The Road Named Sherlock

So about a week ago while waiting for the last movies of the night to get over with so I could go to Wendy's (I work at a movie theatre btw), I noticed something interesting on the posters for "The Road" and "Sherlock Holmes". I walked back and forth down the hallway 4 or 5 times looking closely to be clear on it, I probably seemed mad.

See it? Go back and take a closer look at the fonts used for the titles.

The "R"s is what stood out to me and got me thinking about it. They are the same/VERY similar typeface, just in a heavier weight in Holmes title'. I find it  interesting that two movies that are in theatres at the same time use the same typeface. It's not like it's a font that's regularly seen in movie posters, at least not that I've noticed, so that's a little bit of a weird coincidence.

One font, however, which has notoriously become "the movie font" is Trajan. This video by Goodie Bag does a good job outlining the situation.

The most recent film I remember using Trajan is Michael Jackson's "This Is It". I did like how it was used here though, large tracking/kerning (space between words/letters) for the words on a simple gradient background. I loved his music though, so that could be influencing that a bit.

Nevertheless, Trajan is to movie fonts as Papyrus is to armature design ....oh, wait a second,

REALLY JC, REALLY!?!

I Gradimicated!

It's come to completion.

Two and a half years, five semesters full of thirty-six hour days.

All worth it.

Stressed Out

Trying to finish putting together my portfolio for the show next Tuesday, December 8th at the Fluno center in downtown Madison and stressing out! Not only do I have to finish my portfolio and get everything printed, I also have my annoying general classes. I have a paper due on Thursday which I haven't had much time to look at, and a book report due on Sunday. Ugh, time to start cramming.

Good news is that I finished cyspence.com, finally got the about me and portfolio section finished. My photography section will not be up until late December though. It will be formatted the same way as my online portfolio.

MATC's site for the portfolio show is up also. Be sure to take a look through some of the work, some very talented people there. matcportfolio.com

Dealing with stress isn't ever easy, I listen to music to calm my nerves. Good thing it's Tuesday, new music comes out!

How do you deal with stress?

www.cyspence.com

Exciting news! I just purchased www.cyspence.com, my first website. There isn't much there now, just an "under construction" page, but soon this will be the place for my online portfolio of design and photography. It will probably be a month or so until the site is up and running fully. I have many things on my plate and this is the ice cream, the thing to finish last to top off my portfolio "meal".

What was your first website? Have any web design tips?

-Spence