Walk on the Wild Side: Music editing is key

A very suspenseful and illuminating vignette a street fight...albeit 2 cats and 2 crows.

A great storyline here for sure. Just watch and you'll become even more aware of just how important a musical score is when it is given just the right amount of narrative.
This could very easily be a scene out of "West Side Story" or "The Sopranos."
The crows deserve the Oscar for Best Supporting Goons to the black cat.

Just thinking ahead to Film and TV Design for the Spring.

Use it, or Loose it

The Final Week

Hope each of you are having a great holiday week!

Just wanted to catch you up on what is due the final week in Advanced Typography.

Our Final Critique is Thursday December 2nd at 11am. Do not arrive late.
Please have your 13-Month Calendar ready for review. You should also have a written creative brief along with your printed calendar.

*I will also need a CD/DVD with all the work you've completed for Advanced Typography this semester on Thursday December 2nd.
This hi-res pdf CD/DVD should include work for your self portrait and time line, Illustrative Alphabet and Advertisement, Wine/Olive Oil and packaging,
Final Calendar with individual calendar page layouts (including front and back.) Your blog assignments should be completed by Monday December 6th.

**Please include any revisions for any of the projects listed above on your CD/DVD. Make sure you put the original version and then your reworked versions.
You can include anything you feel is relative to your final grade on this CD/DVD as well. Comps, sketches, etc.

LOOKING AHEAD TO SPRING 2011:
You still have a few weeks of the Lynda.com AfterEffects Tutorials that you should take time to review before Spring Semester when we jump
right into the Kinetic Typography Project. Please try to learn/play with some version of AfterEffects prior to January. This will help you immensely.

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Happy Thanksgiving Juniors 2010!

Preparing for the Calendar Project

Bindery Depot

If you are looking to have anything bound with WIRO (not that cheap plastic curly stuff) then head off to The Bindery Dept in Norcross. They have provided for our students in the past and while you wait usually. You have to be specific with them what you want. Also what color WIRO you want. WIRO is the metal wiring that binds any document or materials together for easy turning.

Make sure that you ALLOW for the WIRO when you are designing your Calendar. Usually 1/4 will do on your document, but make sure. This place is cheap and professional and really helpful.

Bindery Depot
(770) 446-0997
6432 Warren Dr
Norcross, GA 30093

For Christine (B Side)

Click to make larger so you can really investigate the pattern more.

www.feelfreetosmile.com

www.feelfreetosmile.com/2010/09/amazing-calendar-designs/

www.saulbasstv.com

Good Stuff Here

courtesy www.Flavorwire.com and www.strongstufftom.blogspot.com/m
Tom Wahalen Illustration and Design for Film Posters

Mouscacho Calendars by Jasho Salazar

You can find him on Flickr

Print your own calendar

www.empapers.com/calendars/printable-2011-calendar-creative-inspiration

Traditional yet creative in grid layout and color palette.

www.design-milk.com/2010-modern-calendars/

Embossed and letter pressed. dig it.

Pentagram Calendar

courtesy Pentagram.com

The 2007 edition of our popular typographic calendar is here! Designed by Kit Hinrichs, the award-winning calendar displays a classic typeface each month, with brief descriptions of the type designers, their birthdays, plus all major holidays for the United States and United Kingdom.

History of Typography Is Celebrated in Pentagram-Designed 2007 Classic Calendar

An extraordinary history of typeface development, reflecting prevailing limitations or technological advances, lies behind apparently ordinary letters or numbers found on familiar objects. Very few of us are aware of the rich cultural history behind what we read. The 2007 Pentagram Classic Typographic Calendar, designed by Kit Hinrichs, partner of the legendary international multi-disciplinary design consultancy Pentagram, captures the essence of typeface development.

Each calendar month is distinguished by a unique typeface selected by Hinrichs, which is accompanied by a short synopsis of its genesis. His selections include popular and obscure typefaces, whose origins span contemporary (created digitally) to 15th century roots (created using hand-drawn characters) by some of the industry’s acclaimed typographers, as well as those lesser-known. All characters and digits appearing in the calendar have been redrawn digitally.

