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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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29 Apr 2008 — 1:53pm
Tasty nacho of fun, Z!
I'm in! Good time to intro some of my stencil font too.
29 Apr 2008 — 1:59pm
¡Nunca escapar de la rana headlock legendaria!
29 Apr 2008 — 3:25pm
¿Nadie se atreve a luchar contra mí?
Churros y chicharrones son mi única debilidad. Pero son también mi fuerza. Ellos me hacen la grasa. ¡Ahora yo te aplaste!
29 Apr 2008 — 3:27pm
Nice, Randy! I think this battle is off to a very good start :)
29 Apr 2008 — 3:31pm
I think I need to lay off the Tapatio. BTW Rana Floja is sponsored by Google Language Tools.
29 Apr 2008 — 6:06pm
This will be fun! I'm going to do El Pollo Con Labios.
29 Apr 2008 — 6:13pm
I feel like I just fell off another planet and have no idea what is going on.
ChrisL
29 Apr 2008 — 7:39pm
Chris: If I may suggest, your luchador alter-ego might just be: El Jugador de Palabras (The Punster - or some such thing). The rest of my taunting comments are indeed from another planet, no matter what language they're in. So you're right on there!
29 Apr 2008 — 10:10pm
Muy bueno tu español, Randy "Cojones" Jones!
And El Jugador de Palabras would be just right for Chris -- nice one! :-)
1 May 2008 — 8:05am
Ricardo can be Zumo De Naranja Con Pulpo! Orange Juice with Octopus.
1 May 2008 — 10:34am
Ha!
1 May 2008 — 1:01pm
Rana Floja y su archi-némesis Silla Plegable. Ahora una parejas increíbles!
Labios y Pulpo tengan cuidado.
1 May 2008 — 3:30pm
Here is just the type part for now. The poster is to come. I thought I would design a blackletter typeface for this battle since it seems to be often used in Mexican street art.
ChrisL
1 May 2008 — 4:12pm
Awesome! Your color choice helps make a strong counter punch. I had to resize the browser so to avoid both images on the same page at once... else seizures :-)
Rana
1 May 2008 — 5:26pm
Ack, Dezcom beats El Pulpo to the punch!
Just wait till you see what I've been working on, Chris!
1 May 2008 — 5:29pm
Here is my poster...
Todos al Gran Estadio Tipofílico este viernes! La batalla comienza! :-D
1 May 2008 — 6:00pm
Ok so here's mine :)
1 May 2008 — 6:11pm
Ricardo, that is a scream!
LOL!!!
ChrisL
1 May 2008 — 7:49pm
hahahahahaha chris looking very tough.
elVetico- nice.
1 May 2008 — 8:14pm
Here is the poster.
ChrisL
2 May 2008 — 7:07am
I have just been looking at the posters that Zara kindly posted as examples and realize that mine is too slick for the genre. Randy has done a masterful job of catching the flavor perfectly. I am assuming these posters are typically hand done and bargain printed. Unlike boxing or WWF posters where big money promoters were involved, Luchador seems more grassroots.
Great job, Randy!
Tezzu, What does Vetico mean? I seem to be the only person on this thread who does not speak Spanish :-)
ChrisL
2 May 2008 — 10:01am
Hey Chris, I don't know what vetico means in Spanish either,
it was just a quick visual pun (that apparently didn't work out that well :) )
Maybe this hint will help:
(h)elVetico
2 May 2008 — 10:04am
And anyway Chris your type looks great!
It'd be great to know more about the creative process that lead to that result.
2 May 2008 — 10:42am
"it was just a quick visual pun"
I of all people should have spotted that one!!! Good one, now that my brain got wrapped around it :-)
ChrisL
2 May 2008 — 10:51am
"It’d be great to know more about the creative process"
My concept for the typeface was to give it a bit of a razorwire flavor so I did it all with straight lines and allowed sharp protrusions where there were intersections but in a controlled manner so that the glyphs would interlock a bit. I limited the angles to one oblique of a bout 40 degrees and 90 degrees from it or the baseline. I may complete the typeface and see if there is a market for a modern blackletter perhaps with the rock band folks or some such thing.
The border is supposed to look like that tire chain stuff that is seen around license plates on cars.
ChrisL
2 May 2008 — 11:10am
El SANTO contra QUALQUIERA DE USTEDES! HOY!
