Joe,
This is a cool idea for a battle
!
I am trying to go by the rules but hit a snag. I went to the Flickr page but the 3rd image was not downloadable. I had to refresh the page a couple of times to find one that was. I picked the third one from that page even though the first image was far better for the random subject chosen by Wikipedia. The other problem is that this is a color photo. Do I change it to greyscale or leave it exactly as I found it?

ChrisL

I would say your the designer you decide! this is a great idea i have to pass it on!

Joe,
Another question: In your specs, you say the image must be 600px wide by 400px tall, albums are typically square though so should this battle bee 600 by 600?

ChrisL

OK, Here is a quick first take:

ChrisL

Dimension? 400x400?

(Genre: Nordic Jazz)

I wanna play too! Mine’s kind of cheesy-like maybe adult contemporary or something.

Here’s Mine. I hope it’s alright.

“In a startling move that alienated nearly all of its fans, Slowcore stalwarts Plant Sap released Peace is the Measure, an ostensibly inspirational album of gentle Christian rock.”

This is a great idea!

I’m at work and am limited to my system fonts, but was too tempted not to give it a shot anyways:

The problem with using the ’interesting photo’ page is that you tend to get photos that are too damn nice to mess with. ;o)

That said, I’m really digging Miss Tiffany’s entry. Nice!

Thanks, Darrel.

too damn nice to mess with. ;o)

I didn’t feel that way. Should’ve I left the image alone? :^!

nah, you did the right thing! You had the guts to mess with it and I think it turned out great. I was too timid so just slapped minimal type on top my photo. ;o)

Granted, if you ever worked with the band GUS Reporter System, you’d know what complete *@#&#$^ they can be when you go messing with their photos.

Eheheh. Yes. Well, you know creative types. Too opinionated for their own good! And they think just because they are good at one thing they are good at all things! Go figure. ;^P

“Fans of Eriastrum’s 2005 debut, Eriastrum Solves All Your Problems, will recognize the same buzzy electronic beats and hypnotizing loops of remixed vocal folk music, but ultimately Protects You From Age suggests that the Belgian two-man operation may be running out of ideas.”

(I’m a terrible and ill-equipped graphic designer, but this is too fun of an idea not to participate!)

“On their first album to be released outside of Japan, charming trio Dream Pop serve up a pop confection that is a guilty pleasure. The English lyrics may be poorly translated and mispronounced, and even nonsensical at times (e.g., the title cut, or the bouncy “Do When You, But Think Before”), but with hooks this catchy who can take issue?”

Citigroup will probably cancel my credit card.

Sharon

What a wonderful game!

Miss Tiffany, Start a jazz band call it Slyvan Muldoon... and I will buy that album! Amazing!

Hope it was ok to edit the image!

Imo, Tiffany’s cover couldn’t be improved upon. That is classic. As a long-time jazz fan, I’d say it is about as good as anything I’ve ever seen. If I had that CD, I would frame it and hang it on the wall.

Amica Wronki, japanese songs by a slovenian group

Well, this makes a great fontplay exercise. What fun! I love the image and the guy’s name. A soccer player in France, if I recall correctly.

I did another one...

I set myself two extra conditions:

5. Use only a typeface I had never used before and had generally ignored.

6. Spend no more than 15 minutes.

(I just noticed that Faiyaz got the same picture. I like his rotated, lightened version: it’s more interesting than mine, because it is harder to decipher.)

Wahahaha. I wasn’t going to do another one, but I clicked the Wikipedia etc links to see what I would get, and this was too surreal to pass up. Sorry I don’t have time to make it splendid:

(Apologies in advance if my use of the Thai Garuda symbol as a band logo offends anyone.)

Omg, this game is fun!

One of those end-nineties downtempo jazzy-chillout Danube beats – though the band name is a little bit out of place … ;°)

This would be the soundtrack to accompany the dutiful and patriotic nationalistic love-making reserved for German Santa’s and the citizens who portray them.

NO SLACKING OFF!

This is much too fun

OK just one more.

How about one more from a first time poster? sorry...

Manx (cat)...just another wapper

Riding the popularity of the Balkan new wave (including such bands as Gogol Bordello, Balkan Beat Box and Beirut), Dolná Streda lovingly reinterprets the folk songs of her native Czechoslovakia with a rockin’ new sound!

