Typophile - TYPE BATTLE: Week 13 (30 May) - Comments

Designs by Pieter van

kraig — Tue, 9 Jan 2007 05:12:18 -0800

Designs by Pieter van Rosmalen, rubenDmarkes and dtw looks & feels great! Where I can see the winners?
Best regards, Igor
Font River

From what I recall Mrs.

jselig — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 15:52:14 -0700

From what I recall Mrs. Eaves doesn’t contain pointers.

Interesting idea, dtw. By

Sebastian Nagel — Sun, 4 Jun 2006 10:48:49 -0700

Interesting idea, dtw.

By the way: How do the pointers in Mrs. Eaves look like? I don’t have the font and can’t look at them...
They should be female.

Since they’ve all looked

dtw — Sat, 3 Jun 2006 14:28:29 -0700

Since they’ve all looked kinda masculine so far:

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I love it, that thing looks

Steven Wulf — Sat, 3 Jun 2006 05:13:40 -0700

I love it, that thing looks so beautiful scary!

This is appropriate for new

crossgrove — Fri, 2 Jun 2006 23:48:27 -0700

This is appropriate for new editions of Dickens.....

Look! Over There! This one

dave gath — Fri, 2 Jun 2006 17:33:38 -0700

Look! Over There!

This one can easily be converted into other symbols/meanings just by making certain fingers longer or shorter.

...but I won’t go there. :-P

Awesome work folks. I

Ratbaggy — Fri, 2 Jun 2006 17:16:03 -0700

Awesome work folks. I don’t think I’ll necessarily take part in this battle, but definitely interested in future.Graphic Design, Melbourne

LOL! (It’s Bugs Bunny, of

dtw — Fri, 2 Jun 2006 08:21:18 -0700

LOL! (It’s Bugs Bunny, of course)

This link: http://www.printinghistory.org/images/conference/fist2-3.jpg might be of interest...

dtw, your first one looks to

claes — Fri, 2 Jun 2006 05:00:50 -0700

dtw,

your first one looks to me like an evil villain’s “Arrest Them!” pointy hand. (;

Seemed difficult for me

dtw — Fri, 2 Jun 2006 01:30:36 -0700

Seemed difficult for me ’cause I’m useless at drawing (hands). So the first of these at least is a blatant bit of a plagiaris- er, homage to Bob McKimson, for which I apologise...

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Well this one seemed easy

rubenDmarkes — Fri, 2 Jun 2006 00:35:15 -0700

Well this one seemed easy enough for me... so here’s my (first simple, then just lazy, then somewhat concentrated and committed) twenty minutes:

I think that last one could be interesting with some tweaking...

ruby

haha! that’s too funny. it

claes — Thu, 1 Jun 2006 17:00:35 -0700

haha! that’s too funny.

it should remind you of this though:

claes, your third one

Sebastian Nagel — Thu, 1 Jun 2006 16:50:03 -0700

claes, your third one somehow reminds me of this:

here’s my Saul

claes — Thu, 1 Jun 2006 16:40:46 -0700

here’s my Saul Bass-inspired pointer hand.. couldn’t decide which of these two i liked best, so i’m posting both! (plus the third one i made just for fun.)

TYPE BATTLE: Week 13 (30 May)

Christian Robertson — Tue, 30 May 2006 10:17:05 -0700

TYPE BATTLE: Week 13 (30 May)

Here’s your chance to stretch your type muscles on a weekly basis. Each game kicks off on Monday with a new challenge, and closes at midnight PST on Friday. 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.

Winner take all, no holds barred. May the best designer win.

Link directly to this thread: http://www.typophile.com/battle13

Requirements:

- Size: 600 width x 400 height. 72 dpi
- Color: Black and white only
- Format: Please save your graphics as PNG
- Only respond with the characters posted in the challenge.

// THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE:
// Design a pointing hand dingbat.