probably about welcome week. or fish. but probably welcome week.
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| Date | Title | Body |
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| 2 years 37 weeks ago | Reputation assault aside, |
Reputation assault aside, does anyone legitimately fear punishment from the NCAA? If the past is any indication, I have to believe the UM program will be fine. Add a few directions to our school (N/E/S/W), subtract a decent amount of wins and trophies, and MAYBE we face a strict punishment. We'll make it. |
| 2 years 38 weeks ago | I love it! Great job, Six |
I love it! Great job, Six Zero. |
| 2 years 38 weeks ago | I love it! I say keep it |
I love it! I say keep it strictly graphic, no text, and I like it off-center. The only thing I might experiment with is the Heisman shadow. Have you played around with it reversed, so the stiff arm switches places with the ball/bent arm? The legs would also be switched. I don't know how it would look as a shadow under Woodson, but I wonder if that angle will make the Heisman shadow a little clearer. Play around and see. Good shirt. |
| 2 years 39 weeks ago | No problem, I'm just trying |
No problem, I'm just trying to help where I can. |
| 2 years 39 weeks ago | Actually, yes, I would have |
Actually, yes, I would have aligned the front of the shirt along the left-- as in manually aligning the left-most stems of the h and the f, in "hello, forcier." That would be opposed to the computer default, where it just aligns based on character real estate (the left-most edge of the stem of the h and the cross stroke of the f). New alignment in turn would create a little more space between the dot of the i and the comma after hello. The trick with lowercase "goodbye, tacopants" is the top word has descenders and the bottom features ascenders. Maybe then you align the g in goodbye with the first a in tacopants. Maybe you add more line-spacing and align the e in goodbye with the s in tacopants-- with care taken in either instance to ensure the comma and period maintain a consistent distance from their respective words. And no, I didn't expect you to whip out a multi-columnar grid for two words. It's just some reading I thought I'd suggest because I believe the grid strengthens design in general, whether it's on a poster or a t-shirt. I think the tiny details make a big difference. The kerning wasn't a comment on tight vs loose in general-- it was more in reaction to inconsistent kerning. Example: the space between the "ta" vs "an" in tacopants. At the very least, I believe consistent kerning on a design looks like thought was given to the typography, as opposed to just placing straight text on a space. There are times when inconsistent kerning may be a design element (if you're trying to make a statement on disorder or division, for example), but I believe a non-purposeful lack of kerning takes away from a design. |
| 2 years 39 weeks ago | From Ellen Lupton's Thinking |
From Ellen Lupton's Thinking with Type: --Kerning --Grid -Single-column grid |
| 2 years 39 weeks ago | What is the criteria under |
What is the criteria under which submitted shirts move up to the MGoBlogStore? Do shirts have to receive a certain number of five-stars votes? A certain number of votes? X amount of comments? Or after Six Zero finishes unveiling his last shirt, will there be a final post displaying all the shirts, asking the readers to vote for the submitted shirts? I'm just curious how this will be done. About the current shirt: 1) Visual quality: First, are you using different weights of that typeface, or are you stretching the face of certain lines? Using different weights to make text fit is fine, but stretching the face to make it fit isn't very professional. The form of letters in lines 3 and 5 look different than line 4 (mostly the 'has') and line 1, which is close to line 2, but subtly different. I could be completely wrong, but it just looks like there was some stretching, either horizontally or vertically. Second, the wolf looks unfinished because of the consistency of detail. The face has a lot of detail, but the body has less, and only up top. I do like that you nestled the wolf into the text. I get that. 2) Character/ humor: If the t-shirt is meant to be a PG shirt, then it succeeds, but if it's meant to inspire fear of hell and capture Barwis' badassness, I think it falls short. That may be because the shirt is wordy, because the wolf doesn't look intimidating, or because the wolf has a collar. Is it a fierce wolf? The level of fear diminishes as domestication increases. The collar makes me think the wolf is actually a dog, and to be honest, I didn't know it was a wolf until you told me (the tagline reads release the hounds). The shirt doesn't have to depict gore and oozing entrails of victims, but I feel simple changes to the wolf could improve the shirt. Maybe you put the wolf in a stance indicating it's about to attack. Maybe the hair on its back is raised. Maybe instead of a collar, the wolf wears a broken metal chain around its neck. Also, if you're going for fear/hell, then go for it--it may be as simple as you putting a clear, angry wolf under a giant BARWIS IS HELL/ BARWIS' GYM/ etc. Or ditching the wolf idea and going with skulls. 3) Michigan Pride: Mission accomplished. Love of Barwis is love of Michigan. 4) Mass Appeal: Here is where you have to be cautious. Does generic Joe Michigan know Barwis keeps wolves as pets? If not, would they wonder why we have a dog/wolf/canine on a Wolverine shirt? Does Joe Michigan know who Barwis is? 5) Marketability: Close, but not quite. I think a few loose ends need to be tied up in order to attract more buyers. It's a good start and has potential. |
| 2 years 39 weeks ago | about face |
Ah, I'm a fan of Helvetica, along with Univers, Trade Gothic, and Didot. And you can't go wrong with House Industry's script typefaces. |
| 2 years 39 weeks ago | Cooper Black?? C'mon, Six |
Cooper Black?? C'mon, Six Zero. |
| 2 years 40 weeks ago | I don't know how accurate |
I don't know how accurate these years are, but here are some older images--and you can see the Wolverine quality looks like crap: |
