I had the pleasure of making lots of different versions of Aurelie Maron’s fabulous TYPISM logo yesterday for the shooting of the promo video. TYPISM is a type conference happening on Australia’s Gold Coast on September 4, 2013 and Aurelie and myself will both be speaking at it. The concept of the video is that the people in the video are all type addicts, but until they show their TYPISM doodles, you think they are confessing other, much more serious addictions. Aurelie’s logo works wonderfully as a vector and so I had a great time playing with different techniques to bring the logo to life. My favourite is Jason’s hand tattoo, I think it blends quite well with his actual tattoos.
The video is being shot and edited by Benny Kaz from KazFilms and will be released to coincide with the launch of the website on May 1.
Aurelie Maron’s original design for the conference logo
One of the “type addicts” Thiago, proudly holding his obsession. Ink splashed on to an envelope.
Close up of the ink splashed envelope. I stuck a stencil on to the envelope, splashed ink and then removed the stencil when it was dry.
Jason’s TYPISM tattoo (ink and pastel)
Another shot of Jason’s TYPISM tattoo
Three of the “type addicts” worked on this ballpoint pen doodle, myself, Thiago and Megan.
“Type addict” Chris held onto this one, spray paint through a stencil onto cardboard.
This was done using coloured chalk pastels rubbed through a contact stencil onto black paper. “Type addict” Brett got to hold this one.
Again I stuck a stencil on to the paper, splashed watercolour and then removed the stencil when it was dry. This was held by “type addict” Roxy in the film.
This was a coloured pencil doodle in a notebook. “Type addict” Kate held this one.
This was meant to be used in the film, but somehow there were too many others on the day. I still like it though. Boot polish on bamboo veneer.
When “type addict” Megan saw this hot pink and silver number, it was love at first sight. I stencilled silver paint onto fluorescent pink paper.