fellowgraphites

Blog on Identity Deign

2011-04-15T17:17:00.005+05:30

http://www.oberholtzer-creative.com/visualculture/

In efforts to revive the blog, here's blog featuring a good collection of identities.

THE SCENT OF DESIGN

2010-07-27T11:45:00.005+05:30

Interesting projects carried out by some designers in relating Design and scent.

the link: http://seedmagazine.com/slideshow/the_scent_of_design/

Interesting free fonts

2010-06-08T17:44:00.002+05:30

Check out this link for some free fonts.

http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/index.html

Handeye mag

2010-05-11T09:54:00.000+05:30

http://www.handeyemagazine.com/

Posemaniacs

2010-04-21T16:51:00.001+05:30

http://www.posemaniacs.com/

Since we can't sit and beg a certain pc to take his shirt off in the erstwhile furniture studio on saturday mornings anymore.

So, you need a typeface?

2010-04-20T15:56:00.001+05:30

an infographic

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Typeface

2010-04-03T11:05:00.002+05:30

a Design Observer article by Michael Bierut.

Read.

ROCK N ROLL ROAD MAP

2010-03-11T16:19:00.003+05:30

Just picked this one up from a friend of mine.
* love *

What they don’t teach you about identity design in design schools… by contributor Paula Scher

2010-03-04T14:01:00.004+05:30

Check out the article below by Paula Scher. Link also given. From the little experience I have had, all her words ring true!Identity design and branding works SOOOOOOO differently outside design school.

http://www.identityworks.com/forum/logo-design/what-they-dont-teach-you-about-identity-design-in-design-schools/

… And what you can’t learn from blogs.

One of the most often repeated refrains on design blogs, in the critique of a new logo, is “Any design student could do a better job.” This ubiquitous comment is especially amusing to me because, well, it’s mostly true. If you judge virtually every new logo designed today by classical design school standards, the kids in school are doing a better job. This is because of the way logo and identity design are taught in so many schools, and what that exercise is meant to accomplish.

In design school, identity design is all about the form of the logo. A student will be given the problem: “design a logo for such and such organization,” and then the student may spend the better part of the next six months refining the form of a mark (or a wordmark), and then they sometimes transfer that word mark to a piece of stationery, or a shopping bag, or some other item (often a truck, and regardless of what school they attend, they all seem to magically use the same generic truck drawing.) And after six months of criticism and refinement, a good student will usually produce a formalistically beautiful logo. There may be some discussion in class about the appropriateness of the logo for the business. But the main goal will be to make the logo recognizable, with strong aesthetic attributes that will enable the logo to “stand alone.”

The design school exercise is indeed a good way to develop craft skills, and hopefully when the student becomes a professional he/she will learn to get fast at it, and achieve that work in the course of a week as opposed to six months. And there, any similarity between real identity design and a design school exercise ends.

Identity design, for any organization containing more than three people, is the act of diplomatically negotiating personal egos, tastes, and aspirations of various invested individuals against their business needs, their pre-formed expectations, and the constraints of the market place. Making something formalistically beautiful, while desirable, is a more private part of the process, something that the designer needs to achieve incidentally, not something that can appear to be an overt motivating cause. (This is because form is subjective, and not an easily argued position when a designer is trying to get their client to feel comfortable assuming a new identity.)

When organizations are larger, their identities often need to be designed as systems (kits of parts) that allow for complicated organizational subsets to exist and therefore give organizations and corporations the ability to partially personalize departments or sub-brands. Systems often demand that logos become more neutral so they can more effectively accommodate all necessary secondary information. A complicated logo design, one that might “stand alone” in a design class may simply look too busy in this real-world kind of context.

Often the identity of an organization that has many subsets can best be brought to life by the use of its supportive materials within the systems (promotion pieces, packaging, websites, signs, merchandising materials). This is an especially effective methodology because it can allow for a logo or identity system to gain resonance and recognition over time in connection to materials that are capable of being far more expressive than logos. For example the Nike logo, which has evolved over time into its current form, became a powerful symbol to the masses because of its effective use in advertising campaigns. The “cool” of the logo happened in connection to some brilliant campaigns by Wieden & Kennedy, and the effective positioning of the mark on merchandising materials. As pure form, if the “swoosh” appeared alone in a design school critique (or on a design blog) it would most likely have been dismissed as too thin, weak, and pointy, looking like a checkmark and not really conveying motion.

