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Speak Up is an open forum to discuss matters related to Graphic Design.
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A rare, one-sentence "look at this" link on Speak Up: College Humor Original Videos presents a great short on typography, with special appearances by Futura, Courier, Times New Roman, Comic Sans and, the typeface in question, Zapf Dingbats. Hilarious.
Thanks to Claudia Renzi for the link.
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Highlights from TypeCon 2008
This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending TypeCon in Buffalo. While the festivities, lectures and workshops had been going strong since last Monday, I only made it to two full days of lectures. As usual, TypeCon presents a collection of topics that can be considered, well, peculiar: A panel devoted to contextual alternates, a history of the Ludlow (a metal typesetting machine), and a wild discussion about font embedding on the internet, among others. Below are a few random things that caught my attention, in no order of importance or preference.
Script goes Sans
Doyald Young's Home Run Script comes with a companion set of uppercase sans, called Home Run Sanscript, where the angle and proportions matches that of the script.
Heavy Metal
P22 has released Stern, the first typeface to be simultaneously released in digital and metal (available in 16 and 18pt) form. The video above is an initial cut by P22's Richard Kegler of a documentary about designing metal type, which he filmed as Jim Rimmer designed and produced Stern.
Typefaces from Up Above
Canada Type is a small type foundry creating display typefaces at affordable prices.
The New Marketing
To promote Accidents Grotesque, YouWorkForThem produced this weird video. And for the slabbiest slab of them all, Black Slabbath, they had a release party with a punk band headlining. Who needs a type specimen, right?
New Type
I wasn't aware that type distributor MyFonts updated their library so often, but they sure do, almost every day. You can stay up to date with an RSS feed.
The Missing Type Foundry
Jay Rutherford, a teacher at Bauhaus University Weimar spoke about VEB Typoart, a government-funded type foundry whose designs now live in limbo with no clear sense of who owns the rights to the designs, while a German guy that purchased VEB Typoart has all the digital data but is not quite eager to help anyone bring these typefaces back to life. More information can be found here. And Rutherford's students have set up Die Typoart Freunde (Typoart Friends) to re-establish the presence of this foundry, and have produced a book showcasing the typefaces.
Above is one of the most interesting Garamonds I've seen, Typoart Garamond.
Pardon my Catalan
House Industries recently released Studio Lettering, a collection of three script typefaces that, in good House Industries fashion, is completely tricked out with contextual alternate characters that make the typesetting look more like lettering. But, what's really cool about this collection, is that it comes with alternate characters, glyphs and accents that can adapt to different languages and take on the nuances of language and its depiction as typography around the world. Here is a video of this language feature.
You can, and should, spend endless hours looking at Trollbäck + Company's work. Here is one quick thing I picked out of their reel that caught my attention, for the World Science Festival.
Type Superhero
Matthew Carter's comic alter ego, MattMan. See full comic here! Thanks to Si Daniels for the material.
Another Carter tidbit, his first typeface for Microsoft was Elephant (1992), later renamed Big Figgins. A nice, fat Roman. And that's a compliment.
Mobile Type
Steve Matteson of Ascender talked about the development of a type faimly (including sans, serif, monospace and too many languages) for Google's Android operating system for mobile devices. Full info here.
Starling is the New Times
If you are 100% convinced that Stanley Morrison designed Times New Roman, you might want to listen to Mike Parker's account, where he explains how Starling Burgess is the designer of Times New Roman, having drawn it in 1904, 28 years before Monotype designed it. Font Bureau is releasing Starling, a revival of the original Times New Roman, shown above. Starling will come with an Ultra weight that looks absolutely delicious.
Lucky Me
During the heated TypeQuiz's first round I won the P22 Pop Art Set by answering what is Sagmeister's favorite typeface. The question, first asked in the TypeQuiz in 2003, may be out of date: Gotham.
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Qs / Vol. 19 / July 14 - July 20
The top 15 out of a 37-quip week.
A = Authors | C = Community
A / No. 50 / Armin / Do you stick up your nose at wine in a can? Leave it to the Swedish to make it awesome.
C / No. 33 / Kevin / Edward, was just a kindly, old man with a passion for typography... but Edward had a dark side.
C / No. 34 / Derek Munn / South Carolina is so gay. Overseas ad campaign gone wrong.
