Saturday, October 11, 2014

Killing you with typeface

Source: http://www.wallartrockers.com/3-Lukas-Bischoff-Contemporary-graphic-and-typographic-robot-wall-art-in-vinyl-on-large-format-acrylic.htm
Title: 2023 typebot

At first, it's kind of cool to look at. Giant grey mecha made out of type. Appeals to the male gamer persona. Barrels in particular are pretty deceiving with the way the letter i is stretched and titled to look like a gun barrel.

But when you step back and look you feel its missing something. It feels just letters that were jumbled together that happen to make our pattern seeking brains to identify as a robot. It needs scenery in the background/foreground. It needs skulls made out of the word skull for its' mechanical chicken feet to step on. It needs content.


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