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Art Of Dubstep

Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 1:49 am
by evolve
Anyone interested in the design side of things? does anyone know what the typeface/fonts DMZ, Hyperdub use? +Where to get them? Peace

Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 12:51 pm
by alan
why would you want to use the same font as some one else?

Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 12:56 pm
by kion
er DMZ use 'kidnap note' font lol (found in all good newspapers)

Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 1:03 pm
by autonomic
Tempa.

just add kerning

Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 2:17 pm
by alex bk-bk
na thats not quit the tempa face.

im generally quite saddened by the design in the scene. everyome goes for the clean typographic solution at best or the cheesy as fuck drum and bass look at worst.
ive said it before and im gonna say it again:
WHERE THE SUPERSTRUCTURES AT ?!

Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 3:15 pm
by elgato
I dunno man i quite rate a fair bit of it. I like tempa's stuff, simple but well effective. Quite slick, quite right for the vibe of a lot of those tunes. And i love the dmz design ethic, just raw as you like, no frills. Looks like a weighty soundsystem turned into typeface! Much prefer those to most artwork around. Granted a lot of electronica artwork smacks it, designers republic especially, but it must put costs up a lot to have full art for sleeves. But then there are some labels I dont like the style of very much, but then i guess thats down to taste more than anything

Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:09 pm
by dust shop

Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:11 pm
by dust shop
and yeah... if some people want to give me some design works, I'm ready :lol:

check www.dustshop.tk for some sleeves design

Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:25 pm
by autonomic
Alex bk-bk wrote:na thats not quit the tempa face.
Can you do better with web fonts and the forum's formatting tools? ;)

The Tempa logo is Arial Black, italic with heavy negative kerning, or a slight variation thereof.

But I generally like the look of dubstep design. Nothing too codified yet and it's much nicer than most of the grime stuff which is often all pixel-y.

Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:27 pm
by alex bk-bk
haha grime graphics is something else. ugly as it is i kind of hope it stays that way.
sorry to be pedantic about the Tempa logo, fair play you did a nice job there.

yo dust shop, those are all post-graffiti dudes. theres more to graphics

Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:35 pm
by seckle
autonomic wrote:Tempa.

just add kerning
lol. :lol:

Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:37 pm
by jackquinox
Said it before and i will say it again as far as artwork and sleeve design goes its skull disco alllllllllllll the way!

(although i do like the hyperdub design to)

Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:52 pm
by autonomic
yeah skull disco art is the business

i like the work i've seen from n-type too

Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 6:07 pm
by kion
dust shop wrote:dmz font is "broken 15" if u want 2 download it check: http://www.dafont.com/search.php?q=broken+15
bah thats kinda ruined the mystique what did you have to post that for lol - and there was me thinking they spent enuff time cutting out letters from the Sunday People :lol:

Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:22 pm
by dust shop
yeah sorry for the font :roll:
and for the "post graffiti" links also,

a better idea is to take a look at this book:
http://www.booklounge.com/index.php/boo ... -sampler-3

there is a bunch of nice and mostly unhype works

Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 8:01 pm
by alex bk-bk
ooh thats nice, is that julian house on the cover?

Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 8:19 pm
by sek [espionage]
does anyone know of a decent app that converts pc fonts into mac format?

Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 9:07 pm
by rich_c90
dust shop wrote:dmz font is "broken 15" if u want 2 download it check: http://www.dafont.com/search.php?q=broken+15
safe for the link, some of those fonts are sick...

Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 9:10 pm
by alex bk-bk
sek, as long as theyre ttf they should work ok on a mac

Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 9:16 pm
by blackdown
i'm always looking for a good designer, but am well fussy. no graf/designers republic/electronica/new school d&b clones required.