AlbaTristis- My 3 Poster Compositions.

Never Let Me Go

Here's the movie poster for 'Never Let Me Go'. Thought it was really cool how they made the typeface look like it's disappearing...

Dharma Lounge

Palette Industries/ make sure to check out their blog. Along with this chair, they also designed another one with the same "type as function" concept for the Alberta Cancer Foundation.

"A Font Called Frank"

Every week in my design class, a group of two students have to do a presentation about a designer. Today's presentation was on Bruce Mau and the following link is about choosing the right font for Walt Disney's Concert Hall in L.A. They tried over 5,000 fonts! Bruce couldn't find the right onw and made his own called "A Font Called Frank" after Frank Gehry, the architect of the building. Interesting huh?

http://www.brucemaudesign.com/#113952/Walt-Disney-Concert-Hall

FFF0000D!

Homework, Notes 9/28/10

Your assignments this week:

1. Using a new character glyph (and its name) from SOMOENE ELSE in class, create a single new 10"x16" poster. Same specifications as last week's posters. You may either revise one of the person you chose's existing posters (i.e. use the same sentence as they did), or create a completely original one.

2. Shoot and present in class a minimum of 15 photographs with simple, dramatic compositions. The subject matter is completely unimportant- they may be abstractions or object details. They could be 15 photographs of the exact same thing from totally different angles. The goal is to get you to look for the strong lines, scale changes and bold shapes of a dramatic composition.

Present them printed out- you may print up to 4 per page so that you don't have to print 15 pages.

Vintage Russian Matchboxes

Just plain cool. There are tons of them on here. They're like mini posters.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/maraid/sets/72157594234429063/

3 Favorite Characters & Font/Poster Resource

I found the website FontFeed.com a few weeks ago. Besides providing a lot of information and news about happenings in the font world, it also features biweekly critiques of movie posters and album covers. Titled ScreenFonts and My Type of Music respectively, the author provides good explanations about why certain posters and albums work layout-wise.

Enjoy!

"I'M COMIC SANS, ASSHOLE." (via McSweeney's)

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/monologues/15comicsans.html

In case you haven't ever seen it, McSweeney's is an awesome 'literary' magazine with amazing design- it changes format nearly every quarterly issue.

Funny Type Designers' Promise

Notice at the bottom of this "contract" there's a place for the designer and a witness to sign. Hobo Comic Sans doesn't bother me as much as Papyrus but this is still pretty funny!
-Zoë Katleman

Source: thedonutproject.com

My 3 Characters.

My favorite characters

Around the World with the Bodoni Family

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/january/around-the-world-with-the-bodoni-family

It's best to let the review of the book speak for itself :

"The 60 page book, conceived and designed by graphic designer (and author of Words Fail Me, Phaidon, 2006) Teresa Monachino, features a series of charmingly witty typographic illustrations, each using a letter of the alphabet (from the Bodoni typeface) to illustrate a global location beginning with that particular letter. "

For example:

T-Shirt

So, I saw this guy on the train and decided it would be appropriate to ask him if I could take a picture of his shirt. I'm really into this class, aren't I?

My 3 Favorite Characters

My New Character: Sexual Orientation

Homework, Notes 9/21/10

Your assignments this week:

1. Read pp. 26-47 in Thinking with Type.

2. Out of the five variations of your new typographic character, choose the most beautiful glyph (drawing) and, if needed, revise it to perfection.

3. Create three posters using the revised character. Each poster must:

• have a final size of 10"x16" (or 16"x10"). The easiest way to accomplish this is to print on 11"x17" paper and trim off the edges.
• be in EITHER color or black & white.
• have three, and ONLY three, elements on it: 1. your new character itself, 2. the name of your new character, 3. A sentence or two that either gives the definition of your new character OR shows an example of how to use it in text.
• use only the typeface that matches your glyph for text content (i.e. if your best glyph was the Bodoni version the poster's type should be set only in Bodoni)

Suggestions for designing your poster:

• Use scale to create variety and visual interest
• Think about making the negative space interesting as well as the positive forms
• Move elements around and play with their rotation, position and alignment
• Try creating symmetry in one poster, and asymmetry or imbalance in the next

Good luck!

The World Of Music Video Making Has Changed As We Know It

Noah mentioned the Arcade Fire video that we should watch a couple weeks ago, and I just wanted to post it for the class. It's an unbelievable video and absolutely worth experiencing:

The Wilderness Downtown: http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

Internet High Five, Dude

Hi All,

My apologies for forgetting the rest of my work today- how embarrassing! :(

Here is my Internet High Five, in all its 5 typefaced glory (and also, in order).

I think I like Bodoni best, what do you think?

Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Dolla Dolla Bills Ya'll

Luca Barcellona: Legacy of Letters

http://www.booooooom.com/2010/09/09/luca-barcellona-legacy-of-letters-calligraphy-video/

AWESOME video of hand drawn calligraphy

My Favorite Three Characters

My favorite three characters are

MoMa: The New Typography

This exhibit ended in July but I posted it in case you hadn't heard about it. The exhibit focuses on the New Typography movement that took place in the 1920s and 1930s.
Check it out: The New Typography

-Zoë Katleman

My Three Favorite Characters

-Zoë Katleman

My Favorite Characters.

My Three Favorite Characters

G.N.Y

Favorite Characters

My Favorite Characters

My favorite Characters

I re-did my homework and my favorite letters are L.Y. W

My favorite characters

i love Rob Ryan

All flyers, posters, letters and signs are created out of cut paper :)

See more: http://rob-ryan.blogspot.com/

My Favorite Letters

MOMA Acquires "@" For Its Permanent Collection

interesting little tidbit I stumbled upon being that we're discussing type symbols and the history of type (not actually found on stumble upon though) haha

http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2010/03/22/at-moma/

Homework, Notes 9/14/10

Hello again

Your assignments this week:

1. Post your three favorite characters from your pixel typeface here on the blog.

2. Read pages 12-25 in Thinking with Type.

3. Based on the 'missing' language character we talked about in class, create a new character for the roman alphabet, and draw it five ways so it will fit visually with the five classic typefaces Jenson, Baskerville, Bodoni, Clarendon, and Futura.

Steps to accomplish this:

• Think about what symbol or character might be missing from our alphabet- it could represent a sound, a thought, an emotion, etc.
• Draw a glyph that represents it. Keep it as simple, but unique, as possible. Draw it many times till it becomes comfortable and natural.
• Begin to formalize it. How would it look drawn with a broadnib pen? A dip/quill pen? Where does the stroke become fat and where thin? Where would serifs go?
• Draw a version of your character for each classic typeface that incorporates that face's unique typographic features (i.e. stroke contrast, stroke axis, geometry, serif style, etc.)

Andre:My favorite Three letters

The following are My favorite Three letters of my works.

Sep, 13, 2010

But not all design is typography...

Kasten: My Favorite 3 Characters

Letterpress

A few years ago, i went to an arts camp where they had printing presses and letterpress. I made a few hundred stationary cards and notes using the small fonts we talked about in class, that you put together to make words etc. Its a really cool process, and very easy to do, it's just very precise work by placing all the fonts and utilizing space and alignment. Anyways here are a few photos of how it looks when put together.

I'm Still Here

The type on the poster for the new movie/documentary about Joaquin Poenix's antics, I'm Still Here, is quite unique. The way sections of each letter are removed makes the type look as though parts have been swiped away, which perhaps refers to what the film is about.
-Zoë Katleman