Brain vs. Braun: Typography Sketches

I know we most often show the fin­ished prod­uct around here, but I am equally — if not more so — inspired by the process. Take these type sketches by Matt Braun of Brain vs. Braun, for exam­ple. I love that you can very clearly see all of the eraser marks and imper­fec­tions, and places where he changed course, which is in large part what makes them so great. But at the same time, it’s also pretty easy to imag­ine exactly how the sketches could come to life.

via Dribbble

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This entry was written by Courtney, posted on February 16, 2011 at 8:00 am, filed under Design and tagged , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

9 Comments

  1. chris ericson
    Posted February 16, 2011 at 10:22 am | Permalink

    Wish my sketch­ing was this detailed. Love the dot grid sketch book too. I know Behance has one but does any­one know any other note­books that have a dot grid?

  2. Courtney
    Posted February 16, 2011 at 11:04 am | Permalink

    Hmm not that I know of. Though I use the Behance dot grid too and I LOVE it.

  3. Sarah Jay
    Posted February 16, 2011 at 11:26 am | Permalink

    Love, love, love get­ting a peek into other people’s cre­ative process.

  4. Jaimee
    Posted February 16, 2011 at 12:33 pm | Permalink

    It’s nice to see the work in progress instead of the fin­ished prod­uct that was done on com­puter. Cooper Union had a fan­tas­tic typog­ra­phy exhibit last spring and they showed how typog­ra­phy was hand-drawn, way before com­put­ers came into play. Pretty fas­ci­nat­ing stuff.

  5. Aireen
    Posted February 16, 2011 at 1:30 pm | Permalink

    I love these! This inspires me to put down the Wacom pen once in a while and kick it with pen and paper. There’s noth­ing like it.

  6. denise
    Posted February 16, 2011 at 6:59 pm | Permalink

    MUJI has note­books with dot grids!

  7. Bobbi
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 6:59 am | Permalink

    Typotheque’s diarys have sketch­book pages in the back and each page has one of 12 dif­fer­ent grids (includ­ing 3 dif­fer­ent dot­ted grids) http://​www​.typotheque​.com/​b​o​o​k​s​/​p​o​c​k​e​t​_​c​a​l​e​n​d​a​r​_​s​k​e​t​c​h​b​o​o​k​_​2​011

    These sketches are really lovely.

  8. arke1
    Posted March 1, 2011 at 8:40 pm | Permalink

    Top notch work, I love it!

  9. Julieta
    Posted April 22, 2011 at 5:25 pm | Permalink

    It’s nice to still see the pen­cil on the sheet, and not all dig­i­tal. I love the typog­ra­phy.
    Greetings!

    Julieta, from Argentina

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