Logos become iconic over time, through their use and in combination with an overall perception of a brand. They shouldn’t be judged purely as form and out of context, as they are on design blogs, because it takes a period of time for a logo to establish itself in the marketplace, just as it takes a magazine a year or so to establish its personality.

Another thing they don’t teach you in design school is what you get paid for. Right alongside the blog complaint that “any design student could do a better job” is the comment that the designer at hand got “hundreds of thousands of dollars to design that logo that could have been better designed by a design student.”

I never knew a designer that got hundreds of thousands of dollars to design a logo. Mostly, designers get paid to negotiate the difficult terrain of individual egos, expectations, tastes, and aspirations of various individuals in an organization or corporation, against business needs, and constraints of the marketplace. This is a process that can take a year or more. Getting a large, diverse group of people to agree on a single new methodology for all of their corporate communications means the designer has to be a strategist, psychiatrist, diplomat, showman, and even a Svengali. The complicated process is worth money. That’s what clients pay for. The process, usually a series of endless presentations and refinements, persuasions and proofs, results, hopefully, in an accepted identity design.

Some branding firms employ strategists and account executives to manage the process. I’m in favor of designers doubling as strategists, or at least working extensively with them. I think the designer needs to be involved every stage of the complicated negotiation between the clients, their expectations, tastes, aspirations, marketplace concerns etc. The designer needs to be ever present because, inevitably, at some side meeting, something will be suggested that will totally destroy the form of the logo. Something can be suggested innocently, with the best of intentions, that will scuttle all plans, compromise all standards, and destroy the integrity of the design. The only person who can know this and stop this is the designer. And the reason that the designer knows it is… well, they learned it in design school.

Pictograms video

2010-03-03T17:16:00.005+05:30

Very fun video from The New York Times.

Designer Steven Heller traces the evolution

of the tiny symbols for each Olympic sport

since their appearance in 1936.

the link: pictograms

Unique Die Cut Business Cards You Should Check Out

2010-02-26T22:37:00.003+05:30

http://www.bestbusinesscard.net/25-unique-die-cut-business-cards-you-should-check-out

Have you heard of die cut business cards? For those who are not familiar with the word “die cut” –in commercial printing, it actually refers to a process in which paper stock are cut to create special shapes by using sharp steel blades called a die. That is why irregularly shaped printed materials such as business cards are called that way. Having a die cut or “shaped” cards are a great way to make your cards stand out and unforgettable for the obvious reason that it differs from the regular rectangular cards of most people and businesses.

BBC digital- a new visual language

2010-02-24T10:15:00.002+05:30

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/02/a_new_global_visual_language_f.html

grids, layouts, typography and lots more.

link from Aparna Ranjan

cool music website with great interface

2010-02-19T19:29:00.003+05:30

got this link from Suresh

www.musicovery.com

Bookmarking

2010-01-30T14:33:00.002+05:30

...taken to a new level :)

http://www.icoeye.com/blog/?p=125

paper in action

2010-01-30T13:34:00.001+05:30

Artea

2010-01-28T18:35:00.001+05:30

The never ending fascination for chai :D

Art with tea.

http://www.teamuse.com/archive_tea_in_art.html

Sherlock Holmes

2010-01-25T12:54:00.005+05:30

I watched Sherlock Holmes yesterday. Although I missed the opening credits of the movie, I was glued to my seat for the closing credits of the film. Beautiful mix of illustration, calligraphy and ink blots.

Fully <3 ed it.

***

The behind the scenes of the Sherlock Holmes credit sequence.
The link has the options that Prologue went through before they arrived at the final one.

http://graphic-exchange.com/exellence/prologue.htm

More on the Prologue website.
www.prologue.com

Tree Installations

2010-01-20T11:33:00.003+05:30

This Japanese lady does really pretty tree installations! She cuts pieces of a branch or twig n then places them in a jar and stacks them up to resemble the original. Very interesting and creative !

