Inconspicuous eh?
My old Apricorn External HDD was sittin’ around, held together by gorilla tape, lookin’ all sad and what-not. So I took the HDD and small board on the inside out of the case, and noticed they would fit nicely into a moleskine notebook, of which I have many lying around. So I cut the center out of all 80 pages of a Moleskine sketch book to form a cavity, you know like you would make if you were hiding a flask in a bible, and placed the HDD inside. And I recorded a time lapse of it too! read on →
One of my refined symbols at 3" and 1"
You may remember that seemingly torturous exercise I posted photo evidence of a little while back? Well after two more weeks of development, this is where those 1,750 symbols have gotten me. I first narrowed all 1,750 down to my four strongest solutions, then from there chose one of the concepts to refine even further. This tree constructed of speech bubbles stems from the root words “growth” and “democracy”. read on →
Sanguine Conte on Ingres, 40x28
In light of my tonal short-comings on last weeks drawing home studio work, I chose to use a lighter conte for this piece to try and focus on the mid-tones. I tried to make what was a very straightforward assignment a little more interesting with the composition, though I am not sure how successful I think I was quite yet.
I love the lightswitch and the delicate, organic tones on the wall around it. “Sassypposto,” its like contrapposto but way sassier.
Dealing with the fatties today: Arial Black, Gadget, and Impact. These fonts are much heavier in weight and very often will not change appearance when you apply a text style, such as bold or italic, to them. They can give your headings a lot of extra punch and give your whole site more character, but they should be used sparingly and NEVER in a large chunk of content unless you want all of your viewers/readers to leave forever. read on →
A potential design for my soccer team's jerseys
Our soccer team at MICA needs some jerseys, this is what they may look like. Click on the image to see a larger, cleaner version; Wordpress’ resizing function is compressing this particular image quite unsatisfactorily.
Letters of a hypothetical font formed with a dot grid
Some recent typographic study work of mine. I am working with a grid of dots to explore the properties of different letter-forms, the ways in which you can distort letters while still keeping them legible, and the uniformity and pattern of letters within a font. I will be using the above “font” I have created as a template for tangible letters I plan to build (a la Stephen Doyle) out of dowels. Expect photo evidence of that by next week. More explorations in the full article. read on →
Continuing the sans-serif fonts, today I am addressing Verdana, Geneva, and Tahoma in terms of the web. Verdana is classified as a humanist font, and the only one of the aforementioned three found on both Windows and Mac operating systems (Tahoma was not bundled with Mac until OSX 10.5 [Leopard]). read on →
1,750 words and symbols I created in one week
Aren’t we all always searching for inspiration? Perhaps you browse CSS Remix to get the gears turning on your latest web layout; or maybe you take a dip in Logo Pond to help your brainstorming on a logotype. Did you ever think about sitting down and using free association to come up with 1,750 “random” words and then drawing each and every one of those words? No. You probably haven’t. But you should, and here’s why:
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