Can you spot a really big Photoshopped Hog?

http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifI'm not sure how many people saw about the giant hog shot in Alabama, but it was a crazy news item that made it on the AP's Web site. I saw it a few days ago, and being the trusting person that I am, I assumed AP had vetted this pic before posting the story. But now, apparently, people are saying it was photoshopped.

So Photoshop experts, what do you think? Real or fake? Here are some more photos

I personally, as a future Alabamian, say give a 'bama boy a chance. Or at least go down there and see the Hog for yourself...I'm sure they couldn't have eaten the whole thing yet.

Rehersal Dinner Part II

So I showed the original drafts to Alicia and Dan. They were really excited about the city design, which makes me happy because it's a fun design. I love more and more the connection between the two cities in the design. After speaking with Emem, who liked the outlines over the filled in siloettes, I decided to invert the coloring on the design Dan liked best.

Here's the original:



Here's the outline:


The colors could change. The cream is meant to be the paper color, and I like how the brown looks on it, but maybe it would be more distinguished in just black? I'm not sure. A lot will have to do with what Dan wants. Until then.

A note on type...

So I was wandering around the Internet today and found a Slate slide show on Helvetica. It's brief and interesting, and probably rips off Helvetica, the fantastic new documentary that I have YET to see because it seems to be released in my town a few months after I leave it (It's been to KC, Austin and soon to come to Silver Spring, my old neighborhood in DC...but on their Web site they SAY it'll come to Birmingham, hopefully when I'm there starting in June!)

Anyway, who am I to rant about the scheduling of documentaries without a big studio funding it. Let's just go with: I want to see this film. I personally don't like regular Helvetica because I find it to be just a tad too fat and bold. It's perfect for signs and logos because you want to stand out and be seen and (more importantly) relate to the viewer a sense of normalcy. Which is why despite my boredom with the font, I used a variation (Helvetica Neue) for my Web portfolio--my reasoning being that I wanted a easy to read and simplistic font that could be replicated on everyone's computers that also had a nice stencil for a 't' which I would say was my own personal logo style.

I'm getting off topic already! What I meant to do was post two interesting links about fonts. The first made me laugh for about five minutes because even though the movie is making fun of the kind of person that recognizes typefaces, I WANT TO BE THAT PERSON! (No, not the psycho, the type-dork)

America Psycho: Business Cards

Second, in my search online to find a screening of Helvetica, I came across this article on Mark Simonson's Web site about typography in movies. Lots of interesting fonts and points made to be shared by myself on my blog about six years after it was published. Go to town.

Strong Bad anyone?

It's been about three years since I've sat down and wasted time at homestarrunner.com, but I stumbled upon this last night during my current insomnia and thought I would share...it's not often you get a reference to QuarkExpress and helvetica in a flash cartoon.

Rehersal Dinner

So about nine months ago I created my sister's wedding invitations for her. Now I'm doing the rehersal dinner invites, and this is what I came up with today. These are all rough ROUGH drafts that I did literally this afternoon.

Comments welcome.

This was my first attempt:

I think the idea would work if it were inset on the paper. As just lines, it's a little plain.

Reverse City

Here I think it's starting to have something. I also think reserving the art worked better.

Dual Cities

So my sis is from NYC, and all the guests at the rehersal dinner are coming from out of state, prol NYC, so here I tried to incorporate the 'two cities' theme.

Centered Dual Cities

And another go at it. This one is growing on me. Don't really like the centered text though.

And now for invites without cities:

Both of these invites are meant to have some squarish artwork as the main art on the page. What is seen in the photos I put together really fast, and would change for the final version.