else needs to be incorporated into it.

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This logo is for the word Wacky, in which is actually very cool!  I love how it's another very simple san-serif logo and it has the W and the A together!  It's so clever, yet very readable as to the meaning.

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This is a really cool design that I found that would be great for anything!  The one item that stuck out to me was how the smart quotes look like two hands giving the thumbs up.  It would be great especially for movie ratings!

Walk This Way!

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It seems like all of the good font inspirations for me come from CD covers.  I believe that a lot of the CD covers actually bring a lot of the music to life (usually better than a book cover).  But this is a CD of The White Tie Affair's called Walk This Way.  I think it brings together the name of the group (especially when taking the T and making it look like a tie).  It sort of brings the idea of Project 2, in which we're only supposed to use type which made me think of this CD.  The font they use is Pontif, which I had never heard of until I looked it up.  Though it's a serif font, I feel that if they would've gone with a san-serif or a different font, it wouldn't feel the same.  So keep exercisin' and rockin' out in those Converse shoes to this CD!

Strong but Sweet

This is Stacie Orrico's self-titled "debut" CD (and I put debut in quotes because it's the only CD she had ever produced).  She is a very good singer, and I believe the type choice on the CD conveyed her tough, but sweet side that came out in her songs.  The main typeface was custom-made, which also makes it extra special.  What also drew me was how there was a different 's' in a lighter pink (which hopefully you can see -- it's lighter in the picture).  I think the overall concept would be also great for a logo design, bringing both names together.  Simple is always better than complicated designs.

Definitely Not My Type

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This is a website that I found from Smashing Magazine, which is one of my favorite resources for everything.  It had this website, which is entitled It's Not My Type.  This website is all about inspirations and uses of different typefaces in different designs.  I think the website is really cool, the content in the awning only being movable.  But it's not about the functionality of the website like I did for last semester.  I think the heading font, Clarendon Black, fits perfectly with the web safe text font, Palatino.

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Also, the Atomic font in the first blog looks very digital and is custom created by Slovakian designer.  Click here to the link to the blog article.

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The only bad part about the Palatino font on this website is, especially on this page, the text isn't easily readable since it looks pixelated.

It's Pure Bliss!

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This I actually saw when I first woke up this morning on the Early Show.  It's a company called Serendepity 3, which makes a lot of dessert products.  They were creating the Frrrozen Hot Chocolate, as seen on the story here.  Not only did the hot chocolate look good on the table, what caught my attention was the packaging itself.  Not just because of the clever use of the pun between the cold and hot by using the ice queen and the Devil.  It also had to do with the mixture between the different type.  I'm sure that all except the bottom text was custom made.  I can't really determine what font the bottom text is, but it looks like it's Georgia.  I especially like the company's type because it brings this sort of sweet and sensitive feeling (especially since the name sounds so sincere).  I would love to try out all of Serendipity 3's dessert mixes, but unfortunately it's too expensive for me right now.  Maybe one of these days though!