Here is the link to her work - http://naoko-ito.com/website01.html

Indian Folk Designs

2009-12-22T18:55:00.001+05:30

Collection of Folk Designs from all over India.

http://indianfolkdesigns.blogspot.com/2008/07/folk-designs-from-bihar.html

2009-12-20T20:46:00.003+05:30

“ The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee.
It permits a number of possible uses and each
designer can look for a solution appropriate to his
personal style. But one must learn how to use the
grid; it is an art that requires practice. ”
Josef Müller-Brockmann

What is a Print?

2009-11-11T12:54:00.002+05:30

http://www.moma.org/interactives/projects/2001/whatisaprint/flash.html

Pictorial Websters

2009-10-31T17:42:00.003+05:30

Pictorial Webster's: Inspiration to Completion from John Carrera on Vimeo.

Found link on Tarun's fb page.

Design Less, Think More

2009-10-20T14:19:00.003+05:30

Read this article some time back. Thought would be nice to share it. Though in some context it might just mean talk more, design less.

here is the link: www.aiga.org

Whiff of Relief

2009-10-19T18:42:00.003+05:30

Interesting!~

An Adbusters article I had come across a while back. I feel it serves its purpose and fills the reader with hope for an otherwise bleak future..

https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/82/machinery_of_hopelessness.html

boy + design

2009-10-09T18:11:00.002+05:30

a recent graphic design graduate from France with a refreshing new take on information graphics (refer project one and two).
here is the link to more of his awesomeness

enjoi!

5th annual Typophile film festival opening credits

2009-09-17T18:46:00.007+05:30

Handmade by students and faculty at Brigham Young University (BYU), the opening-title for the 5′th annual Typophile Film Festival, is a bona fide type de force. Uniquely inspired by the 5 Senses, the designers stir up a theme that describes how sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch inform human creativity.

It is amazing to see how differently they have used typography to show these five senses.

The Link: 5th annual Typophile Film Festival

Serious/Solemn

2009-09-11T11:57:00.001+05:30

TED Talks.
Paula Scher on the difference between being serious and being solemn (while designing).

Can also be viewed here.

The India Tube

2009-09-09T16:35:00.001+05:30

The India Tube

Learn Something Everyday

2009-09-01T14:10:00.000+05:30

http://www.learnsomethingeveryday.co.uk/

from Shivanjali

Hi

2009-08-29T18:04:00.004+05:30

Just a reminder...

All the posts on this blog are labelled to make it easier to search for a specific post at any point of time. While posting, click on the 'Show all' button on the bottom right of the posting area. It gives a list of all the labels that have been in use so far, just click on whichever ones you feel are pertinent to the post.

IF you feel that the existing list of tags doesn't fit what you need, just type it out in the empty space next to 'Labels for this post', it will get added to the existing label list.

So, PLEASE label your posts guys!

Ciao!
:)

PS- No I'm not labelling this one :P

A film on Modernday slavery

2009-08-18T14:28:00.005+05:30

Huh! No posts since quite some time. Click on the link: www.veiledcommodity.com this 5 min film talks about slavery in olden days and compares it with modern day slavery. A nicely animated film.

Genealogy of Pop/Rock Music

2009-08-01T10:27:00.002+05:30

I've been watching Seven Ages of Rock, the 7 part BBC documentary on Rock music. I found this- unbelievably simple, but very very informative.

http://www.historyshots.com/rockmusic/

Robots and Calligraphy ???

2009-07-31T13:34:00.004+05:30

yes and that too in the gothic style... robotlab in Germany has trained an industrial robot in writing bible in the way scribes used to write before printing was invented. Check the link it's Awesome!!

link to the video: video

James Jean

2009-07-30T14:25:00.004+05:30

Found this through notcot. I fell in love with it.

http://www.jamesjean.com/sketchbook/2008_mole.htm

I've never been too good at using pencils, especially after DD2. I love how his illustrations look finished, but on second glance you realise that there are mistakes, and additions as his subjects move, which just makes the whole thing a lot nicer.

I can't wait to use my moleskine now.

History of Communication

2009-07-30T11:14:00.002+05:30

An informational graphic poster depicting the History of Communication in the past century.
http://www.geopanch.com/index.php?/work/history-of-communication/

I'm a Designer and...

2009-07-29T17:55:00.001+05:30

some strange/sad/funny claims here.
Go add yours.

http://www.dotdotdotspot.com/

2009-07-29T13:33:00.003+05:30

http://www.christophniemann.com/man/bpages/gallery6.html

Check out Christoph Neimann's website. An illustrator and a very witty one at that. Link from poochi.