For instance, “Whitney” (July), designed by Tobias Frere-Jones for the Whitney Museum in New York, was created for the institution in a multitude of applications. The result is a typeface, which successfully tackles the often-conflicting demands across multiple forms of media, from catalogs, directory listings to signage.

“Requiem” (April), designed by Jonathan Hoefler, was eventually developed for Travel and Leisure magazine. Its origins are based on inscriptional capitals appearing in Ludovico Vicentinodegli Arrighi’s 1523 writing manual, “Il Modo de Temperare le Penne.” He added ornaments, italic ligatures and other elements.

“Janson” (February), designed by Nicholas Kis (1650 to 1702) was the forerunner to many 20th century fonts. This classic typeface was named after the Dutch letter founder Anton Janson. Kis’s career as a type designer began when he was a theology student from Transylvania. He was sent to Holland to supervise the printing of a bible. He became fascinated with type design and continued his life as a type designer.

“I wanted to bring a new awareness of typographic design through this calendar,” says Kit Hinrichs. “Typefaces are pervasive in our daily lives in everything we read and see around us and yet most people are oblivious of them or the circumstances in which they were created. We can gain a new perspective on our world by studying the origin of typefaces. I hope the calendar will encourage a new sensitivity to the importance of typeface usage.”

Past calendar months have a new lease of life as gift-wrapping paper. By selecting the appropriate month, circling the day with a marker pen and writing a personal greeting, each calendar month is transformed into a unique gift-wrap, offering a creative way of conveying your message and saving a few trees along the way. The calendar ultimately provides up to 12 different types of wrapping paper.

This collectible calendar is designed in both wall and desk formats and includes U.S. and U.K. national and public holidays. The design challenge was to create a classic, clear and simple calendar, for home and office use. The calendar is designed in two sizes; a super size 33-by-22 inch version, which is packaged in a tube and suitable for wall hanging and a smaller 18-by-12 inch version for wall and desk-use, which is packaged in shrink wrap.

The graphic look, application and typographically sensitive style of Pentagram’s calendar echoes the firm’s core design values: simple, clean and timeless design and a rigorous, strategic, ideas-based approach to the design process, always celebrating the craft of the individual designer.

Kit Hinrichs leads Pentagram San Francisco’s graphic design team with expertise in branding, corporate communications, promotion, packaging, editorial and exhibition design. He is a recipient of the AIGA medal—the design industry’s highest award. His work has been honored and published widely, and several of his pieces are part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and San Francisco, and the Library of Congress. He is co-author of 4 books, Vegetables, Stars & Stripes, Typewise and Long May She Wave. Currently, he is a trustee of Art Center College of Design and serves on the Design and Architecture Accessions committee at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His clients include United Airlines, Design Within Reach, Sappi Corporation, Muzak, University of Southern California and Symantec.

Swiss Miss Calendar

courtesy www.swiss-miss.com/2007/08/noa-bembibre-ca.html

What is a Calendar?

Designed by Susanna Hertrich, the Chrono-shredder is a poetic time-object that reminds us of transiency of now and today. It combines the functions of a calendar and a clock, but shreds every single day in real time as it passes. The time that can neither be seen or touched, gets a tangible existence in the form of shredded paper. And, as the days pass by they pile up as the reminder of the mess in the past.
www.crunchpost.com/13-creative-calendar-designs/

http://mrkwvr.com

Why hasn't the Design Club asked him to come speak yet?
He's a troubador of design in Atlanta.

www.eduardorecife.com

Friends of Type

www.friendsoftype.com/

Wine/Olive Oil/Sake Critique: Photo Edition, Part 1

Thanks to each of you for allowing me to take the past few days to move through all your creative work on the Wine/Olive Oil/Sake Redesigns. I wanted to honor the time and energy each of you put into the project. Aside from some of the obvious craftsmanship problems I think the designs are strong and competitive. I'll post more photos in the next few days with your permission. It's good to see the work from another angle and also in retrospect. You are an amazingly vocal class with regards to giving one another comments and criticisms. This is invaluable. Keep it up!

What if....

What if you created a small calendar booklet (much like this one) that was based on automobiles or transportation. The size and shape and construction of the calendar could be very simple.
Courtesy: www.grainedit.com/2010/10/26/vintage-citroen-ephemera/