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Type Battle 24 // Lucha Libre
Posted by Zara Evens in
29 Apr 2008 — 11:21am
29 Apr 2008 — 11:21am
// THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE:
This week's challenge has two parts. Choose one or both options for your submission.
Option 1: Using a Luchador name of your choice, draw the type that would be used to set your Luchador name onto a Lucha Libre style poster.
Option 2: Draw a set of dingbats that could be used on a Lucha Libre poster.
Bonus points and extra bragging rights for those who do BOTH and/or design a Lucha Libre poster.
References:
Lucha Libre
Poster samples
// ABOUT TYPOPHILE TYPE BATTLES
Here's your chance to stretch your type muscles. You have one week to create and submit your entry. Anyone may submit a design response to the challenge. You may enter as often as you wish. Post anytime. Critiques and comments are welcome throughout the game, from participants and spectators alike. Smack talk is encouraged.
As with any street battle, there is no panel of judges and no prize — only the ability to call yourself the best on the block.
Link directly to this thread: http://www.typophile.com/battle24
View all past Type Battles: Typophile / Projects / Type Battles
// REQUIREMENTS
- Image size: 550 width x 400 height. 72 dpi
- Color: Usually we stipulate black and white, but not this week
- Format: Please save your graphics as PNG
Winner take all, no holds barred. May be the best designer win.
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4 May 2008 — 12:23pm
Your hair is so pretty!
4 May 2008 — 12:39pm
It is the finest Dynel money can buy :-)
ChrisL
4 May 2008 — 5:53pm
This battle is been enlightening.
Haley: props for printing. I think that might take it.
4 May 2008 — 6:12pm
Good to see that the Blue Orange has some fans.
-=®=-
4 May 2008 — 7:13pm
¡ Diós mio, que sanvuerto locos !
4 May 2008 — 7:56pm
David Sudoeix presenta:
4 May 2008 — 8:38pm
Randy, that was a funny poster the one about the chair.
Chris, is that a real photo of you back in the good old days?
I think Haley has the most authentic poster of all. Originally these posters were cheaply screenprinted or letterpressed on cheap paper with flashy gradients to call for attention. Some posters are still done this way on small towns. Later when the wrestlers became movie stars the match posters started using full body pictures.
Haley the mask in your picture from "El Huracán Ramírez" is one of the coolest ever. Sample 1, Sample 2
Héctor
5 May 2008 — 4:39am
"is that a real photo of you back in the good old days?"
LOL! Back in the Photoshop Days! :-)
ChrisL
5 May 2008 — 4:42am
BTW, Happy Cinco de Mayo!!!
ChrisL
5 May 2008 — 9:09am
Hey, thanks for remembering, I would buy all a round of tequila shots if you were on town but I would prefer to welcome anyone when the real big party is thrown at 15/09.
Héctor
5 May 2008 — 11:36am
ChrisL
5 May 2008 — 12:07pm
Whoops! Pardon my suckful Spanish!
Here is a better one.
ChrisL
5 May 2008 — 12:30pm
5 de Mayo! Actually I don't know exactly what means the Cinco de Mayo - ¿Qué es Héctor?
(I can not upload a image for some reason... I will try later)
5 May 2008 — 12:51pm
Q: Como se dice "pun" en espanol? A: pun-o.
http://www.bustedtees.com/cincodemayo
5 May 2008 — 12:55pm
My reigning heavyweight campeones de Lucha-ville:
Best Original Typeface in a Lucha Poster: Chris "Jugador de las Palabras" Lozos
Most Authentic Lucha Poster Design: Haley "El Pollo con Labios" Fiege
Scariest Knowledge of Lucha Trivia and Best Masked Avatar: Héctor "Donsata" Muñoz Huerta
Best Photoshop of Chris Lozos: Ricardo "El Pulpo" Cordoba
And finally,
Best Legally Blonde impression in a Lucha Type Battle Post:
Chris Lozos (it was close Haley).
5 May 2008 — 1:11pm
I got it! I needed a PC to do this upload! Here, the Cinco de Mayo "Je Je"
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Not really. I can see the text in the comment window, the image appears there, I can read it [xxxxx.jpg] but it doesn' do it... Later I will try again.
5 May 2008 — 1:32pm
Didn't have time to make a poster, but I have a couple of Lucha Libre FontStructions in the works:
Luchador
http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/14177
Letra Libre
http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/32846
5 May 2008 — 2:27pm
double post, sorry
ChrisL
5 May 2008 — 2:26pm
"Best Photoshop of Chris Lozos: Ricardo “El Pulpo” Cordoba"
I have to agree on that one! I laughed my cajones off when I first saw it!
"Best Legally Blonde impression in a Lucha Type Battle)."
