Dates depend on “Pantone”

Pantone is the most common color knowledge between designers and one of those designers used pantone not for color coding but for a creative work. He mentions his aim as:

“My brief was to create a calendar for Pantone, the world-renowned authority on colour. The main aim for me was to make this calendar relevant on a global scale. With the colour wheel being universally recognised, I used this and combined it with a mosaic made up of 1440 different images to create my main graphic. Sticking with the whole worldwide idea, I have included many visual references to a host of different countries within the mosaic, and highlighted many of the main religious and cultural holidays throughout the year.

To answer a question I have been asked a few times, no ‘special software’ was used to produce this. The grid was build in Illustrator and I placed all 1440 images by hand in (as close to as possible) some sort of colour order.”

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Can you weave a type?

This is how weave involved in type creating….

Typografic Illustrations

This is how typography can be visualized! Here are some of a successfull typographer and illustrator Alex Trochut’s works.

http://abduzeedo.com

“The quick brown fox”

Pangram is a sentence using every letter of the alphabet at least once and they are used to display typefaces and test equipment.

The quick brown fox is the most used in english.

El joven emponzoñado is the most used in spanish.

El veloz muricelago hindú is longer but it has all letters, signs and accents.

Here are the pics which visualize these pangrams taken from urikane website.

*For more: http://urikane.com/

A newborn baby!

Urikane created a new font from 540 iPhone applications and at the end there comes out a delighted view. Just have a look at it!

*And for more visit http://urikane.com/

Magazine Design- Content Proposal

As the second project of  VA 302 class we are expected to design a multipage magazine for our second hand and design shop “Bit Pazarı”.The starting point is going to be naming it. I came up with some possible names as; “dükkan”, “tezgah”, “bit kadar” and liked “tezgah”at most.It evokes me the variety and shopping. For the second step; before setting up a system it is important to decide on the content of the magazine. In “tezgah”, I’ll have 3 department and 5 feature parts.

The departments are going to be the index,reader’s designs and notes and the astrology part.Then I decided to have 5 features which will be consist of urban life style, fashion shot, interview with designers, music and blog.

To be more specific let’s have a deeper look at all the content.

Departments

1)Index-team information

• Meaning that the editor,creative department,advertisement department,art director etc. information
• There may be the editor’s note as a thin column beside or as a new page.

2)Readers’ Designs and Notes

• We are very used to see readers’letters as a department in many of the women magazines so to create a new interest for the reader it can be changed into the design&notes instead of complaining or thankful letters.

3)Astrology

• For fun or real interest, I see that most of the people care what astrology says.

Features

1)Urban Life Style

• The fashion followers mostly care what the others wear, how they live, what they watch etc.Under this feature there may be most popular film, book etc. and the advises to add on season’s to do list.

2)Fashion shot

• Photos from professional fashion photographers. (maybe related to the Bit Pazarı that season’s new designs)

3)Interview with designers

• In this part for my mag it is not important to have a famous name, he/she can be one of Bitpazarı designers.

4)Music

• I think music is very much related to the notion of  “style”. The people who have a flavor of music, shape their life styles according to it. For example; many people are influenced by the punk,electronic or indie scene and demonstrate the effect of the music scene on individuals.

5)Blog

• Keeping a blog in which you can find anything about fashion and life styles became very popular these days. So adding such a feature that is chosen by the editor for the season can be fun and interesting I think. This can be a collective blog like http://www.lookbook.nu(ex.9) or just personal like http://www.garancedore.fr/en/.(ex.10)

Cover

And overall for the cover I am really not much sure but want to go with such an idea that the music magazine bant has done for all of their issues; using a design. It can be anything; illustration,graphic design,poster kind,handmade art etc. with just the logo and the issue number on it.(ex.11)

10 images for Ithaca

While searching around I faced to an open poster design competition for an island Ithaca and when I got into the site saw lots of different and joyful designs.

“Ten Images for Ithaca” is a poster competition. It began in 2002, by Fimios, Cultural Events of the Municipality of Ithaca, Greece, as an attempt to reinforce the cultural profile of the island, through the applied arts. Throughout the years, the competition has evolved to a whole group of events and exhibitions, so that, today, it is considered a point of interest for professionals, students and, generally, people that are interested in graphic arts. The contest’s main goal is not only to accent Ithaca as a meeting point for creative people from all over the planet, but, also, to help create ideas that promote the art of visual communication.

These ten are the last year’s winners:

1)Lorans Duplan

2)Fang Yi Liu

3)Prem Balasubramanian

4)Tina Mampel

5)Athanasios Davlouros

6)Efi Iliadou

7)Lorans Duplan

8)Rodrigo Machado

9)Ian Noble

10)Vlassopoulou-Efstathopoulos

The New Typography

In the 1920s and 1930s, the so-called New Typography movement brought graphics and information design to the forefront of the artistic avant-garde in Central Europe. Rejecting traditional arrangement of type in symmetrical columns, modernist designers organized the printed page or poster as a blank field in which blocks of type and illustration (frequently photomontage) could be arranged in harmonious, strikingly asymmetrical compositions. Taking his lead from currents in Soviet Russia and at the Weimar Bauhaus, the designer Jan Tschichold codified the movement with accessible guidelines in his landmark book Die Neue Typographie (1928). Almost overnight, typographers and printers adapted this way of working for a huge range of printed matter, from business cards and brochures to magazines, books, and advertisements. This installation of posters and numerous small-scale works is drawn from MoMA’s rich collection of Soviet Russian, German, Dutch, and Czechoslovakian graphics. They represent material from Tschichold’s own collection, which supported his teaching and publication from around 1927 to 1937.

