Wicked
The image on the left is of a book created for fans of the Broadway Wicked, which I found while flipping through the November 2006 design annual of Comm Arts. It is a standard in our society to use over sized decorative text to portray a fairytale of some sort. Looking through typographic history, we can see it originated with illuminated manuscripts like the image on the right from the opening page of the Gospel of Saint Mark. The decorative initial cap started early in history and went from beginning any story to becoming a widely recognized symbol of the fairytale. -Melissa
posted by melissa @ 10:17 PM
7 Comments:
Could you try making your body copy a little larger -- you have some good info -- would like to be able to read it a bit easier. Pat
Thanks, looks much better!
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Wicked...do i dare say wicked cool?! I love older carpet pages, and decorative letters like that. It's great to see something of today that is highly influenced by something so long ago, before people even realized what they were doing. They put so much time into designing the letters and the layout as portrayed in the Wicked page.
I really like how you took the extra time to find a picture for reference to show the comparison you were making. You go Glen Coco! This is a great example! That decorative type is really perfect for such an imaginative musical...definitely screams fairy-tale!
The work definitely depicts the old-style font found in early European print and is quite successful is retaining it modern feel due to the content and arrangements of text
I really like this design because of the organic and authentic hand done look. It accents the piece and really does help convey the fairy-tale look. WICKED!
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