More Typography Related Stuff that Inspires Me

I pulled all of these from Flickr. Try tag searching flickr for "Information Design," "Typography," "Corporate Identity," etc.

I don't wanna hear any more complaining...

...about fabricating boxes or books for our GRD classes. Cardboard art:






The sources: 1 2 3 4 5

Blog Post: 40 Exquisite Independant Film Posters

These are my favourites.







Link to the Original Blog Post

10 Tips to Avoid Designer’s Block

1. GET “LOOSE.”
In my experience, there is a danger in sitting down and trying to get right into a design (or drawing.) If the very first time your pencil hits paper you need to be drawing exactly what you’re intending to be your final piece of art – you’ll have a tendency to “tighten up.” You can literally feel your muscles tighten as you start to put down a hard crisp pencil line. As a designer if you don’t start out by getting loose, your brain tightens up on exactly what you think the final design should look like.

2. FIND INSPIRATION.
3. GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE “GAME.”
4. GIVE YOURSELF TIME.
5. HAVE FUN WITH A NEW TECHNIQUE OR TOY.
6. LOWER YOUR EXPECTATIONS.
7. BE AWARE OF YOUR DIFFICULTY LEVEL.
8. EAT A PROPER DIET.
9. GET YOUR SLEEP.
10. TAKE A WALK.

Link to the Expanded Article

How to easily make Blood or Paint Splatters in Illustrator

I was reworking my Giant Robot magazine and the Gloomy Bear spreads, and I was getting sick of producing blood splatters with the pen tool, so I figured out a new way to do it. You can produce lots of them, with pseudo-random variations, in a few seconds each.

Step 1: Select the star tool. Option+Click somewhere on the artboard and give the star some properties. You can copy mine.


Step 2: Use the roughen Effect. Turn on the live preview with the checkbox, and tweak the values til you're satisfied.




Step 3: Make a few additional smaller splatters.


Step 4: If you need to, you can Expand Appearance, which will make it a regular path, rather than a star shape with Roughen applied to it.

Did you know?

...that the stuff we learned about AfterEffects two semesters ago could be used to make big bucks at Sony BMG's design department making videos like this, but apparently the same learned stuff will be useless in 2 more years. On one hand I feel like a well qualified designer ahead of the curve, on the other, I feel like our job will always be a full speed catch up game that you never win, you just keep playing. Not that that would be so bad. What the hell am I talking about? Watch the video.

Don't Flinch When You're Giving Blood

And if you do, and your arm turns a weird shade of greenish brown and swells up really bad, don't waste hours in the doctor's office to have a guy with 8 years of college tell you it's a bruise and to take ibuprofen*.

*Go to the doctor and don't sue me.

Awesome Blog we should all shake our heads at in disgust

Photoshop Disasters

This really belongs on my blog from typography class.

There's a job opening for a Graphic Designer at TIME Magazine

Or at least there should be.

Look at the shadow cast by the voting booth.

Americans scare me sometimes.

The fed just released a new design for the $1 Bill

Graphic Artist Wisdom

They say that a 3 second tweak by the photographer will save you 3 hours in photoshop. Well, a 3 second tweak by a videographer will save you 36 hours in after effects.

If you ever hear someone say "don't worry, your-name can fix that in post-production," just go ahead and punch them in the face.

I bookmark stuff constantly

and then I go back to it when I need inspiration











A few of these were found on one of my favourite blogs- I Love Typography

M.H. Identity (in progress)