Cheshire Cat Typographic Portrait

Something we all love about Disney is its classic characters. We all grew up watching them save the day, sing songs, and fight brave battles. One of my favorite characters is the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland. His grinning, whimsical character design is just as appealing to the rest of the great visuals in the film. When I was assigned to do a typographic portrait for my typography class, the Cheshire Cat was a pretty easy descision.

A total of 689 characters from the Bembo font make up the grinning cat. I picked Bembo because its known for its playfulness and usage in children's books. In fact, Bembo appeared as the body text of one of the first editions of Lewis Carroll's "Alice Through the Looking Glass".

Hopefully this won't be the last of this type of poster. Although it's quite time consuming, they're really fun to make!

Walt Disney Typographic Poster

This design isn't something newly created, but something I made a few months ago for a scholarship competition. I got the idea from some promotional posters created for the 2009 Grammys that featured nominated artists in a colorful text representation of their face. I chose to use this technique to create a typographic portrait of Walt Disney, containing words of his legacy that make up the man himself. Over three thousand text boxes are placed in the graphic, which took over 35 hours to complete.

Welcoming Monorail Peach

This past week, the newest addition to the Walt Disney World monorail system debuted, Monorail Peach! Monorail Peach once again completes the fleet with a total number of 12 running monorails, and can be seen running on the express beam. To celebrate the introduction of the new monorail (and to complete an assignment for my graphics studio class), I decided to create a poster:

This poster is based on the classic monorail posters made for the Disneyland and Walt Disney World monorails. I loved how retro and stylized the posters were, so I thought there should be a similar one for the newest monorail of the fleet. Welcome to the fleet, Monorail Peach!

That's all for now...but keep checking back for more designs that are currently in the works. 

Happy 40th Anniversary, Walt Disney World

Welcome to Mouseology's very FIRST design post! And it's only fitting the inaugural post should celebrate something momentous.

Today marks the 40th Anniversary of the day the Magic Kingdom park opened its doors to vacationers around the world. Since then, Walt Disney World has provided 40 years of happiness to kids and adults alike, and has defined what family vacationing is all about.

This year to celebrate Walt Disney World's 40th, I decided to create a commemorative poster. There are 300 different vintage photos in the design, found from Yesterland, Gorillas Don't Blog, and Imagineering Disney. I also threw in a few of my own to give it a personal touch:

I tried to make it as simple yet dramatic as I could. I would love to actually have this printed out and hung in my apartment someday. That's all for now, folks. Check back often for more designs.

Happy 40th, WDW!