LED Sign Animations

As i am creating the identity for two shops one in the Netherlands and on in the UK  i thought i would up load the first images of the shop for the Netherlands which is a shop that is in fact one giant vending machine. The aim of the identity for this shop is to remind every one of the impersonal use of this type of shop but in the same way add the tacky Japanese charm that makes it seem high tech and alluring.

The typeface i built for this identity has elements of De Stijl in its style this is to be connotative to the fact that this shop is currently in the Netherlands and not to alienate the locals.

The Beginnings of Typomotion

Beginnings of a experiment in to creating typefaces that connote emotions, using a neutral typeface as a base layer i will attempt to build a font family that caters for all arrays of emotions. the typefaces themselves will not be the only part of this on going project i hope this will tern in to a major exploration and will evolve in to other areas such as page layout and so on the first part is a test for a current typography project next will be a type theory research and i will continue from there on.

Cromwell Identity Sketch

This was a real challenge trying to sketch out cheep design Cromwell news is a newsagents in London, and as part of my identity project i wonted to try designing for some one that docent need a flashy trendy designs but designed so it will attract the right customers. I know this is not a final sketch just wonted to get some more work up on my blog keep a eye out for the final designs at the end of this week.

Design Philosophy ( Size of Type )

I have recently been asking many questions about my own theory’s on design and the connotations of image, so i have decided to record all of these on my blog hopefully people will find them interesting. More than anything i hope to gain responses and maybe even start debates on the meaning of image.

If Weston culture’s standers of meaning states the larger the word the more emphasis should be placed on it, why is it then that often the most important things are said in hushed tones? So in the case of showing verbal emotion in the form the written word should a whisper be larger than a scream? On the other hand a scream creates a larger distortion in the audio atmosphere surrounding it, so no wonder its presence distorts the visual space on a page.

If this is the case though words are displayed in a linear 2D order so therefor how can a large word show the effect a scream has on the layers of noise in a 3D dimension. What i am trying to say is, should the way of emphasizing the emotions that verbal communication conveys in the in written form for example a book, base the size of the type on the importance of the words themselves as when important words are spoken they are just as griping as a word spoken loudly. The only difference being an important word dose not startle the receiver in the sense to physically make them jump.

Is there room for new ways of thinking after century’s of reinforced visual language, or can exploring the way in which we represent the spoken word unearth new ways in which to communicate to people on a global level, rather than just within our western cultures.

I Phone Passport

A new project set by cross labs is to create a new passport system for the i phone. The new passport needs to make use of all new capability of the digital world. So i started thinking about how much data that we all leave open for every one to see and collect on the net.

As a first quick experiment with data on the net i built a test 3D view of myself only using face book photos, the thing i am interested in is for what other purpose can we use the data people voluntarily put on the net, to build a more revealing image of them than actually they wished to display on the net.

Abstraction Finished

If you have a laptop rotate it 90 degrees on the vertical plain and hit full screen to watch in correct setting, if on a Desktop computer hit full screen and rotate head 90 degrees counter clockwise.


Morgan Printed

 

Final Printed Magazine

Size: A3

As you can see from the first image i experimented with hand chalking lettering over laser printed paper. This technique will be something i am going to look in to and see what is capable.

A Few Spreads from the Morgen Mag

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Morgan Mag Cover Edited

Hear is 2 images one before water one after i was thinking about having the one on the front being before water and the back after as a metaphor for the magazine being about preparing for the water.  There will be a white border around the image of about 4mm maybe larger. Hopefully i  will be printing this on an off white paper with a grainy texture slightly thicker than news print.

let me know what you think?

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Morgen Mag Cover

This is how i made the cover:

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The only thing i am disappointed with in this situation is the fact he chalk hasn’t dripped/ you cant see visual water marks through the chalk.