Man, no part of the title I got will return any results in the photo archive! Badness.

I'll give it a proper go a bit later.

Great theme by the way. I'd seen this done with album covers, always meant to have a go.

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Thanks Andi. Yup, the Album Covers battle we had a while back received a ton of great submissions. Revisit it here for inspiration: http://typophile.com/battle20

As for not getting search results, give it a second try with another random title and see what you come up with.

I love these ones too.
Here's one to start us off...

I got Gas exchange so here's a couple covers plus the original image.
Sorry about the second cover it's white, but the dimension is the same as the first.

I got a tough one! What the hell is SMARRC1 supposed to be about?

To be honest it reminded me of one of those beautiful late 80s/early 90s computer manuals, so that's where the OCR came from. Couldn't find a very suitable photo, so it ended up being a weird crop. We can do that, right? Ended up looking something like one of those William Gibson reprints!

Am I allowed another go?

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Long time since I've been active here. Recently got laid off and figured the type battles would be a great exercise for me.

ChrisL

Wow, I really like what you did there Dave. I feel ashamed that I threw mine together so quickly after seeing that!

Andi

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I had another go. It's not clever, but I had to use this photo. Couldn't find the right font, so I used my own handwriting. Are there any rules I still have left to break? I could probably look into it tomorrow :)

Andi

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Great battle theme.

JonE.

Man, some of these are good!!
Looks like there's going to be a lot of entries :)

Nice, Jonathan!

Thanx Dave. I lucked out on getting a decent article name and a great photo. Andi wasn't so lucky as I was...SMARRC1?!

JonE.

When life gives me lemons, I make mid-90s cyberpunk rerelease tribute covers.

Andi

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That's right folks. Obligatory green.
I think this might be the first time I've ever posted any work on typophile. It's a strange but liberating sensation.

query string = language

Fun challenge. genericboy, that gather dot com photo is hilarious.

Here's my try:

I muffed it and made it 30 pixels too narrow. Sosumi.

Nice theme.

penn

What do you do with "Nebraska, Indiana?"

What do you do with “Nebraska, Indiana?”

I think you just answered that question quite satisfactorily!

Some of these are really nice.

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This is quite hard as one in every 67 clicks actually gave me an image in google life and that image was to small to make a book cover.

Brian

ChrisL

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nice workie all the way around

Louis, what font is that you used? (if it's a font)

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I want to know what you used too, Louis.

radio + a new system font (the horror), Plantagenet Cherokee from Tiro

I was dealt:

Bethel (Ugaritic: bt il, meaning "House of El" or "House of God",[1] Hebrew: בֵּית אֵל‎, also transliterated Beth El or Beth-El) was a border city described in the Old Testament . . . A second biblical Bethel, in the southern Judah, is mentioned in Joshua (8:17 and 12:16), and seems to be the same as Bethul or Bethuel, a city of the tribe of Simeon.

The majority of Life photos for Bethel was Bethel, NY, and Woodstock, photographed by Bill Eppridge. So I went ahead for a hefty, landscape, coffeetable monograph.

I'm not a big fan of psychedelia when it comes to design/art and purposely stayed away from all that as we're coming up on 2009, yet I didn't want it to be TOO modern. I also just wanted to keep it subtle and sophisticated in hoping to match the muted feel of the photographs. Poplar seemed to match the ever-so-slight softness of the film as well. But you don't care about all that, do ya?. I'll shut up.

Not that good, but I couldn't resist putting that picture to use. :P

Kakinada Khaja is a sweet delicacy from India. Fried, sugary goodness that melts in your mouth. Now I'm hungry...

it's "MEgalopolis" from SMeltery, here's the link.
http://www.smeltery.net/fonts/megalopolis-extra

I had around 14 or so attempts before any wiki brought up life pics. Bell Gothic, but we all knew that.

might be a good idea to list our fonts used (hey, it's typophile) or in Ruben's case, call out his own custom typeface. yay ruben.

Mine were: Footlight MT and Adobe Garamond Pro
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Regarding my book cover: Scriptorama Hostess from Jukebox Type

My cover "Bees in his Bonnet" used my own Palormak (ß18).

How embarrassing, a typo.

This was actually 4 images. The pig and the old guy portrait were from LIFE. I had to do one search on Capitalist and another on Piglet to get any images from Life. The gold frame and velvet wall texture were from Google. Everything was heavily Photoshoped and colorized.
The type is Copperplate and Bickham Script.

