Typography & Visual Design: November 2008

new type + need feedback!

Yoo Yoo- i've changed the type a bit but still am working with the same composition that I felt was most successful. I didnt include the track list side because the type takes quite a while to manipulate and create so I wanted feedback beforehand (scroll down to see my original options) I would like specific feedback in regards to...

1. My idea of overlaying the type on an accetate sheet rather than printing it directly on the cardboard.

2. The new typeface versus helvetica

3. How i've created the typeface using similar vector shapes that I used in my colored graphic versus solid type

4. The type composition in general

Commenting is really appreciated- I would like to hold off on moving foreword until I've heard some feedback since my idea is rather time consuming and expensive. Thanks!

nevermind

hello. hope everyone had a great thanksgiving.

i dont fucking know. please help.

i don't know why the color keeps getting distorted.

Andrew Bird

so i failed at starting in the middle and matching the handwriting so if i do this one id either re do the type several times to get a good consistent one or use the type below

tell me what you think :D and happy thanksgiving!

CocoRosie with type

Homework, Notes, 11/18/08

hello

your assignment, due THIS WEDNESDAY, POSTED RIGHT HERE:

choose one of your two image-only album package designs. revise images if necessary based on your class comments, and ADD TYPE to it. you must include the following:
a. the album title
b. the artist
c. a track listing

make TWO versions.

post them here no later than this wednesday. i will comment on them, and implore the rest of you to as well. you then have till dec. 3's class to do one more revision on both of them.

have a great holiday,
noah

Galactic- Late for the future.

here are my mock ups of my album composition with type added. I made my own typeface using similar vectors that I create for my cover art and I think its pretty successful and matches the concept well without detracting from the art work. The scan of my original album cover and paper isnt so great by try your best to imagine the type overlayed my recylced paper. I think I want to make a vertical "belly band" on accetate that holds the type. So the type wouldnt actually be on the cover art, instead overlaid on the accetate. Let me know what you think of the type, the placement and what you think of my idea of incorporating it. I'm not opposed to printing it directly on my cover but I wanted feed back before I went ahead and did anything. I've checked out and will be in jamaica for the next week so comments by next tuesday would be appreciated so i can make adjustments prior to wednesdays class if need be. have a fantastic break/happy thanksgiving.

(now seeing it uploaded the vector type should probably be darker so you can see it better, let me know what you think)

ehhhhhhhh.

having a hard time... UGHHHHHHHHH. and the first one's colors are fucked up.

cut off

thumbnails

preliminary designs

3 sleeve ideas
i think i want to change them a lot though.i got a better idea for the aesthetic i want thats a lil more cohesive.
Excuse my absence today. I have a doctors note from the school.
jamie

Here are my other 2.

Hey guys this is my preliminary re design for my chosen album cover . The album is david bowie's heroes plz tell me what you think. Should i keep the blur effect or no? and do you think the back and front work together.

Andrew Bird

Armchair Apocrypha

Uncertainty

Homework, Notes, 11/12/08

hi all

i hope our last class helped you see the value of following a simple idea to a rewarding conclusion- e.g. the 20 representations. in my experience of the creative process it's often helpful to focus on 1 concept and let your mind work on variations for a while. later, the ideas you came up with are great soil for an amazing design solution.

let's see what you come up with for this week's assignment:

using work from last week (or an evolution of it) create TWO versions of an album package. they may be in either of the following two forms, or one of each:

1. a 12 1/4" square vinyl record slipcase (front and back)

2. a 5 1/2" square folding CD slipcase (4 pages: front, inside spread, back), with a 1/4" spine

think carefully about how you use color and space to treat your images. do you use multiple images per area? do you crop your image in close? is it off in one corner or dead center? remember, with only a series of images on the album they need to be beautiful or eye-catching...

good luck!

the yes men

http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04142005-174336/

a lsu grad student's master thesis on the Yes Men. (the ones who made the fake nyt copy)

pretty interesting, but really long, just read abstract, intro and conclusion if interested.

author argues that their tactics are impotent and "incommunicable" because of who they target.
their performances go unnoticed or ignored because they are performed in corporate environments, and the people they target can't distinguish between their satire and reality.(like their performance at dow and wto conferences.)

there are many different arguments for or against their cause,
i think the point of the yes men's performances is that the corporations that they oppose actually agree with the crazy shit they say in their performances, like the wto conference for example where they bascially proposed slavery in Africa to end poverty and initiate development.

anyway goodstuff, read up!
-ellen