Oceanic Airlines
I felt like I had to do this one; it's the airline from TV's LOST, and the logo they used on the show was frankly horrible. Okay, the design of the O was okay (and I've kept mine very similar to theirs, with some minor tweaks) but the font used for the name was perfunctory at best. Helvetica, really? Or maybe it was Arial. Whatever, it was a boring vanilla sans serif that looked like somebody forgot to load the font before printing out the design. Dullsville. So I changed it to a fat face with a little bit of style to it; I used Frutiger Ultra Black, with the "Airlines" part set in Frutiger Bold. (Frutiger is my standard sans serif. Whenever possible I use it instead of Helvetica and its spawn.) I tweaked the colors a little bit and called it done.
Just to be a smartass, I added a clip-art airplane upside-down and the tagline at the bottom, set in House Signpainter script.
This was actually done as a gift for my bride. It's a reference to Catcher in the Rye; Holden Caulfield gets kicked off the Pencey Prep fencing team just before the book begins.
The design is deliberately simple, intended to look like every high school athletic shirt you ever saw. The main type is Princeton, and the lettering on the crest is Duc du Barry. The little banner reads "sis scio verum" which is Latin for "if you want to know the truth." It's a phrase that Holden adds to every third sentence, so it seemed to be an appropriate motto for the school.
Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Shows & Combined Circuses
From Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, this was my attempt at creating a period piece, the kind of poster that would have been slapped all over town when the circus rolled in way back in the long-ago days when there were traveling circuses. Lots of different fonts here, including a few bits from Adobe Woodcuts. A bit of distorted type, which I generally loathe, but in this case it was appropriate. I'm pretty happy with the colors, too.
Spade and Archer
This was inspired by watching The Maltese Falcon again; I noticed the lettering on the window, the kind of lettering that was common on the windows of second-floor offices in most cities in the 1930s. In the movie, the lettering was a straight-sided block face, but I decided to use something a little more stylish. Copperplate seemed to be appropriate, so here it is. I tried to pick a color that would evoke the semi-metallic bronze paint that might have been used. Gold seemed too gaudy for Sam Spade's sensibilities.
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