Typeface Portrait of Steve Jobs: How It Was Done
7:11 am, May 14th, 2009, Leander Kahney
Remember the fantastic portrait of Steve Jobs using Apple’s classic typefaces from last week? Here’s a step-by-step guide showing exactly how designer Dylan Roscover created it in Illustrator and Photoshop (24 hours straight hours of work, no sleep).
Dylan, a self-described ‘design nerd’ who lives in Aloma, Florida, explains:
“I used Adobe Illustrator and the Pen tool to trace his facial contours the way I figured they would make sense, one by one using the Type on a Path tool for each path.
The larger lines of type were hand-kerned character-by-character to fit accordingly. Near completion I used the Magic Wand tool to select areas of text and apply gradual shading.
Everything was composited in Adobe Photoshop as a smart object to give it that deep blue effect and the background  + texture.
In total it look about 24 hours to complete during three days with no sleep (class assignment).”
Click the pictures for Dylan’s detailed step-by-step instructions.
Posted by Leander Kahney in How tos, News, Steve Jobs | Comment on this article
This is truly inspirational, and great to see such an attention to detail. I think this as a type exercise would be great to give to students learning design, typography and a vector drawing package. I might just do that, they might not love me – but they will when they’ve completed it: )
Thanks for the post and to Dylan for sharing the process with us.
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