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Wonderful World of Walbaum

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This is one of the homecoming murals that was on Wescoe beach today. A couple people and I drew it up and submitted it to be one of the final 10 murals. Once chosen we got the 4ft by 4ft plywood board and we began painting Sunday. I am very proud of this because I spent many hours on this. I hope we were at least in the top three to get homecoming points.

I like the theme for homecoming but it is something that has been done a million times and a million more. It was difficult coming up with something original. Some of the other murals were copies of the Beatles, Warhol inspired or copy of woodstock posters.

I tried to upload the graphic that I submitted but uploading it always results in it being the inverse...hopefully tomorrow when we go over posting type posters I can figure it out.

Wacky Walbaum

Some unique things about Walbaum are the hairline serifs, balled ends, evidence of pen movement and strong contrasting widths. The ? is special because instead of a curvy line to the dot it is a harsh straight line. Overall it has a tall x-height. The upper case Q has a special tail that goes from the base of the letter below the baseline. The lower case g has two stories and a closed loop. Letters a r g y c f have balled ends showing the pen and where it stops or pauses creating a ink spot. On the small caps version the numbers go up and down, they do not sit on the same baseline. I think the upper case W is very pretty because it shows the hairline serifs and contrasting widths clearly.

I found out today in History of Philosophy and Design that the Polo ads use Walbaum in all caps (POLO). We were looking at examples from a lecture on consumerism and it showed up and I looked at it then looked harder at each characteristic of the letters and realized they used Walbaum Roman.