Simon Griffee
Design consulting, art direction, photography.
When In Doubt, Move
I’ve been experimenting with Google’s Roboto typeface which now clothes used to clothe this website and I quite like, and with embracing things I usually can’t stand such as the ill-typeset quotations that litter social network feeds.
Result: A simple poster with D.H. Lawrence’s lifelong credo, which narrowly won me over both Jesus’ and Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade’s versions of the same good evolutionary advice:
Download an infinite resolution version for printing (412kb PDF).
Roboto Slab is set against a background with a golden pattern tile which I somehow managed to put together years ago and recently came across while navigating the ‘cutting room floor’ folders of an old hard disk.
I better move outside while I can still see. A dopo!
Update: Roboto is now open source. Here’s another poster to celebrate!