tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41947517883556776072024-03-13T06:07:36.390-05:00All About the ProcessAs a psychotherapist, I make what's called a process note after each session. This allows me to track changes and progress in my clients' lives. This blog serves a parallel purpose for my development as a graphic designer. I will do my best to share the good, the bad and the ugly because process is about embracing all aspects of the experience -- growth, regression, joy, grief. So, sit back, relax and enjoy the process.Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05489405325443141863noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194751788355677607.post-37818843582316134332010-05-07T12:58:00.001-05:002010-05-07T12:58:53.593-05:00<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Someone went into Google Earth and put together an alphabet from landscape features...very inventive! The designer is Rhett Dashwood. </span><a href="http://rhettdashwood.com.au/#16575" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/rhettdashwood.com.au');" target="_blank" title="Rhett Dashwood"></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">About this typeface he designed, he says:</span><br />
<blockquote>My final Fontlab Photofont (so far) was Bodinky and was inspired by some classic fashion illustrations I found in Vogue. I traced over the typeface Bodoni with a fountain pen and dripped water onto the letters, creating splashes of ink and color where the ink ran. This was a poster I created using the typeface.</blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ATyGkuJaatQ/S-ROwa7Cu9I/AAAAAAAAA5Q/Xf1Yzfu1AlE/s1600/ink-and-water.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ATyGkuJaatQ/S-ROwa7Cu9I/AAAAAAAAA5Q/Xf1Yzfu1AlE/s400/ink-and-water.jpg" width="282" /></a></div>Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05489405325443141863noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194751788355677607.post-43829193503610207462010-05-07T12:30:00.000-05:002010-05-07T12:30:49.496-05:00Self-explanatory!<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I'm having trouble coming up with a lot to say about these examples of typography in use. This poster seems self-explanatory. I guess that might be a good criterion in terms of what good typography does. No one needs to explain it!! Its so great how the designer demonstrated the statement about good typography with his treatment of it. Designed by Craig Ward for Buck's New University in England.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Here's what he said about the design:</span><br />
<blockquote>Before a series of typography workshops I was to conduct for second-year design students at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University, I created this poster to drum up student interest. It was created using 3D wooden letters and photographed using a combination of natural and studio light. The rest of the type was overlaid afterwards, digitally.<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></blockquote><br />
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</span>Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05489405325443141863noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194751788355677607.post-85402614569995573172010-04-05T15:02:00.001-05:002010-04-05T15:04:16.338-05:00Project 2 Research<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For my project 2 brochure, I'm redesigning the brochures I use in my private practice. The two main forms are the Privacy Notice (which I'm required to provide by federal law) and the Psychological Services Agreement. The latter is not required by law but outlines information about my services so the client has clear, written information about what to expect (e.g., if they cancel an appointment, if they have a mental health emergency, etc.). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> For my research, I edited the text down because it was pretty wordy and I tried to find examples of similar brochures. It's hard to make this stuff interesting so I'd like to at least try to make it easier to read!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Most of them are in tri-fold format. Many have images that seem a little hokey to me (a stack of papers with a padlock on them, one person whispering to another, etc.). I don't want to use human images because it's too difficult to be inclusive. We have some posters in our office that have the Doors of ... (can't remember where the doors are from but I'm sure you've seen these). I thought it would be interesting to have images of locks or locked doors to represent security and privacy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Here are some relevant examples I found:</span><br />
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Can you tell what it says? Don't get me wrong...I love it when people push the envelope. I like working to figure out a visual concept. </span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was disappointed because I really like the numbers that appear on the front of the phone. It doesn't look like they match any of these fonts...I'm going to look at more info about typography for hand held devices. I'll let you know if I find anything interesting.</div><br />
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<div class="text"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">To: Story Project Committee<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">From: Lori Davis<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Date: February 3, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Project: Story Project Book<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text"><br />
