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  Here’s a random selection of type development sketches collected from years of sketch books. Some developed into actual things, others never left the page.

  Image1: The initial sketches for an aborted Ashley Wood book series. The title, and the type eventually turned into the Nagasaki typeface. (2010)
  
  Images 2—3: Early Nagasaki character sketches. (2010)
  
  Image 4: Whilst working on apparel designs for the film Iron Sky, I pitched a new logo idea in order to unify the marketing designs, which wasn’t used. (2011)
  
  Image 5: Early type sketches of the VIKING logo for the collected hard-and softcover editions. (2010)
  
  Image 6: One of many Iron Man logo sketches created when I was working on the redesigns of the comic series. (2011)
  
  Images 7—8: Early sketches of the logos and type treatments for UK comics publisher Mam Tor and their flagship award-winning anthology Event Horizon. (2004)
  
  Image 9: Initial sketches for what would become the first logo for Bambaland, the online shop of Ashley Wood and now ThreeA Toys. (2004)
  
  Image 10: Unused logo concepts for UK band Mattafix created while at Kleber Design when we were commissioned to create their site. (2005)

  12 Sep 2012 / 24 notes