Technical Question

Do any of you know a good way to skew type into perspective without having to distort it as much as I'm doing.

Or do you think the distortion is okay here?

I don't have anymore boards to mount these to, so I have to play the grade where it lies.

Sites to check out.

1. http://greekdesign.free.fr/theogennitsakis/

To me, this style of layering seems definitive of the "it" style now. Plus some '80s retro.

2. http://fontleech.com/links

Free fonts.

3. http://www.espira.co.uk/



Espira is Frida Kahlo, Haute Couture, and Politics. Gorgeous.

Fashion [turn it to the left]

Pictures from Style.com
Drama-McQueen




Color-Balenciaga



Inspiration
Vera Wang - early-twentieth-century Russia


Marc Jacobs- Edward Hooper


Louis Vuitton [Marc Jacobs]- Johannes Vermeer

BFA ideas

It is thrilling and scary to work on something where they say "whatever you think of just show us something." It's an art exhibition but they have no idea what will be in it until the middle of november, but this invitation is due to the printer at the beginning of november.

These are going to be 5 X 7, so more intimate than a poster.

Are these Legible?

Attempting to look unified

But now my logo sticks out like a sore thumb.

I am one of those people who listens to every director's commentary on my favorite DVDs, the other day I listened to Little Miss Sunshine's for the first time. When they were talking about this opening sequence they said that Steve Carell looked so sad in this opening they decided to put the title over his face as way to signify quirkiness or something is going to be a little bit irreverent about this movie. When they said that I remembered that when I first saw the movie the title came stair-stepping across his face and it did make me laugh. Lesson learned: placement can give you incite and set a mood separate from the one a visual gives.

Another Question

I just filled up my computer's memory so I'm sure I'm at the point where I need an external hard drive. Do any of you guys have opinions on which ones you think are good deals or hassle-free?

[oatmeal should always be eaten warm.. eck!]

Feedback, Please!

Do any of these speak to you?

Monochromatic

I am a complete bibliophile. I just got home because I was in the library for so long. So while thumbing through Paula Sher's "Make it Bigger," I saw a piece she did entitled Great Beginnings. It is a small booklet that she made to send out to potential employers [self promotional] that incorporated the beginnings of famous books in the type style popular at the time of it's publication. Like Faust in Blackletter and the Metamorphosis in a futurist's style.

It was one of those moments where I thought gosh why didn't I think of that first? And then realized I was like four when she made that so I can only wish that she hadn't thought of it and then I would have thought of it first. It is a project I would have a lot of fun doing because the content is so meaningful to me.

Anyways, check it out "Make it Bigger" by Paula Sher. She also did the logo for Citi Bank and she does interesting stuff with every style of font.

Love Love Love

If you've seen Billy Elliot (which has an amazing display of hideously wonderful wallpaper) this is the end:



The man playing this swan really is the principle in Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake. Here is one of the glorious pas from the work:

I went to a great antique shop today here's my favorite shot:

I'm far beyond knowing what's good anymore, but the colors of the plaid make the logo less intimidating.

I was playing with type as texture for the poster, but every time I open this file my computer nearly crashes. I don't know if I am going to use it. I want to put color in it, but every tiny change I make takes five minutes to load. I just don't know if I'll have time to get it the way I want with that issue.



The plaid is made out of all the disciplines typed out.

I'm digging this stuff.

http://www.owenp.com/portfolio/

Andrew just let me in on some information. If you save your files as a png the blogspot has less of a problem displaying it. I shall put this to the test next.

Design for Breakfast (and simple harvest)

On my computer this has words. I really can't appreciate the subtleties of this blog site.

I don't have a W stamp, so the W now is just a placeholder. Is this something worth working further?

How much is too much? If you highlight everything is nothing significant?

What I'm watching right now.

Some people are "over" infographics, but this felt so unexpected to me when I saw it in theaters.

No love for the pigeon

I expected as much.

But here's some love for Lily Cole (it's my desktop).

Finally, something I like!

Texture

Everyone jokes about the pigeons.

None of the work I've done on my earlier logos have come out well. I've abandoned it for a while.

Maybe it was just my frustration, but I started scribbling all over the page and decided I'll work with that.

Toulouse-Lautrec

While doing research I came across this image and I keep thinking about it.

It is a poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec "advertising the serialized publication in Le Martin of the Abbe Faure's memoirs of confessions he had heard at the foot of the guillotine, 1983. Paris, Musee des Arts Decoratifs"

From The Poster in History by Max Gallo.

I received my new ID magazine today and they featured a Maryland Institute College of Art's new logo.

http://www.mica.edu/

I think they got the idea for it from the lines of their building.

Work on Logo

Alright, both of these images are supposed to be completely full, but I don't know what's going on.