colourless(awe) w e a tna(awe) n e w s l e t t e r Revenrential fear the feeling or emotion inspired by the contemplation of something sublime a sense of profound admiration and respect reverence And that s what it s all about ) W elcome to the first release of AWE the only group which still consider fonts as being art You know people don t care that much about fonts these days Well as a logo group we do Showing you awesome logos is what we re here for A s for now we only have eight members but we hope to get a few soon If you think you are good enough or have a lot of imagination and creativity don t hesitate contact us We d love to have your presence in the group People with original styles have a lot more chances of getting in than people using ripped styles I f you wanna contact us for any reasons please email us to one of these address tnangel@odyssee net The Night Angel fluor@wizy uit net Fluor tribe@cris com The 4Th Disciple doomed@voicenet com Eerie (Questions concerning the Awe Samsara alliance) N ow let s talk a bit about each members so you know where they re from Circus Freak Circus Freak used to be known as Zipperhead and Kerplunk and was part of groups such as Alive Relic Shiver CiA and Spastic His work in Samsara as a picture artist didn t stop him from releasing logo work with Awe from now on Colourless Formerly of GRIP that guy only released twice in his life including this month s release even though he has been drawing for almost a year now If you wanna check out his old stuff look for the December 1995 GRIP Pack Eerie Eerie decided to join the ever-growing awe bandwagon by submitting his monthly ratio of fonts He is currently heading Samsara Fluor Formerly of ACiD iCE & Samsara Fluor has been drawing for a bit less than a year His wicked style is a good addition to the group Fury Fury from Eclipse fame teams up with us His style is reminiscent of the days when originality meant something With originality seeping through his work we hope you enjoy his style as much as we do Grindstone Formerly of iCE this weirdo artist has only been drawing for eight months and joined iCE after four months of drawing His messy outline style gives a good variation to most logos we see these days The 4th Disciple Formerly of Mistigris Saga Decades Toon and Dark this logoist has showcased his abstract logo work for 2 years now He has just recently joined ACID and hopes to make an impact there The Night Angel Formerly of iCE and Saga this logo artist as a cool style and doesn t know what to say since he s writing this information file You probably already know him anyway ) W ell that was pretty much what i had to say about the group If you have any questions email me Now here s a li l hello from our good ol friend The 4Th Disciple ) O h by the way check this out here s the quote of the month That s cool SGrunger if you ban *!tna*@* ill do you a logo sigh The Night Angel (tnangel@odyssee net) - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - W ell being one of the only non-frenchies in this group it s about time I had a chance to speak For about 2 years now too many logoists are coming out copying tutorials and the like This creates a lack of creativity in the scene At present time there far too many similar logos from artists At AWE our goal is to redefine the logo as an art form Like a picture T ired of the same old style over and over again we re here to raise that level of skill Not everyone will be accepted and only those that show a good understanding and have their own style will be considered W e know full well of the attitude of the scene towards logos Where people want logo collections released and not individual pieces This is solely up to the artist here at AWE unlike most groups the artist still retains the right to showcase anyway they wish T hat s it for me My little input if you will I d like to thank The Night Angel for giving us logoists a place to express ourselves Watch out for for future releases from AWE The 4Th Disciple (tribe@cris com) - - -- - - - - - - - - - - A nsi is more than just art - it s also design A nd just like anything related to design fonts and logos are things you can t really put apart Part of the actual revolution in graphical arts is due to the use of new typefaces all of which are the results of countless experiments Designers such as David Carson (Raygun magazine) or Vaughan Oliver (v23 4AD records) made a name for themselves mostly by doing that kind of stuff F ont design used to be routine work in early days of ansi Jed was one of the first to incorporate real typefaces in his pictures - some of you might re- member for example the old english font he used at the end of the animation he did for the dark society in 1994 Furthermore artists like pnakotic hannibal lecter (mca) & countless others (i m not a namecheck type guy ) also worked in designing specificly styled logos that served as influences for the next generation of logoists S till there is very little room for logos in the scene nowadays Most tend to put them apart or treat them as necessary evils which they are not - at least not anymore S o hats off to The Night Angel & Fluor in starting a group such as AWE B ut enough about that I have some more stuff to talk about and i know my lagness is what s delaying the pack right now B asically - i say it quick because there s gonna be more about this in the next samsara pack - there is now an alliance between samsara and AWE allowing artists from both groups to dual in the other allied group S ounds confusing Who cares you don t have to understand right now The important is the typeface You don t even have to read it we re in the 90 - readability has nothing to do with quality Eerie (doomed@voicenet com)