Twelve Good Fonts

Posted on: Aug. 27,2010

Inspired by a question that interviewer Alex Bogusky posed to his father and fellow designer Bill Bogusky on his live webshow FearlessQA, I’ve decided to share some of my favorite typefaces. Alex asked his dad which 5 typefaces he would take with him on a deserted island.  Naturally, I wasn’t able to narrow it down to 5 and I’m not trueschool enough to include Garamond on my list, nonetheless, here are some fonts I have encountered in my day and found useful and/or good-looking. So if you don’t agree with me or you think Arial was undeservedly ommitted from the list I used Arial for the mothertruckin’ comments on each font! Boom!

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Electric Purgatory Tour Version

Posted on: Aug. 20,2010

electric purgatory cover

This is the cover artwork for Greenhouse’s Electric Purgatory (Parts 1 &  2) combined tour version. Greenhouse (Blueprint & Illogic) released Electric Purgatory as a two part limited edition series. Blueprint is about to head out on the To All My Friends Tour with Atmosphere and wanted to offer a version that included both parts of the series.

In a way it felt like I was designing this album for the third time, so I had some trouble coming up with a concept initially.

After taking a couple less than stellar cracks at the cover, I took a few days to think and listen to the album. The idea that got the ball rolling was the visual of hanging light bulbs.  There’s something interesting about lights hanging from thin wires-not to mention it plays off electricity and the album title.

Blueprint and I agreed it was a good idea to include photos of himself and Illogic to help fans seeing them on tour identify them from the stage to the merch table. I’m happy with the outcome and look forward to seeing the full packaging.