Well here’s an example of some color typography that I’m pretty proud of… check out that fancy ribbon type!
I was delighted to be able to help draw the ribbon script letters on the cover of this year’s Target holiday catalog, hooray! I worked with typographic illustrator Anne Ulku on this custom lettering job, with the helpful guidance of those smart art-director people at Target. So nice to be a part of the team, and I’m so happy with how this type turned out. You can view the catalog online at the Target website, or maybe you’ll see the final printed piece showing up in your mailbox some day soon:) Ho ho ho!
Drew a couple words inside the piece, too. Gifts & Toys! Here’s a pic of that one:
Hooray! We finished FOUR new murals in October! You can see these four big walls at the Creative Lighting building in St. Paul, MN. Murals by Chank Diesel, Adam Turman & Anne Ulku. Hooray for big art!
I’m working on FOUR new big murals for the Creative Lighting building in St. Paul, MN near 94 & Snelling. All four are still in progress, but here are some preview pics of the first mural. This one, measuring 15′ tall by 65′ wide, is a collaborative piece with Twin Cities’ poster artist and bicycle evangelist Adam Turman, one of my local art heros. He made the design and painted the lady. I made the Drunk Cowboy font and am still working on painting drop-shadows on that. We had lots of friends come out to help, too. Painting is fun. Thanks y’all!
Painting continues on this mural and the other three next week. Extra special thanks to John Wallace who came out to take these “real photographer” pictures of the painting event. For press and media inquiries into this project, please contact JudyJudyJudy.
Adam Turman working on his first big mural.
Chank rolls out some big cowboy letters.
Chank Diesel & Adam Turman
All-volunteer crew hard at work.
Retro Deco & Casual Plaid, originally uploaded by chankdiesel.
Trying to post this straight from Flickr…
Exciting font-display video shows off the new font “Atomic Vegas Seasnakes” plus helicopter chase, explosion, casino, etc. Fresh from the Las Vegas strip. Font by Las Vegas AIGA Chapter. Kinetic typography by my awesome intern Sarah Jean Johnson. Get the font at http://www.chank.com/freefont_detail.php?sku=1113
HOORAY! Congratulations America and good luck to President Obama! Handpainted lawnsign by Chank Diesel on display via Art Jones Gallery in Northeast Minneapolis. See also Better Angels and Brubeck’s Cube Italic.
Filed under: FontSightings
Bob Marley chose Mr. Frisky for some signage at his cantina at SeaWorld. Thanks to Mr. Fares for fontspotting! If you see a Chank Font somewhere weird, please let me know. Thanks!
Here’s a poster I made for tonight’s Third Ward Summit neighborhood meeting. I got to use Braingelt, Floursack, Adrianna and all the Photoshop filters I wanted for this one.
Hooray for the Go Font Yourself fontpak! Two of the GFY fonts were featured in full-page ads for Microsoft Vista in The Wall Street Journal. It was the new handwriting standards GFY-Woodward on Monday and GFY-Pollak on Tuesday as the headline fonts representing the printed voice of the individuals portrayed in the ad.
Chank GFY handwriting fonts in Vista ads in The Wall Street Journal.
Filed under: Bizarre, FontSightings | Tags: conference, Curlz, font, funny, Millionaire, Saucy
I get a kick out of videos that show personification of typefaces. I always think of each font being it’s own character, so it’s fun seeing those personalities realized in video form. Get some giggles with this Font Conference video at CollegeHumor.com. The video features Olde English, Futura, French Script and Baskerville Old Face debating whether or not they should let Zapf Dingbat into their font club. My favorite part, personally, is seeing Saucy Millionaire in the logo for CollegeHumor on the top of the page. Now that’s a funny font!
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