During my free time, I like to create some art or some designs. Here’s one of my experiment/exploration with typography. Now I can use this as my logo. :p
Font used was Futura.
First I typed out my name:
Create outlines and extend some parts of the words:
I noticed that Futura’s N has some sharp edges, and A is sharp to the top, so I cut off some corners to make that sharp pointy feel.
Added some gradient to create the shadows:
Today, Mr Vinod, my graphic design teacher gave a lecture/presentation about “Digital Typography”, about future of book publication, eBooks. I thought it’s worth sharing with you.
First he talks about static and motion typography.
Static typography are those on magazines, books, newspapers, websites, etc…
Motion typography like those flash advertisements on websites, motion type, kinetic typography, opening/end credits in movies, etc…
One of the earliest digital fonts to appear on screen was Digi Grotesk S, designed for Dr.-Ing. Rudolf Hell’s cathode-ray tube typesetting machine. That font was a copy of a popular font during that time.
Then came personal computers. Apple’s Lisa was one of the earliest personal computers with graphic user interface. Since then, designers doesn’t have to go thru the typographers or printers to do their layout design. They can just do it on the computer.
Since the start of computers and internet, people start to read on screen more than reading on paper. We read online, surfing the web, we check mails, Facebook, Twitter, read blogs, WikiPedia, check the stock market, and so on, all on the computer. And technology these day has allow us to even do all the above on our mobile phones. Everything on screen.
Some of you might say that reading on screen is tiring to the eyes, but they’ve developed a device with matt screen, so that it’ll be more like reading on paper surface. Amazon’s Kindle is a device that allows us to read ebooks everywhere.
It is rumored that Apple might be coming out with a device to read eBooks, just like Amazon’s Kindle. Read more about it here.
We, as the designer, has to start designing for both medium, on paper and on screen. Adobe’s InDesign CS4 has a feature where we can create links on the document, and just export them as .swf files, so that we can navigate around the book.
Since .swf files allows us to add animated objects to it, and interact with the file, future designers can design and animate their visuals on their ebook. This will be like the pictures on the newspaper in the Harry Potter movies.
Here’s a Classic Rock magazine cover that features Pink Floyd, in 3D.
Here’s a collaborative work of a stop motion video by Blu & David Ellis: Combo
Watching 2 great artist work together is really mind blowing!
Art by Blu:
http://www.blublu.org/
Art by David Ellis:
http://davidellis.org/
Here’s some typography inspiration I’ve found on the internet. 
Typography, love it or hate it!
The King of Pop, known for his music, sassy dance moves, changing facial features has died.
In this post we would like to give a tribute to the legend. Enjoy.
Toy models are starting to be more popular with the young people. Some people collect them, and some exchange them with other collectors. In this era, with the help of computers, internet, printer, and some hand craft skills, we can create our own toy models using paper!
Paper toys are cheap, environmental friendly, beautiful, and most of all, FUN!
Here are some of the paper toys I’ve found around the web. You can click on them to go to their original website to download and print them.
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