</div><div class="text"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Overview<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="text" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Story Shop is a program sponsored by Parkland College. Seventh and eigth grade students submit 1500 word/5 page stories for review. Every author receives written comments and 20 stories are chosen based on quality of creativity, uniqueness, voice, character development, and consistency to be featured in a published book. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;"><br />
</div><div class="text" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This is the third year the Story Shop Committee has enlisted the help of Graphic Design students to design the cover and body of the final compilation of stories. This year, the Typography II class has been invited to submit book design options.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;"><br />
</div><div class="text" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The overall message of the design will be an energetic invitation to look inside to see the unique voices of young storytellers.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text"><br />
</div><div class="text"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Target Audience</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">There are several target audiences in this project:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text" style="margin-left: 49.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Authors of the stories<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text" style="margin-left: 49.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Teachers<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text" style="margin-left: 49.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Parents<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text" style="margin-left: 49.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Librarians<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text" style="margin-left: 49.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Book store shoppers<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text" style="margin-left: 49.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">School administrators<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text" style="margin-left: 49.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Parkland administrators (as funding body) <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text"><br />
</div><div class="text"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Design Objectives</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We will enlist principles of unity, emphasis, balance, rhythm, depth and color to convey energy, creativity, and movement. We want the design to be warm, playful, timeless and fresh. The color pallette will be bold and we will consider including the green used in the two previous designs in order to create an element of unity across publication years. Our designs will be unique in their <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;"><br />
</div><div class="text" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Parts of the design already determined are:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text" style="margin-left: 31.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Logo design (color can vary)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text" style="margin-left: 31.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ISBN number<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text" style="margin-left: 31.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Content<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text" style="margin-left: 31.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Order of stories<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text" style="margin-left: 31.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Book dimensions<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text" style="margin-left: 31.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Year and Story Shop logo on spine<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text"><br />
</div><div class="text"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Goal</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The intended response depends on the audience. For kids, we'd like them to feel that their work has been taken seriously and that they're treated with respect. For parents, we want a more sophisticated, mature design. For librarians and book store shoppers we want the book to tempt them to take the book off the shelf and see what's inside. Once they look inside, we want them to stay engaged by the subtle interest of the design. Overall, the intent of the design is to feature the stories and not to distract from them. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text"><br />
</div><div class="text"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Format</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The committee will choose cover design and body design separately. The book will be 5.5” high X 4.25” wide. Number of pages will depend on number of stories and body design. The cover can use a 4-color printing process. Internal pages will use one color only. The logo will remain the same although the color may vary. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text"><br />
</div><div class="text"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Schedule</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">February 5, 2010 Stories are due to Committee by authors<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">March 1, 2010 Electronic copies of stories will be provided by Committee<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Present design ideas to the Committee on or before this date<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text" style="margin-left: 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">March 19, 2010 Provide print-ready file to the Committee<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="text"><br />
