Member knd… Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 This topic was imported from the Typophile platform Hello, I am looking for sources and suggestions on creating a font that demonstrates habits. For my final graphic design project, I have to design a typographical bookjacket for "The Power of Habit." Briefly, it is about how habits have the power to control and reform the success or failures of businesses, transform societies, and change our lives. The reaccuring theme is how habits work with a cue that triggers the routine, and finally what we gain from it. (Think of a continuous circle, and how habits pick up power by happening over and over again) I am trying to use a process that can guide my design solution, but am having a difficult time with representing habits in my type design. Any place to start, ideas and suggestions would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you! Link to comment
Member Jam… Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 > Think of a continuous circle Have you ever seen Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo"? It's about obsession. In the opening credits this idea isn't communicated so much in the type but instead in the visuals and music, with rotating circles and music motifs that are repeated endlessly. Perhaps it might give you some inspiration. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qtDCZP4WrQ Link to comment
Member Nic… Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 https://typography.guru/forums/topic/97045-forwardinghttp://fontstruct.comhttp://www.stocklayouts.com Link to comment
Member knd… Posted November 28, 2012 Author Share Posted November 28, 2012 Thank you both! That actually got my brain spinning in many ways and I picked up a few ideas from this. I appreciate it! I really like that FontStruct website, Nick - Thank you for sharing! Link to comment
Member Chr… Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 @kndesigner07: For future posts, you will find that you get better feedback if you begin with posting some of the work you have done to date, and then asking for guidance. Link to comment
Member Chr… Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Speaking of old Alfred Hitchcock title sequences: North by NorthwestPsycho Link to comment
Member Jam… Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 It's impossible to watch the Psycho opening titles without your blood pressure going up. I love it. Elegantly brutal. Last time I was in San Francisco I visited some of the Vertigo locations. Some no longer exist but Scotty's house (Jimmy Stewart) is still there on Lombard and has hardly changed. I've heard that some company actually gives tours of Vertigo locations. Link to comment
Member Rya… Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Habitual Typography? gotta be Helvetica Link to comment
Member HVB… Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 Some habits ... http://www.dafont.com/potland (and other Cannabis/Marijuana fonts)http://www.dafont.com/holy-smokes.fonthttp://www.fontspace.com/kats-fun-fonts/kr-coffee-love (there are many more coffee fonts)http://www.fontspace.com/nghts-place/101-chalice - Herb Link to comment
Member Si_… Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 >The Power of Habit Has to be Cloister Black. Link to comment
Member Chr… Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 @Si: Not sure how long you’ve had that avatar, but it’s hilarious. You should flip it horizontally so it looks as though he’s reading that you say! Link to comment
Member Si_… Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 Beaker is unimpressed with my posts, hence he is looking in the other direction. ;-) Link to comment
Member Chr… Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 My personal favourite was Dr. Teeth. Link to comment
Member Té… Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 http://www.dafont.com/potland.font -- Non-404 link link to Potland. Gauthier made a few more pot-related ones, btw. Link to comment
Member Si_… Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 The Potland font works for me - typically the lack of pot would invoke a 420 error, not a 404 error. Link to comment
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