It looks aesthetically nice to me, but I wonder to those who actually know Hebrew, is this quality work?
http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/hebrew_literal_typog...
It looks aesthetically nice to me, but I wonder to those who actually know Hebrew, is this quality work?
http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/hebrew_literal_typog...
I think "Alice in Wonderland" works, but with "Disney", the actual outlines are simply copied and that's really a no-no for that style, since the marks made with what appears to be a brush or marker are peculiar to the direction and pressure the strokes were written. I think "walkman" worked well, as did the japanese example. Why? because both styles are not really specific to a script, and are playful in themselves. Some of the examples aren't as nice.
I had seen something like this earlier. Some worked, some didn't.
http://www.designer-daily.com/hebrew-translations-of-popular-logos-6798
And this also came up, with the coke logo:
http://www.roundpeg.biz/2010/05/great-logos-transcend-language/
Bear in mind, although I do know a little Hebrew, I'm not native and I'm not fluent.
Some, like the Alice in Wonderland, are transliterations; some, like Walkman and the beer label, are translations - the label includes a translation of 'Brewery" into Hebrew.
The Japanese one looks good, but I have no idea whether it's a transliteration or a translation.
Some appear to be stylistic interpretations which I personally find unreadable.
So whether they're quality products depends on what the goals were!
- Herb
But the style of the original can never be fully reconciled with the needs of the other script, so it becomes a complex balance of multiple sensitivities.
From Hebrew's sister script (plus a couple of others):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48413419@N00/sets/72157627127732939/
hhp
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