Our Christmas Tree Poster designs

Our AWESOME gun design poster

Our Alice in Wonderland Poster

Our Magazine Carnival Food Ad

Our Ransom Note

Thanksgiving text TURKEY!!

2nd Book Cover Example

Book Cover Back Demonstrating Kerning

We created this Book Cover over the summer during our Internship. Never got a chance to finish it and fix the kerning. Sooo, we decided to fix it now as a real life example of text. Here ya go. :0)

Sebastian Lester

Sebastain Lester is a type desginer and typographic illustrator who works out of London. His creative type creations are used by Intel,Apple, Dell, The New York Times and the Sunday Times. He has recently started producing limited edition art prints which are becoming increasingly popular and collectible. Lester is very passionate about letterforms. He was inspired by some of finest lettering in history but aimed to produce work that looks contemporary stylish and relevant today. We notice his style of letterforms are curvy and almost always accentuates the foot of the letterform

type art project - I like my hair

type art example found
type project copied in a slightly different way

More kerning examples

Adobe kerning example: http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/indesign/articles/indcs2mrkerning.html

Our above example the first word is the computers font default and the second we fixed the kerning in indesign. We did this for three different fonts: times roman, verdana, orator std.

distorting text

playing with words

Poster design we found in steps using good Kerrning skills

The next step is the hardest or maybe I should say it takes a lot of time to get this to look just right. You will have to write a lot of words and move each word into each letter of the “ALPHABET” word. You are free to position and transform the words as you wish. Also, the font used here is called American Typewriter and I moved all the words into a folder called “ALPHABET.”

As you can see, I have colored some of the letters with red. I did this to highlight the quote I told you about. Also, to give a greater impact to the effect, if you look in the lower side of the letters, they seem to be falling down. This adds more movement to the composition.

This site http://graphixworld.wordpress.com/page/2/ was very helpful. We will try one of these for our next project!! =)

Kerning

Paul Rand

Paul Rand was a well known American Graphic Designer. He was best known for his corporate designs. He went to Parsons School of Design, Pratt and the Art Student Design League. He was one of the originators of the Swiss style of Graphic Design. I found it very fasinating how he taught Design at Yale University in new Haven for a few years. He has designed many posters and corporate identies, including the logos of IBM, UPS, and ABC. In 1972 he was inducted into the New York Art directors club hall of fame!! I found it so amazing how he was so close to Albertus and he was even buried in Cnnecticut after his tragic death in 1996 from cancer. He has made such an impact on our nation with his logos and designs, I feel he was truly an iconic designer of his time!

David Carson

David Carson is an American Graphic designer and typographer. He was the most influential graphic designer of the nineties. At the time, he was known for his "grunge typography". Carson is known also for his magazine design and experimental typography. I find him to be very talented and admirable considering he is basically a self-taught designer. His layouts in magazines featured distortions or mixes of vernacular typefaces and fractured imagery. He rendered them almost illegible, leaving it all up to the mind of the viewer. He just designed the cover of the Yale University Art Gallery. I really like his use of imagery with the distorted text. It brings his art a lot of character and use of imagination.

Amanda and Alyssa's experimentation on filling shapes

We tried to create a broken heart effect but kind of failed.. we need to learn next class this is PART I

More Text and Images

Amanda and Alyssa's Synopsis of Marian Bantjes

Marian Bantjies is recognized as an outspoken and widely published Canadian. Marian Bantjies is also known to have taught courses at the Emily Carr Institute. With no formal arts education, Bantjies has still garnered the occasional award, though she stresses she has only been nominated out of the kindness of other people's hearts. She is a very talented graphic artist and hopes to be satisfied with all she has done in her life when she dies. She became known for her work on the LJ in ESPN magazine (below). We feel she is very talented with art work being a trained typographer. Her clients include Pentagram (Michael Bierut), Stefan Sagmeister, Saks Fifth Avenue, Maharam, Ogilvy & Mather Chicago, Young & Rubicam Chicago, Random House, Houghton Mifflin, Wallpaper*, WIRED, The Guardian (UK), The New York Times, among many others. She has also designed materials for the AIGA, TypeCon 2007, and the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC). It was fun to recognize her work when we searched her name in Google images, she is truly passionate about her work.

Alyssa and Amanda Swan Poem Reflection

Alyssa and Amanda Love Poem Poster Art

Alyssa and Amanda Analysis on Walter Landor

Walter was a German branding artist. He established forms and symbols to his designs creating logos and an idenity for such famous companies. Such as Dole, Kelloggs, Gallo wine, BP gas station, nickelodeon, world wild life fundation, cotton, del monte, bank of america, levis, and many more. Most of his designs are still in use today. He communicates through his audience with nostalgic symbols that are truly timeless.

We feel Walters' designs are simple in nature but bold in identity. Thety create a statement without too much symbolisim. They are COOL ;o)

Alyssa and Amanda's opinion of Saul Bass

Saul Bass is an American Graphic Designer, however he worked with type to express his creative ideas in his art. Saul was responsible for some of the most poopular iconic logos in North America, including Continental Airlines and AT&T logo. We think Saul doesn't really go above and beyond with his typography. We found that the art was more the main focus instead of the typeface. He doesn't really distort fonts to conform to the art work like many other typography artists do in their creative pieces. He is more of a simple designer in nature.