Riding on the coat tails of London Type Tours, it’s worth mentioning that TYPE in collaboration with Wallpaper* are running a Typographic Tart Card competition again. The brief is;
We would like you to design a type-tart card either for a typeface or a letter of the alphabet. If you are unfamiliar with these things, tart cards are the means by which London prostitutes advertise their services. So pervasive are these things, and so curious is their typography, images and copy writing they are now regarded as items of accidental art and have something of a cult following. Once on the periphery of design, the cards have influenced the work of many mainstream artists including Royal Academician Tom Philips and Sex Pistols designers, Ray and Nils Stevenson. Perhaps they can inspire you too? Maybe Sabon would invite you to caress its counters, or Palatino would advertise its ‘Mega Serifs’. Bodoni boasts some magnificent finials, Baskerville’s swash can really inflict some pain, and Century Schoolbook would undoubtedly keep you in after class.
All entries will be exhibited in London during July 2009 along side a feature in Wallpaper*. TYPE previously ran this competition a few months back and have put some of the previous entries up online (pictured above Nice Tight VAG by Joe Wassell, Form and Call 6006 by Michael Place, Build) to kick start things off.
The closing date is couple of days (17th April 2009) so best be quick to get those entries in.
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