A Typographer and a Musician

2009-07-28T18:16:00.003+05:30

http://www.daxo.de/

Hans Reichel (born 1949) is a musician/inventor/composer as well as being a type designer. For more than 30 years he’s made a name for himself as an accomplished acoustic and electric guitar player. He’s also the inventor of the Daxophone, an instrument where thin strips of wood are played with a bow to mimic animal sounds and human voices.He has designed FF Sari and FF Dax amongst others, both cousins of each other.

Check out the website to see what a musician + typographer can produce. The website might test your patience with its of interactive gimickiness, but still worth a look.

Tell a Lie

2009-07-28T12:53:00.001+05:30

from here: http://dlow.org/index.php?/project/tell-a-lie/

The best film titles ever made

2009-07-28T11:50:00.001+05:30

From Creative Review.

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/july1/film-titles-list

Little

2009-07-21T13:32:00.001+05:30

Sand Surf and Camera :: Clark Little for you. He captures magical moments inside the "tube", as surfers call it.
check out his website and even the best adventure sports enthusiasts will be shamed!

guh-NAY-shuh

2009-07-16T11:35:00.003+05:30

Sanjay Patel is a storyboard artiste and illustrator with Pixar. Born in England and brought up in LA he has never been to India. Recently he came up with this book :: The little book of Hindu deities.
A nice compilation with enough information on each God. Only a few pages are up on the website. Its available with Plume Publications.

P.E.T

2009-07-15T12:55:00.004+05:30

No, this is no jelly fish you see. This is how you could shape your pet bottles after prolonged use.

environment friendly design
enjoy

Short film for HP

2009-07-10T19:38:00.000+05:30

HP - invent from Tom and Matt on Vimeo.

I am not an Artist

2009-07-10T12:54:00.003+05:30

http://www.iamnotanartist.org/index.html

You guys might have seen it in the latest issue of eye magazine. The interactive version is a lot funner.

Illustrations by Serge Seidlitz, had posted about him many months ago.

Type foundries

2009-07-09T11:59:00.003+05:30

Links to some contemporary and some-not-so-contemporary type foundries. Links mostly from our very own guddu.

http://www.underware.nl
Underware is a graphic design studio which is specialized in designing and producing typefaces. These are often conventional in terms of legibility - yet functional, having concepts that seek for new visual, typographic and linguistic possibilities.
The company was founded in 1999 by Akiem Helmling, Bas Jacobs and Sami Kortemäki.
We are based in Den Haag, Helsinki and Amsterdam.

http://www.t26.com/

http://www.emigre.com/ (need I say anything?)

http://www.ourtype.be/

http://www.typofonderie.com/
Founded in 1994, Porchez Typofonderie is an independent digital type foundry in France.

http://www.lucasfonts.com/
Berlin-based Dutch type designer Luc(as) de Groot has worked with and for many well-known companies and publications. He has made custom fonts for prestigious newspapers such as Folha de S.Paulo, Le Monde, Metro and Der Spiegel in addition to creating corporate type for international companies including Sun Microsystems, Bell South, Heineken, Siemens and Miele. He designed two font families for Microsoft: the ‘monospaced’ font family Consolas, the new alternative to Courier; and Calibri, the new default typeface in MS Word.

De Groot founded his own type foundry, LucasFonts, in 2000.
Its aim, in a few words: to make the world a better place by designing typefaces that look good and work well under any circumstances and in many languages. Graphic designers across the planet have discovered the special qualities of Luc(as)’ fonts. They are attracted by their functionality and friendly appearance and love the enormous range of possibilities that each family offers. Many also appreciate the idiosyncrasies – a quest for extremes that has resulted in some of the narrowest, thinnest, wittiest or boldest typefaces around.

http://www.typography.com/home/index.php?affiliateID=
Since 1989, Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones have helped some of the world's foremost publications, corporations, and institutions develop their unique voice through typography. Their body of work includes some of the world's most famous designs, typefaces marked by both high performance and high style.