Examples from Wolda Winners

Wolda Professional awards

Best of the World/ Best of Oceania/ Best of Australia

Logo name: One Degree
Nation: Australia
Agency: Landor Associates
Designer(s): Jason Little, Tim Warren, Steve Clarke, Mike Staniford
Client: News Limited
Description: In 2007, Rupert Murdoch laid down the challenge for News Limited and its associated global businesses to become carbon neutral by 2010. The challenge was to create a brand that would materially help drive employee, supplier and public action on climate change. One Degree has been developed on a simple premise: that if everyone were to change their behavior by just one degree, we can change the future of the planet. The logo combines both the number and the degree symbol, which together represent a person. In doing so, it neatly encapsulates the real impact that an individual can start to make in addressing climate change.

Wolda Professional awards

Best of Americas /  Best of United States

Logo name: Sapka Hat Design
Nation: United States
Agency: Deniz Marlali
Designer(s): Deniz Marlali
Client: Hats By Aysel / Aysel Ormanbaba
Description: Sapka means “hat” in Turkish. Logo and identity design for a vintage style ‘hat’ designer. The name comes from the turkish word, originally without any diacritic marks on top. In the logo, the word “sapka” is indicated with accent letters and changes into another language which does not exist yet.

Logo name: Manz Gartenwelt
Nation: Germany
Agency: Kommunikation & Design
Designer(s): Ingo Blum, Sandra Tröndle, Alexandra Gröber (Head of Creation)
Client: Manz Gartenwelt
Description: Manz is a specialist for garden and plants with a tree nursery adjoining. The logo symbolizes trees and nature and is based on the effect of a kaleidoscope. Moreover the simple and modular way the logo is build up with squares, allows an easy extrapolation into other media and commercials and assures easy recognition. The colors are picked by nature and fresh (green) as well as “rooted to the soil” (brown), because the soil is very important for growing of plants.

Wolda Professional awards Best of Japan

Logo name: studio neo
Nation: Japan
Agency: studio Neo
Designer(s): Sachiyo Inami, Yoshiki Shindo
Client: studio Neo
Description: The logo was created for a Tokyo-based design company which specializes in web site production and graphics, particularly architectural related works.

Typographer’s Typography by Charlie Nix

an article by Charlie Nix from the site The Type Directors Club

http://www.dexigner.com/jump/directory/6628

Typographer’s Typography

The Type Directors Club has been advancing and preserving the best of typography for over 60 years. That’s a long time. Typography, the TDC annual, is testimony to the remarkable evolution of style and technology in our profession—from modernism to mashups, from metal type to Minion Pro, from bookplates to broadband. If the last 5000 days is any indication, the next 60 years will be even more remarkable.

We are living through a typographic renaissance. Over the past twenty years, there has been an explosion of typefaces, the like of which we have not seen since the introduction of the pantograph-punchcutting machine and the Linotype in 1880s. The internet has evolved to include typographic communities–selling, sharing, celebrating, and critiquing type. Design education programs are springing up everywhere, and with them, a host of typography courses. Typographic awareness is at an all time high. Many are discovering and rediscovering the work of legendary typographers. And many of them are among the TDC’s earliest members: Aaron Burns, Freeman Craw, Louis Dorfsman, Gene Federico, Ed Gottschall, Herb Lubalin, Bradbury Thompson, and Hermann Zapf.

Against this backdrop, the Club launched an initiative to rebrand itself–to reflect more accurately the nature of what we do, the sphere in which we as typographers operate, and the members who make up the Club. An identity committee was formed, a design brief was created, and another legendary designer (and 29-year TDC veteran) was approached: Mr. Roger Black.

Roger’s record of revamping publications and branding companies speaks for itself. His typography is bold, iconic. He is steadfast in his dedication to typographic detail, in print (the Los Angeles Times, Houston Chronicle, magazines like Rolling Stone, Esquire, and lately, the Washington Post and Commentary magazine) and on screen (Bloomberg.com, msnbc.com, Discovery.com, and @Home). He’s a typographer’s typographer, and we were thrilled when he agreed to take on the project. His response to the brief is brilliantly elegant. Both informal and monumental, it’s bold lowercase forms reference the Club’s web present/presence, while the incorporation of the previous mark (designed by Gerard Huerta) acknowledges the Club’s rich history. Roger chose the new ITC Franklin Gothic, carefully redesigned and re-digitized by Font Bureau chief, David Berlow.

The new logo is already out there, acting as our silent ambassador. It’s on the new TDC letterhead, to be sure, and on the revamped TDC website (designed, maintained, expanded daily by board member Brian Miller, after the template set by Mr. Black). You’ll also see it on Twitter and Facebook, and soon, members will be able to feature it on their own sites as a TDC membership badge.

The Club is deeply grateful to Roger, to David, and to the Identity Committee: former board members Ted Mauseth and Maxim Zhukov, TDC Vice President Diego Vainesman, board member Matteo Bologna, and TDC chairman emeritus Gary Munch.

* From the Font Bureau site: “In 1902 American Type Founders’ release of Franklin Gothic introduced Morris Fuller Benton. In 1979 Victor Caruso, International Typeface Corporation, increased the series to four photocomp weights, Light, Medium, Bold and Black, all with italics. In 1991 David Berlow added Condensed, Compressed and Extra Compressed widths. Berlow has completed his definitive revision, a single new series, ITC Franklin; FB 2008″