Who Be He?
They call him Phillip Retuta. He calls himself a visual & interactive designer, motion graphics artist, and illustrator -- an all-around artist. He's 29 years old, from Chicago, living in NYC, and has a lovely husky-lab mix named Nico. Currently employed as Senior Designer at a digital and social media firm.
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Well, it's a fairly random tumblog of current and upcoming art endevours, photographs, comic sketches, creative philosophies, inspirations, and generally incomplete art projects.
So yeah, it's like a sketchbook.
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
GIRLS the tv-show logo
Customized typography for the logo/identity/opening title card for HBO’s new show ‘GIRLS’. Based on art-deco type styles, this crisp and modern interpretation evolved into a new school design.
Lena Dunham —who also wrote, directed, and stars in the series— worked with the Los Angeles–based production company Grand Jeté to find a balance between something bold and something beautiful.
Lena expressed that she was a fan of art deco typography. Something to thinking about weird and intimate spaces, and off-beat visuals atypical for a show about young women.
Each episode opens with a static shot of the show’s title filling the screen, in place of a more complex sequence. No animation, no video—just text on a solid background. The colors change from week to week.
My favourite episode breaks the rules for a funny momentum:
I’ve been meaning to watch this show for awhile now..