Play with type

Jessica Hische video

in this "interview ish" video, typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische talks about her "daily drop cap" project (basically a fancy illuminated letter kind of thing) and I really found it interesting because she talks about ideas that I am personally interested in in my design/creative work, especially for this first logotype project. but i just thought it would be a neat video to share with everyone else.

LINK : http://vimeo.com/13683523

Sweet Typography

Hey guys, came across a website with some cool typography. Check it out :)
http://www.graphicmania.net/typographic-ideas/

Tart Workshop

Hey guys I found this cool blog that belongs to Crystal Kluge, who has designed many interesting typefaces. Check out her site:

http://tartworkshop.blogspot.com/

Dear Typography

I found this poster online and thought it was hilarious!

http://thebirdsandthebeasts.bigcartel.com/product/dear-typography-print

Adobe Kuler

If you're experimenting with color palates, you need to check this website out. Basically, it's a repository with thousands of user-submitted color palettes that are tagged with keywords.

So, typing in "clouds" gets you stormy, serene or muted colors.

It's also integrated into CS4 and 5. Go to Window-> extensions -> Kuler to check it out.

http://kuler.adobe.com

Notes on 'Text' from 9/21

Text
1. The body text is the main block of text.
2. Designers treat body text by breaking it up into pieces to make it easier to read. For example, the use of indentation or links.
3. The term "avoiding" reading refers to making it easier to read, keeping the reader from struggling and have better readability.
4. The importance of movable type allows for mass production and cost reduction. The function of it allows for more accuracy and gives the editor's an easier job of making corrections.
5. Technological tools have changed the way we proofread, correct and manage copyright in that there are no more original manuscripts, things can be reformatted, repurposed and recombined. Also, redlining is replacing hieroglyphics.
6. Spacing is the physical object that is placed between letters. Leading is the horizontal space between lines.
7. The deconstruction theory relates to the alphabet by representing sound; it has no function without silent marks and space. Typography provides the silent marks and employs habits and techniques.
8. Linearity is a singular body of a traditional text page, one page in and out. Designers can control and manipulate the viewers.
9. Examples of linearity is the CNN scroll, Powerpoint and designers can control how the viewers eye moves across a page.
10. Typography as 'Discourse': Traditional dichotomy was shifted so images can be analyzed like text and text like images. We are communicating through text.
11. Web reading is based off culture of productive, not contemplative layout. There is impatience in digital reading, as opposed to print reading.
12. Dada and Futurism, in typography , created texts whose content was inextricable from the concrete layout of specific letterform. They combined form and content while Modernists pulled it back apart.
13. Example of how typography can change the construction and use of mediums, products and interfaces --- Typography is the main part of the iPhones usability and interface. If replaced with perhaps a serif font, it would completely change the design and readability of the iPhone. This may even discourage costumers to by it.

Inspirational Logo Designs

Inspirational logo designs

Thought this site was pretty cool, have seen some of these before but it does go along with our project 1

Computer Arts Magazine

I actually found an issue of this particular UK magazine in the school bookstore- It's really interesting because it has not only different types and designs, but it also includes a lot of tutorials, galleries, and interesting articles. It's something definitely worth getting :)

http://www.computerarts.co.uk/

Type grown from e-coli

All the cool kids have one

typographic scarves & more

HERE

Inspirational Typography

On other noter... here's 25 inspirational typography....
http://www.reencoded.com/2009/11/25/25-inspirational-typography-examples/

Enjoy!

Respond to my question below, please!

Question for the class!

Hi guys, I was wondering if any of you Illustrator nerds (hehe) knew how to do something... I have text and I clicked create outlines and then moved the letters so they are connecting... How can I make it an object with just points around the outside instead of around each letter? So I can put a stroke just around the new object and not the individual letters...

Call: 561-459-0494

Please and thank you!
Alexandra

60 great logotypes

Check out these 60 highly clever minimal logo designs!

Dancing Typography

This is a really cool thing that I found online.

Check it out!

http://www.romancortes.com/ficheros/dancing-typography.html

20 best logos from 2009

Link

Project 1 concept (Michelle Bach)

For a while I have been struggling with who I am as a person and what my own logo would look like. Over the summer I spent a lot of time trying to figure these things out and I still have not come to a good conclusion. I ended up making a long long list of all my likes and dislikes. A few of the main dislikes are the unknown, growing old, not knowing what I want with my life and politics. All of these things frighten me (except for politics).

The things that I like, which are my main comforts, are star gazing, my family, shoes ;), music, color, doodling, and hand written fonts. The logo that I ended up making this summer is bright and circular which are things that show my personality because I am a very fun person but I want to take my logo further and start over. I am just stuck on where to go at this point. I worry because I spent so long this summer thinking and I did not get anywhere.

Still on the topic of calendars...

