If you’ve hopped over to the Go Media Arsenal lately you might have noticed quite a few recent updates.
In the last two weeks we’ve released a new motion pack and two new fonts. I’m pretty excited that the new graffiti font Go Vandal comes with an exclusive vector pack to jack up the final results (yes Steve, we’re listening to your suggestions!). So for the first time in an Arsenal product, you get a true type font and also a vector pack containing each vector letter, symbol, and extra graffiti flourishes. All this adds up to a really custom graffiti lettering package. I can’t wait to see what our readers come up with over in the User Showcase!
Actually for a good example of Go Vandal in action, check out the box to the new motion pack - Animated Arrows. If pictures are worth a thousand words, then animation is…? Well just download some samples and mess around trying to recreate some MTV splash screens.
July 18th, 2008 at 8:10 am
Wooooooooooooooooooooou!
This is so good!!
I absolutely love the Go Media Arsenal!
Congratulations for blog
Regards
Daniel
July 18th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
I never would’ve guessed you guys could pull off a graffiti package so well! I’m highly impressed; it looks fantastic.
July 19th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Great work!
U gotta Love that Arsenal!!!!!!!!
Has Go media ever done any articles on how to separate colors in Photoshop & Illustrator for screen printing?
July 19th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Nice work!!
July 20th, 2008 at 3:49 am
This site is a freakin’ gold mine!
So much to learn.
July 20th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Hey, at least you guys tried. Graffiti fonts never translate well. You have to have the fluid motion of actually writing for it to look real. Although, I know most people will not be able to tell and it’ll do the trick. I do enjoy a lot of your other stuff, though.
July 20th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Oh, also..a better handstyle would have helped tremendously.
July 21st, 2008 at 5:28 am
Hmm I think this will definitely be on my list of t0-get’s once Arsenal 2.0 comes around. Looks great.
July 21st, 2008 at 10:52 am
I know how tough it is to get a smooth transition on hand-styled graffiti. When I created the header design on my site, it took me forever to get the lettering done just right. This font/vector pack is a fantastic addition to the Arsenal and I can’t wait to get it.
July 21st, 2008 at 11:33 am
Heath, yeah we know it’s impossible to replicate real graffiti in a font. And a real graffiti artist isn’t going to use it anyway. It’s one step closer though, and we encourage people to play with the letters and use the vector pack that came with it to get a more custom look.
@Checquered - Any reason why you’re waiting for Arsenal 2? I’m wondering if there is a specific reason and if other people might be waiting too. Just curious.
July 21st, 2008 at 7:42 pm
I dont know about Checquered Jeff but I have this little dream that 2.0 will allow people to put together their own packs. I would love to be able to pick out any 7 individual packs for the price you charge for the sets (or why not any 5 for a discount or 10 for a bit more of a discount)
July 22nd, 2008 at 10:03 am
I am really glad you guys took my suggestion. I thought I was being narcissistic when I saw the front page about the font, until I read my name in the full article. You guys are awesome for really taking our suggestions and mainfesting them into such great products(we are talking a little less than a month here, folks). I am a major gas bill, birthday present, tank of gas, and lost bet away from buying this font myself.
This could really expand into a major sub-category for the Arsenal. In regard to the quality of the handstyle, I think you answered that perfectly, and whose to say that this is the only graffiti font that will be created. For all those people with the skills, help the GOmedia team out with some samples to work from. We all benefit in the end.Keep up the good work. To me, you guys really set the standard for the pre-packaged vector market.
P.S.- Jeff, I have a crappy (but unique)little font I tried to make that you guys may be able to tweak. If you would like to have it to take a look, I would be glad to send it to you.
August 1st, 2008 at 10:03 am
Graffiti fonts are the design equivalent of asking your grandmother to do a layout. If your eye isn’t trained for something, what looks good to you is making others cringe. Most quality hands that you see in the street have more to do with logotype than handwriting, and took the better part of a decade to get decent. I say this not to be elitist, but merely in the spirit of working harder for better design. There’s just as many rules to it as there are with any other form of working with letters, why are they to be ignored? That “Go Vandal” logo is atrocious! The spacing is completely wonky, and the instead of being a buildup of paint or ink in the correct places the drips make it look like its drooling! The only exception to my rant thus far has been the work done by Handselecta (http://www.handselecta.com/). They at least are taking regional styles by veteran graffiti writers, and melding it with typographic sensibilities to create graffiti fonts that look more professional, and closer to the real thing. Beyond that, any use of graffiti fonts for logos or display type should be avoided, that grandmasterb header is awful. If you have an actual project that needs a graffiti look, find an actual writer who knows what they’re doing to do the display, there’s hundreds of them out there, hell, a lot of them do design too.