Designing "habitual" typography

Posted by kndesigner07 in

28 Nov 2012 — 11:34am

Hello,

I am looking for sources and suggestions on creating a font that demonstrates habits. For my final graphic design project, I have to design a typographical bookjacket for "The Power of Habit." Briefly, it is about how habits have the power to control and reform the success or failures of businesses, transform societies, and change our lives. The reaccuring theme is how habits work with a cue that triggers the routine, and finally what we gain from it. (Think of a continuous circle, and how habits pick up power by happening over and over again)

I am trying to use a process that can guide my design solution, but am having a difficult time with representing habits in my type design. Any place to start, ideas and suggestions would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you!

JamesM
28 Nov 2012 — 11:48am

> Think of a continuous circle

Have you ever seen Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo"? It's about obsession. In the opening credits this idea isn't communicated so much in the type but instead in the visuals and music, with rotating circles and music motifs that are repeated endlessly. Perhaps it might give you some inspiration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qtDCZP4WrQ

Nick Shinn
28 Nov 2012 — 12:01pm

http://typophile.com/node/87045
http://fontstruct.com
http://www.stocklayouts.com

kndesigner07
28 Nov 2012 — 12:27pm

Thank you both! That actually got my brain spinning in many ways and I picked up a few ideas from this. I appreciate it!

I really like that FontStruct website, Nick - Thank you for sharing!

Chris Dean
28 Nov 2012 — 1:02pm

@kndesigner07: For future posts, you will find that you get better feedback if you begin with posting some of the work you have done to date, and then asking for guidance.

Ryan Maelhorn
28 Nov 2012 — 6:15pm

Habitual Typography? gotta be Helvetica

Chris Dean
28 Nov 2012 — 5:47pm

Speaking of old Alfred Hitchcock title sequences:

North by Northwest
Psycho

JamesM
28 Nov 2012 — 6:11pm

It's impossible to watch the Psycho opening titles without your blood pressure going up. I love it. Elegantly brutal.

Last time I was in San Francisco I visited some of the Vertigo locations. Some no longer exist but Scotty's house (Jimmy Stewart) is still there on Lombard and has hardly changed. I've heard that some company actually gives tours of Vertigo locations.

HVB
29 Nov 2012 — 10:14am