2 May 2008 — 4:46pm
phase one
-=®=-
2 May 2008 — 4:46pm
Chiba,
I like your graffiti tagging lettering style. It really works for this subject.
ChrisL
2 May 2008 — 6:56pm
Hi Chris,
This kind of tag has its roots in blackletter (believe it or not) so I guess there is a connection.
I liked your techy blackletter approach and do think there is market for those nowadays. I've seen these around quite a bit, and think yours would work the same way:
http://www.veer.com/products/typedetail.aspx?image=JBT0000005
http://www.underware.nl/site2/index.php?id1=fakir&id2=overview
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/virusfonts/bastard
Cheers
El Santo
aka Chiba Chiba
2 May 2008 — 9:08pm
-=®=-
2 May 2008 — 11:00pm
Check out this video from Mistico aerial wrestling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uzNYHOAvRk
Héctor
3 May 2008 — 1:03am
Gotta beware of this guy
3 May 2008 — 6:07am
Héctor,
I finally understand your avatar!
ChrisL
3 May 2008 — 6:13am
Frederico,
Thanks! I really love the one from Underwear--that is a terrific take on a modern blackletter!
Russ,
Running with scissors is brilliant!
ChrisL
3 May 2008 — 11:02am
Héctor, I was waiting for you to weigh in, given your auténtico avatar.
Re: Mistico
I don't care if it's all scripted. The high flying luchadors are athletes in my book. That is amazing.
Chris, I think while my designs have a folky quality, they are too designerly to be auténtico. Too much white -- er yellow -- space. Real lucha posters seem to leave no breathing room at all. In that regard, I think El Pulpo has it perfect. Information overload with a gradient for good measure.
I had no idea El Santo was a typophile?
I think it's time for the mashup royal rumble battle poster between all the luchadors in the ring.
And what happened to the luchadora Chicken Lips? Too much testosterone here? Most luchadoras have enough testosterone to match the most macho honcho. (please don't hurt me -- I'm just following the smack talk instructions)
3 May 2008 — 12:01pm
Lucha
Libre Slice
3 May 2008 — 12:55pm
(h)elVetico
good one.
-=®=-
3 May 2008 — 4:48pm
Real lucha posters seem to leave no breathing room at all. In that regard, I think El Pulpo has it perfect. Information overload with a gradient for good measure.
Aw, thanks, Rana! :-)
I have to say that the gradient was inspired by one of the posters Zara linked to... Usually I associate those kinds of gradients with certain old-time "vernacular" concert posters.
...my designs have a folky quality...
Definitely, Randy -- and you get lots of points for your great use of Spanish smack talk and excellent luchador names! "Silla Plegable" was espectacular!
And what happened to the luchadora Chicken Lips?
Yeah, I was wondering about her, too.
3 May 2008 — 5:53pm
Yes Ricardo, the word here would be MAXIMALISM. :) dont know why I went minimalism :P
3 May 2008 — 6:14pm
ChrisL
3 May 2008 — 8:05pm
ChrisL
3 May 2008 — 9:22pm
Re: Sitting on can
Do I spy a Tecate can no less? Bonus!
Chris, didn't notice the chains were part of the font. Cool. BTW, your biceps appear to have hookworms.
3 May 2008 — 9:27pm
"your biceps appear to have hookworms."
Yes, but at least my naval still has a sunny disposition :-)
ChrisL
3 May 2008 — 10:17pm
Randy,
Here is the typeface so far (I am calling it Deuterium).
I only have the lower case roughed out with just a few caps as needed for the battle. The last line is the dingbats which are kerened to eachother to set as chains.
ChrisL
4 May 2008 — 10:16am
WELCOME TO THE GUN SHOW!!!!
4 May 2008 — 10:21am
@Chris: Nice to see your typeface going! I'm really curious to see how the other capitals will turn out.
@Russell: thanks!
4 May 2008 — 11:39am
Haley shoots fro the hip but she must be firing blanks because we see no bullet holes yet :-)
ChrisL
4 May 2008 — 11:59am
I wanted to print it out for real :*(
Also added bonus of me in a blonde wig with "The Blue Orange"
4 May 2008 — 12:06pm
YES!!!
Good work, Haley! Welcome to the death watch--see you Saturday with no holds barred! :-)
ChrisL
I love the wig! If you are not careful, I will post a photo of me ion a blond wig, too!
4 May 2008 — 12:11pm
ChrisL