A / No. 34 / Armin / Giving new meaning to the term "Poker Face".
A / No. 33 / Armin / Summer's must have accessory: Inflatable typography!
C / No. 32 / Kenneth FitzGerald / The weird science of stock photography.
C / No. 37 / Yael / Yet another unconventional typeface: Ikea diagram typeface. Are artistic interpretations of the alphabet a new trend?
C / No. 29 / Chad K / The uncontrollable spread of Walmart. Now try to imagine putting all those new logos on those stores.
C / No. 30 / Nate Voss / Absolutely amazing animated Paul Rand video, by motion-graphics wizards Imaginary Forces. (click 'play movie' in the lower corner)
A / No. 40 / Armin / Jonathan Hoefler on the lack of inventory of the number 4 across gas station signs.
A / No. 35 / Armin / Summer's must-do illegal activity: Inflatable graffiti! [Via Brandflakesforbreakfast]
A / No. 45 / Armin / Can't afford a 3G iPhone? Get the felt (adorable!) version for 35 bucks. [Via Evasee]
A / No. 44 / Armin / What the @#&*! is a grawlix?
A / No. 31 / Armin / Beautiful photographs of the structures of billboards shot from below, at night. Eerily abstract. [Via TolleBlog]
A / No. 49 / Armin / "The Urban Legend of Corporate Intranets" and other great articles at frog's design mind on-line and print publication. [Via Brandflakesforbreakfast]
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A Case for Pink
Of all the commonly and typically used colors, pink both overwhelms and escapes me. On one hand, with a one-year-old daughter, pink seems to be everywhere: Room décor, baby paraphernalia, a few toys and especially clothing. Of course, if I had a boy, pink would absolutely not even be an option, something I am reminded of every time Maya is dressed in anything but pink, be it red, blue or orange with people asking for details regarding my son — thank goodness she now has earrings. So, I wonder, can't we at least share and divide colors equally? It would be fairly easy, for example: Penis team gets blue, red and purple; Vagina team gets pink, green and brown.
On the other hand, as a graphic designer, I find a lack of pink in my job. It's a color corporations, organizations or products, either business-to-business or business-to-consumer usually shy away from due to its female and girly connotations. So the modus operandi is that little boys are not "allowed" to use pink and corporations "choose" not to use pink. Or was the choice made for them by our ongoing stereotyping of pink? In doing a little research I am reminded that it used to be different:
"There has been a great diversity of opinion on the subject, but the generally accepted rule is pink for the boy and blue for the girl. The reason is that pink being a more decided and stronger color is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl."
— Ladies Home Journal, June, 1918
While several theories circulate as to how, when and why pink and blue were reverted, the change happened with the end of World War II, as women were targeted with everything pink: Lipstick, appliances and cars. Barbie's birth soon after only reinforced the issue. So why is it that in a co-ed world we have such defined color associations? And how healthy is this?
With a corporate spectrum dominated by blue, I can’t help but wonder how the increasing globality of these companies is affecting the use of color across borders—thus affecting how pink is perceived with each generational change in the different parts of the world. Could we at least let pink be a part of a secondary palette, by letting go of these unhealthy strong convictions that limit us? Or should we be adding pink to a “soon to be extinct” list?
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Hancock: A Poster Critique
Two weekends ago, the one with fireworks and grilling, Will Smith clinched its fifth Fourth of July with a number-one movie as Hancock raked in $66 million at the box office. A few months ago, with neither fireworks or grilling, I was contacted by one of the editors of Radar magazine, who were looking to run a critique of Big Willy's latest poster. Of course, I obliged. The very neatly edited final piece is currently running in the July/August issue on newsstands now — which also happens to sport a new design, full of Cooper Black and primary colors, designed by Pentagram's Luke Hayman. Here, so that the cut words don't gather too much digital dust, is the full critique of Hancock's poster, designed by BLT & Associates.
On the possible American Eagle Outfitters logo on his wool cap
It does look like the American Eagle Outfitters logo, although theirs is facing the other way and doesn't look as if it just slid on a banana peel and fell on its eagle ass. If it is indeed a wool cap from AE, I would let the cynic in me believe that it is pretty smart product placement. But beyond the eagle's origins, it does come to represent strength and resilience as the eagle patch is holding together the crumbling wool cap.
