Are Type Lock-ups Over?
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- detritus0
What the fuck are you talking about?
I mean, literally — I understood very little of what you just said there.
- i_monk0
You mean putting words near each other? I think it's timeless.
- boobs0
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 typemonospaced
- If Allan Peters calls them type lock-ups, then I can too.boobs
- DaveO0
Great thread guys.
- Continuity0
Really, what you're asking is:
'Are Hipster Logos Over?'
But you didn't want to actually say the word 'hipster'.
- Douglas0
let the type run free, bro...
- albums0
You should have given Brian Miller credit, as you linked only his work.
- ********0
The designs you posted are bad and dated, but lock-ups?
- ********0
With a name like Epic Apparel, you know it's bad.
- jaylarson0
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
- wagshaft0
Not over.
- fredddddd0
Man, those logos are tacky and bad fonts.
- mikotondria30
Not knowing anything about the brand, it's kinda pointless to berate those logos - there's not enough about them to be that bad.