And one for the road ....

Patty,
I’m loving your Balkan write-up :-)

ChrisL

Lots of good ones here. I added the words in italic.

I decided I’d give it a go.
Weirdest band name ever!

Couldn’t resist trying another one.

Someone shoot me now, I can’t stop...

Patty, that accordian cover is great. If I saw that in the used CD store, I would buy it just for the cover.

Some of these are sooo flukey. I also think the panda CD is very serendipitous.

So is the indispensable man.
; )

Loving this thread.

I thought it was serendipitous too, Dennis. :-)

I like the List of Asteroids...great name for a novel.

One more. My wikipedia link was to an actual cd called (the ep).

I wanna know what the
rent’s like in heaven.

Blurred type to match image.

12oz. Mouse is a very surreal, bizarre animated show produced by Williams Street for Adult Swim.

j a m e s

Celtic experimental electronic—like Mouse on Mars with more trees.

Moulktoniathus leembruggianus, the ultimate lizzard lounger...

j a m e s

Great work everyone! Really nice stuff here :)

>>>I like the List of Asteroids...great name for a novel.
Not such a great name for a band, it’s ridiculous...
List of Asteroids/145301-145400

Maybe not such a great novel name now!?!
:(

Some great stuff going on.
I reall like jupiterboy’s one.

Also Jos, could you tell me what typeface you used in your last one?

Oh dear another one.

I thought band names had to be ridiculous, Sean. :-)

Ah! You have me there Sharon!

What makes a good band name is quite subjective and often a matter of personal opinion. I’ve seen research that indicates the more absurd or ridiculous the name, the more effective it is for the band (and the record company too).

Currently there is a fashion for abstract and incongruous band names, many of which are “found” names, found on the internet in much the same manner as we are doing now. The random approach. Dada and surrealists of course practically invented the idea of incongruity in serious art, or at least they are credited with championing it.

One time about fifteen years ago I came up with a good name for a band but it was too far ahead of the time — Carpet. I offered it to half a dozen bands here in Melbourne and not one of them was game enuff to take it. Musicians—-they think they’re so radical and avant garde. I’ve worked on PR for a dozen acts, and just about all of them were conservative when it came to business and marketing. Chicken!

j a m e s

Hey Jos, can you tell what typeface did you use for Samuel Lee cover! I really like it!

Wow james that was an essay (wanna write my thesis), I have to agree the stranger the name the better the band! I think sean got lucky!

Carpet... I can just see the album cover now! brillant!

Also Jos, could you tell me what typeface you used in your last one?

Séan & Robert, it’s MUSEO. I’ve not finished it yet, but I thought it fitted just nice on this cover.

James, I grew really very jealous of your band name “Henry the human fly” :-)

Great resource, thanks Jos!

Carpet... I can just see the album cover now! brillant!

Yeah, I was doing drawings and rough comps with pictures of carpet and persian rugs and things like that, and showing them to the A & R department and to musicians so they could see the potential. Everyone said they loved the idea but all were too chicken to take it on. They said young people couldn’t relate to the idea of carpet (shrug).

I always wanted to name a band Butter, as a kind of joke name. I thought, we’ve had Cream, and we had Bread, what happened to Butter?

j a m e s

I thought band names had to be ridiculous, Sean. :-)

When I showed this thread to a friend, he told me on a recent camping trip they got to conjuring up band names. He thought his entry was the best, “Roadkill Junkies”. Their first album was named “Crows on the Highway”. I think eventually I’ll have to make that into a cover.
; )

Butter! That’s very close to my reigning fake band name—MANTECA.

Kind of related! In ireland there were recent graduates of my college who named their company darling, just so they could answer the phone and say “hello darling”...

Here’s my second one!

Do your thesis Rob!!!

Its to cold to do my thesis and this is way more fun! (damn addictive typophile)

Don’t worry sean, i think james might take me up on my offer!

A second one can’t hurt.
Tokyo Encore with ’made all the difference’
Quite an addictive competition I’ll add.