There are so many creative calendars, I just had to add this one to the collection. It has an incredibly sleek design and the idea is simple and ingenious. You simply place fruit stickers onto the corresponding day when you eat it. You can get one here from the designer ViK.

Found on Google

I found this really cool typographer named Thomas Broome who illustrates pictures with nothing but words. Must have taken a lot of patience: http://thomasbroome.se/mm2_1.htm

Stumbled across..

I have been searching the internet for inspiration with my logotype and I came across this- I thought it was interesting, especially since I am playing with the idea of life/decay and vulnerability. Link: Typeface in skin

I also saw this as well and it made me laugh-

9/7/10 Notes

Typography Notes

9/7/10

· 1990s: designers continued building fonts for general purpose to comfortably accommodate bodies of text

· these fonts provide designers with flexible patterns of letterforms coordinated within larger families

· Zuzana Lico, a pioneer of the digital era, created the font Mrs. Eaves

o Mrs. Eaves was inspired by John Baskerville’s type face

o Eave was said to be Baskerville’s mistress

o Mrs. Eaves was created in 1996

· Quadraat, also called “all purpose Baroque” was created by Fred Smeijers

o It’s a Dutch font and was created in 1992

· Scala was invented by Martin Majoor and has many variations such as vertical italics

o (Scala was the type face used in the text book!)

· Gotham was introduced in 2000 by Tebias Frere-Jones

o It was inspired by Port Authority Bus Terminal in NYC

o It’s geometric

· When finding a font, one should consider the different font’s history, connotation, and formal qualities

· ANATAMY OF THE LETTER

o Baseline: stable axis along a line of text

o X-height: height of lowercase letter (based on the letter “x”)

o Capheight: height between the baseline and the top of the letter

o Asender: may extend above cap height

o Counter: center of letters such as “o”

o (more letter anatomy parts on hand out)

· height: based on the point system, It also measures the distance between lines, or leading

· leading: lines between letters

· 12 points = 1 pica

· 6 picas (72 points) = 1 inch

· type can also be measured in inches, millimeters, or pixels

· TYPE CRIMES:

o Horizontal or vertical scaling

o Pseudo Italics

o Pseudo Bold

o Pseudo SMALL CAPS

· Interstate has many examples of variations

· Scala also has many variations but the sans serif offers even more

· 7 TYPE CLASSIFICATIONS

1. Sabon: Humanistic or Old Style

§ thinner

2. Baskerville: Transitional

§ A little more contrast in thickness

3. Bodoni: Modern

§ Bigger differences in line thickness

4. Clarendon: Egyptian or Slab Serif

§ Used in advertising, also known as “Monster Fonts”

5. Gill Sans: Humanist Sans Serif

§ Caligraphic

6. Helvetica: Transitional or Anonymous Sans Serif

§ Created by Max Mledinger in 1957

§ Based on futuristic Bauhaus

7. Futura: Geometric Sans Serif

§ Based even more on the Bauhaus fonts

· 16^th century: organized typefaces into matched families when printers began coordinating romans and italics

History of Typography Lecture 2 — 31 Aug 2010

Sorry for the delay — here's the notes from the last Tuesday.

What Typeface are you?

This is a great quiz which, after answering 4 questions, shows you which typeface best describes you.  Which one are you?

P1 Concept (Vicki Heda)

Narrowing down who one is and what he/she is about to a few simple character traits is not an easy task.  This was no exception when I was asked to do it myself.  After some reflection and deep thinking, the traits I would like to portray in a self-logo would be determination, attachment and silliness.  I am a determined hard-worker; when I get a goal or am given a challenge, I overcome through persistence and dedication.  Though I can sometimes show little emotion when I am overly focused on a goal, I am an emotional person and I become very attached to my loved ones as well as my beliefs.  Nevertheless, anyone who knows me, and sometimes even just knows of me, knows that I have an extraordinarily silly side and I love to laugh and have fun, and I am happiest when everyone around me is happy.

P1 Concept (Chris Thomas)

I am a person with 19 years experience. Relatively, that's not too long , but it is enough time that I am a complex human being who has experienced many events, done many things, and established a vast web of associations and connections.

Aren't we all? In that sense, it is imperative that in boiling myself down to a logotype, I am concise and clear. I remember reading a talk Milton Glaser once gave, and in it he said , "Just enough is more." So that's where I aim to be.

The first thing I started with was not the personal and professional elements of me I want to communicate, but exactly what "me" I wanted to communicate. I ran down a whole list of all the things I use to identify myself, and I went from there. My name is my raw material in this project. Unfortunately, my name is not exclusive. I'm already a retired football player, record producer, politician, and author — to name a few. I want to experiment to see what stands out as the most memorable name for myself, be it a nickname, my initials, etc. I feel like that's one of my most important design challenges while working this through. Beyond that, I want to incorporate my geography, where I am and where I grew, (Florida), because I feel that is one of the blanket elements that has shaped me the most as a person, and also relates back to my history before me — my parents and grandparents all spent much of their lives here.

