11.19.09

Mightybytes’ Joy Burke Designs ‘Spooners’ Font

Posted by Stacy in Arts, Design, Process, Web Design

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Joy Burke has created her very first font, entitled “Spooners.” To help showcase her creation, she designed a sample poster for the upcoming Big Holiday Show featuring The Flaming Lips. The poster will be presented at the gallery opening this Friday for the “Punchcutters: Re-Inventing the Alphabet, Font Design Competition and Exhibition” presented by the STA (Society of Typographic Arts), and Spooners will later be available for purchase online, so stay tuned!

Q: Tell us about the font.
Joy: “Spooners is a display font created to make each character fit together in absolute harmony. I came up with name because of the way that the positive and negative spaces of the two font variations make one complete solid rectangular form, similar to the way two spoons fit perfectly together when stacked one on top of the other. Spooner creates poster-perfect letters that allow the viewer to unveil the message told.

Joy’s goal with the poster was “creating a piece that gave the viewer something to look at a bit longer in order to figure out its meaning, as opposed to the message being apparent immediately.” She used variations on transparency to affect the way the concentric circles create a psychedelic vibe she feels pairs well with the music of The Flaming Lips, while the clean, geometric, grid-based typography give the poster a very modern touch.

The participating students and alumni were organized by Professor Kozuch of The Illinois Institute of Art - Chicago, who also serves as STA Faculty Advisor.

    Exhibition Info:
  • Friday, November 20th, 2009
  • Opening Reception: 7-10pm
  • 4Art Inc. Gallery at Zhou B Art Center
  • 1029 W. 35th Street
  • Chicago, IL

Designers, what are your preferred sites for font resources?
 

 

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By TwiGuy on 02.24.10 at 5:21 pm

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By Eczema Symptoms on 02.24.10 at 9:04 pm

A font exhibition? I’ve been to my share of gallery shows, but never anything like that. Could be very interesting.

By John on 02.25.10 at 11:55 am

yea i’ve never heard of a font exhibit… could be cool if you are into typography..

By Ash tray on 02.25.10 at 1:42 pm

i hope someone will understand what hes write
ROFL

By portable solar panels on 02.25.10 at 5:34 pm

nice post, thanks.

By Tgch on 02.25.10 at 11:33 pm

Wow looks amazing great job.
Thanks

By Audi on 02.26.10 at 10:07 pm

Hi, I am not very familiar with PHP coding so I am not sure what to add to change the font color of the comments section. My site uses a white font and it looks like the Phoca component utilizes that, but the problem is the comments section box is white as well so you can’t read any comments.

By windows 7 tests on 03.01.10 at 6:10 am

well its very nice and A font exhibition? I’ve been to my share of gallery shows, but never anything like that. Could be very interesting. keep it up..

By 642-357 on 03.09.10 at 12:36 am


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