Ok,
1, 4, and 5.............for me...........are hard to read! I don't like having to take the time to stop and try to figure out what it says! Their graphics do not relate to the text, even the "Fire Truck" one!
Practice! Practice! Practice!
Valid point. The first one is for a danish post-punk band, so I thought that the psychedelic design was proper to use, not necessarily making it easy to read for the audience, but on the other hand making a strong impression of the style of music played by the band.
Same thing about the firetruck design, yet in a more modern 'setting'.
Number 5 is a flyer for an event called 'RapSlam Battles', which is a mix of poetry slam and freestyle rap battles. My thought on it was to create something modern and grafitti-ish that could relate to the urban setting of rap battles. It was never used, so I guess I can see your point on that one.
My goal when designing typographic art is to create something that is visually unique, and that challenges the person looking at it because the words may not be spelled out clearly, making it sort of an 'achievement' being able to see what it actually says. I have made other more obvious pieces, but these are made for the purpose of impressing the looker in a sort of 'wow-that-must-have-taken-a-long-time-to-make' kind of way.
I have attached a thumbnail of such a piece, showing the 'opposite' side of the sort of typographic work I have been making through the time. The piece is a couple of years old, yet it is one of my favourite ones. I had it printed in a scale of what I think is A1 (I'm not sure, I have no knowledge of printing, but it's my best guess...) Feel free to tell me what you think of it!
//SSO