Stop .jpg

  

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While I don't like Norton I can appreciate this ad, without even using a picture we know what we're looking at. A dear memory, that you could protect with this new program. While I hate the messy affect given to the .jpg text I understand it, but then I just hate .jpg files in general so it's to be expected. I really enjoy the font choices at the bottom, they're formal but not intimidating. The graphic elements all work along with the bar that represents the stored data, it all works nicely and I can't think of anything I'd like to change, although ideally have it for another company.

Type Face

  

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This is probably one of my favorite typography book covers, this is one of the few that I would probably buy just for the brilliant cover. However, there are some problems. While I adore Darth Vader's face I have a few issues with the actual title. I wish it were more simplistic instead of using all of those elements since they already efficiently showed that it was a typography book. I like everything going on below that line though, and overall I can appreciate the work done with this cover.

Vintage Feeling

  

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The fun fact sort of feel is really brilliant, as is the sort of faulty tape. I really wish I liked this, the color scheme's fine and I really like the general idea. But overall it just looks really forced and jumbled to me, and I'm sure the designer would argue that it was about stuttering and that was the intention but honestly I don't think it really gives that affect. It just looks jumbled and unorganized. The sketchy tape at the top doesn't help either, it's completely different from the rest of the piece and the line "Elvis Presley used to stammer as a kid" doesn't really follow anything, it would have been much stronger just left a straight line on the bottom.

Faulty Wiring

  

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I adore this piece, it's a very simple work and the graphic is a typographic element. I love the way the umb in succumb is broken, faulty almost and just shows that if you go down this path it won't be nearly as glorified as the road to get there was. The overall font choice is neat but still very strong, and the light bulbs really give it the affect it needs to have. It is a more graphic element, but the font use in it really is what makes it strong.

Halloween Themed Ice cream?

  

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Ah Ben and Jerry's, always using such innovative ways to give a message. Here my favorite part is the typography Even the fonts that aren't dripping, like the Peace Love and Ice Cream at the left has the same feel as the ones that are. The way the fonts are all in different colors and coming off of the colored block like they were melting themselves leave a very Halloween feel to it. Overall I really like the work, the only problem I have is there are a few places where the legibility gets a bit questionable. 

Erasing Chance

  

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I love the relate-able look this gives off to me, I'm sure most if not all kids used to make pictures out of their eraser shavings. I enjoy the bold font choice that change has matched with the more sophisticated yet still in your face font with the message. The image overall has a nice hierarchy and to be honest I can't think of a single thing I'd want to change, except maybe just using a normal pink eraser since the blue seems a bit odd to me but even that isn't any kind of a big deal. The only other problem I really see is that the word looks like change at a glance, because when I think of erasing I think of changing something. But none of these are really big deals, I think it's fine just as it is.

Interrupting Logo

  

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This is probably one of my favorite ads of all time actually, I've seen lots of clever video advertisements for turning off your phone when you're in the movie theater but I have yet to see a poster that I like. I can understand this being that those advertisements are intended to play in the movie theater before a presentation, so there aren't as much of a need for posters and that's also probably why this poster isn't even for a movie theater. But it takes that familiar concept, the annoying phone call that we all loathe when we're in the middle of our favorite films. Especially if they're on cable, what if your grandmother's calling? The movie has about twenty minutes left and she'll probably have twenty five minutes worth of information to speak with you about. Well, Tivibu apparently has a solution for that. Moving away from the concept that I adore so much, it's actually a good layout. It brings a familiar logo and interrupts it, much like that phone call will be doing to your movie. It has a clever slogan in a strong enough text without getting confusing an get's it's message across. Brilliant really. The only problem I have with it is, well, sort of a bit deal. While I do adore this poster the first time I looked at it I had no idea why they repeated the ring ring, at least not until reading further. It just sort of looked like bad planning, though upon further investigation was brilliant. The thing is, if you just took 'The Lord of the Ring Ring Rings' by itself I'd be surprised if anyone got the idea. I wish the ring ring looked a bit more phone like, maybe had some movement behind it. But overall I adore this piece.