by Carl Waldron | Feb 16, 2024 | Design Behind The Mask
Teen Titans Go! Zimdings turns terrible fonts into superheroes. Talk about a love letter to designers and typographers. I felt seen.
by Carl Waldron | Feb 15, 2024 | Design Behind The Mask
Marvel released the casting for the next Fantastic 4 film. But who cares about that, did you see the new Fantastic 4 logo? It’s…fantastic!
by Carl Waldron | Feb 1, 2024 | Feature
Allow me a few moments to gush about the Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League logo design for the upcoming Rocksteady Studios video game.
by Carl Waldron | Jan 24, 2024 | A Work In Progress
So, what do you want to eat? Don’t ask me, I don’t know.
by Carl Waldron | Jan 19, 2024 | A Work In Progress
In an effort to merge and express my love of comics and design, I created Fate of the Spectre, a DC Comics mock trading card game.
by Carl Waldron | Nov 14, 2022 | Feature
Let’s go over why you need a Brand Style Guide, what happens when you don’t, and how to use the guide effectively.
by Carl Waldron | Sep 27, 2022 | A Work In Progress
Dadstiny, the Destiny 2 gaming community, is a group of parents who play the MMO and an ongoing passion work in progress.
by Carl Waldron | Sep 26, 2022 | A Work In Progress
2020 was a good-for-nothing hellscape of madness. But in every dark time, there are good things to celebrate. During quarantine I created Doing Muscles, a fitness motivation brand that allowed me to channel my anxieties into exercise, charity T-Shirt designs, and...
by Carl Waldron | Jul 19, 2022 | Feature, Secret Identity
Design Behind The Mask Podcast covering graphic design and user experience in pop culture fandoms launches in July 2022 The design and entertainment show covers typography, color phycology, logo design, branding, and content in comics, video games, movies and tv....
by Carl Waldron | Jul 29, 2021 | Feature, Secret Identity
The typographic simplicity of Control: Design Behind The Mask Can we touch on the typographic simplicity of the fantastic game Control? The video game developed by Remedy Entertainment centers around a shadowy government agency dabbling in the supernatural. You play...
by Carl Waldron | Jul 19, 2021 | Feature
A friend of mine asked me to review the title type of his upcoming book. I pointed out some crazy kerning issues and gave a few pointers on how to layout the title. After a moment, he responded with “Now I will never not see those space issues.” To which I...