I have more specific ideas that I hope to get into with you all and hash out visually. Ultimately, I hope that by working in these parameters I can come to a concise and elegant solution.

P1 Concept (Julia Simeone)

The concept for my logotype is based on how outgoing and bold I am as a person. I wasn't always bold and outgoing as I am now, but it developed through time spent in school, with friends, and family. It is now part of who I am. Being outgoing means standing out, being bright or unique. I would like to show this by using bold color and an a unique typeface that isn't often used. I was hoping to use a visual aid in this portrayal such as a rubiks cube with my name and a phrase I enjoy or another puzzle like device to show I am complex and strategic about life. To be bold is to go wherever you want with courage and strength. I believe that my confidence is what gets me through situations in life. This would be shown through contrast of color and brightness of my display. I wish to convey to the viewer of my works that I am lively, not afraid to take risks, and experiment with creativity in everything I do. This is what I'm hoping to portray in my logotype.

P1 Concept (Melissa D'Amico)

I found myself stuck trying to figure out some words to describe myself. Although I know myself more than anyone else, I felt odd trying to figure out ways to convey myself to someone through a logotype. I started thinking of some of my favorite memories and what they have in common. Most of the memories took place at the beach and/or during my favorite season of winter. Much like most girls who grow up with dads who surf, I view the beach as my second home, where I can clear my mind and only worry about whether or not I'm smiling too much. Almost everything good that ever happened to me (including my birth) happened during the cold, cheery season of winter. I started to discover similarities between me and these two things: like the beach, I am playful and bright, like the waves and the sunshine. I associate winter with my favorite color palette of cool colors like blues and violets, and winter is filled with sweetness and happiness. I plan to incorporate all of these traits into my logotype.

P1 Concept (Alina Shafii)

Down to the simplest terms what I enjoy most is creating objects. I have a very particular fascination with handmade objects, clay specifically - from sculptural to functional objects. My love for the handmade stems from my desire to create things that will make people laugh and see something beyond a first glance. For my logotype, I want to capture attributes I see in myself - cleverness, humor, and whimsy. I hope to intentionally make design choices that influence how the viewer evaluates my logotype. I want the viewer to not only see my strongest traits, but to also notice something different, interesting, and clever that will hopefully make them laugh. I want my logotype to be memorable and completely unique to my own love of always wanting to learn/discover/ notice something interesting in the world.

P1: Ana Linares

I want my logotype to reflect my last couple of years as an art student. More specifically, I think it would be interesting to employ some of the visual elements and conceptual trends of my most recent work. Lately I've been exploring the idea of personal heritage and cross-generational relationships and how they have affected my personal development as well as my capabilities as an individual. As a part of my investigation, I aim to create visual definitions of myself by using imagery and text from an environment that came before miine. A logotype should be a reflection of the self and since my art is very self-referential, I believe it will make for great inspiration for my personal logotype. In regards to palette and aesthetic, I will be experimenting with muted tones and sepia tones and using the styles and font of archival documentation as inspiration for the letterforms. I also want to experiment with the idea of text within text and the aesthetic of colorized photography.

P1 Concept (Derrick Ligon)

When thinking about the concept of this project I wanted to stray away from the more specific tools used for identifying oneself, like names, characteristics and things that are used as tags. Instead I wanted to focus on the products of those tags and the fruits that stem from those branches. Those are where the specifics of who you really are generate from. Yes a name says who you are, and a characteristic like outgoing says what you are like, but the byproducts of them are what really show who you are. So the words that I wrote down were things like places, activities, or things that I relate who I am to, and from there wrote down words that relate to that. Therefore I am not just identifying who I am surface level, but rather the details that are ingrained into who I am and where I go to find my identity.

P1 Concept (Allyson Lindner)

My concept deals with the three words that drive me to be myself. Those three words are bubbly, playful, and structured. I know its hard to relate these words, but let me explain. Bubbly and playful are how I react in a normal situation I am fun, outgoing, and a very happy go lucky person to begin with, and that's just how I was born. However, the reason I can be so happy and carefree is because of how I structure things, since I basically map out my whole schedule and time-line of when things should be done and when I should work on things, it is easy for me to release some stress. I should be a stressed individual with no time for anything, but since I am very structured with my time, I can be the bubbly playful person I love being, as well as complete my goals without even breaking a sweat. =] So in the end I want to create a fun logotype that displays all of those fun and outgoing qualities as well as structured forms and different ways of allowing the structured part of myself show in the fun and playful text.

