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Beautiful typo on Esquire’s almost cover-of-the-year

Posted: November 18th, 2007 | Author: Iancu | Filed under: design, illustration, type | 1 Comment »

One of the two finalists for the best cover of the year, this Esquire cover featuring George Clooney is a real typo treat (penciled by illustrator Marion Deuchars – check her site for some beautiful work):

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You can bet it ain’t easy drawing typo that seems bad, sloppy, but looks so good. Talk about “ugly design“.

Too bad the romanian first issue changed the drawn letters with normal fonts (i know, drawing them in romanian wouldn’t have been the same, but at least they could’ve tried, because that was the concept, showing Clooney with the pencil in his hand – you can see the romanian cover here).

(via Kit, via Design Observer)

One Comment on “Beautiful typo on Esquire’s almost cover-of-the-year”

  1. 1 Sunaina said at 12:15 PM on December 18th, 2007:

    vai,si i-au tras si titlul peste cap. :|

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