’nother one. 12oz. Mouse was a missed opportunity.
Football clubs make good band names.

j a m e s

Rob, you want me to write your thesis? Post a thread in General Discussions asking for assistance, I’ll be along.

j a m e s

I’m at a loss for what kind of music this would be...

Too bad I didn’t get a photo of duct tape...

A conversation about this exercise resulted in this, although not part of the challenge.

I always wanted to name a band Butter, as a kind of joke name. I thought, we’ve had Cream, and we had Bread, what happened to Butter?
Don’t forget about Cake.

Aw jeez, this was too bloody good (unbelievably serendipitous photo/album title) not to include. I’ll stop now I promise.

Where there’s butter there must be JAM. Irie.

Here’s one of mine that got lost in the thread move:

Here’s a new one:

I guess I kinda used the same exact format for both of them. The band names are even both in Newt. I resolve to be more creative with the next endeavor. These ones just seemed to work this way, though.

P.S.: anyone know how to delete images that I mistakenly uploaded? I managed to botch the Huancavelica album twice before getting the right size image loaded, and I’d hate to take up 2.3 MB of Typophile server space for no good reason at all.

I think I have sharondipity as a talent handicap of sorts.

I guess this is some form of experimental electronica/jazz, judging by the cover.

Oh, alright then, one more.

Brain in a vat is a variety of thought experimental music intended to draw out certain features of our ideas of knowledge, reality, truth, mind, and meaning.

What’s with the “insert Image” command? Is it me or the whole world?

ChrisL

The gods of comic relief cannot do better than random selection! I cracked up when I tossed the dice of Wiki and Flickr and came up with this pairing! The “It Man” is of course from the famous Monty Python’s Flying Circus skit :-)

ChrisL

What’s with the “insert Image” command? Is it me or the whole world?

Ahh its all in your head man ;) But I did have the same problem as you when trying to download a picture from flickr if thats any consolation.

...problem as you when trying to download a picture from flickr...

Some seem to be protected. They default to a “spaceball.gif” download.

Chris,
That one takes the cake! I literally L(ed)OL at Starbuck’s, startling the person next to me.

Some of these are great - could very well be real bands!

Patty,

That really works!

ChrisL

These are terrific — but please remember that Flickr’s Terms of Service require that if we use images we find on Flickr, we link back to the original image’s page.

WHDLoad sounds like electronica, and “one will believe it” (short for “The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it” — Bertrand Russell, in accordance with the rules) their effort to reach a mature statement of their musical philosophy. The album cover was fortuitiously square when it popped up, so I didn’t need to change it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHDLoad
http://www.flickr.com/photos/urchinmama/2161738275/

folkadelic alt-goth

post-rock rejectronica

shoe-gazer trance anthems

Experimental music, I guess (Nick’s free font used)

I just couldn’t resist ...

This thread is awesome. Here’s my entry:

It’s a post-punk Romanian band whose style is a cross between Joy Division and the Smiths.

and a second this morning.

Here is my piece of art!

Not their best album cover…

This is a very funny and interesting topic! My first attempt is Francis Evans’ debut album, “Think of a Good Answer”. Francis is a young singer-songwriter female from Canada, she plays folk music with a pop touch; Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell and Laura Nyro are among her influences. The record also features an impressive cover of Townes Van Zandt “To Live is to Fly”.

“Only when the design fails does it draw attention to itself; when it succeeds, it’s invisible.” (John D. Berry)

And here’s another one: “Barn and do nothing” by Algirdas Saudargas, an obscure band named after the first foreign minister of post-Soviet Lithuania. This double album consists of four long pieces of meditative music. If you like Stars of the Lid, Steve Reich and Sigur Ros, you’ll love it.

“Only when the design fails does it draw attention to itself; when it succeeds, it’s invisible.” (John D. Berry)

Ok ... my third and last. Promise (X).

Third one: “Taking Off Your Shoes” by French producer and dj Terry Deitz, a nice contemporary electronica/hip hop/downtempo record with guest appearances by English rapper Roots Manuva and Erlend Øye from Kings of Convenience.