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</div>Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05489405325443141863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194751788355677607.post-90722721971061853872010-01-29T18:53:00.001-06:002010-01-29T18:54:48.122-06:00Phipps Font<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ATyGkuJaatQ/S2OA0vYLaFI/AAAAAAAAAsg/cfhnhEqpqos/s1600-h/Phipps+logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ATyGkuJaatQ/S2OA0vYLaFI/AAAAAAAAAsg/cfhnhEqpqos/s320/Phipps+logo.jpg" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I recently visited my sister in Pittsburgh, PA and we went to <a href="http://phipps.conservatory.org/">Phipps Conservatory</a>. Really beautiful place. I took a picture of the logo and type on the entry doors. The image and type are really cohesive. The curves of the type mimic the curves of plants. I just used What the Font for the first time -- that is cool! The font is <a href="http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/agfa/aperto/semi-bold/">Aperto Semi-Bold</a>. Very nice font and reasonably priced too! </span></div>Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05489405325443141863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194751788355677607.post-82870128348466146592009-12-08T20:15:00.002-06:002009-12-08T20:18:39.985-06:00Gunter Rambow<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Discovered this designer in Graphic Design history. Love his work! Here are some posters he did for a Theater in Wiesbaden, Germany. There are lots and lots of images on his <a href="http://gunterrambow.de/">website</a> -- really interesting design. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I think these two are my favorites. They kinda hurt my eyes but I love the intricacies of them. If you look at the "Love Counts" poster, you can see the use of numbers (clever!) to create the image. You can also see the theater name in one of the lines toward the bottom but you have to work for it. They're mostly in German so I don't know what half of them say.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I've tried to identify these fonts but I give up. There's always one little thing off. It's also possible that since the designer is German (Austrian?) he's using different fonts than what I can find. They're all sans serif and pretty classic, though. The font itself seems less important than the way he uses it.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Some of his designs get a little "messy" too, though.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I found this in an ad placed in American Craft magazine. I really liked the treatment of the S. It's a gallery that represents glass artists. I'm not sure I fully understand the definition of silica (or silicone in the singular) but I think it's one of the contents of glass. The S is a larger curved thing made of smaller curved things. This could refer to both glass (a substance made up of a number of other substances) or to several artists making up the gallery. The color actually looks nicer in the ad than it does reproduced here. </span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is a wall hanging that was pictured in an American Craft magazine (vol. 69, no. 3, Jun/July 2009). It was designed by Paul Loebach & Jessie Henson. I couldn't get the dimensions on it but it was hanging in one of the spreads and looks like it must be about 3' X 5'. The type treatment is interesting. I like the hand lettered look. Seems to match the sentiment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was interested in the saying so I looked it up and found that it comes from a Bible verse (John 6:12). After a meal, Jesus, tells his disciples to "gather up the fragments that remain that nothing will be lost." Good sentiment for today -- don't waste the leftovers! Wish I could afford the wall hanging for my dining room. </span>Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05489405325443141863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194751788355677607.post-19634957485416280882009-11-17T21:59:00.004-06:002009-11-17T22:12:21.525-06:00Research for New Year Card<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The last project in my typography class this semester involves designing a greeting card. If you're interested, you can see the full instructions <a href="http://gds.parkland.edu/gds/110/projects/p4-card.html">here</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Me. I'm looking for an interesting card to send to friends and family and maybe even people who refer clients my way. The designer can have free reign on the design. Whatever she likes, I'm sure I'll like too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I started by searching online for cards that I liked. I was surprised at how difficult it was to find cards that just used type rather than type and image. I did find some wonderful examples, though. Etsy actually has some beautiful handmade cards and stationery. I'd love to be able to make a letter press card. Unfortunately, I don't have the equipment so Adobe Illustrator will have to do. I went to Promenade and Art Mart because they often have interesting cards but I found nothing in terms of typography cards. Here are some cards from the web that I particularly liked:</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I'm hoping to incorporate this cutout design. The card itself doesn't do much for me but this was a good example of what might work for numbers of the new year. When I was a kid, I really loved pop-up books. Not sure why. I just thought it was so cool that the book was 3-D and that little pieces would sort of jump off the page. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Clever use of words to create images:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The 12 Days of Christmas cards below are just plain clever. I don't think I could ever be a copywriter because I can't seem to come up with such clever ways to use words. Occasionally, I'll hit on something cool but usually, I just come up with something goofy and dorky!