Miranda Manipulations

With this journey I was asking myself, can a letterbox have a face? I have tried to further manipulate them to extend the theme. I think they have turned out quite cartoon like.

anatomy of type

hi folks, I started my explorations looking at "can a letterbox have a face" and am now moving onto the anatomy of type. Here is a little blog I found quite amusing on the subject - check it out he looks good in his tights!
http://www.battin.dk/anatomy-type/

Felix Homework: Manipulation

Felix homework 5

Nina 5 manipulations

Iris homework:manipulation

Typeneu: An Odyssey In Typography

Hey all, just want to share another typography blog called TypeNeu. Its a really nice blog indeed. Its more modern compared to the other blog that I shared before. The layout of the website it self can be quite confusing sometimes, but seriously, all the designers that being featured are really inspirational. Could spend hours browsing this blog. Enjoy !

http://typeneu.com/

Blossoming City

Hi People,
In the time that I have spent in the city of Sydney, I have realized that it has a lot to offer in terms of nature. The city offers it in various subjects like food, music, clothes and many other things. The floral patterns attracted me the most. Therefore, my design is inspired by what I have observed till now.

Feel free to post your comments.. They are most welcomed.

Tactile typeface (experimental)

This site is really cool. Check out the link below:
http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Tactile-typeface-(experimental-typeface)/43386

To create the type, the user needs to scroll their mouse across the letters where in then spays out to create the letters. Not long afterwards it moves back to its original form, the solid square. Really really cool. I enjoyed it!

Nina Homework 3 -Swiss Legacy

http://www.swisslegacy.com/index.php/page/2/

Hi, guys I shared this design blog named Swiss Legacy by the initiative of Art Director Xavier Encinas, is a blog focused on typography, graphic design and inspirational matters. Xavier Encinas is a french Art Director living and working in Vancouver, BC. He specializes in print and typography where photography meets fashion, however, his interests are broad and he enjoys working within many spectrums. I found this is a very useful website that's why I recommend it for you guys. It's filled with artworks by one-up designers, and various of typeworks resources. Some of them are design and visual communication studio which developed the new meaning of typography. I hope you guys will like it.

Neue Mode Magazine

Im always into a good fashion/culture magazine. Not just for the editorial sake, but also because its layout etc. Here's one of my new fav, Neue Mode Magazine

"Neue Mode magazine offers a strong editorial content, based on integrity, creativity and style in the fields of fashion, photography, art and personality. With it¹s unique philosophy and strong creative identity Neue Mode magazine is a unique publication in biannual fashion magazines market. Neue Mode magazine is distributed in 18 countries worldwide."

The designer who did the art direction, Oliver Daxenbichler should be notice as well.

"Oliver Daxenbichler, founder of Oliver Daxenbichler Design, Inc., is a 33 year old Art director and Graphic designer who lives and works currently in Frankfurt Main, Germany. Over the the course of almost one decade he has been working on a large variety of print and new media based projects including conceptualizing and producing ad campaigns and catalogues, logos and brand identities and magazine design.

His recent activities include projects for Drykorn for beautiful people, Levi’s Red Tab and Pertronio Associates."

http://www.oliverdaxenbichler.com/

http://www.neuemodemagazine.com/

Tactile Design

http://tactiledesign.wordpress.com/

Homework Week 5

This weeks homework will help us move towards the final submission for this task - the layout of a journal / publication.

So if you haven't already done so, post your thoughts on a design blog somewhere, then proceed to comment on another persons post as per last week.

Using these notes, comments and images start laying out some of your double page spread - experiment with grid layouts, different forms of visual hierarchy, visual salience, fonts etc

Your next step is to design a cover based on your typographic journeys - you may also wish to incorporate some text and images into an internal spread also. Play around with continuity, visual systems and creating interest which might be followed through in the internal spread.

Post pdfs or jpegs of your design experiments to the blog during the week, make comments on the layouts of your peers. Try to aim for 3 different compositions

Design Boom

Hey guys, 

Designboom isn't a blog, but it has some interesting things across the spectrum of the design field. I think it's important to question how typography and design resonates within the environment - What is it connected to and the different responses that people have. I think part of the problem when people view graphic design as something separate is because some designers/graphic artists don't realise its holistic nature when they produce it. 