Also check out -
http://typeneu.com/

More of the Indian Kitsch Aesthetic

2009-06-24T18:30:00.001+05:30

When will Indian Kitsch cease to be fashionable? My take is that, till we find and accept a more refined and contemporary Indian aesthetic (will it ever happen?) you'll keep bumping into it.
http://www.creativeroots.org/?cat=6&paged=2

Sujata Keshavan Guha in Cannes lion jury panel

2009-06-22T19:22:00.004+05:30

The 56th Cannes lion Advertising festival is going on and Sujata Keshavan is one of the jury panel. The description about her is a bit outdated ... isn't she is already retired. here's the link: Sujata Keshavan

history of evil }:[

2009-06-16T12:58:00.005+05:30

very funny documentary. the link: evil

Mascots for Sports

2009-06-08T14:30:00.007+05:30

http://en.beijing2008.cn/spirit/beijing2008/graphic/n214068254.shtml

While on the topic of mascots (which I am exploring for my dip) Here's a link to the mascots for Beijing Olympics. The explanation (Or faff as we fondly like to call it) seems pretty convincing and has been well-established. I personally love these mascots. Any takers?

As I read on, I found that mascots are often heavily criticized not by designers, but by the media and the public. Here's what I found about the Fuwa generating negative publicity...

I am rating the Fuwa the worst mascot because, while others have been unpopular, confusing or silly, these bad luck dolls of Beijing are becoming downright ominous. Fuwa translates to the ‘good-luck dolls’ but you be the judge. First, the famous Chinese artist, Han Meilin, had two heart attacks while he was designing them. And now, each of the five characters that make up the Fuwa have been linked to events which have led to the superstitious term ‘the Curse of the Fuwa’. Nini (swallow/kite/locust figure) is linked to the Weifang T195 (“kite city”) train accident in April 2008 and the locust infestation in Inner Mongolia in June 2008. Yingying (the Tibetan antelope) is an obvious choice for association with the Tibetan unrest. Huanhuan, representing the Olympic flame, is being linked to the torch relay protests. Also, the Sichuan area, which suffered a catastrophic earthquake on May 12, 2008 is well known for its pandas and the fourth mascot, Jing Jing, is a panda character. The fifth and final Fuwa mascot is Beibeig, a fish who is representing the element water in the group. He is being associated to the floods in South China as well as an algal bloom in the Olympic sailing course.

According to Wikipedia, some people are now calling the characters “Wuwa” (witch dolls) instead of Fuwa and “online criticism of the dolls has frequently been censored”.

Personally, I think they are cute but I wonder how souvenir sales are doing? Are people reluctant to bring the bad mojo of these Fuwa/Wuwa into their homes?

the link -
http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-worst-olympic-mascots.php

...

2009-06-05T00:07:00.001+05:30

An open letter to all design students
link

Kuler.

2009-05-30T17:38:00.001+05:30

colour colour what colour do you choose?

http://kuler.adobe.com

Eric Spiekermann launches 'Axel' at typo Berlin'09

2009-05-27T15:26:00.004+05:30

'Axel' Designed by Eric Spiekermann premiered at the Typo Berlin '09 festival. Axel an economical and highly legible font family is optimized for on-screen use in Office application such as Microsoft Excel. Axel uses 30% less space than other widely used fonts in the same area, without looking condensed.

Here's the link: AXEL

Its Beautiful!

2009-05-25T09:57:00.001+05:30

http://soydeaire.labuat.com/

Moka sent it. Its Beautiful!

Photography

2009-05-20T16:28:00.003+05:30

http://www.flickr.com/photos/designldg/3263363995/in/set-72157603717562864/

Flickr link to a french designers photographs. Another one of those westerners obsessive about India and its mythology and philosophy.

Check out the photos though - i found the pehelwans bit interesting.

CULTURAL BRANDING

2009-05-20T15:53:00.004+05:30

In the Developed world, especially UK there is a surge in cultural branding with museums, art institutions, cultural institutions becoming important places for people to spend their leisure time in. Here's a link of a guy involved in what he calls THE CULTURAL BRAND AGENCY.
http://benweaverassociates.wordpress.com/

Branding Glossary

2009-05-20T15:44:00.003+05:30

http://brandchannel.com/education_glossary.asp

Its boring, but its necessary if you want to get seriously into branding. This link is a glossary of branding related terms, (half of which go over my head, very management and marketing types ((read big big words and sentences that should be explained better but are not for whatever ails this world)) lol...am in some sort of rambling mood.