I really like this ;P !
Here’s another one:

That is a great quote, but it is out of context. The whole quote from http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/25305.html is:
“Designing a table of contents requires subtlety and attention to detail, and all this effort will go largely unrewarded. In a sense, the design has to get out of the reader’s way, but that’s not an easy thing to achieve. Only when the design fails does it draw attention to itself; when it succeeds, it’s invisible. But a few of us, those who are both designers and readers, will notice.”

So, for table of contents and text faces, yes, but for road signs and most other things, no.

photo: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2168980899&size=o

Wikipedia just gave me as a band name “United States House Intelligence Subcommittee on Terrorism/HUMINT, Analysis and Counterintelligence.” Think it’s time to get back to work.

This is Ardy’s third album. His first two were received modestly in his native Australia, but when the Arcade Fire asked him to join their recent tour, he started to garner international notice. His use of native Aboriginal instruments such as the wallabee whistle and the didjeridoo give his songs a unique, mournful sound.

Note: The Plastic People of the Universe have no relation to the Scott Walker hit “Plastic Palace People”.

These keep getting better. And Chris (Dezcom) I think you should avoid rolling the Wiki/Flickr dice again. I’m washing my eyes out now. Haha.

Ladislaus II of Bohemia’s long struggle with drugs and alcohol and his recent suicide attempt and hospitalization provide the raw material for his latest descent into dark, introspective melancholia. His long time association and subsequent rift with The Plastic People of the Universe is chronicled in the heart-rending song “Pašijové esíčka bůlnoční”. This album is not for the light hearted.

As luck would have it, my random wiki entry (Ryland Steen) is not only a person, but the drummer from Reel Big Fish. Type is Freight (Joshua Darden) and Pill Gothic (Christian Robertson).

My submission:

The original shot:

National Unity Front. Sweet!

Gaelscoil’s captivating harp will transport you beyond time with powerful, yet tranquil melodies which sooth the soul and transcend the land and sea which inspired them.

The last album of the famous neotechno yodel group, Balsas District.

I am hopelessly addicted. Mick Jagger’s great grandchild’s band.

Original image -

I did the best I could with this... Romantic Banjo for those nights you are home alone?

Since the Felecia in Wikipedia is a porn star, I felt justified using garish pink.

Impersonators Would Be Dead is the latest offering by Basler BT-67, in case you can’t read the cheesy band logo. I realized I didn’t have any techno fonts at my disposal and decided to throw a custom logo together in 20 minutes. Turns out I haven’t got the skills to mimic a decent techno font in 20 minutes. I was going for a futuristic look, but it looks more kitsch and retro.

Obviously, Basler BT-67 are a Danish-Canadian trip-hop outfit known for often delving into electroclash influences, and this album marks their foray into various traditional music styles, complete with traditional Sámi yoik singing by guest vocalists.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/inside-my-shell/2183027928/

“In this overlooked 1971 release, tenor saxophonist Jim Wright delivers his characteristic suave technique. Wright’s renditions of jazz standards are bent and stretched almost beyond recognition on some tracks, but his hypnotic solos and drummer Morris Benton’s wont to play with meter are tied down by Claude Arrighi’s reassuring bass. One of the trio’s best efforts.”

original photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/localsurfer/2184034624/

(A US congressman, a term from Robert’s Rules of Order, and ... a surfer. It’s like watching a slot machine.)

Nice work; this is very entertaining. I’m particularly enjoying Patty’s exquisite choice and placement of type, and the way Chris’s 100 watt personality completely swamps ’randomness’ :)

Went for the less is more approach...

Designated random resources are as follows:

Band Name:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phiomyoides

Album Name:  Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in PUBLIC OR PRINTED LIES. - Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)

Cover Photo:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/dubpics/2169590328/

- r -

It was a blast!

Final entry!

Nagarjuna’s unique brand of loungey jazz reaches its apotheosis in this suite of meditative, down-tempo tunes. This is music to listen to at the end of a long evening, a long relationship, or a long cold winter. His journey to the bottom of the martini glass has a special resonance in light of his failed love affair with the quixotic Czech accordionist Dolná Streda, who famously drove a former lover, Ladislaus II of Bohemia, to attempt suicide.

I am so glad this competition ends today! I have work to do. But it has been extremely fun.

Hey Number3pencil - if you’re still checking in, what’s the font you used for Will McCall?

