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Type Battle 31 // Slasher Magazine masthead
// THE CHALLENGE
Create a masthead for a magazine called "Slasher".
Winner take all, no holds barred. May the best designer win.
// REQUIREMENTS
- Image size: 550 width x 400 height. 72 dpi
- Color: Black and White only (Red optional)
- Format: JPG or PNG
// ABOUT TYPOPHILE TYPE BATTLES
This is your chance to stretch your type muscles on a weekly basis. 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.
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1 Dec 2008 — 1:45pm
Hint...make the A in "SLASHER" large and with an inscribed circle over it...
Peace,
JT
1 Dec 2008 — 1:59pm
I suppose it's only fair to add some Red in the mix for this challenge.
Color requirements are now Black & White, and Red is optional.
1 Dec 2008 — 2:03pm
What kind of magazine is this?
1 Dec 2008 — 2:44pm
A cutting edge magazine.
ChrisL
1 Dec 2008 — 2:50pm
1 Dec 2008 — 3:43pm
It is much like Head Injury Monthly, but tailored to the offender rather than the victim.
1 Dec 2008 — 4:53pm
Whoops! I blew it! I thought the title was just Slash--oh well, here it is anyway until I fix it:
ChrisL
1 Dec 2008 — 6:06pm
That one is great, Chris! :)
1 Dec 2008 — 7:09pm
Thanks!
Here is the whole word:
ChrisL
1 Dec 2008 — 7:11pm
that’s a really interesting R
1 Dec 2008 — 8:18pm
Thanks, James. I was shooting for a cut above the rest :-)
ChrisL
1 Dec 2008 — 8:22pm
Off Topic--
Jelmar,
I just went to your site and saw your nice type work. You really made my day! I love the text you used for the samples. I just laughed my derrière of with the quarterpounder with cheese thing :-)
ChrisL
1 Dec 2008 — 8:23pm
Always so incisive…
1 Dec 2008 — 8:25pm
LOL!!!
ChrisL
1 Dec 2008 — 9:34pm
dezignated punster said: A cutting-edge magazine.
with killer content, sharp commentary,
and slice-of-life profiles.
eek, had to get that outta the system/
chris, pretty cool letters, could work for a skate brand. There's some interesting, dagger-like negative space between the E-R.
2 Dec 2008 — 12:26am
Chris: thanks for the compliments! :)
I love those texts for use in my specimens. :D
2 Dec 2008 — 6:49am
Aaron, I love that first entry. Really really cool.
[semibad]
2 Dec 2008 — 6:55am
2 Dec 2008 — 6:59am
Thanks Andi! I'm having a blast with this. My current project at work isn't the most satisfying creatively so I get my fix with little fun stuff like this!
2 Dec 2008 — 7:10am
Join the club. I really like the feel of that first one Aaron, but it sort of combines a butcher shop with a mod feel—more Milk Bar. The second one gets more into the Psycho/Dressed to Kill mode, which is where the word takes me (with a Fangoria chaser).
@ Group—Not a drop of blood so far. Very restrained.
2 Dec 2008 — 7:31am
Yeah. James, a coworker told me that i should keep that on file in case we ever work with a fish market! Ha! yeah totally in that vein. Can't wait to see more submissions. I too am surprised there hasn't been blood splatter yet!
2 Dec 2008 — 7:43am
2 Dec 2008 — 8:01am
HA HA HA! Exactly! (*chocolate? Or actual blood?)
2 Dec 2008 — 8:10am
Brian,
Well done addition to the mag's profile :-) I never get that stuff out of my system!
Regarding the negative space, that was what I was after, not so much a dagger look as a kind of Zorro slashing feeling.
"@ Group—Not a drop of blood so far."
Regarding blood--I assume blood and gore images will be on the cover all the time so it may not be needed on the masthead as well. I do like the Psycho shower scene touch, Jupiterboy! :-)
ChrisL
2 Dec 2008 — 8:13am
Lite Soy with a dash of Photoshop.
2 Dec 2008 — 8:53am
Not as literally. Tried something with – a slash. Still no blood.
2 Dec 2008 — 8:54am
Jan? Honestly?
2 Dec 2008 — 9:03am
Not slashy enough?
This certainly isn’t Serial Killer’s Monthly.
2 Dec 2008 — 9:13am
I like it. It doesn't junk up the idea, like this.
2 Dec 2008 — 10:47am
ChrisL
2 Dec 2008 — 1:04pm
Im seeing this as more of a DIY home improvement magazine. At least that's what happened when I tried to build a driveway gate:
2 Dec 2008 — 1:04pm
That's really attractive line quality randy!
2 Dec 2008 — 1:15pm
That looks a bit more like it says "Masher"
2 Dec 2008 — 1:16pm
JonE.
2 Dec 2008 — 1:20pm
JonE.
2 Dec 2008 — 1:37pm
handwritten and stabbed.
2 Dec 2008 — 1:39pm
Jon, your entry does not look very slashy to me, rather like the local energy provider.
2 Dec 2008 — 1:39pm
10 minutes of freehand mousing in illustrator later:
2 Dec 2008 — 2:13pm
Stephan, your local energy provider looks very slashy :)
hmm..yours looks like...i don't know, definitely not a masthead for any kind of magazine.
JonE.
2 Dec 2008 — 2:15pm
Here's my Slasher.
Slasher is aimed at the ever growing, design conscious and stylish populace living during the so-called New Century – a time in the (hopefully) distant future — whose biggest passion in life is taking life. Preferably with knives, but they are aiming beyond that and always willing to explore new possibilities and fascinating workflows. I am very proud to present to you below some previously unreleased rough drafts of Slasher covers due to appear in approx. 2152 AD (given that the editors are still alive then).
Appypollyloggies if anyone is offended by this. The tone is supposed to lie somewhere between Monty Python, Clockwork Orange, and some dystopian sci-fi flicks.
Special Offer: Download four exclusive Slasher covers!
2 Dec 2008 — 2:17pm
@Roniewhorn: Thanks. Q-tip in gauche/blood
@cuttlefish: Yup. Though Masher would also accurately describe what happened.
@kottis: love it!
2 Dec 2008 — 2:43pm
Oh, how embarrassing. Just occurred to me, was I supposed to draw the letters myself?
Oops. ;-)
2 Dec 2008 — 2:47pm
You can or can't, up to you. I only got one exclusive cover though :(, and this isn't Axer it's slasher. God, people always think they are the same. The Axers are so 19th century.
2 Dec 2008 — 2:56pm
Randy's handyman Journal--measure twice, cut once...but cut the WOOD, Randy! you know, the stuff that emits sawdust instead of blood when cut :-)
ChrisL
2 Dec 2008 — 2:57pm
Oh, the Axers had a big revival around 2153 AD, actually provoked by this issue of Slasher.
The thing with the target audience of Slasher is, being slashers is their lowest common denominator so to speak. They already live and breathe slashing, so nobody needs to tell them shit about slashing. What Slasher does is introduce them to new techniques from the unique perspective of a slasher.
Oh, and the other covers are in the pdf linked below the image – pasting them in here kinda felt like taking up too much space.
2 Dec 2008 — 3:03pm
Nina, there’s only the one cover in the pdf that you already posted.
2 Dec 2008 — 3:29pm
snuk
2 Dec 2008 — 3:30pm
Ow! Sorry. My brain had already gone to sleep. I've just replaced the pdf file.
2 Dec 2008 — 3:46pm
Font is FF Pitu. (More fitting than anything I could dream up myself.)
2 Dec 2008 — 4:01pm
Nice Craig. So far I heart Andy’s most of all.