P1 Concept (Lauren Castro)

For my logo type I am trying to explore not only characteristics about myself but also things that I am fascinated with and what makes me like them. For example, I am really intrigued by trees. Something about the natural beauty of them has always kept me awe-struck. But they can also represent many other things as well- life, death, decay, growth, strength, time, lineage, etc. Another thing that fascinates me is the human heart. It strikes a personal note with me because I myself have a heart condition that affects me. I am interested in learning about all aspects of the heart and how it is supposed to be such a strong and vital organ, yet it can be so flawed and vulnerable. The preciousness and fragility of it is amazing to me. So I am examining the reasons why I have affinity for these things and how their attributes affect me, hoping to turn them around and use them in more literal sense in my logo type.

P1 Concept- Cristina Fernandez

My concept is to show an overall translucency of my personality. On the outside, I may show a quiet, calm persona; but inside lies a wild, chaotic, and interesting character.Usually, when I first meet someone new, I keep to myself and sort of put up a front. As time goes on, that front will slowly dissolve and I become more outgoing and reveal a little more about myself. With my logotype, I plan on creating a look of innocence that barely shadows an intriguing background.

P1 Concept: Jamie Kadin

Painting + Music + Piano + Dance = Relaxing + Stress-free + Time-less + A get-away.

Expressing myself in these various ways helps me cope with life and stay content and happy. When life gets tough and stressful, doing these things help me relax and feel better about myself, and about life in general. If I'm having the worst day and everything just seems to go wrong, I feel completely opposite and amazing after releasing adrenaline from dance. I also like learning. I like learning new dances and practicing them over and over again until I get them right. I feel the same way about my art. I find myself often attracted to being able to copy works of art to perfection. With piano as well, I like to learn popular songs that either my friends or I know and can sing along to, and I play them until they sound right. I feel like music really brings people together. When people play piano live in front of you, it can have some sort of magical quality at times that tends to lure people in. I love the sound of various songs played on piano and pretty much also just love music in general. I'm hoping that for my logo I can find a way to incorporate some of these concepts, and to display a sense of myself and how I feel from participating in these activities that I love.

P1 Concept - Alexandra Villella

My concept for the upcoming logotype will incorporate a few different aspects about myself. First and foremost, is positivism. This is somewhat of a new thing for me and it is one of my goals that I plan to work on this semester. I want my logotype to pop, standout and radiate a good attitude for the viewers and myself. I am going to rid myself of the stress and worry that overwhelmed my past and incorporate positivism and good vibes. Another part of me that I want to include in my logotype is the concept of togetherness and connectivity. In my life, I like things to be together, in order and prioritized. I enjoy being together and connected with nature, music, my friends and especially my family. Those are the other things I am including into my concept. 

P1 Concept : Jessica Stoun

Socially, we like to brand ourselves on  monogrammed towels, backpacks, and underwear. Corporately, we create identity by stamping logotype on the products we sell. Highlighting the overlap between these social and corporate branding phenomena, I'm trying to define how my possessions -especially clothing- could possibly describe my identity in a marketable sense. I realized that, for me, possession is mostly an excuse to share --my style, my personality, my mood. All of that takes place in a figurative sense. Ultimately, I'd like to find where the literal sense could be integrated into my own logotype. It would have to represent the actual act of sharing and incorporate ideas of evolution. Evolution because, sharing my personality through a marketable concept is in itself a way of spreading one's "genes", or identity. I'd like to take a second look at the idea of being a consumer or promoting consumerism as something self-gaining, as it is in our own self-interest to promote the spread of our own ideology; but also as something that be simultaneously altruistic, as in sharing. Thus, with my logotype I will ensure that my identity will spread and endure through others, while they gain from what I have to share.

All the Time I Was Making This I Was Thinking of You by Sandy Smith

More neat stuff by Sandy Smith

Outdoor Typography

Neat stuff by Ramon Lenherr & Florian Brunner

via http://www.typographyserved.com/Gallery/OPENAIR--ST_GALLEN/257321

P1 Concept: Kaley Dozier

When asked to describe my personality and characteristics, four simple words come to mind: well grounded, naturalistic, clean, and playful. When faced with a problem, I carefully think through and follow through with my decision. For this attribute, I have often been called mature and levelheaded. The naturalist in me creates this calm, easygoing personality even under times of stress. To help me remain collected, I find order and cleanliness fosters my creativity and sanity. Yet, at random moments my innocent, silly inner child emerges. All of these attributes combined create the dynamic personality that I hope to portray in my personal logotype.

Carbon Carving

This artist carves into pencils to create these amazing works of art. ttp://www.greendiary.com/entry/dalton-ghetti-creates-amazing-art-on-the-tips-of-used-pencils/

Designer that works with Typography

www.arnaudjarsaillon.net/

You should check out his work, although the website is all in French I think. He experiments with type in a lot of his work, and some is just plain cool!

awesome logo movie

The Logorama Movie is a short animation which won at the 2010 Oscars in the category.  The entire movie is made up of recognizable corporate identities.