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Ambigram Generator

Wed, 12 May 2010 20:27:33 -0400

Let’s make an ambigram ;) Everyone know what ambigram is? The term become popular since Dan Brown published his books, Angels & Demons and Da Vinci Code.

“The hottest trend in typography since Helvetica.” (wired magazine, May 2009)

iQ font - Quite an inspiring clip, imho.

Sun, 09 May 2010 07:49:39 -0400

iQ font - Quite an inspiring clip, imho.

Watercolour typography photos

Sat, 01 May 2010 21:11:07 -0400

itsdesigned:

In a time where we’ve grown accustomed to the pristine perfection of computer generated typography, these watercolor type sheets are naturally beautiful and enticing…

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Source: http://ilovedust.com/project/view/poster3 City Poster...

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:36:30 -0400

Source: http://ilovedust.com/project/view/poster3

City Poster set

NYC LDN MSC

We’re often asked to submit new work for exhibitions and shows.
This set of 3 City posters is the latest new artworks on their way to a new exhibition in New York. More info soon.

Helvetica meets playing Cards = Helveticards

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:49:15 -0400

itsdesigned:

What happens when the world’s most famous typeface meets one of the world’s most cherished pastimes? Swiss-style awesome design is what.

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justinrampage: Donkey Kong has had enough with all of the...

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:57:40 -0400

justinrampage:

Donkey Kong has had enough with all of the Mario fan boys! One more Mario game and the barrels will start flying! This is a killer version of DK. I would not want to stand in his way…

Donkey Kong by Ry Shiu (deviantART)

… but after a while, I found a clip of calligraphy...

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 02:03:00 -0400

… but after a while, I found a clip of calligraphy out-of-intention-ing-ly. Pretty inspiring, eh? ;)

In the beginning, I intented to find some clips about...

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 02:02:58 -0400

In the beginning, I intented to find some clips about flourishing (cards) in Youtube…

Finished! However I don’t know why it turns out to be...

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:13:28 -0400

Finished! However I don’t know why it turns out to be this… :-s

Haiti poster draft This is my basic idea. Still have much work...

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:50:00 -0400

Haiti poster draft

This is my basic idea. Still have much work to do about font/coloring/etc. The text “Haiti” is the illustration of a [collapsed?] with many cracks. The smoke will form the text about time (still wondering “Jan 2010” is better or just “2010” is enough).

My favourite typeface « Times New Roman » It...

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:20:00 -0400

My favourite typeface

« Times New Roman »

It is one of the first Unicode fonts that allow to type Vietnamese with accents (the rest are Arial, Verdana and Tahoma - I guess).

Times New Roman is a serif typeface designed by Stanley Morison and Victor Lardent in 1932 for the British newspaper, “The Times”. The font is influential in the designing of some serif fonts later (e.g Georgia) because of its ubiquity. Here is a comment made by Will Hill in his book “The Complete Typographer” (2nd edition): “A modernized form of Pierpoint’s Plantin, Times New Roman is a durable and economic text face. Such character as it retained is largely eroded by its familiarity.”

According to the Vox system (See more at Wikipedia), Times New Roman is put to the third category, “Transitional”. As other fonts in the same category such as New Baskerville or Century Schoolbook, Times New Roman shares many characteristic features: high contrast, pointed apex (e.g letter “A”), vertical serifs (e.g letter “C”), drop ears (letter “g” and “r”), etc.

"A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and..."

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:17:00 -0400

“

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

Don’t fight forces, use them.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.

”

- (R. Buckminster Fuller)

Photo

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:34:00 -0400

disruption

transition

Letter Exercise (2/7)

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:02:29 -0500

1st

2nd

Letter Exercise (2/7)

It really took a while to do this :| Finished this hours before,...

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:20:24 -0500

Original

Remixed

It really took a while to do this :|

Finished this hours before, but can’t post it since my modem didn’t work… till now.

Week 3: Restful/Restless These photos were taken at my high...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:38:00 -0500

Restful

Restless

Week 3: Restful/Restless

These photos were taken at my high school :”>

The first picture make me feel ‘restful’ because of its horizontal lines - lots of horizontal lines formed by the balconies, steel handrails, etc. and the pose of people in it.

About the second picture with the name ‘Restless’… Well, after taking the first picture I was wandering around the school to find some image contain that feeling. And I found out an old wall (at the back), which hasn’t been washed or repainted for a long time. I choose this picture possibly because of the texture on the wall.

P/s: That’s weird… I remember that I’ve changed the “restless” image to the appropriate position - should be ‘portrait’, not ‘landscape’ as shown.

Design Principles (continue) Made them in today’s DIM2...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:28:00 -0500

Design Principles (continue)

Made them in today’s DIM2 class. The frog for exercise 1, others for exercise 2.

Ok… A little bit late. Here it is, the poster review! The...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:48:00 -0500

Ok… A little bit late. Here it is, the poster review!

The poster for Moulin Rouge made by Henry de Toulouse-Lautrec in 1891.

There was a movie made recently named “Moulin Rouge” (I’m not sure about its genre - documentary maybe?). The movie is about the nightclub Moulin Rouge, about lives of many people in that period of time, and also about the area of Montmartre and bohemianism.

To be easy to understand, I’ll talk some about the meaning of the text in the poster.”Moulin Rouge” at the upper-left corner is the name of the nightclub advertised. It was a well-known nightclub in Montmartre (Paris). “Concert - Bal - Tous les soirs” at the upper-right corner means “Concert - Dance - Every night”. At the upper-center, “La Goulue” (The Glutton - in English) is the nickname of one of the most dancers of nightclub Moulin Rouge, Louise Weber. The female dancer in the poster is her. The dancing partner of her in the Moulin Rouge is Jacques Renaudin - as known as Valentin le Desosse or Valentin the Boneless, can also be seen in the poster. He is the man brown-painted at the lower right. The designer, Henry de Toulouse-Lautrec signed his name at the lower-left corner - “T-Lautrec” (can you see it? *wink*). The text at the very lower-right is an address, I guess that’s the address of the company which publish this poster.

Background information, briefly complete *yay* (Read more at http://www.lautrec.info)

Link to the knowledge learned in W1, here are some comments of mine about the basic elements of the poster:

Lines and shapes: the poster was influenced by Art Nouveau graphic style. At the result, lines (brush painting) were very soft (easy to realize this, for example the lines of the character Valentin le Desosse). The shapes are the same, very natural. The way Henry designed the poster was not complicated. It was simple, but very beautiful.
Next, about colours used. The poster was designed with warm colours only - red, orange, yellow, brown, etc., combined with black and white. Because of that, the atmosphere transferred by the poster about the nightclub Moulin Rouge was very warm and exciting.
Typefaces used were painted manually by Henry de Toulouse-Lautrec. They were suitable to the style of the poster - soft, rounded, not seem to be mechanical.
The structure of the poster is quite balanced - with 2 focused character at 2 sides of the canvas, La Goulue and Valentin le Desosse.

Another important thing is that Henry de Toulouse-Lautrec was influenced by the Japanese style (asymmetric composition, flat areas of colour) - and that adaption the fad for Japanese style is shown clearly in the poster.

“Lautrec captured the spirit and emotion of the era in his posters…”

(Chris Whitten)

Kinetic Typography

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:10:00 -0500

If you have time, watching “Flickermood” of Sebastian Lange is not a bad idea :D It’s one of the first Kinetic Typography that I saw - and it really touched me *blush again*.

Note: Read about Kinetic Typography bottom-up - I’ll try to fix it tomorrow, since I’m really tired now.

[wondering]: Can I compile all about Typography in one post? T__T

Video

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:09:19 -0500