James Victore

beautiful inky black illustrations, and lovely letterforms

centre poster

I have for some time been trying to work out what the centrefold poster will be. I'd been playing around with the idea of a dark on dark poster to emphasize the theme of the zine, after my recent typograhy experiments the font used here seems a bit rubbish but i think the idea is still sound; the "brand" + dark + slightly hallucinogenic/unsettling.

the other option for the poster is a simple, biiig, line drawing probably of the old woman from the animation I'm making for Lizzie's story. I think this will have to be drawn full scale without much planning, as to copy a really tight sketch that big will only ever be disappointing.

cover text

here's more or less the completed "generals" page, i was conerned the scanned in text would be a poor match but as it was scanned at 600 dpi i think it's ok.

and here's the probable cover text, joel suggested that i look at old commercial typography, as well as saul bass titles to get the right high impact tone for the title. This is a font called Motor from the 1930's. To me it seems to evoke an obsolete idea of speed and industry.

Bodoni

I've spent a while browsing old typeface encyclopedias and found some fantastic fonts However most aren't available online without spending $69.99 or similar. Instead I've scanned pages from the books, and cut and pasted type on photoshop, and actually i think the results have a lovely handmade feel. This one is Monotype Bodoni Ultra Bold.

:(

tried cutting and pasting type from the vorticist manifesto but it looks like a crap indie band's logo

more nice typography

here a nearly completed page in urgent need of better type. the layout's ok but the typeface itself is too friendly for the gothic tone of the zine.