My Title Sequense of The Cabinet of Dr Caligari

This is my flash of title sequense for the movie named The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

A funny animated font movie found on Youtube

I wanna share you guys a really nice movie found on Youtube. I really like the way the author use fonts to represent not only the 2 main characters but also their voice. So cute :D

Interface Typographic Assignment

My font choice for this assignment is Olympian which was designed by Matthew Carter in 1970.

It is said that the font is one example of the today generation of fonts that are mix of Old Face, Transitional and Modern typeface forms.

If you address to my previous post about Font Classification, you can see that Olympian has most characteristics of 3 font type said above. However, it tends to be the Old-Face style and is a fovored typeface for today newspapers.

Following are the character map image of the font and also my final flash movie for the Interface Typographic Assignment that to advertise for this font. ^^

Type Family Classification

As a designer, you are going to work with a variey of fonts available nowadays. It's not easy to choose a font for your design. You must consider a lot of related things in choosing a suitable font for your specific artwork.

A font is itself an artwork and it takes a font designer a lot of time to build, design and make it own style and identity. Each font family reflects "a certain time of period or cultural phenomenon" to viewers. A proper use of font can contribute greatly to your works and makes them more valuabe.

Although there are thounsands of fonts nowadays for you to choose, they are all classified based on "historical evolution of type and stylistic charactristics of the letterforms". This blog is to get you to have a look at these classifications cause they're really a basic and vital philosophy about type for designers.

First, let's get familiar with some terminologies:

• typeface: a set of letterforms that have been especially designed to go together.
• type family: a category that type is classified into, based on the historical origin and physical characteristics of the letterforms.
• type style: a modified version of a typeface.
• font: a collection of all the characters of a specific typeface that are necessary for typesetting.

Now, let's see the classification in details:

1. Blackletter Typeface




This is the very old typeface style used popularly in XV century. At this time, letters are written on parchments. These letters are drew very narrowly with narrow counters. This gives the page a overall dark appearance. For this reason, it was called blackletter.





This typeface is based on handwriting styles of Gothic (German) and Celtic (Irish) medieval scribes. The letters are highly decorative. The vertical letter stems cause a strong vertical presence.

Some examples of this typeface are Cloister Black, Duc de Berry, Kelmscott, Goudy Text.

2. Humanist Typeface

There was an significant envent in 1461 in German that made a change in the printing industry. Unlike the blackletter typeface, the humanist typeface is based on the Italian handwriting style. The typeface is most more easier to read. It's called humanist because of its organic style of letterforms.Some examples of this typeface used widely nowadays are Jenson Classico, Centaur, Cloiser, Deepdence, Stratford, Souvenir, True Golden.


3. Old Style TypeFace

This typeface were known widely in XVI century as a favored typeface for printed books. It looks less calligraphic and more precise than Humanist type but still have a organic feel of Humanist typeface.



Some examples of this typeface used widely nowadays are Calson Classico, Bembo, Caxton, Grody Old Style, Original Garamond, Palatino, Times New Roman.

4. Transitional Typeface

Transitional typeface was born 200 years later after the Old Style typefaces. This was because of technological advancements in printing at this time. It s more precise than the Old Face.

Some examples of this typeface used widely nowadays are John Baskerville, Cheltenham, Cochin, Corona, Electra, Mrs. Eaves, Versailles.

5. Modern Typeface
These typeface looks more precise and mechanical than the previous one. It refects "the advancing technical capabilities of societies undergoing industrialization".

Some examples of this typeface used widely nowadays are Bodoni EF, Bernhard Modern, Craw Modern, De Vinne, Linotype Didot, Modern No 216, Walbaum.

6. Sans-serif Typeface
San-serif typefaces were used popularly in the early 20th century and known as favored ones for web or any ones that display on the monitors of the computer.



Some examples of this typeface used widely nowadays are Univers, Helvetica, Futura, Kabel, Eurostile, Gill Sans, Frutiger, Optima.

References

Tova Rabinowitz,exploring TYPOGRPHY, Thomson Demar Learning, 2006, printed in USA

BNW TV commercial Series

These following are TV commercials for BNW car. Let's take a look ^^

An Indian ad ^^

A nice and funny Indian ad found on web, let's take a look ^_^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7g4e5m5aRc

The designer dilemma

I found a very interesting topic that as a designer you should care of it.

The problem given by this topic is that as a designer, you must satisfy your client; and doing this may result in "not-your-design" at all.

What do you think about this?

This topic was given by David Byrne, you can access to his site by clicking the link below to see the whole article and leave your feedback about the problem.

http://www.davidbyrne.net.au/

Some nice safe-sex posters found on web

I like the first one a lot because it's a cartoon-based image. A couple with a happy face covered by a condom or in other words, have sex with condoms . This means that "wearing condoms to protect not only yourself but also your partner" (this sentence is just my first figuring message when I get first look ^^) .... Wow very simple but very strong message :D . Nice ^_^

http://www.blog.fr/community/profile_photo_sizes.php?item_ID=639189

Unlike the first one, the second one is very realistic. I'm not sure about the visual message of the artwork without the supporting text "safe sex is hot sex". But the artwork is really cool that can draw people's attention and then have them noticed about the text "safe sex is hot sex". In my opinion, it is effective in someway. This is also my favourite one :P.

http://www.posterservice.com/bigpics/20166.jpg

The third one is another version of the second one. This one was designed for a very dedicate audience in our society: homosexualmen. For that reason, it is not so nice to see so I'm not going to include the poster here visually. For you guys who get interest, click on the link to observe more ^^.

http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/VC/B/B/F/Z/

We now can see that unsafe sex now becomes a really serious issue in the world. There are millions of people in the world now are suffering the result of thier unsafe sex. Most of stituations can be traced into their lack of knowledge about how to have sex safely... To solve such an issue, we must let them know about how to have safe sex by using condoms, for instance.

The above posters are effective visual methods to tell them about safe sex. The audience is not only for nomal people but also for other ones (the third one is one example).

The link below can show you some more cute posters.

http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/VC/Views/Exhibit/visuals/hiv.html

My Safe-Sex Poster

This is my accomplished poster which is to encourage people to wear condoms to have safe sex as well as protect themselves from dangerous disease: AIDS

The work was done in Illustrator which is a great tool for creating vector-based images.


The main artwork was first sketched out on a paper, then be scanned and imported to Illustrator. After that, the pen and brush tool were used to manually trace the outline of the artwork. Finally, colors were filled for each objects in the main artwork.


I have applied the closure concept in gestalt to the main text to make the whole design look more interesting as well as to get attention from viewers when thier eyes continue observing the remaining of the poster after the main artwork at the center.

Playing with Text (expansion)

The repetition of text create an illusion of expansion which is expanding broader and broader...

Playing with Text (compression)

This is compression made of the repetition of compression from out to in.....