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by geneus1


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Circa 1980 New York subway trains with Single-Letter Top-To-Bottom Whole Cars. Two cars on DeTrayne are dedicated to influential graffiti artists that have passed away way too soon. Dondi, from New York, was a master of readable and wildstyle letterforms, whole-car masterpieces, colorful backgrounds and characters. He was also a pioneer in taking his art from the subway to art galleries worldwide. Dondi passed on October 2, 1998 from complications from AIDS. On this day, Feb. 17, in the year 2000, legendary San Francisco Bay Area graffiti artist, Dream, was robbed and killed at gunpoint. It was a major loss, not just for the bay area, but the worldwide graffiti art community. One of Dream's most famous pieces, "Best of Both Worlds," displayed a mastery of two intricate west coast styles that raised the bar in defining a graffiti "king." A testament to his greatness is his memorial wall in Daly City that still stands untouched to this day, and includes tribute pieces from artists that have traveled from all over the world to contribute. It was a great honor to have worked on a music video that served as a tribute to Dream, and brought his family, friends, and his crew TDK together again for a celebration of his life and art. Graffiti art has been a major influence on me and every typographic creation I develop. Out of everything I've publicly shared, this fontstruction is the most meaningful and defining for me. Hi, I am Geneus1: digital graffiti artist.
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74 characters, 165 downloads
Created:
Tue, 17th February, 12:49 PM 2009
Last Edit:
Fri, 19th June, 5:03 PM 2009
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geneus1
geneus1 Tue, 17th February, 1:01 PM

For all graffiti artists out there. Special thanks to another graffiti artist, kix, for the skylines backdrop.

(sorry about the speed of the sample, i had to lower the frame rate in order for it to display properly)

For all graffiti artists out there. Special thanks to another graffiti artist, kix, for the skylines backdrop.
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<br/>(sorry about the speed of the sample, i had to lower the frame rate in order for it to display properly)
kix
kix Tue, 17th February, 2:24 PM

thanks for letting me be just a little part of this HUGE masterpiece!

there are absolutely NO words for what i'm feeling right now, and how DEEEEPLY impressed i am.
Dude, you MAKE my day.

*how do you always manage to keep'em downloadable. In case of my couch version of MULTIVERSE, i always get an error saying something like:
Error in generating fontstruction!

hm...

funk_king
funk_king Tue, 17th February, 3:00 PM

incredible!

guentersen
guentersen Tue, 17th February, 3:34 PM

this is greatness.
thanks a lot for sharing your emotions.

thanks for the peace-sign.

afrojet
afrojet Tue, 17th February, 4:05 PM

This is a Fontstruct doctoral thesis and beautiful tribute rolling down the tracks of greatness. I believe Dondi would have been stoked on Fontstruct.

thalamic
thalamic Tue, 17th February, 4:37 PM

*speechless*

cam.ill
cam.ill Tue, 17th February, 8:17 PM

wholecaar!
great one!

SquarePeg
SquarePeg Tue, 17th February, 9:02 PM

Incredible work, Gene... And the animation rocks!

(I watched both "Style Wars" and "Bomb It" just a few months ago, and this is a great tribute -- not just to Dondi and Dream, but, as you say, to all graffiti artists.)

kolarek
kolarek Wed, 18th February, 1:52 AM

espect!!!

Em42
Em42 Wed, 18th February, 2:36 AM

Too much complexity for me to comment... 10!

laynecom
laynecom Wed, 18th February, 3:02 AM

this is awesome!

jmarquez
jmarquez Wed, 18th February, 3:04 AM

This one is really cool.
Where can I buy a ticked?lol

aphoria
aphoria Wed, 18th February, 6:09 AM

Awesome font and ultra cool sample.

emepar7
emepar7 Wed, 18th February, 10:39 PM

This is rather incredible. How did you make the sample?

geneus1
geneus1 Thu, 19th February, 1:21 AM

Deep thanks to everyone and the warm reception from everyone getting on DeTrayne. It really means a lot to me.

@kix: I knew you'd dig this from the first time that you shared this. Really glad you enjoy it.

I'm not entirely sure what breaks the Fontstructor. Coincidentally, the first iteration of DeTrayne was probably one of the first fontstructions to break the Save function due to the number of bricks used back in May of last year. Fortunately, Meek was able to salvage most of it, but I eventually reconstructed the whole thing for 2x scale. Meek is the first one I go to w/ any problems (unfortunately for Meek).

@guentersen: Thank you for the inspiration. The peace sign was actually the last addition to the train.

@afrojet: Thanks. It certainly felt that it took as long as your average doctoral thesis.

@SquarePeg: "Style Wars" was a pivotal film for me. I can't say enough praise about it. I also have to give respect to Tony Silver, the director of the film who passed away last year. I'll have to check out "Bomb It." A really good SF graf documentary is "Piece By Piece."

@Em42: This is as complex as it gets for me in terms of the number of bricks used. There are over one hundred total. (I know that probably makes you uneasy ;-) There is probably an expectation for me to put out more complex creations such as this, but I think I'll have to release some small simple ones just to balance things out.

@emepar7: The sample was easily and quickly done in Adobe After Effects using only letters in the font for the animation. The $, %, ^, &, * glyphs contain the doors opening and closing. The train movement is one line of text scrolling from right to left with the sold black train used as the background gradient fill. And kix's skylines adorns the background. The animation is output as an animated gif, but I think there may be a 1 MB file size limitation to post on the discussion boards here.

patricknas
patricknas Fri, 20th February, 8:22 AM

The train is really riding when you let it pass by.
Great one, roll on!

Loman
Loman Sun, 22nd February, 5:48 PM

This is an awesome font, anyone who voted this less than a 10 is either jealous or just trolling!

Handfratze
Handfratze Fri, 6th March, 9:09 AM

Very well done! I like the detailed and creative variations! This is very impressive!

But I have a suggestion:
For easier usage it would quite be nice to make a document, containing a table with information about which wagon is assigned to which letter or sign. This would be very good for the none-alphanumeric ones! Of course there are tool, which make this unnecessary, but it would be a really cool feature for some of your fans, who don't know about such things!

geneus1
geneus1 Sun, 19th April, 1:11 AM

Thanks, patricknas & Loman.

@Handfratze: Thanks for the comment and suggestion. Sorry for the delay.

DETRAYNE KEYS

A Subway car plain
B Top-2-Bottom Bubble Right
C Geneus Graf
D Top-2-Bottom Bubble Left
E Middle Bubbles
F R.I.P. Dondi
G R.I.P. Dream

space half length underline track
, heart
@ bubble cloud pattern
underline empty track

* Full Doors Open
# Bottom Clouds
$ Full Doors Closed
% Doors Opening 25%
^ Doors Open 50%
& Doors Open 75%

( Bottom Clouds Right
) Bottom Clouds Left
+ Blank Car
- half length underline track

: Peace sign
; Open Window Subway car
less Left side train destroyed
= Mid train destroyed
greater Right side train destroyed
[ Full Car Cloud wave left
\ Full Cloud car
] Full Car Cloud wave right
` Full Car Silhouette
{ Paint Drips Right
| Full Car Paint Drips
} Paint Drips Left

jinx
jinx Mon, 10th August, 7:14 PM

amazing!