Check out the rest of the website too to learn about trends in branding.

Drawing South: An artist's voyage to the Antarctic

2009-04-30T11:12:00.001+05:30

In early 2008, visual artist Nicholas Hutcheson spent 7 weeks on the ship Aurora Australis, journeying to the Antarctic. He visited the Australian Stations of Casey, Davis & Mawson as part of the Australian Antarctic Division’s Arts Fellowship for 2007/8.

This site contains the drawings from the voyage.

*from suresh

Victoria and Albert Museum

2009-04-29T14:22:00.001+05:30

http://www.vam.ac.uk/index.html

The website of Victoria and Albert Museum. Lots of stuff to explore.

The Crisis of Credit Visualized

2009-04-29T12:41:00.002+05:30

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

Explains the credit crisis in the US which ultimately led to recession.

Visualising Poverty

2009-04-25T10:33:00.003+05:30

Ha, so the maps are up on the Density Design Lab flickr page.

50 great examples of infographics

2009-04-25T10:23:00.004+05:30

http://blogof.francescomugnai.com/2009/04/50-great-examples-of-infographics/

M of them seem to be by students of the Density Design lab course I did at Politecnico di Milano. The first one that you see, called 'This is Living' was one of the 6 final complexity maps that were created on Poverty (the one my group worked on was food poverty). Hopefully I can find the rest of the maps+videos online soon.

Sketching

2009-04-21T17:30:00.006+05:30

http://www.urbansketchers.com/

To quote from the site -
Urban Sketchers is a network of artists around the world who draw the cities where they live and travel to. We have this blog, which is by invitation, a Flickr group, where anyone can share their location drawings, and a Google group to stay connected and foster discussion. USk was started on Flickr by Seattle journalist and illustrator Gabi Campanario in November of 2007. The blog was launched in November of 2008.

I have been feeling very ill-equipped at drawing and am seriously thinking of taking up something like this. I think most of you would agree that even after four years of study we are not quite confident about sketching and drawing....

drawn

2009-04-20T14:58:00.000+05:30

http://drawn.ca/

Grandmother India

2009-04-18T13:55:00.002+05:30

A new website apparently, since when I don't know.

http://www.grandmother.in/

Spiekermann on the Rupee

2009-04-15T17:37:00.003+05:30

You all must have heard this on Facebook. But for reference I am posting it on the blog.

Hope the Jury people take all these things into consideration for the new symbol.

http://virb.com/stewf/audio/408051

"God save the Indian Rupee"

print

2009-04-15T16:12:00.003+05:30

shows an innovative witty idea for a boring annnual report..

follow the link :

http://www.dezeen.com/2007/11/13/well-done-a-food-company-annual-report-that-has-to-be-cooked-first/

No Understanding Between the Brain and the Hands

2009-03-22T23:25:00.002+05:30

No understanding between the brain and the hands is a collaboration between Pocko photographers and illustrators. Inspired by Metropolis, the 1927 silent science fiction film created by the famed director Fritz Lang, five of Pocko’s photographers have collaborated with nine different designers to create interpretations of the film.

From strange creatures taking over the concrete jungle to our understanding of the city as a living organism, the images created as part of No understanding between the brain and the hands reinterpret Lang’s urban dystopia, creating new versions of the city as we know it today. Questioning the relationship that we share with the city, the joining of photographers with illustrators has resulted in a striking collection of images that challenge our place within today’s metropolis.

Accompanying the exhibition is issue one of Pocko Times, a large format collection of visuals with accompanying short stories from the work of the Pocko Network.

Follow the link - http://kemistrygallery.co.uk/shows/2009/no-understanding-between-the-brain-and-the-hands

Faces classified!

2009-03-11T23:55:00.004+05:30

Periodic table of typefaces

I am interested in notorious ones.

The visual effects company that did the movie titles for watchman

2009-03-10T00:46:00.005+05:30

They have done a lot of other movie titles also like 300, An inconvenient truth, lost souls and many more .... I guess they are giving Kyle cooper a race for money.

the link.