</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I included this girlfriends card because my girlfriends are my lifesavers and also because I thought the use of typography was interesting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The 2010 card has an interesting texture -- looks like woven textile.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I did some more specific research on pop-up or cut out cards so I can figure out if I want to incorporate something like that. The first is from a "maths and art" page and was made by a mathematician as part of his work with Maths and Arts club in York, Ontario. Painting the cut out part red, makes it stand out a lot more...good idea.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Some more cards with letter cut outs along with <a href="http://www.paper-paper.com/projects6.html">instructions</a>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Finally, a nice set of cut out wings:</span><br />
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</span>Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05489405325443141863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194751788355677607.post-47980779128628520062009-11-11T22:53:00.002-06:002009-11-11T23:11:14.798-06:00The Poetry of Typography<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My sister </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sarah (sounds like the name of a rock band), </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> who is a Graphic Designer, sent me a link to the </span><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/photoarchive.html" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Poetry Foundation</a> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">which has some really great photos of type treatments. These photos led me to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/94471995@N00/pool/89973526@N00/">Poetry in the Landscape</a> a flickr page which contains photos of the projected word poetry. Like this</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">From there, I clicked on over to the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/89973526@N00/">Winterhouse flickr page</a>. <a href="http://www.winterhouse.com/">Winterhouse</a> looks like an interesting organization with very relevant links to socially responsible and forward looking design as well as other great organizations, publications, etc. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Their flickr page has images of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/89973526@N00/sets/72157604919202281/">Poetry magazine covers</a>. I was captivated by these covers. The artwork conveys various moods across issues -- some calm (these are the ones that draw me the most) <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To my eye, Winterhouse has designed a beautifully poetic layout. The cover is culled down to essentials. As with poetry, the elements on the page seem to be chosen carefully with plentiful white space to "hold" the components. Picture a poem on the page. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was surprised to very promptly receive an email from none other than Fred Sasaki, an Associate Editor of Poetry. Here's the info he generously provided (links are mine):</span><br />
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<blockquote style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Poetry logo font is <a href="http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/gill-sans/">Gill Sans</a> (however you'll see that the "R" is modified for the cover). Interior text is Pietro, which is a modified <a href="http://www.fonts.com/FindFonts/detail.htm?pid=201963">Bembo</a>. <br />
</blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Interestingly, the <a href="http://www.searchfreefonts.com/free/pegasus.htm">Pegasus</a> we are currently using (which the magazine used back in the forties or so) is an Eric Gill design, the typographer who created Gill Sans and contributed a great deal to modern typography. <br />
</blockquote><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I felt rather proud of myself for noting that the R was unique. What is really confusing me is that when I looked up the Pegasus font he notes in his email, fonts.com features it as a free font but it's an exact replica of ITC Benguiat of which I made the <a href="http://gds.parkland.edu/student/fall09/gds110/ldavis/images%20folder/Benguiat-final-proof.jpg">poster for class</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At any rate, this is some of what we're learning in class come to life! <br />
</span>Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05489405325443141863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194751788355677607.post-21989718256488285592009-11-08T10:12:00.008-06:002009-11-08T10:20:33.181-06:00Davis Sans Serif<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ATyGkuJaatQ/Svbvx8uX6aI/AAAAAAAAAZA/qJqzNEHF9Vc/s1600-h/loriswriting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ATyGkuJaatQ/Svbvx8uX6aI/AAAAAAAAAZA/qJqzNEHF9Vc/s640/loriswriting.jpg" /></a><br />
