Movie poster for next Republican debate revealed

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Phil Fot

Nice. Now if we could just forget all of them and restart that whole government machine, but with a malware blocker this time.
oldtaku

I was going to make a Star Chamber ref here, but then realized that’s too uncomfortably true.
bbonyx

Am I the only one who immediately thought of this?
- Artimus Mangilord
  
  You were not, I did as well. Wonder if that was intentional.
Jorpho

I approve! “Mittens Romney” and “Philip K. Derp” are nice touches. (Someone ought to make a photoshop collection of covers for the works of Philip K. Derp.)

This whole Republican nomination thing has been very entertaining. I think I might now begin to understand the popularity of professional wrestling.
- http://twitter.com/writebastard Ian Wood
  
  Gosh.
EH

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Guest

Oh goody, Michael Bay! So agencies disappearing AND lots of stuff being blown up then?!
- Warren_Terra
  
  Now that we know about the correlation, lots and lots of explosions.
  - Guest
    
    Bayhem… =D
wizardru

Considering I have NO IDEA who John Harwood is, they must already be succeeding! HORRORS!
http://twitter.com/LeftistConfessd Cookie MonstA

If you can’t remember the agency, it must not be that evil…
- flowergardenslayer
  
  If you can’t remember the agency, it must not be that evil…
  
  Unless it’s the NSA!!! [bum bum BUM!] :)
hymenopterid

In other news, Ron Paul continues to not exist.
cmcnulty81

Please don’t throw Ron Paul in there with the other hacks.
- Warren_Terra
  
  Yup. He’s a precious jewel of hackitude, not to be sullied by their garden-variety hackery.
- hymenopterid
  
  Sorry, I just meant to comment on the fact that Republicans seem to be doing their best to ignore him and anything he has to say. At least they let him on the stage this year!
GlenBlank

Nice job, though I betcha the client won’t like the wide kerning. :-)

For large titles, try Trajan. As they say in the Key Art department, “When in doubt, try Trajan.” Clients love it. :-)

Also, a handy free font for movie-poster credits is Steel Tongs. (Not that there’s anything wrong with what you’ve already got there!)
- http://boingboing.net/ Rob Beschizza
  
  Additional spacing between letters is tracking, not kerning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking_(typography)
  
  Trajan’s semiotics aren’t quite right. Dickian sci-fi is all about the geometric sans.
  
  Steel Tongs is cool, but I do believe Univers 39 Ultra Condensed is the classic movie credits font. No substitutes!
  - GlenBlank
    
    Additional spacing between letters is tracking, not kerning
    
    Sorry. I’m an old phart from the age when adjusting letterspacing away from the default (determined by the size of the cast type) was called “kerning”, whether it applied to all the letters, or just a single pair – and whether it made the space larger or smaller.
    
    Historically, it comes from hot-metal cast type, where ascenders and descenders and other funky bits – ‘kerns’, same root as ‘kernel’ – could make the spacing look awkward, and the spacing was adjusted by lining the type up on a ‘kerning stick’ and shaving some width off the shank with a ‘kerning knife’ to bring the characters closer together.
    
    (You probably knew that; I’m just expounding for the readers.)
    
    Eventually, the term came to be used for any adjustment that produced non-standard letter spacing.
    
    With the advent of digital type, the software makers needed a new term to distinguish between individual pair adjustments and overall letterspacing adjustments, so they decided to call overall adjustments ‘tracking.’
    
    I grew up using Letraset and PresType for headlines, where *every* character is individually spaced – so, like a lot of old pharts, I still call getting the character spacing right ‘kerning.’
    
    Kids these days and their fancy computers! Harrumph. :-)
    
    (BTW, the Wikipedia article is wrong, even by modern standards, when it says that “ Kerning adjusts the letters closer together (negative spacing), tracking adjusts the letters further apart (positive spacing).” Kerning or tracking both can make the spacing either looser or tighter.)
    
    Trajan’s semiotics aren’t quite right. Dickian sci-fi is all about the geometric sans.
    
    Could be. Clients love Trajan, but clients are often wrong. :-)
    
    Steel Tongs is cool, but I do believe Univers 39 Ultra Condensed is the classic movie credits font. No substitutes!
    
    Sure. I was just pointing out Steel Tongs mostly for its shortcuts and dingbats. I said it was handy; not canonical. :-)
endymion

This poster made me laugh harder than anything else I’ve seen all week.

Great job!!
GlenBlank

Another handy guide for movie-poster designers:

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Sean McKibbon

Ok, so now I just want to know what’s the third frikin agency? unless maybe that’s the name of the agency : The Third Agency – a new thriller by Brown/Cussler/Deighton/Follet