There has been several aspects I’ve enjoyed, not the least of which is the ability some of you have to spin a tale about the genre and influences of the group.

I hope this is acceptable. Im a little late

Artist Name:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightbird

Album Name:
“Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are DREADFULLY LIKE OTHER PEOPLE”
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)

Cover photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2179387072&size=o

Kim, is your image saved in CMYK? (should be RGB) It isn’t showing on my screen.

Patty—
The font for Will McClay is my own Newt (Light), which so far only exists on my computer and in the critique section. Once I get back to my big computer in Iowa (on winter break from college right now), which has all my font files on it, I’ll be able to finish it and start selling (arrangements already underway with Veer). I hope to do that as quickly as possible once I get back, so hopefully you’ll see its smiling face on the market soon.

JIT

Phew. I did it. I resisted creating more than one. There are some hot entries. H-O-T! Peter, I love that retro vibe you’ve got going on there.

Tiff - I wish you had done more, I liked the first one you did a lot. I got way too hooked, especially when I started having my ersatz singers break each others hearts.

Im a dummy . This is my first time forgive me

Once again, random chance serves up a winner. Nice!

Gawd!, you guys are really good.

Band: St. Michael’s School
Album: larger experiences of life

Hmm, 12:10. That figures. I’m going to be late for my own funeral...

Oh, so late... hope no-one minds. Only spotted this battle at work (ahem) on Friday afternoon. Internet connection so slow at home that it wasn’t worth waiting for all those pictures to load, had to wait till Saturday (I’m now in the public library!).

Anyhoo, at last an opportunity to use Silvermoon! Woo!

source for image: http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/onblack.php?id=2181239376&size=large
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Ever since I chose to block pop-ups, my toaster’s stopped working.

At the next TypeCon or other Typophile-friendly event, there ought to be a mock-up of a used CD store stand where you can browse CD cases with these album covers.

Making actual recordings to fit these covers would be just brilliant, though I imagine more time-consuming.

Making actual recordings to fit these covers would be just brilliant, though I imagine more time-consuming.

On another forum, though. Trust me, you don’t want to hear me sing.

nice one Hiroshige :)

Thanks. I think I could of changed the type of the bad name though.

Here a couple (using step one and two), that I made for my site using some photos a friend took back in the 80s:

http://www.fontplay.com/images3/fontok.jpg

http://www.fontplay.com/images3/liberationsans.jpg

So, who won?

Trust me, you don’t want to hear me sing.

I’ll join you on that Patty :^)

j a m e s

So, who won?

My first impulse is to nominate Patty, but I’d say we all won, in a sense. This was almost too much fun.
; )

Thanks for the comment Kim. 3 Hail Marys and another bottle of Bordeaux and I’ll be just alright...

Sorry i’m late!

Johann, Looks wonderful, except a quote comes to mind,

“To anyone with any sensitivity to the shapes of letters, whether they know the terms of typesetting or not, this straight apostrophe is like a fart in a symphony — boorish, crude, out of place, and distracting.” -John D. Berry

I was holding my tongue re that apostrophe... (not with the end of a knife though, as per the photo).

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Ever since I chose to block pop-ups, my toaster’s stopped working.

I’d no doubt be better off if I learned to hold my tongue, but I was glad someone finally had the gumption to correct me about this after I had been doing it publicly for a couple years.

Although far too late, hereby my entry...

So much fun to do!

TOO MUCH FUN ACTUALLY...

Aack - I am here a little late in the game :) Here is 5 minutes worth (mostly just trying to find an image which the copyright allowed):

Original Photo by Bright Tal: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bright/2182913813/

This was a lot of fun.

I can’t decide if Florinda would be a folk artist or mainstream pop (trying to be “artsy” on her cover).

If loading all the images each time the topic was viewed wasn’t such a bandwidth waster, I’d say let this challenge continue like the “What are you listening to” topic does. I sure is fun seeing what you all come up with. And the variation of of random incongruity to serendipity is certainly entertaining also. My thanks to everyone who got in on this.

Roll on the next one...

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Ever since I chose to block pop-ups, my toaster’s stopped working.

+3 for word fitting, -1 for spelling!

oh damn!

It’s not a mistake, it’s a tribute to Slade!

