Keep on Truckin...with Buxom Lips?

I have a confession:  I love me some Sephora makeup, especially the Buxom Lips line.  I have a feeling, though, what first drew me to the brand was the fact that the wordmark font was MILTON GLASER'S.....my design hero.........By the way, a knockoff of this font, called Keepon Truckin NF (web-safe!) is available to you for only $7.95 on a website full of Milton Glaser's fonts.  Just in case you are as excited as I am about Milton Glaser's strong and quirky fonts.  You're checking it out right now, I see you.

Optics

This is a more local band, although they go wherever they are allowed.  I enjoy how the I and S in Iscintilla are close together but I can read it as "I...Scintilla" just fine.  The other letters have extreme kerning and the overall result is a pretty individual wordmark.

A Beautiful CD...and the Design is Great Too

The type MUST be flowery for this type of CD.  If you have the CD or have heard some of it, you would know what I mean.  The New Agey-ness calls for it.  The distressed effect on the type does not seem to imposed, it seems fitting.

CD Extravaganza!

I am going to showcase some more of my CD covers, yay!  I think even though type tends to take a backseat on CD covers, they tend to be well done.  For some reason CD cover designers are good typographers, usually??  I am not sure why.  Anyway, this is my one Covenant CD and I believe the type is pretty innovative.  It is fitting with the band's melodic but thumping futuristic EBM.  The sharp yet not minimalistic type speaks of the coldness of synthetic sound yet is decorated enough to look poetic, much like the lyrics of Covenant's songs.

Mean Stinks

In this magazine ad, I appreciated the photography, scanning and map work done to create this highly realistic rendition of a sharpie on a locker at school.  However, I also decided to do some investigation into this advertisement to see what the heck it means.  It is for Secret antiperspirant, and the company is doing this really interesting new identity and "cause."  It is addressing how girls can be so mean to each other and asking girls to stand up and make a point to stop the meanness and say nice things behind someone's back instead.  Hence the weird complement on this ad.  Check this cause out at their facebook page.

FREE

I saw this ad in with the newspaper.  It was made to look like a calendar with FREE "stamped" all over it.  This caught my eye a while back and now it is so relevant because in class we did an exercise on creating distressed type.  The font is a good choice because it is definitely the kind of font used for a stamp like this:  sans serif, clean, caps.