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Florida-based designer Cameron Moll makes intricate typeface illustrations of famous buildings like the Roman Coliseum and the Salt Lake Temple.
He plans out the structure of the building and the angle he wants to work with, before using Illustrator to manually position varying letters to form his typeface illustrations.
His illustration of the Brooklyn Bridge proved to be a challenge because of the sheer expanse of the structure and his desire to capture as many details as he could of this iconic bridge.
To capture the rich history of the bridge, Moll paid particular attention to the usage of typeface. He consulted Robert Warner, the owner of Bowne & Company Stationers, who showed him a few woodblock typefaces that would have been in use at the time the bridge was being built.
From that selection, Moll chose the ‘Antique Triple Extra Condensed’ typeface which he fell in love with. He chose another typeface, ‘Fette Gotisch’, to honor the chief architect of the Brooklyn Bridge, John Roebling, who was born in Germany. The typeface was designed in Germany, also around the same time as the bridge.
“Hidden throughout the artwork are the names of John Roebling, his son Washington who had to take over as chief engineer, and lots of other hidden text like the last names of those who died during construction,” Moll explained.
The project took him three years of painstaking research and design to complete, and was successfully funded for a letterpress print run on Kickstarter.
Watch a sped-up video of the tedious process below:
[via The Atlantic Cities, Kickstarter and Vimeo]
Florida-based designer Cameron Moll makes intricate typeface illustrations of famous buildings like the Roman Coliseum and the Salt Lake Temple.
He plans out the structure of the building and the angle he wants to work with, before using Illustrator to manually position varying letters to form his typeface illustrations.
His illustration of the Brooklyn Bridge proved to be a challenge because of the sheer expanse of the structure and his desire to capture as many details as he could of this iconic bridge.
To capture the rich history of the bridge, Moll paid particular attention to the usage of typeface. He consulted Robert Warner, the owner of Bowne & Company Stationers, who showed him a few woodblock typefaces that would have been in use at the time the bridge was being built.
From that selection, Moll chose the ‘Antique Triple Extra Condensed’ typeface which he fell in love with. He chose another typeface, ‘Fette Gotisch’, to honor the chief architect of the Brooklyn Bridge, John Roebling, who was born in Germany. The typeface was designed in Germany, also around the same time as the bridge.
“Hidden throughout the artwork are the names of John Roebling, his son Washington who had to take over as chief engineer, and lots of other hidden text like the last names of those who died during construction,” Moll explained.
The project took him three years of painstaking research and design to complete, and was successfully funded for a letterpress print run on Kickstarter.
Watch a sped-up video of the tedious process below:
[via The Atlantic Cities, Kickstarter and Vimeo]