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</span>Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05489405325443141863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194751788355677607.post-47224322774086177002009-10-31T20:59:00.011-05:002009-11-04T23:11:53.270-06:00Shaken or Stirred?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ATyGkuJaatQ/Suzs97USLxI/AAAAAAAAAWI/pZmy2rQzvCc/s1600-h/met-bar-napkin.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 293px; height: 269px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ATyGkuJaatQ/Suzs97USLxI/AAAAAAAAAWI/pZmy2rQzvCc/s400/met-bar-napkin.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398950601949327122" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">During my recent trip to Boston, I went out with friends to a place called the Met Bar & Grill. The first thing I noticed when we walked in was how clever the logo </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">was. Well...one of the logos. It's so clever to have the martini glass in the mid</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">dle of the M. A typographic coup. Excuse the wrinkled napkin -- long trip home.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The problem I see with the branding of the Met Bar & Grill is that they have too many different things going on. There's the bar, the restaurant and then a </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">separate Burger Bar but there really isn't a cohesive logo design that ties them all together. The logo for the burger bar is different and they also have a visual of a bunch of hamburgers making up a</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> mosaic. 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I'd seen it before but that was way before the idea of pursuing Graphic Design had even entered my head. Even with so little formal training under my belt, I got a lot more from this viewing. I'm really hungry to learn so many things. So...after class yesterday, I came home and did all kinds of web searches with the names of designers that were interviewed -- Spiekermann (love this guy -- snarky and cynical), Bierut, Carson. And that's barely scratching the surface!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">In these explorations, I found so many int</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">eresting web sites. I wish there were more time to explore them all and play. One I'll share with you now is Wordle. At this site, you can enter any text or blog content or your tags in del.iciou.us and the site will translate your text into a "word cloud." I can't tell you how much fun I had.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Wordle has features for changing color combos, font, and text orientation. It was interesting to notice which fonts, colors and orientation felt "right" for each piece I entered. I'll share three word clouds I created.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">These del.icio.us tags clearly show what I've been focused on! The font is called Gunplay: </span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ATyGkuJaatQ/SuxRUT2ZS0I/AAAAAAAAAVw/8wvLrOBK08U/s1600-h/wordle.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 259px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ATyGkuJaatQ/SuxRUT2ZS0I/AAAAAAAAAVw/8wvLrOBK08U/s400/wordle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398779462678039362" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The word cloud below was created with a story I use sometimes when I do diversity training. It's a great story from<span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" > Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">by John Edgar Wideman. </span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">It's about creating a world among us by hearing each other's stories and what happens when some stories aren't heard or are cut off. 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The font is Gnuolane Free.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ATyGkuJaatQ/SuxRlmozRlI/AAAAAAAAAV4/Zxl9T-tafIc/s1600-h/wordle-geese-journey-avowal.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 259px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ATyGkuJaatQ/SuxRlmozRlI/AAAAAAAAAV4/Zxl9T-tafIc/s400/wordle-geese-journey-avowal.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398779759779071570" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span>Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05489405325443141863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194751788355677607.post-84234299434185413072009-10-21T22:21:00.003-05:002009-10-21T22:33:18.049-05:00Right Down My Alley<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ATyGkuJaatQ/St_Qm_xY1UI/AAAAAAAAAU4/Hcntbx0XwLA/s1600-h/Go-Mad.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 308px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ATyGkuJaatQ/St_Qm_xY1UI/AAAAAAAAAU4/Hcntbx0XwLA/s400/Go-Mad.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395260246985332034" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I found this advertisement for the Museum of Arts and Design in an American Craft magazine (not crafts like decoupage or scrapbooking but like handcrafted works of art, furniture, jewelry, etc. - great publication). The copy, the image and the typography work so incredibly well together. The tagline "The edge of experience. The center of Manhattan" plays on the common phrase "the edge of reason" but also suggests that the experience will be modern and "edgy." Then, to have the red GO MAD type at the bottom is a really great way to continue the idea that things are just a little bit crazy over at the Museum of Arts and Design. You won't want to miss it! The modern look of the building with its hard edges, the copy and the typeface also work very well together. </span>Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05489405325443141863noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194751788355677607.post-28804075882449581322009-10-14T22:56:00.008-05:002009-10-16T22:51:43.178-05:00Bloggelicious<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ATyGkuJaatQ/Stah0L66h9I/AAAAAAAAATw/kkZqGZUzJkk/s1600-h/snaxi.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 238px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ATyGkuJaatQ/Stah0L66h9I/AAAAAAAAATw/kkZqGZUzJkk/s400/snaxi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392675521747912658" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">For a while now, I've been wanting to post something about Snickers. First of all, I love me a good Snickers bar. The colder the better. Since Halloween is almost here, I allow myself to indulge in the little baby Snickers more than I should.