#steven bonner

[brokehorrorfan]

Fright Rags has restocked three "Killer Quotes" shirts designed by Steven Bonner. Priced at $30, they feature memorable lines from Psycho, The Monster Squad, and Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning.

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— Steven Bonner

Steven Bonner is an illustrator with a particular flair for type. The quality of Steven's work has led to commissions for publications such as Computer Arts, The New York Times and Wired in addition to global brands including Nike, Audi, Coca-Cola and Diesel. With a strong passion for typography he has also developed his own font, Muirside, for Hype for Type.

— The Art Book

This image was completed during some downtime a few years ago as part of a competition to design the cover of The Art Book. My agents had come to me with the idea of entering as it was only open to represented illustrators.

I was going through a transitional phase with my lettering at the time and had been looking for an excuse to experiment a little with my style, moving it on and making it a little more pictorial. I'd been looking back at my earlier influences, and wanted to digitally replicate the feeling of working with an airbrush, which was something I had tinkered with back in my student days. >>

I started sketching letters, focussing on the 'A' for Art Book, for no other reason than it seemed a good starting point and good place to 'warm up'. After drawing some really quick lower case versions, I noticed that one of them looked vaguely like a penguin, and decided to run with it, seeing where it would take me. I worked it up in Illustrator first, then used the shapes I drew there as masks to airbrush in Photoshop. >>

To my shock, it actually won the competition that year, and despite me feeling personally that it's now a bit of a naive image, it remains the illustration referenced most by clients from my portfolio. It marked a turning point in my career, helping me forge new techniques I still use every day, and launched one of my most popular styles. If I were to recreate the piece today the result would be very different, but I would not swap it for the world. ∎

Steven Bonner.

[robotcosmonaut]

Making Sense Of It All

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"The Day the Earth Stood Still" by Steven Bonner

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Accept and Proceed Logo Project by steven.bonner on Flickr.

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Steven Bonner - Editorial Ilustration

[type-lover]

single malt whisky

by Steven Bonner

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Advertising images created for Audi, commissioned by Thjnk, Hamburg.

By Steven Bonner