More 52 Redesign: They Kept the old superman logo, which I thought was stupid. It’s dated and archaic. Not iconic enough.
The thing with the action comics logo, is its brilliant and timeless and a total work of design art. The Superman logo on the other hand is just some (imo) boring typography.
The beauty of the Superman crest is it is not only a key part of the characters costume and attire but rather a symbol that permeates the masses senses and the pop culture membrain. It’s Iconography in the most raw and unfiltered sense.
Another thing that I feel is really overlooked is how the symbol can be defined without multiple colors. The interplay between the negative and positive tones create the symbol.
Let the symbol put the book in peoples hand, superman will do the rest.
Numbercruncher with Si Spurrier (currently finishing up in the Megazine... I suspect it's not widely known about, but I think you'd all dig it) and Dept of Monsterology with Gordon Rennie - which will have a metric fuckton of monsters. This is only a small number of them...
(Colours on Monsterology by Steven Denton) Also - because I designed it and I really like it, the logo:
lots more stuff on my blog! (I apoligise for how rarely I get to post anything in here... will try and do better!)
finally finished my 8-pager and of course, the last one had to be a 12 panelled one. Just about ran out of juice with this one. Done, done done….off to the next one.
My Muse has taken over and shoved me into the passenger seat now. Here's a small snippet of the warm-up piece I just started a 20 minutes ago. Work on this may well derail me from sleep for a bit...
VandalHandle -- What program do you use to make a font? (Asking because my grandfather used to make them, and I'm curious to see what other people use.)