Art director from top german football magazine '11 Freunde' Sabine Kornbrust approached me to create a full typographic cover for their edition 'Das Spiel meines Lebens' (the game of my life) featuring stories by the players of the Champions League, biggest football championship within Europe.
The cover was accompanied by a set of additional lettering pieces for the inner pages, illustrating quotes of famous german football players. The release of the magazine will come along with a billboard campaign throughout Germany.
Besides the warm feeling in my Argentinean heart with a love for football, it makes me specially happy the fact that this is a german magazine. I believe this indicates that the Lettering Art is starting to resonate strongly in the German Creative Industry, and pieces with such an exposure help demonstrate the power of hand lettering within the Design scene. I'm looking forward to see which other magazines, publishing houses and institutions take a step forward towards incorporating it into their design mix.
With a first usual approach using hand sketches, the directions on the style and design where decided.
The digital Drawing had an additional production process through riso printing, which added the grain texture to the final cover.
The cover was printed over a silver cold-foil base.
The additional lettering pieces for the inner pages were also printed in riso print.