Is it me or does this page get completely mucked in Firefox? That and the sad slowness. I think we need some more pages on this specific thread due to the # of images loading.

I no longer can get all of the images to load. I’m in Safari.

I am in Safari and all the images load and quickly enough at that. My connection is cable and I have 4 GB of RAM if that helps.

ChrisL

Ditto

This is eurotrash with a label. Fat Cat Records snuffed this one out of Warsaw as the first hip electronic wonder out of Eastern Europe since Kraftwerk (although that was Duesseldorf in West Germany). After this iconic album cover the band, that got together in June 1991, quickly landed a gig in London’s Cargo and quickly made their commercial breakthrough when their track “beton has feelings” was used in the film “Everything is illuminated”. The rest is history. With regards, Castro/Bonke

Stephen: FWIW, I’m using Firefox too, and it all looks fine to me...

(I second the preference that this should roll to multiple pages to speed up loading time though...)

The problem with multiple pages is that you loose the ability to go to the last post you have reaf in a thread once you pass the page length. I like it the way it is now.

ChrisL

True enough. Anyone know why?

I’m not seeing all the images either. When I reload it some reappear but others disappear. I’m on Safari.

One of the Wiki things I came across was Hyperia, and it reminded me of the free font that came with registering some Adobe stuff. So I changed the name to that, and used a photo I took of the wall in front of where I park at work.

And fwiw, my Firefox gags on this page.

I find that appealing :-)

ChrisL

Rut’s comeback try gets off on a good foot with this evocative collection of original songs that seem to distill their unique style, while adding some fresh layers of innovative musicality that take Polka Rap to a new level.

2 of 3 rules employed. This image from Image Source (Came in the goodies folder of CS) - Font is Diavlo by Typophiler Jos Buivenga.

Voyager shows a new side with this entrancing release. Most of it is so peaceful and relaxing it might have been called “Music for Massage Therapists”. However the mood is broken on the last track, “Atonal Duet for Sitar and Bagpipes”. An atonal duet involving bagpipes borders on redundancy, and should serve as a warning. Some usefulness can be served if you ever want to drive away unwanted houseguests. -dopeyhead.com

This was such a good idea for fontplaying, I have made a list of Wiki names that came up that seemed good candidates. And a list of “end of quotes” phrases. And This time I picked two that seemed to match an image. The font is the current free font at Fontshop, called Anziano Smallcaps by Stefan Hattenbach. Photo from Amana, in the “Goodies” folder on Adobe CS.

Storylines of Shortland Street felt like a grunge band or something to me.

Sorry I’m so late to the game. I didn’t even know these type battles existed! Someone has to let me know next time.

This contest is brolic.

Ah, well, as people seem to be carrying this on indefinitely, here’s another...

image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/barry-o/2222261550/
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Ever since I chose to block pop-ups, my toaster’s stopped working.

What font is that, dtw? I like your cover a lot.

I thought I would join in.

Sharon: Thanks. (Monotype Script Bold for the caps, Futura Extra Black Condensed Italic for the rest, if I remember correctly.)

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Basketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics (best band name ever...)
Is To Enjoy It (very emo/indie title)

Type: Flama designed by Mario Feliciano and a knockoff of Lance Wyman’s ’68 Olympic Logo designed by Ray Larabie

I simply had to, I’m so sorry I only saw this today...

Take that, serendipity.

Mare Reproductive Loss Syndrome (MRLS)
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”In physics, you don’t have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.” Frank Wilczek (1951 – )
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* (Buckhurst Hill, England)

ruD

Nice one.

Too late, but just for the show.

This thread is proof that good graphic design relies on good photography as much as on matching it with good type.

Just discovered this forum & thread, so I joined. This is great practice! Some of your guys’ work is amazing! (Source image)

I really lucked out on this image/text combo. Hope no one minds if I post another. (Original image)

It seemed that pop-punk troubador Radley Kaminiski had taken his latest break-up a little harder than the previous dozen.

As per the rules of attribution, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/esparta/2328510701/ .

I am new here. I love this battle. I’ve posted a couple and want to make more. Sorry I keep coming back to it. Some of these are quite believable. I swear I’ve seen some in the Dollar Bin!