BLKSMTH AGN

14 Responses

1. Jon Contino

   More from the BLKSMTH trim pack.

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   over 1 year ago

2. Rich Gustke

   Yea looks great! wish I knew how to get that great texture you have

   over 1 year ago

3. Blain Smith

   Amazing texture as usual. How do you accomplish that?

   over 1 year ago

4. Javier Garcia

   Every time I run into some old signs like this, I remember your work. Just love the hand-done quality of it. Perfect type!

   over 1 year ago

5. Bill S Kenney

   wooooaaahh. very nice

   over 1 year ago

6. Jeff Portaro

   I hate to be "that guy", but the weight of the L and K feel a little heavy in comparison to the other letters.

   over 1 year ago

7. Jon Contino

   Hey Jeff, thanks for the comment, but the point of this image is to look like a stamp and if it were actually stamped in real life, the weight applied would be uneven and cause certain letters to appear to have a heavier feel. If you notice, the BLK are darker than the SMT and that's done on purpose.

   over 1 year ago

8. Dimitry

   Nicely done Jon!

   over 1 year ago

9. Jeff Portaro

   Thanks Jon for the reply and I understand the whole weight distribution on application concept, but I should have been clearer on my use of the term heavy. I was more concerned on the line weight of the letters. The stem on the L and K look wider than that on the M,T and H. I dunno, for some reason it just bugs me.

   All critique aside… I love your work.

   over 1 year ago

10. Jon Contino

    Thanks Jeff! Yes, the stem weights are purposefully designed that way to make it feel awkward. This will be printed on old, stained fabric and sewn into jeans under the idea of an 1892 environment. The idea here is to give a sense of style while still using that "some guy who doesn't know about lettering drew this over 100 years ago." Also, once this is printed, there will be an excess of ink used to make each of these forms distort into thicker and thinner lines, so I needed a variety of shapes to have the final product look legitimately old.

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    over 1 year ago

11. Meghan (Besinger) Sadler

    Lovely.

    over 1 year ago

12. Dan Graf

    This is awesome, man

    over 1 year ago

13. BLKSMTH Finally got around to getting photos. You can see the whole project here: http://joncontino.com/BLKSMTH

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    BLKSMTH

    by Jon Contino

    Finally got around to getting photos. You can see the whole project here: http://joncontino.com/BLKSMTH

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14. Jeremy Vessey

    Big fan of your work! This is awesome man.

    10 months ago