ChrisL

Thirsty work.

DINPro / Adobe Garamond

The type on my first cover, Otakar Jerimais, is Tovarch, one of my own.
The 2nd one, "Accused of Murder" is Chank Diesel's Olivette and Christian Schwartz's Oxide Light.

ChrisL

I love Tovarch, Chris!

penANDink has my vote (*so far) for the "Hill at the top of the world" cover

the image has nothing to do with Chris Vine, its just a cool image of vines.

Avant Garde LT extra light, and bodoni i think.

a couple more attempts...
Futuristic science fiction, probably set in Russia...

And an action/adventure novel that takes place on a red planet...

I used Soho Gothic, Bodoni and Joanna

An aside. It always irks me when we look at design journals, especially those that say it is all about typography, and they don't credit the typefaces.

Two different kind of books. None of the dogs is a Portugese pointer, but pointers anyway.

ITC Galliard

ITC Mendoza

Looks like the last one located a plant.

The typeface for this one is jabberwub by James Arboghast.

ChrisL

Mili,

It looks like David captured your avatar :-)

ChrisL

PS: THANKS, Ricardo!

Had another go.

What if Haydn's Symphony no. 79 had been a cold-war-era pulp spy thriller instead of just another piece of classical music?

For my first entry - Lionel Crabb - I used Orator Std.

I couldn't resist joining in this time.
Books are my weakness.

I use P22 Corinthia and Didot.

Love that one Colaboy! Extra kudos for working the watermark into the design :)

Andi

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I'll be honest...the Wikipedia hit was for an album by Life of Agony (whom and of whom I've never heard) called "Ugly," but I just put "Ugly" into the Life search...so yeah.

This image just immediately leaped out at me from the search results for some reason. Apparently, there's a model agency in London called "Ugly" or something like that...

Is it sad that I'm considering using this title, at least, if I ever release a book of my poetry?

P.S. Please don't think that I consider any of the fonts here "ugly." I actually like them all, and I love using two out of the three families represented. I just think they worked, sort of offsetting the deliberately "silk-screened" image.

Peace,
JT

EDIT: Since it seems to be the hip, cool thing to name your typefaces:
Virgin, Adobe Caslon Pro, and Delicious (regular, smallcaps, and heavy).

Can't wait to curl up with a few of these books. Some look like best sellers based on the designs alone!

By the way, great suggestion to include the name of the typefaces.

I'm new on the site, just signed up today, but I've been following Typophile through Twitter. I saw this topic on there and I couldn't pass it up.

In the first one I used Archer and Edwardian Script, in the second I used Imprint Shadow and Minion Pro.

Thought I'd do another, just because of how ugly my first was...

Note how I used blur to focus on the reindeer's nose...of course it's told from his point of view.

Valeria Script Cola Pen, Nimbus Script, and Anivers.

Peace,
JT

Compatil Text/Fact LT Pro

Mona Lisa and Fontin Sans

Baskerville.

The strangest thing about this is that the funereal picture is actually a match not for "Dead" but for "Smiths."

Borges Titulo, Poema

Thanks Andi.

The watermark stayed because I needed a publisher.

Daniel

I tiptoe in for my first battle entry: Zero Friction

From the original TIME image: "Rubber ball, frozen to near absolute zero by liquid helium, shatters and vaporizes as it strikes floor."

(Prestige Elite Std, Eurostile Regular)

Love all the entries, everyone!

-C

(I used Riot Squad NF and Corbel)

(Used Avenir)

My first attempt in Type Battling:
A cover for the book about George Szell - conductor and composer.

I've used Helvetica Condensed (Bold and Regular).

@eliason: wow, talk about a picture saying a thousand words...along with a title, of course. If the book were titled "The Best Days of Our Lives," or something, it'd have a whole different feel.

Man, I'd really like to have most of these books on my shelf...

Peace,
JT

I just had to try it out. ;^)

(To much spare time, you say? No, not really. Just som problems prioritize...)

Hah! That's great. You forgot the Barnes & Noble price sticker, though...

Peace,
JT

wow these entries are great

will post one shortly....might not be as good as some of these though :S#

peace out

Simsy

Fonts used: Museo Sans 900 & 100

Used Univers - - what else?

Don't be so modest, Jos, your name is worth more than 100!

:-) You're far too kind, Craig.

I swear- my wikipedia article was a book title!

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I did just learn a lot about ferries, though.