04.14.2010

you can't miss...marathon race bibs

This weekend, I went home to run the St. Louis GO! Half Marathon. As I was running, I was looking at the race bibs on the runners that were flying past me on the marathon course. I immediately knew that race bib typography had to be this week's 'you can't miss' blog post! Here is what mine looked like:

So, of course, I had to search around for other cool race bibs. The bold color schemes, block type, and sponsor logos on the bibs are both intimidating and powerful, and was surprised at the what I found. Take a look:

This one is for a Disney Marathon - what other marathon would have an image of Donald Duck on the race bib?! Courtesy of this running blog.

Now this is my kind of race bib! I need to find a race where I can run with a pink bib that have floral decorative elements around the edges. From Flickr.

Dogs need race bibs too, right? I'd love to meet the designer who was assigned with the task of creating a dog race bib. Also found on Flickr.

Whoa. Props to this guy, whose photo below I found on Flickr. Now that's impressive.

critique...unemployment

This week in Vox, Kathryn and I are creating thumbnails for the upcoming Unemployment feature. It's kind of scary and surreal, since we are all about to be thrown out into the real world that these people are a part of, so we are trying to kind an appropriate and effective way to tell the story visually. We have great conceptual ideas of a 'day in the life' photo essay type of feature at this point.

While I'm talking about jobs - CONGRATS to the most recently hired members of our class! You girls totally deserve it.

response...LBB part II

As I listen to my Laura Bell Bundy station on Pandora...yep, I'm that dedicated!...(just kidding, I love country music), I think about how much I enjoyed getting feedback from her in class yesterday. It was incredible that she took the time out of her day to speak with us. She seems so genuine and dedicated to her career and is very particular about her image, which I really respect. I am glad that we are all able to understand what she is asking of us, and that she is seeing things that she likes. That is really encouraging, and of course, I can't wait to see her on the ACMs on Sunday night.

I can't wait for the next 'round' of LBB logos to come out. Our class is really latching on to her ideas and requests in a creative way, and I love seeing what everyone produces.