On the eagle reflected in the sunglasses
It's probably a poetic way of representing Hancock facing and meeting his destiny. The strong, soaring free eagle represents what he can be, as opposed to the ragged eagle he is, represented by the one on his forehead. I also can't help but see the eagle as a patriotic statement — the movie is opening on July 4th after all, how much more American can you get?
On Smith's eyes being totally covered by his sunglasses
I actually think it works better this way. With such a tight close-up of Smith's face, his eyes would probably be too creepy. It also helps turn the poster into an imagination, rather than a realistic depiction of how a pair of sunglasses would photograph.
Plus, if Hancock can do what Men in Black did for Ray-Bans, these elephantine sunglasses will be the next hot thing — and this is the perfect product shot.
On the scruffiness
It conveys the plot perfectly, specially when paired with the tagline. It quickly lets the viewer know that Hancock is way less than perfect, that he has many faults and, most importantly, that he is the antithesis to Superman's metrosexual ideal of a perfectly groomed superhero.
On first impressions
The first thing I noticed were the pursed lips. I really don't get it. They also look heavily Photoshop'd, a shade lighter than the rest of the face. It makes it look like he is sitting in the toilet after eating too many bran muffins, if you know what I mean.
On the pursed lips, more
I would think they were trying to convey a sense of ambivalence, defiance and general the-fuck-do-I-care attitude. It's also a way of deprettyfying (sorry, made up word) Will Smith. The pursed lips remind me, at best, of Zoolander's "Blue Steel." It's hard to detach yourself from the brand that Will Smith has become: Smiling, charismatic, friendly. So this "look" feels, as we say, off brand; it's forced, unnatural and, well, wrinkly.
On the earring mark
The way Hollywood images are manicured, I doubt this was an oversight. But even if it was, it helps in maintaining the story that Hancock is a weathered man, he has been through many things, and his past is a mystery — maybe he even was a young TV star with a million dollar smile that then made it big but, in the end, his luck turned sour.
On the typeface
The font choice is completely wrong. It's a very geometric and square font, very "techie", suggesting that it was computer generated. On first impression, I would think that Hancock was a government experiment gone wrong and that his superpowers were the result of bionic limbs and superchips instead of gray matter. The font is also similar to the one used in another Will Smith movie, Enemy of the State, in which technology plays an important role, and the font swiftly conveys that. However, if you want to get geeky, the font looks to be a modified version of Bank Gothic, designed in 1930 by Morris Fuller Benton, who was one of the great American typeface designers — so maybe, this is a very (VERY) subtle way of extending the patriotic bent of the poster.
Spot on?
It works. It's Will Smith. It's big. It's a Summer movie. It has two eagles. What else could you ask for?
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Qs / Vol. 19 / July 7 - July 13
The top 15 out of a 32-quip week.
A = Authors | C = Community
C / No. 13 / Jon Dascola / We Just Like It. Hope you do too.
A / No. 16 / Armin / Some sweet Table of Contents examples.
A / No. 24 / Armin / If dogs look like their owners, do typeface designs look like their owner's handwriting? [Via Drawn]
A / No. 22 / Armin / To stay in the spirit of imitation, per No. 18 below, here is a magazine cover rip-off. [Via Design Observer]
A / No. 18 / Armin / The International Typographic Style (in short, Helvetica flush left on a grid) as it translates unto the web. [Via I Love Typography]
A / No. 14 / Armin / The blog of typographer and illustrator Mike Perry shows you how things get done. [Via VLU]
C / No. 17 / Diane Zerr / someone is trying to tell you something. They don't know you, and it doesn't matter. they say it anyway, writing on the city itself, because the message is important. And so we're listening. What's your city saying?
C / No. 18 / Mike / Uncanny similarities between a giovanni pintori exhibition catalog and a certain well known British Newspaper ad campaign.
A / No. 23 / Armin / A little art to get you going this morning: "Google with Miro logo" oil on canvas (92 * 73 cm) April 20 2006. [Via ffffound]
A / No. 27 / Armin / Time-lapse video of designing a magazine spread.
A / No. 19 / Armin / A few vintage spray cans. [Via Evasee]
A / No. 17 / Armin / Funny: Some sort of hobbyist magazine about license plates describes one plate as using "Helvetica Arial Condensed" as a typeface.
