Joemus font challenge!

[imomus]

The JOEMUS as slab boys! appeal here on Click Opera ten days ago got some really good responses. In the end we decided to go with a young artist, Stefan Sadler of Famicon Collective. As tends to be the way with these things, the original idea of making a John Byrne pastiche has been replaced by something much more interesting. Here's an early, rough (and delightfully gay-looking!) sketch Stefan's come up with:



The odd splash lettering (I picked the words at random, but apparently "coniglio sacca" means "rabbit bag"!) is my work. Basically -- and this brings me to today's appeal / challenge -- I saw some hand-drawn signs in a restaurant window in Trento last week that I really liked, both for the letter forms themselves and for the form of the paper they were on:



Now, since I know Click Opera is read by some extremely talented graphic designers, I wondered if someone could make a font of this lettering, or something derived from it? Ideally the font would be called Joemus, and would be made specifically for the Joemus album (which I've decided is just going to be called "Momus: Joemus"). There would be a bold face for the front lettering and a light face for use on the back -- something the song titles and credits could be set in.

You could retain copyright on your own font and distribute it however you liked, but you'd make it available to us for use on the album. You'd be free to interpret, alter, clean up, mess up, or change the letter forms. I think we need caps only, and numbers. Ultimately, I suppose there could be only one Joemus font (well, two: Joemus Bold and Joemus Light), so we'd have to decide in the comments section -- within the next 24 hours, basically -- who was officially doing it. If you're interested, point us in the direction of fonts you've designed. In fact, do that even if you're not interested, because we're interested!

Comments

[akabe.livejournal.com]

i'd like to know ,as someone already posed the question above, why you'd actually want to make it into a 'font' as such. is it simply naivete , assuming that if you're designing you need a font when clearly vector or even raster graphics would do just fine ?? then actually author the font; even skipping the ethical issue i mention above , what use would it be ?? is anyone using the depeche mode , def leppard etc fonts floating around (ironic acde maybe) ?? or, (since black sabbath didn't actually release their own fonts), are you assuming that you are minor enough as musicians to consider an alternative carrer as fontographers ?? ::: i am genuinely at a loss trying to understand this but whatever it may be i think the coolest (if not also most ethical) thing to do is to leave the font unnamed , even uncreated, but do have a small line in the credits saying 'font inspired by so and so'

guess i'm getting hot about this because it touches on one of the things that irritates me most these days which is creative greed or the greed of the creatives these days. (i tend to get rather political about it unless i ignore it.) surely no-one will question your ability as musicians on the album - or if they do it will be in a positive way, even if the criticism might be negative. -- and of course the cover does have to look good and/or interesting

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I prefer the term "appetite" to the term "greed". I think it's tremendously important to see (or hear) and covet something. Not necessarily to possess it physically, but perhaps just to do something with its digital ghost, based on that moment of appetite you felt. Art created with that kind of desire crackles with sex and joie de vivre, with positivity and happiness and energy. Preserved in such work you can hear and see the moment when someone wanted and desired something. That appetite is life-giving.

[akabe.livejournal.com]

fair enough though i'm not sure we're talking about the exact same thing

[stanleylieber.livejournal.com]

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[(Anonymous)]

my guess is, the hand lettering was probably appropriated from an already existing font, which may itself have been taken from a sign-writers work perhaps?

have a look, you might even find the original, although you won't get the freestyle flavour.

[drywbach.livejournal.com]

I wondered about the same thing. Couldn't find any plausible hits in http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
I don't know what other resources there might be, though...