This short article 'shepard fairey sentenced to two years' probation' (http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/11/view/6978/shepard-fairey-sentenced-to-two-years-probation.html) is great because it points out a few issues that effect the artwork:

• What are the boundaries of public/private space? 
• What kinds of associations are made with the style?
• How does publicity effect the distribution of the image?
• How does the environment effect the experience of the work (online/public property)?

When speaking of graphic design and typography it's just as important to realise its context not just the way it looks. 

Felix homework 3: coloribus.com

I have saved this website/blog as my favorite AD website for several years, it contains prodigious amounts of outstanding ADs cases around almost all kinds of media type.

It's good to share with all you guys.

I have paid attention on print media ADs for almost a decade and had worked in AD industry for 4 years before I came to Australia. This website is one of the best in my favorate folder, it helps me closely keep in touch with lots of excellent AD cases arround the world, and did an overwhelming contribution on my works.

Hope you guys will love it.

http://www.coloribus.com/

Felix homework 2

This is a typical magazine cover design which contains all sorts of elements (name, backgroud pic, main title, subtitle, POI etc)

I've segmented different areas for different design purposes, and the ocular flow path. please give me some of your opinion.

Iris: homework 3

Hi, everyone! I found a design blog called AisleOne, which is a nice place worthy to visit. So I’d like to share this website. It is an inspirational resource focused on graphic design, typography, grid systems, minimalism and modernism. The author is Antonio Carusone, who comes from an amazing art background. I recommended this blog because it is always sharing all kinds of great design resources, and all the images and links are showed in the website. The content and categories are always extremely inspirational. So you can find any resources on this site. I hope you guys will love it.

http://www.aisleone.net/

Homework 3: Mark Soetantyo

Hi guys, just want to share this design blog called 'Many stuff'. I found that the name for this blog pretty funny. The full name of this blog is 'Every morning I check Many Stuff', which I reckon are quite true, well for me at least. Its basically just like other design blogs out there, however Many Stuff is focusing more on layout, grid and type treatment. I guess this is one of my fav design blog out there. The good thing about this kind of blog, you always get new designer names so you can update your 'inspiration archive' or you design bookmark folder etc. Here are some examples from the blog, works by Metahaven (1st picture) and Ruben Doornweerd (2nd picture).

Click here to visit the blog.

Books

Hi guys, I have this book called 'Grid System: Principles of Organizing Type' by Kimberly Elam that I reckon quite inspiring. It covers some grid system that used by Bauhaus to Nike catalog. Some info from the book cover:

"Filled with an expansive range of twentieth-century examples of design, from Jan Tschichold's brochure for Die Neue Typographie to Bauhaus graphics to a Nike catalog, Grid System provides a rich, easy-to-understand overview of the grid and demonstrates a step-by-step approach to typographic composition. It reveals design strategies that transcend simple function and reductionist recipes to allow grids to become a means of truly dynamic communication."

I will bring this book every Monday to class. So just let me know if you want to have a look and photocopy some pages.




On the other hand, for something a bit more fun and also inspiring, I also got a book called "Type Addicted". Inside, you will see several familiar names in graphic design world and their works. I will bring this to class as well for you guys to have a look.



Mark

Christiaan Postma - Clock

Check out the link below to see how the Clock works.
http://www.christiaanpostma.nl/index.htm?clock_3.htm

rosalie gascoigne

All that Jazz, 1989 
Sawn & split soft drink crates on plywood 
The Corrigan Family Collection 
Reproduced with the permission of the Rosalie Gascoigne Estate

Tiger Tiger 1987
© All rights reserved Rosalie Gascoigne 2009 Australia Rosalie Gascoigne. Retro-reflective road signs on plywood. Diptych, each panel 112 x 112 cm. Museum of Contemporary Art, gift of Loti and Victor Smorgon, 1995. Image courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney © the artist's estate

Homework Week 4

HOMEWORK 1 (week 4)
Bring in 5 manipulations that try a different technique –write a sentence on the back of the page that summarises what you think the change you have made brings to the original image 

HOMEWORK 2 (week 4)
Photocopy 5 different publication covers and internal double page spreads
Draw over the photocopies in red the grids that exist within the design
Choose a range of different magazine types eg: art journal / business journal / fashion etc
On the back of each judge how effective the layout is in terms of balance, excitement, originality and engagement 

HOMEWORK 3 (week 4)
Find a posting on an internet blog about type or graphic design that interests you
Post a link and a short discussion of the key points of the article and why you find it interesting on the blog
write a response to two other posted links on our blog
Reply to at least one of the comments made on your original link