A / No. 30 / Armin / Proving that I'm still immature for my age, a Flickr set that made me snicker: Snack Foods That Sound Like Sex Acts. [Via Kottke]
A / No. 20 / Armin / The funky calendars just keep comin': Bubble-wrap calendar lets you pop the days. [Via BuzzFeed]
A / No. 11 / Armin / Pretty clever. D.I.Y. Google Image search, take it with you wherever you go. [Via ffffound]
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Comic Sans: One Good Application
Hatred for Comic Sans has come to be a design cliché, everyone hates it, even if they are not sure what makes it such an infuriating typeface. While its design is less eminent than that of, say Gotham or Bembo just to pick two examples out of a hundred, it is the consistent overuse and misuse, appearing in the unlikeliest of contexts, of Comic Sans that makes it so unbearable. Because if you consider its name — comic — and original intended use — as a typeface used in speech bubbles for a Microsoft application — the design makes perfect sense and is contextually appropriate. Nonetheless, designers and amateur Comic Sans haters have continually bashed the poor typeface.
While perusing Flickr to find examples of it in use I was heavily amused to find out that, other than Helvetica's whopping 11,000-plus images, Comic Sans is the most commonly tagged typeface with slightly more than 1,700 results. Among them you can find examples of the sheer ubiquity and randomness of its applications, from ATM user interfaces to lady underwear with the words "Bite Me!" across the butt. Somewhere around result page number ten I stumbled across the image below, which took my breath away — not because it is the most beautiful design I have ever seen, far from it, but because it was the first time that I have seen Comic Sans used well, even cool.
The image, which you can see bigger here, is part of the collection of Spanish Flickr user ocascsms, a semi-acronym for Organización Contra el Abuso de la Comic sans (Organization Against the Abuse of Comic Sans), showcasing the packaging for the Aneto 100% Natural stocks, a Spanish company producing ecologically conscious and natural yummy stocks. If you are curious, here is an ad for their paella stock.
So, as I mentioned, these packages are not extraordinarily designed, and would fall under the snobbish description of low-brow design. The combination of Comic Sans, with the simple and matter-of-fact illustrations and the picnic tablecloth backgrounds, all in earthy colors come together to form a very interesting set of packages that bring a smile to my face. Comic Sans has long been considered the exception to the "There's no such thing as a bad font, merely a font badly used" adage but, as the Aneto stocks demonstrate, Comic Sans can be properly used.
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Qs / Vol. 18 - 19 / June 30 - July 6
The top 15 out of a 28-quip week.
A = Authors | C = Community
A / No. 8 / Armin / From the annals of design history: The First Album Cover. Ever.
A / No. 7 / Armin / Why didn't I know of this before? Design and Design is a pretty simple web site that features really great graphic and product design. Click away. [Via Design You Trust]
A / No. 3 / Armin / Move over little black dress, and move in little white dress with colored stains, "by placing colored felt-tip pens in the pockets of the dress its appearance changes over time." [Via SwissMiss]
A / No. 2 / Armin / "[It] started out pretty accurate to how you would make the letters with your hands. But there are a few letters that aren't so realistic." Illustrated finger typeface. [Via ffffound]
A / No. 9 / Armin / A very detailed look at the recent redesign of Domus magazine. [Via Magtastic]
A / No. 77 / Armin / "Stuck in the wrong job?" A Monster.com print ad wants to make sure no ballerinas are stuck in the army. This could be soooo misinterpreted.
C / No. 10 / Kai Salmela / Fox News looking for intern with convincing photoshop skills for their subliminal messaging department.
A / No. 1 / Armin / For all your Blue Note Records cover needs, a sweet archive. [Via ISO50]
A / No. 6 / Armin / The colorful, geometrically hypnotic work of Andy Gilmore. [Via Evasee]
C / No. 3 / Niki / Google learns to crawl flash.
A / No. 5 / Joe Marianek / It's almost 2015, and Nike is bringing the Back to the Future sneakers to market this July. Hoverboards are still a ways off.
A / No. 4 / Armin / "Rare and Original Punk Flyers and Posters from the 70s and 80s." No need for additional details.
C / No. 45 / Marian / MTV graphic design reality show.
A / No. 10 / Armin / You never know when the wild call of nature will strike, so why not have a Shit Box handy? (Sorry! Slow, slow, slow news day). [Via Dark Roasted Blend]
A / No. 75 / Armin / Veer introduces Kernie. Like Shrek, but with good kerning skills.
