After spending all day yesterday working on promo materials for Rey, I got back to the homework thing, staying up til 4 this morning to crank out yet another CD cover, this one based on the type exercise I did a couple weeks back. It turned into a hypothetical promotional CD to be sold at performances of a not-quite-existent Shakespeare Festival in Santa Cruz - one color CD sleeves are cheaper to produce than those glossy jewel cases with 4-color inserts. I think the legibility's better but it still appears to be mostly unreadable. My housemate Jack gave up after offering up "Make Octopus" as the first two words. Can you read it?
Posted by kia at June 25, 2002 10:36 PMLooks good.
Hey Jack, the text is:
Left: Recorded live at the Santa Cruz Shakespeare Festival 2002
Right: Waking Ophelia - the Women of Shakespeare
I was able to get all that too - what I wasn't able to get anywhere was "octopus!"
How exactly are you manipulating that text, Kia? Or would that be giving away trade secrets?
Posted by: beca on June 26, 2002 08:50 AMI'm converting it all to outlines and tweaking with the twirl filter in Illustrator and cutting and pasting in different parts of letterforms. It looks awful if you do it with a regular typeface, but this one looks hand-drawn enough that it sorta works. The typeface is "porcelain" by a very nice fellow in Brazil, by the way. His name is Eduardo Recife and I think I have his link in one of the other posts too, but it's:
http://planeta.terra.com.br/arte/type/main.htm
I could read it, too -- no problems.
I love the Rey cover
Posted by: heaven on June 27, 2002 10:59 AM