One Place. New Blood 2008

2009-03-09T17:44:00.000+05:30

Hindi Rinny

2009-03-09T17:28:00.004+05:30

Hindi Rinny is a blog that documents glimpses of Indic typefaces. Some of the images collected by the author Erin are fascinating. Have a look.

http://hindirinny.blogspot.com/

The Srishti Blog

2009-03-03T20:29:00.001+05:30

is finally up

http://thesrishtilogblog.wordpress.com/contact-us/

has links to student blogs (both current and alumni), faculty blogs/webpages, infor on current courses, events on campus and more.

videos: stefan sagmiester

2009-03-01T23:18:00.004+05:30

You must have seen them in Youtube... just for the archives. these videos were created by Stefan sagmiester while writing his book 'Things I have learned in my life so far.'

Talks Scott McCloud: Understanding comics

2009-02-28T12:04:00.001+05:30

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/432

Timeline of typography

2009-02-23T19:11:00.003+05:30

Enter the timeline to see an interactive flash presentation about the history of typography.

www.counterspace.com

PS you might need to download flash shock wave first.

forget the film, watch the titles

2009-02-23T13:33:00.004+05:30

http://mmbase.submarinechannel.com/titlesequences/index.jsp

ps. shreyas, need a film titles label

talk about patience !!

2009-02-22T23:51:00.004+05:30

... and the guys who made it possible

http://www.shadowplaystudio.com/

Some interesting posters from history which you don't see in Design History books

2009-02-22T00:28:00.005+05:30

This flickr account is of a nonagenarian Graphic designer. The photostream has some of the most amazing posters created in all these years. A bit informal but contains enough information to know who designed it, when was it designed and what genre.

www.flickr.com/people/20745656@NONO/

enjoy

what is country? manne pado!

2009-02-18T12:53:00.005+05:30

good ol ahmedabad is photography heaven, with people jostling for attention, sometimes even baring their homes and lives to be captured. but i'm sure we all have encountered situations when we have been explicitly asked to stop filming. (wellll... i have!:P)

so how do you decide if you are just being pushed around or you are actually invading someone's legal rights and privacy?

http://www.krages.com/ThePhotographersRight.pdf
"The Photographer’s Right is a downloadable guide" made available by the American Civil Liberties Union. you can print your copy using Adobe Acrobat Reader "to give you quick access to your rights and obligations concerning confrontations over photography."

if this isn't fadoo fotosop then what is?!

2009-02-17T18:52:00.004+05:30

http://www.superlover.com.au/#

2009-02-17T18:35:00.000+05:30

http://www.mutanthands.com/

interesting!
*might require fast web speed*

kiss kiss bang bang n more ...

2009-02-17T16:53:00.005+05:30

Danny Yount is a self taught graphic desiger working with prologue films owned by Kyle Cooper.
check out the website of this talented title designer.
http://www.dannyyount.com/

here is the link to the video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bpP9sI72bM

worth a look

ADD-A-DOG

2009-02-16T17:20:00.003+05:30

French animators, Kuntzel and Florence Deygas mainly operate from an art studio in Paris called Add-A-Dog.
Their work includes these really cute characters- Caperino & Peperone or cap n pep. They are also known for their award-winning title sequences for 'Catch Me If You Can' and 'Pink Panther'.

check out their blog : http://www.addadog.com/kuntzeldeygas/

and their website : http://www.addadog.com/

here are a few other links to their character pages : http://www.winney.com/
http://www.com-pet.com/
enjoy!

2009-02-16T16:46:00.002+05:30

hey,
it would be great if you guys could hyperlink the links that you post. Just click on the link button (in between text colours and align). Makes it easier.

grazie mille!

Shreyas

type design HISTORY in the making

2009-02-16T10:47:00.011+05:30

departing from the usual approach of designing a font system as characters and weights, Peter Bil’ak has designed a font described best as

so what you get is a system comprised of 21 typefaces, which encompass styles ranging from renaissance to san serif to pixel fonts but share the same widths and other metric information. therefore not only can you use them as regular fonts, but you can recombine them in any number of combinations using an online layering software called the History Remixer.

ladies and gentlemen, presenting History!
http://www.typotheque.com/fonts/history

Haaave you met Genevieve!