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Thoughts on Thoughts on Democracy
In his 1941 State of the Union Address, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt expressed four freedoms that should serve as a foundation not only for the U.S. but for the world: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear. Two years later, in 1943, the weekly Saturday Evening Post magazine published, in four consecutive issues during February and March, the four famous posters created by Norman Rockwell that visualized — in his unmatched depiction of everyday American life — Roosevelt's Four Freedoms. Now, 65 years after they were first published, The Wolfsonian museum in Miami Beach has asked 60 designers from around the world to design a poster or series of posters based on Rockwell's Four Freedoms. The exhibition, Thoughts on Democracy (ToD), appropriately opens this Saturday, one day after the 4th of July.
In the best spirit of transparency (and democracy!) the team at The Wolfsonian has been updating a wonderful blog that showcases all the submitted posters and shares the process of mounting the exhibition. Not all 60 contributions are good, or not all 60 contributions I get, but here are some of my favorite posters (click on each image to go the appropriate entry on the ToD blog):
Chip Kidd
While most designers submitted a single poster that captured the essence of Rockwell's four posters, Kidd did a blow-by-blow of each poster and created this series that deals with what happens when those four freedoms are eschewed to the wrong extremes: "Thus Freedom from Want leads to rampant obesity; Freedom of Worship leads to using God to hate; Freedom of Speech leads to destruction of property; and Freedom from Fear leads to the proliferation and deadly use of guns."
Ruth Ansel
A nice typographic solution, pointing to how the freedoms interact and overlap.
Ken Carbone
This one could have worked even better with just the strong idea of the Four Freedoms script and nothing more.
Allan Cochinov
As a poster proper this one, well, sucks. But as a smart interpretation of what Freedom of Speech means in the twenty-first century this one, well, rocks.
Alan Dye
Not sure what this metaphor is about, but it sure makes for a lovely poster.
Robert Grossman
If we have the right to bear arms we sure have freedom to bear arms while enjoying the rest of our freedoms. Yee-haw!
Kind Company
Another interesting type-driven solution, this one placing its emphasis on the man behind the words.
2×4
This is probably one of my favorites. A simple twist of words that creates a powerful statement.
Kate Spade
Freedom to enjoy a wonderful design solution.
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Qs / Vol. 18 / June 23 - June 29
The top 15 out of a 24-quip week.
A = Authors | C = Community
A / No. 68 / Joe Marianek / Radar Mag gets Cooper Blacked. Beautiful.
A / No. 69 / Armin / If you enjoyed Quip No. 63, Smashing Magazine has put together a cornucopia of clever calendars.
C / No. 38 / Joey Pfeiffer / Barack Obama has revealed a new Presidential Seal, replacing 'E pluribus unum' (Out of many, one) with 'Vero possumus', which is Latin for 'Yes, we can' along with replacing the shield with the 'O' from his logo.
A / No. 58 / Armin / All the Barack Obama graphics (posters, graffiti, etc.) in one place. [Via Design You Trust]
A / No. 62 / Armin / The 16- and 32-Bit versions of Donkey Kong, Super Mario and Street Fighter get Photoshop'd right into our world. [Via Design You Trust]
A / No. 60 / Armin / The new Thinking for a Living web site looks quite fantastic. Still same great resources. [Via Ethan Bodnar]
A / No. 67 / Debbie Millman / If you thought soylent green was disturbing, you might want to think again where your creative juices come from.
A / No. 65 / Armin / Oh my. "Over 5,000 unused [Pantone] chips were painstakingly colour matched" to produce this replica of Edouard Manet's "Bar at the Folies Bergere." [Via ffffound]
C / No. 41 / Josh B / 25 Perfect Movie Posters (but not really) from Entertainment Weekly.
A / No. 71 / Armin / This is like shooting fish in a barrel, but it's always good fun to mock stock photography. [Via Coudal]
A / No. 72 / Armin / What do Angelina Jolie, Ugly Betty and newspaper design have in common? Beauty.
A / No. 57 / Armin / Incredible illustrations by Brazilian Marcelo Daldoce. Make sure you scroll for the wine-painted series. [Via IdeaFixa]
A / No. 73 / Armin / It has been a while since I stop my DVR during commercials, but this new ad for HP's touch screen computer was pretty fabulous.
