GRAPHIC DESIGN: TYPOGRAPHY‘THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL’ - NINE INCH NAILSTRACK 5: CLOSER‘C

GRAPHIC DESIGN: TYPOGRAPHY‘THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL’ - NINE INCH NAILSTRACK 5: CLOSER‘Closer’ is Nine Inch Nails most famous song, made popular by its accompanying visionary music video (directed by Mark Romanek) and the unforgettable line, “I wanna f*ck you like an animal.”I wanted to experiment with typography for potential single artwork for this song, using a font that suits the themes of this record. I found an old issue of Playboy in a stack of magazines I have set aside for collage (honestly, that’s all they are for!) and went about seeing if I could potentially extract the words “closer to god”. While I came quite close, I needed to manipulate the ‘G’ to look like a ‘C’ for the word “closer.”As it was a serif font, I was able to cut the lower edge off of the letter ‘L’ and attach it to the ‘G’ to make a convincing ‘C’. The only issue now was that the ‘D’ in god was too small for my liking, so I therefor tried to position it closer to the camera’s lens by sticking it to the end of a nail with blu-tack. Unfortunately the camera was able to pick up on the difference in depth, so I resided to making my own lower case ‘D’ using half of a lower-case ‘A’ and attaching it to a lower-case ‘L’. It took a bit of fooling around but I got there eventually. -- source link

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