day five: messages

Typography can have a temporary purpose or a lasting purpose. Some type is used to create things we may see once then throw away & other type is used to create something more lasting, something we are intended to look at more than once. These images show a very temporary message, & yet it conveys a more intimate/personal experience for the person the message was created for.

I find it ironic that as I explored Cedar City for different uses of type, that this temporary message was more interesting to me than type used for, lets say, signage, because it is meant to last for an x amount of time. Signs are meant to be noticed each time you pass by them & should be easily recognizable. But wouldn't you think that something more meaningful should be more lasting...not that it should be seen by all like a sign...but that it should be able to last for a longer space of time?

Gym Flier ( Devo: day 5)

Gone are the days when I can see a home made flier, and not dissect it. It's kinda like when I am watching someone sing at church, and I ask myself "what would Simon say about this performance". Before American Idol, I just could enjoy average singing... Now I can't. I am starting to feel like I am the Simon of typography with my posts. So I think I will mix it up with a couple type signs I like around Cedar, not just the ones I don't like. I don't like being on the negative side always.

As I mentioned in class, I went to golds gym on Thursday night for Zumba (5:00 pm to 6:00 pm everyone should go!) I saw this flier up, and thought I would borrow it for the post. I love the correction on the "Your / you're", and the font handling on the top of the flier.

Devo

Phone Book

Today I found this Cedar City phone book and thought it was interesting how Cedar City chose to portray the city. They chose a script font, and put it with a mask to emphasize the Shakespeare Festival.

Old West font

I found this sign and i just had to take a picture. It went really really well with what i was doing. Its funny it took me forever to try to find which font this was. You'd think that old western type faces were the same but wow was i way wrong. i didn't know that there was more detail to them then i thought. This type face is called Cibola. What separate's this type face from the rest is that the tops and the bottoms of the letters are way waver then they typical western type faces, the second thing i noticed about this type face is that it has a hash mark (i dont know the correct term so we'll call it that) only in the center of the letters. Other type faces had hash marks on the upper part of the letter and on the lower part. And also the letter thins out and thickens in different places through-out the letter. So now that you know that, look at this picture and the other picture and you now will be able to tell the difference.

historic type

Hey guys. So i've kinda been behind on this project but what else is new i dont seem to really be able to stay on top of things due to that fact that i do get distracted. But for this project i decided to go around town and take pictures of type that goes from way back when, starting around the 1900's and on. I found this type face that dates back from 1850 to 1900 so it worked out really good since cedar was founded in 1851. this was a typical font used in the old west a lot. The font is called 57 rodeo, weird name i know but hey it worked for them back then and it was able to distinguish the west from the rest of the states.

Marian

The owner of the junkyard is named Marian. After a short conversation with him I discovered that he is originally from Nebraska,

he has owned the junkyard for 40 years, and he hates when people steal his signs.

Apparently he reconstructs the signs and sells them to buyers all over the U.S.

At first the old man seemed to be a recluse but he had no problem with me taking

pictures on his property.

Day 5: Out of Context

This 1st picture is a close-up of the word Summer in Forever Summer Tanning. Everybody likes to be tan even in Cedar City. The neon tubing for the letters really looks hand written and even a little sloppy. This type is unique for neons because it has one long continuous line rather than breaking for each letter. Neon signs all have a curvy flow to them and the fact that this sign is trying to utilize that aspect makes it more successful. When this word is taken out of context it becomes a little confusing and difficult to interpret, but when looking at the entire sign it looks great.
- Cami