Fictional Fiction/ The Band That Wasn't There

Typophile is a website for type/font/art/design enthusiasts. Each week they present a challenge to their readers, some of them a little more on the typo-geek side of the fence, others more accessible the rest of us. Here are two that really tickled me.

Type Battle 20 - Album Cover Meme

Create an album cover for a fictitious band, using a
fictitious album name and an image from Flickr. Follow these steps below.

1. The first article title on the Wikipedia Random Articles page is the name of your band.

2. The last four words of the very last quotation on the Random
Quotations page is the title of your album.

3. The third picture in Flickr’s Interesting Photos From The Last
7 Days will be your album cover.

4. Use your graphics application of choice to throw them together,
and post the result.

There were a lot of great entries, but here are just a couple of the many I liked. Click either to look at all the entries for this challenge.








Type Battle 32 - Book Cover Meme

The second challenge was similar, only you had to create a fictional book cover instead of an album cover.

1. The first article title on the Wikipedia Random Articles page is the title of your book.

2. Go to the LIFE photo archive and enter the title (or part of the title) as your search term. Use any image from the search result for your book.

A couple that I liked from here are below. Click either to look at all the entries for this challenge.




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