<br /><br />Last summer, I think it was, I started noticing the new</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> Snickers campaign where they used the distinctive Snickers font to advertise</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> their Snickeriffic treat.</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> It's so interesting that just the font, lettering and color of the word identi</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">fies the candy bar so clearly. Somebody did a good job with the original font design.<br /><br />One blogger (<a href="http://theshermanfoundation.blogspot.com/2006/07/eating-snickers-may-make-you-nuts.html">Thomas Sherman</a>) noted that Snickers really missed a web opportunity because they didn't link the words </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">(through Google Ads) </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">to the Snickers website. I don't see myself working in a commercial market like this (nonprofits or educational institutions for me) but it does seem like a missed opportunity to get people to buy things they probably don't need.<br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br />Some people have made a parody of the campaign, making up words like "fatassopolis," "nugatabetes," and "guterrific." One website was developed where you could make your own Snickers logo. Lest we forget that all this creativity is about the bottom line, the site closed because Snickers threatened to take legal action (<a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/agencyspy/online/snickers_is_ready_to_file_a_lawsuit_against_poke_for_snckrz_111053.asp">more here</a>).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I just think it's fascinating how these kinds of things take on a life of their own. Other people have been running with it, too. I thought this one was really funny:<br /></span><img src="file:///C:/Users/THEGOU%7E1/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.png" alt="" /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ATyGkuJaatQ/Stait8YSTOI/AAAAAAAAAT4/IwkxWB6tZwE/s1600-h/fuck-twix.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 232px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ATyGkuJaatQ/Stait8YSTOI/AAAAAAAAAT4/IwkxWB6tZwE/s400/fuck-twix.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392676514008550626" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">Given my socialist and anti-commercial tendencies, I feel the parodies of ad campaigns are as creative and important as the campaigns themselves. Time not to take commercialism so seriously. As Leslie Cabarga says in her amazing book </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >Logo Font and Lettering Bible</span> <span style="font-family:verdana;">(which I will accept as a gift from anyone who would like to give it to me), "...it helps to remember that no matter how fine, elegant or cool our design may be, it is usually being used to con people into buying mundane commodities, most of which lack quality and integrity, are unhealthful and bad for the environment, and in many cases, nobody really needs them, anyway." Now there's a Graphic Designer I'd like to have a Snickers with. </span>Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05489405325443141863noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194751788355677607.post-13521730874796596602009-10-07T10:34:00.006-05:002009-11-06T10:49:09.231-06:00Face Time<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ATyGkuJaatQ/Ssy2OXxSNpI/AAAAAAAAATo/PB2rsy34WBk/s1600-h/face-painting-type.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 161px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ATyGkuJaatQ/Ssy2OXxSNpI/AAAAAAAAATo/PB2rsy34WBk/s400/face-painting-type.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389883212070794898" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">I recently went on a field trip to the Krannert Art Museum with the Graphic Design History class. One of the exhibits is entitled <span style="font-style: italic;">Effacement: Huang Yan's China in the 21st Century. </span>I took pictures of the exhibit typography because I thought it was really clever and meaningful that the "face" part of the title was emphasized. The exhibit itself explores modern "Chineseness" and this part of the exhibit in particular struck me as conveying the way Westerners (and perhaps others) see only the traditional/ancient/stereotyped images of Chinese people.<br /><br />In these images, I see a parallel to how people in our country (and others) who were not original inhabitants of North America tend to lock American Indians into the ancient stereotypes we've seen in movie</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">s and history books.<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ATyGkuJaatQ/Ssy2JgaR6MI/AAAAAAAAATg/8B9Hi0SGelU/s1600-h/face-painting-2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ATyGkuJaatQ/Ssy2JgaR6MI/AAAAAAAAATg/8B9Hi0SGelU/s400/face-painting-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389883128490879170" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">From my understanding, "face" also is an important concept in Chinese culture in reference to maintaining the respect of others and saving face when something shameful is perceived or when a person engages in a shameful behavior. Given the communal aspects of Chinese culture, face becomes a very important aspect of social harmony. From the outside, though, imposing these inaccurate, anachronistic faces on people erases their self-determined identity. </span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ATyGkuJaatQ/Ssy2A2NeNII/AAAAAAAAATY/FfEbWGxwqJA/s1600-h/face-painting-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ATyGkuJaatQ/Ssy2A2NeNII/AAAAAAAAATY/FfEbWGxwqJA/s400/face-painting-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389882979723916418" border="0" /></a>Lorihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05489405325443141863noreply@blogger.com0