A / No. 61 / Armin / Gabriel Martinez Meave, one of the finest type designers and calligraphers, dreams about futuristic shoes and wakes up to sketch them. It's in Spanish, but the images say all there is to say.
A / No. 63 / Armin / This self-promotional calendar from London-based designer Jonthan Davies tells it like it is: From freezing, to sweltering, to gloomy. [Via Evasee]
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Word It for July
In public, or within your family, with quick, hot, regret and extreme pain that time and a bit of joy can help heal. Down the middle or in your home, as a prank or simply for pleasure, which ever which way, your name might fall flat, unless your inspiration goes beyond the expectations.
You can’t hide it in a box, nor toss it in the garbage. This might be an oops you can’t wiggle your way out of, so beware of what you do with it and use your star studded doom wisely, and don’t let a cut of any kind mess with your xanadu. Be ready, deal with the power, wonder at the mix of circumstances that led to a yell, and don’t let it get wet.
Keep it clean to avoid the slime.
Just don’t let it become a giant nightmare.
Cut is the Word It for July.
With that said, please read the specifications for submittal, where we tell you what kind of file we need, the size requirements*, naming conventions and how to provide us with your desired linkage**.
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Judging Books by their Covers and Movies by their Posters
For their 1,000th issue, Entertainment Weekly has gathered 1,000 "New Classics" representative of the last 25 years in the realms of books, movies, music, and television. 50 of those new classics are prime matter for discussion among graphic designers: 25 Perfect Movie Posters and 25 New Classic Covers. Like any list, theirs is as valid as yours or mine, and unlike a design annual, the selections in this list seem more inherently tied to the pop cultural impact of the movies or books these designs represent, instead of putting the spotlight brightly on the typography, art direction, and concept — meaning, Almost Famous as the most perfect movie poster ever seems impossible. Following are the top 5 in each category, and in order. Agree, disagree, and recommend your own.
No. 1 / Almost Famous / Poster design by Pulse Advertising / Unless you are a fan of Kate Hudson's lips, I don't quite see how this is the best poster in the last 25 years. The reflection-on-the-sunglasses is a cliche, and there is nothing particularly unique about the rest of the it. For my money, the Hancock poster pulls this off more convincingly.
No. 2 / Amelie / Okay, so in this case I'm a fan of Audrey Tautou, and the photography is interesting. I just wish someone had actually handwritten the title, instead od just using a typeface out of the box. Or at least, modified the repeating characters a little bit.
No. 3 / American Beauty / Poster design by Pulse Advertising / I wasn't sure about this one, but if you consider the simplicity of it, it's quite remarkable that it's so uncluttered for a Hollywood poster. Too bad that when you look closer, as the poster suggests, you are rewarded with some badly spaced Times.
No. 4 / Back to the Future / Illustration by Drew Struzan / Hard to argue against this master illustrator, and the "logo" for the movie is quite clever but, then again, I'm a sucker for reverse italics.
No. 5 / Batman / Poster design by B.D. Fox Independent / Yes. Although not as hot once you put in all the other poster crap, nor when you outline badly the actors' names.
No. 1 / The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood / Design and illustration by Fred Marcellino / I'm going to have to claim ignorance on this one. Not sure why it's in the top spot.
No. 2 / A Million Little Pieces, by James Frey / Design by Rodrigo Corral / Few book covers have been in the news and the mainstream's attention like this controversial candy-coated one. The aqua background looked great in all the newscasts. Even without the attention, this is a memorable cover.
No. 3 / Everything is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer / Design and illustration by Anne Chalmers / Lovely type illustration. But is that enough?
No. 4 / Born to Kvetch, by Michael Wex / Design by Jennifer Carrow / Great photo. Great type. However, not all Hasidic Jews are Yiddish, and not all Yiddish-wielding Jews are Hasidic, so there is a little bit of a reductive representation here, but it does convey the idea of the book quickly.
No. 5 / Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton / Design by Chip Kidd / With six covers in the top 25, Chip's cover for Jurassic Park topped in at the five spot. While I am not a fan at all of heavier "J" and "P" in the title — some work should have been done to maintain even weight among the letterforms — the starkness of this cover is pretty captivating. Also, bonus points go to a book cover influencing the logo for a movie franchise, at the designer's credit expense.
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