That should read ugliest legally blonde in my case :-)
Tip o the old sombrero to Randy for his spirit and fun on this one and his best Spanish by a non-native speaker!
ChrisL
5 May 2008 — 2:36pm
"Cinco de mayo" is remembered as the date of "La Batalla de Puebla" (Puebla's Battle) when the Mexican Army repelled the attack of the French Army invading the country in 1862 claiming the payment of debts and supporting the imposition of Maximiliano de Hasburgo as monarch.
Despite of this the french occupied the country until 1867.
It's a national holiday for schools but certainly not the most important date for the country. It has received lots of attention from the north american government as a political strategy and a symbolic celebration (america for the americans).
Pun would be "broma" "juego de palabras". A more witty and lascive pun would be called "albur".
Héctor
5 May 2008 — 2:56pm
LOL!
Welcome Chicken Lips! YES! I want to see that poster in print! :-)
Now if only I could find a blond wig... dang! ;-D
Triple Batalla, YEAH!!!
P.S. I loved the bit about "el Estado de Typophile"... Our very own nation-state! (Besides San Serriffe, of course.)
5 May 2008 — 3:33pm
OK. My ludic invention this time is the TEMIBLE GALLORDON, which was complicated and I had to place it somewhere else:
http://www.photoblog.com/storage001/2008/05/05/
The thing here is this Engravers, 19th Century? I don't know but I can say 1900s. It is just a alphabet, it doesn't even has punctuation, and ¡cuidaos! with the curve, because of its many singularities, if you touch it with a pencil, what happen is that it behaves like a rat trap and bang! Sometimes I think this stuff could just blast the monitor from within...
¡Feliz Cinco de Mayo a todos Ustedes!
Thanks Héctor, I knew about some french occupation or so but not so detailed.
André
5 May 2008 — 6:26pm
Hey Nate, wonderful set of pixels, some of the mask I actually recognize.
Chris, that blackletter does look very mexican to me, specially red over yellow, kind of chopped paper for the day of the dead.
André, your Gallordón is very funny 80's like but I fear that it looks more like a box poster or tomato sauce advertisement to me, ¡LOL!
Héctor
5 May 2008 — 10:38pm
5 May 2008 — 11:09pm
...oops, spelling error.
6 May 2008 — 10:14am
Héctor, it is smashed... I don't know. The other day I was searching something on the web and I endded up on the page of
EL REAL BETIS BALOMPIE
It is very interesting the way they found a translation to football. It is a crazy thing as putting BALL and FOOT backwards, more and less like this:
BALLFOOT
And also to remember, colega, the few years I spent in Seville back in the early nineties. The Betis stadium, Estadio Manuel Ruiz de Lopera is very small if compared with their huge rival, ER Sevilla. Nonetheless their smallness they are leons. Not to mention that around in the neighborhood, which is residential, there are lots of cafés with good food and all the folks out at night, Y LAS PALMAS. A la sevillana. HUGE.
Cheers
André
6 May 2008 — 11:39am
I confess - 2 things:
1, When I saw this challenge and some to the lucha libre postes, I thought of a font I was already working on. So, I didn't invent mine from scratch. I just make a bolder, rawer font (Dischuffed Raw Bold) with the uber cool LI ligature that I stole from Randy's LO lig in his entry above.
2, I don't know anything about Lucha Libre and plan on taking som classes in...
(oh - I'm not late, am I :¬)
-=®=-
7 May 2008 — 8:02am
Gallordon Dos Hyper
7 May 2008 — 11:11am
Props to Command Zed for the brief on this one.
I was a little worried at first, but people came on strong.
This was perfectly timed procrastination para mi. Gracias.
(Big project deadline ahead!)
10 May 2008 — 10:42am
I am not a very good letterer and this is very late but I am a Lucha fan so here we go:
11 May 2008 — 6:06pm
I actually have a font called Mil Mascaras based on Lucha Libre. Here's the glyph palette.
12 May 2008 — 8:35am
Actually I was dressed as Barbarella :)
13 May 2008 — 6:26pm
Patty, that's a neat dingbat font -- it even has an extraterrestial or two... ;-)
And I suppose Labios Barbarella could do battle with those evil aliens. :-D
13 May 2008 — 6:57pm
I think the registration mark is the baddest hombre in that font, he can make you black and blue as well as red and yellow if you don't keep him in line :-)
ChrisL
16 May 2008 — 6:20am
i pick tiger man
2 Jun 2008 — 7:45am
When will we get a new challenge?
2 Jun 2008 — 12:13pm
:D
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2 Jun 2008 — 2:29pm
For the full exposure :)
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3 Jun 2008 — 4:36am
Ivan, your Gigante is big! I wonder if EL Gigante would sound like ER Gigante in southern Spain.
3 Jun 2008 — 11:52am
Big, and bacony-fresh!
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