my flash animation

Here it is... my VERY first flash animation!!
Click the image below to watch.
(Too many hearts? Yes I heard you..)

monograms

I had to create a monogram for the photographer [Matthew Malcham] who I worked with the last quarter for my blue cheese ad. He likes simple, clean, and modern style, so this is what I came up with.
He liked the very top one the best but also liked the frames that I used for the second one. So I made a slight change - this is the final piece.


Matthew told me that he likes it a lot, so that was a happy momet :) I'm glad it worked out.
(I spent so much time looking at Ms in the past two weeks!)

si scott design

Si Scott Design (the website is under construction for a moment) has amazing type/design work. All the images shows in their slide show is very powerful, and I just found out that they are all HAND-DRAWN!
Very impressive and inspiring.




I also found a YouTube video of Mr. Si Scott hand drawing his design. Click here to watch it.

Jessica Hische

I absolutely love her work. It's one of the most prettiest designs I've ever seen.

Her official website, which I could spend hours to just look at it.

Book Cover Designs

The book Cover Archive is a great place to visit to find excellent book cover designs and designers. I think pretty much all the books that I own came with boring dust jackets. I wish my books were wrapped around those fabulous design works..

An Archive of Book Cover Designs and Designers

Einstein Posters

For this week, we were given an Einstein's quote to work with for Marc's poster class. This is what I presented. I quickly came up with a concept but had a hard time visualizing it..

My classmates said that I should attach a pink marker to the side of the poster so that people can actually draw things on this. I love my classmates.

I actually liked the first version of my poster very much, so I would like to post it as well. It might be a fun idea to give these posters to zoologists or biologists who know so much about penguins!

word flakes

I forgot to post the first assignment that we did in our experimental typography class. We made snowflakes made out of wintery words. It was a fun experiment :)

1) snowbird, type: Desdemona

2) snowberry, type: Edwardian Script

3) snowangel, type: Rosewood

Letter Analogy

I just finished my assignment for my Experimental Typography class. We had to create a collage of letters found in magazines, newspapers, posters or any printed source. I had a hard time coming up with a good idea, but I think I'm happy with the result. Here it is.
The bird is made out of the letter K, Rs (head feathers), and O and decorative U (for the wing). I named him Koru. The tree is made out of the letters of the word tree. And the music note is made out of O, I, and J. They were all letters that I found in old magazines. I thought the letter k that I randomly found was very pretty, so I wanted to use it somehow. I'm glad it worked out.

What type are you?

My typography teacher Jennifer showed us an interesting website last week. The password is: character - after answering 4 questions, they'll tell you what typeface you are. If you would like to try, visit here.

I was archer hairline :)

Another interesting website is here (type is art .com).

Craig Ward

Craig Ward is a senior designer and typographer at Grey New York in London. I stumbled on his work while I was browsing the web and quite liked it. It's very inspirational!

Ink and Water Don't Mix, Subscribers poster for Computer Arts Projects

GQ/The Science of Sex, Headline Treatment

Angels Psalms, Book Cover

ADC Young Gun 7, Identity and Collateral

Accept and Proceed

Love Child, Typeface Design

Wish You Were Here

MTV, Letterpressed Logo Treatment

His website: http://www.wordsarepictures.co.uk/

Bob Dylan Poster

Tuesday's class is Marc's poster class. We'll be producing one poster a week. For the first week, we were given a Bob Dylan's quote and told to create a poster for it. This is what I came up with.



The type is small and not really readable from far away, but my intention is to make people come up closer and find out what it says :)

1st post

This blog is going to be my collection of design, typography, and any other graphic-design related inspiration! I'm excited to share all the great art work out there with other people :)