Are Type Lock-ups Over? 1616 Responses

Last post: 2 months, 1 week ago | Thread started: Jan 26, 13, 10:31 a.m.

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• boobs

  Has this look become such a cliché it should now be avoided? Or is it still au courant, with some life left in it?

  

  

  

  Jan 26, 13, 10:31 a.m. – Permalink

• detritus

  What the fuck are you talking about?

  I mean, literally — I understood very little of what you just said there.

  • http://www.typetheor…– boobs

  

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  Dog-earJan 26, 13, 10:40 a.m. – Permalink

• i_monk

  You mean putting words near each other? I think it's timeless.

  

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  Dog-earJan 26, 13, 10:51 a.m. – Permalink

• boobs

  This style, that's been very popular over the last 5 or so years, of making logos that look like old-fashioned badges or labels.

  The name comes from the way blocks of lead type were "locked-up" in the press for printing.

  Here's a whole page of them: http://blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/…

  • not a single one of the above examples, or those within the link here, could be created by locking up blocks of lead type– monospaced1/2

    If Allan Peters calls them type lock-ups, then I can too.– boobs2/2

  

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  Dog-earJan 26, 13, 11:04 a.m. – Permalink

• detritus

  The world's a big place, all styles are popular all the time, except for the ones that have not been yet.

  

  

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  Dog-earJan 26, 13, 11:10 a.m. – Permalink

• DaveO

  Great thread guys.

  

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  Dog-earJan 26, 13, 12:06 p.m. – Permalink

• Continuity

  Really, what you're asking is:

  'Are Hipster Logos Over?'

  But you didn't want to actually say the word 'hipster'.

  

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  Dog-earJan 26, 13, 12:09 p.m. – Permalink

• Douglas

  let the type run free, bro...

  

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  Dog-earJan 26, 13, 12:18 p.m. – Permalink

• albums

  You should have given Brian Miller credit, as you linked only his work.

  

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  Dog-earJan 26, 13, 2:18 p.m. – Permalink

• omahadesigns

  The designs you posted are bad and dated, but lock-ups?

  

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  Dog-earJan 26, 13, 2:36 p.m. – Permalink

• Frosty_spl

  

  • LOL, brilliant– monospaced

  

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  Dog-earJan 26, 13, 2:41 p.m. – Permalink

• omahadesigns

  With a name like Epic Apparel, you know it's bad.

  

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  Dog-earJan 26, 13, 4:31 p.m. – Permalink

• jaylarson

  my coworkers call any variation of a lockup as an infographic. unteachable. fml.

  • They're probably the kinds of people who call Acrobat 'Adobe'. As in, 'I can't open this in Adobe'.– Continuity

  

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  Dog-earJan 26, 13, 4:43 p.m. – Permalink

• jaylarson

  http://allanpeters.com/blog/?p=6…

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 13, 3:18 p.m. – Permalink

• wagshaft

  Not over.

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 13, 3:34 p.m. – Permalink

• fredddddd

  Man, those logos are tacky and bad fonts.

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 13, 7:35 p.m. – Permalink

• mikotondria3

  Not knowing anything about the brand, it's kinda pointless to berate those logos - there's not enough about them to be that bad.

  

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  Dog-earMar 12, 13, 7:43 p.m. – Permalink