2009-02-16T10:10:00.006+05:30

i've been trying to figure out who the person behind the adorable, slightly disturbing, squigly illustrations plastered all over CA mag was...
and she's AWESOME!

link to the things-i-love in her folio >>
http://www.bigactive.com/illustration/genevieve-gauckler/i-love

oye cutlet

2009-02-15T17:08:00.002+05:30

A student magazine at Srishti.
Issue can be downloaded from the cutlet blog .
(1.5 mb, i think nid net speeds should manage it)

Any idea what's happening with voicebox?

IQ, EQ and now CQ

2009-02-15T15:28:00.002+05:30

http://www.xrite.com/worldwide.aspx

has a colour sensitivity test.
go check your colour quotient.

"3D" type

2009-02-15T14:43:00.005+05:30

stephanie basically studied (and now teaches) ceramics,
but she does cool detailled stuff with words (as in type)

worth a look-see!

http://stephaniedearmond.com/gallery2.html

Stuckism

2009-02-11T00:35:00.002+05:30

the Art movement we live in...

the link to wikipedia: stuckism

ecomagination

2009-02-09T20:05:00.001+05:30

http://ge.ecomagination.com/smartgrid/#/landing_page

I have NO idea how fast this will load with NID net speeds.

When kitsch gets into head

2009-02-08T23:16:00.003+05:30

pokemon Hello kitty food tray in EVA airlines

I really don't know if these one time wonder branding really survived or not. Though some of these Airlines need to redesign their identity.

POSTER POSTER POSTER: for social cause

2009-02-04T22:07:00.003+05:30

collaborated with ICOGRADA, Amnesty International, Greenpeace, WWF and many other Big wigs it's time to make some posters... the competition is tough though and NO winning prize.

But it's all for a good cause.... issues like AIDS, child labor, global warming, war on terrorism by using justice... etc.

www.50x70.org

55 days left.

Beautiful Beautiful Stop-motion

2009-02-04T18:33:00.003+05:30

Please excuse my laziness. I will not upload this video BECAUSE THE NET IS SO BLOODY SLOW! But yeah, this video can be viewed on http://www.onewingfly.com/.

The video is called Her Morning Elegance, and Moka showed it to me today. It is also up on motiongrapher.

It is just so beautiful!

[edit]: I've added the video.
-Shreyas

Citizen Journalism

2009-02-03T11:59:00.008+05:30

This maybe a bit off-track, but lately, all of us have been really concerned about the way the Indian Media has been functioning.Meri News is a venture in citizen journalism. To quote from the website -
Citizen Journalism" or Participatory Journalism is an evolving form of journalism through user generated content. When any common man in his capacity as a citizen of a nation takes up the initiative to report things or express his views about happenings around him then the occurrence is popularly termed as citizen journalism or participatory journalism.
Citizen Journalists are not bound by the conventional term of a journalist. Citizen journalists take up an initiative to express ideas irrespective of their educational or professional background. In a way this emerging form of journalism is promising a scenario of breaking free from media bias as well as taking local news on a global platform.

Here's the link -

http://www.merinews.com/citizen_journalism.jsp

While the articles did not appear as eloquent or even well-researched to me, this seems a way that is worth pursuing, a sort of democratisation of the media.

Get familiar with this face : Susan Kare

2009-02-02T20:00:00.002+05:30

She is famously called "The Queen of Icons", has designed most icons ever used in the computer world right from the Apple computers to the facebook. Link to her website: www.kare.com

SLUMDOGS RISING: articles on design and economy

2009-02-01T18:03:00.004+05:30

How UK plans to tackle economy growth of BRIC by using Design as it's key tool

http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/en/Live-Issues/How-does-design-hold-its-own-in-emerging-economies/

Article on BRIC economies

http://www.industryweek.com/articles/bric_crumbling_13256.aspx

and by the way design contributes 1% of GDP in India :( wonder what our politicians have to say about that.

both the articles are a bit old

DISCUSSIONS ENCOURAGED

Ampersand (BhopuDas!!)

2009-01-31T17:26:00.004+05:30

So here's a blog dedicated to &. Reminds me of 2nd year! Enjoy the visual treat.

http://ampersand.gosedesign.net/

Ayla Al Dhaheri

2009-01-31T16:47:00.002+05:30

Book cover. Ayla Al Dhaheri, an Arabic book about a family that is trying to escape from Iraq in the back of an empty water truck. The type was constructed from spare parts.

I haven't been able to find the designer of the cover online.But isn't it just so beautiful!