Showing posts with label Razorblade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Razorblade. Show all posts

The Octopus Project


Back in March, I received a very nice email from a musician in Texas. He was inquiring to see if his band, The Octopus Project, could use my font Razorblade on their band's upcoming album artwork. After a couple logistical emails, I sent off the files.

Yesterday, I received a delightfully peculiar package in the mail (pictured above and below). What could this be...?

To my surprise, it was a care package from The Octopus Project, with a whole bunch of awesome Razorblade-flavoured materials, including:

handbill-sized postcards,

some wicked posters,

and the actual EP of their new album, Fever Forms.

And to top it all off, the record is electric orange!

A huge thanks to Josh and The Octopus Project for this wicked-fun collaboration, and for the generous credit on the album.

If experimental indie pop music tickles your fancy, be sure to check out their site here.

9 new prints for 2013

After months of preparation, I am thrilled to unveil 9 new pieces of art, all available in my shop.

Drumroll please!

1) Square brush script alphabet print
This alphabet was hand-lettered with a Pentel brush pen, scanned, and screen printed by hand in Toronto with black water-based ink on 245gsm pure white 100% cotton archival paper.



2) Triangle brush script alphabet print
This alphabet was hand-lettered with a Pentel brush pen, scanned, and screen printed by hand in Toronto with black water-based ink on 245gsm pure white 100% cotton archival paper.


3) Circle brush script alphabet print
This alphabet was hand-lettered with a Pentel brush pen, scanned, and screen printed by hand in Toronto with black water-based ink on 245gsm pure white 100% cotton archival paper.



4) Razorblade screen alphabet print
This layered alphabet features the typeface Razorblade, which I designed back in 2009. These 9" x 9" posters are screen printed by hand in Toronto with water-based ink on 245gsm pure white 100% cotton archival paper.


5) Geometrica Sans snellen chart alphabet print
This alphabet, inspired by old-fashioned eye charts, features one of the faces of Geometrica Sans, a typeface I designed back in 2010. These 9" x 18" posters are ink jet printed in Toronto in full colour on 180gsm ultra white matte cotton-based art paper.


6) Razorblade cut-and-fold alphabet print
This conceptual alphabet is a variation of the typeface Razorblade, which I designed back in 2009. These 9" x 9" posters are ink jet printed in Toronto in greyscale on 180gsm ultra white matte cotton-based art paper. (Check out the preliminary work here.)


7) Geometrica Sans school alphabet print
This elementary school-inspired alphabet features one of the faces of Geometrica Sans  a typeface I designed back in 2010. These 9" x 9" posters are ink jet printed in Toronto in full colour on 180gsm ultra white matte cotton-based art paper.


8) Geometrica Sans shapes alphabet print
This Bauhaus-inspired alphabet features one of the faces of Geometrica Sans, a typeface I designed back in 2010. These 9" x 9" posters are ink jet printed in Toronto in full colour on 180gsm ultra white matte cotton-based art paper.


9) Alphabet 100 mini-prints
You can now purchase your favourite letter from the Alphabet 100 project. There are 52 letters to choose from – A through Z, in both uppercase and lowercase. Pictured below is upper case A, B and C. View all the letters here, and the complete list of options here. These 9" x 9" posters are ink jet printed in Toronto in full colour on 180gsm ultra white matte cotton-based art paper.


All these 9" x 9" prints (with the exception of the Geometrica Sans snellen chart alphabet print) fit perfectly in the simple (and affordable!) Ikea Ribba frame.


Do you have a baby shower coming up? Need a birthday gift? Graduation present? Please keep these prints in mind if you need gifts for friends and loved ones in the coming months.

As a further incentive, I have launched an exciting promotion for the month of May (please see attached). If you spend $60 on your favourite prints, you will get $10 off! Please enter promo code ABC2013 at checkout. Offer ends May 31, 2013.

And, if that wasn't enough, if tweet or retweet about the promo on Twitter, you will be entered to win a FREE 9" x 9" print of your choice. Wee! Just make sure my handle, @Chris_Rouleau, is in your tweet. Enter as many times as you want!

I must extend a huge thank you to Raymond at Front Print, and a extra big thanks to Bianca, Mike, Jordy and everyone at Kid Icarus who helped make the screen prints come to live. I couldn't be happier!

Well, what are you waiting for? Get some new art for your home or office! And if you like the new work, please forward this blog post to your friends (especially educators and moms/moms-to-be), and share the promo details on your social networks. The best publicity is word of mouth.

Happy spring! And happy shopping!

CR

Razorblade

In September 2009, I created my first modular font called Razorblade, using the free online application, Fontstruct.

As a uni-width font, I was quite pleased with the result. But esthetically, there were several things that bothered me about it.

With my newfound Illustrator skills (!) and my recent work on Geometrica Sans, I have been revisiting and expanding this font over the last few months. Here are the results.





I was interested in creating a geometric display face, based exclusively on shapes (circle, square, equilateral triangle) and their derivatives (no linear elements).

I am a huge fan of modular fonts; my inspirations for Razorblade include:
I was also keen to create a font that incorporated overlay / transparency / collage capabilities, similar to:
Even Toronto city streets helped in the formation of the lower case i:
And now to import into FontLab!

p.s. Lesson learned: Listen to your gut; if it feels wrong, it probably is.

p.p.s. Much thanks to Tanya for her succinct feedback and endless encouragement.