Cherlinger

www.cherlinger.tumblr.com is a blog showcasing variety of artists works whether it's type illustration or photography. There is so much inspiration on this site it's amazing, a few designs really caught my eye, to the left is  an illustration posted by 'Houseofbourbon' the whole idea is retro and the designer as clearly thought about elements that will create that understanding. For example the block print style bottle, for one a vintage way of printing and two it looks slightly eroded/broken revealing the age of the piece? the type used is hand rendered but based on computer typefaces, that idea of combining typefaces to bring out some elements, each type chosen works yet still show that aged feel (which could also relate to age of whiskey.) The composition of the wording has been warped slightly and curved to bring the flat block printed image to become slightly 3d or to give the illusion that is 3d.

Another example i found was not overally because the typeface but the idea behind grabbing the viewers attention, it's quite comical. Walking past this will instantly catch your eye due to scale of the piece, the use of uppercase it's quite loud. the question asking." Am I wasting my time talking to you.' which i found quite ironic, the majority of people or in fact it maybe just me walk past billboards or posters, take a glance then most of time just walk past and not taking away any interest in what i have just seen. In a designers/company view this would be a waste of time. Or another example would be when people are trying to sell you things in the street and you just walk by, this is cutting out the middle man which is quite amusing.

Above I found an image, my connotation of this immediately was lead to the recent french connection ads, I certain that the same typeface has been used for both posters, also the photography style is similar, they are quite realistic full of motion no particular posing a shabby chic style. Also the positioning and sizing of the type is literally spot on with french connection. Dominating the page, white fill colour and uppercase. It was hard for me to see this poster as anything else but french connection.