November 19, 2009 • 11:42 pm 0
Here is Catherine Zask’s Paris Diderot University identity manual that you saw today’s lesson. You can download from here.
Paris Diderot University Identity Manual
— Emre
Filed under: Graphic Design, Typography , Catherine Zask, identity manual, Paris Diderot University
• 12:47 am 0
I suggest you to read this post by Elif Ayiter since you are learning graphic design in “the land of the Shapeshifters”. It gives great insight as to why we in Turkey suffer from the absence of a solid visual tradition and why people brought up in Turkey (that probably includes you, students of Sabanci University) have to work harder in order to train their visual “taste”.
— Cem
Filed under: Graphic Design, Links, Typography, blogging
November 18, 2009 • 2:09 pm 0
Alejandro Paul, aka Ale, is an Argentinean typographer, type designer and teacher who currently lives and works in Argentina Buenos Aires. His obsession for packaging and hand lettering have instigated the design of over 50 script typefaces at Sudtipos. Most Graphic Design education students are taught to avoid using decorative and script typefaces. This is simply because of the overly used and cliché types that the operating systems (MAC OSX and Windows) can offer. However, when a “good” script type, like many of Alejandro’s typefaces, are used appropriately and intelligently the result can be very successful and original. For instance take a look at the catalogue he designed to promote Semilla “The Top Ten Albums by Semilla Records“. There, he collaborated with a photographer and found a wonderful ground to promote his typeface with images.
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November 15, 2009 • 11:42 pm 0
Very successful brand identity package example from Mind Design. See all the works from here.
— Emre
Filed under: Graphic Design , identity
• 9:19 pm 0
“Renowned graphic designer Michael Bierut claims that he’s not creative. Instead, he likens his job to that of a doctor who tends to patients – “the sicker, the better.” Digging into the 86 notebooks he’s kept over the course of his career, Bierut walks us through 5 projects – from original conception to final execution – extracting a handful of simple lessons (e.g. the problem contains the solution; don’t avoid the obvious) at the foundation of brilliant design solutions.” From the99percent.com
— Emre
Filed under: Graphic Design, Inspirations , Graphic Design, Passion
• 7:54 pm 0
Filed under: Graphic Design, Typography , logo design, negative space
• 4:06 pm 0
These are Paula Scher’s words from How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer by Debbie Millman, illustrating why you can’t create good design without looking at a lot of other stuff:
I have a pile of stuff in my brain, a pile of stuff from all the books I’ve read and all the movies I’ve seen. Every piece of artwork I’ve ever looked at. Every conversation that’s inspired me, every piece of street art I’ve seen along the way. Anything I’ve purchased, rejected, loved, hated. It’s all in there. It’s all on one side of the brain. And on the other side of the brain is a specific brief that comes from my understanding of the project and says, okay, this solution is made up of A, B, C, and D. And if you pull the handle on the slot machine, they sort of run around in a circle and what you hope is that those three cherries line up, and the cash comes out. (…) I allow the subconscious part of my brain to work. That’s the accumulation of my whole life. That is what’s going on in the other side of my brain, trying to align with this very logical brief. And I’m allowing that to flow freely, so that the cherries can line up in the slot machine.
If you don’t know who Paula Scher is, you should include her work to your list of things-to-look-at.
— Cem
Filed under: Graphic Design, Inspirations , creativity, Debbie Millman, Paula Scher, subconscious
November 6, 2009 • 1:23 am 1
Brand New is a blog where Armin Vit and Bryony Gomez-Palacio write their opinions on new branding solutions, mostly logo redesigns. You might learn a lot from there, not by taking everything they say as absolute design rules (they’re just opinions however professional they are), but by discovering what kinds of little things are obsessively taken into account in design and branding.
— Cem
Filed under: Graphic Design, Links, Portals, Typography
November 4, 2009 • 12:39 pm 0
Hello all,
Our grad student Cem found this website http://www.graphic-exchange.com/03identity.htm. I suggest everybody to check this website and see some good visual identity solutions. Especially, pay attention to the “family” concept of the design products, how things work as a whole and individually.
Filed under: Graphic Design, Typography, Uncategorized
October 19, 2009 • 10:16 pm 0
Projelerini Bit Pazarı veya Çin Restoranı olarak belirleyenler için geçen haftaki derste konuşulup kararlaştırılan yapılacaklar listesi ve özellikleri şöyle:
Bit Pazarı:
* Butik, tek bir dükkan olarak kararlaştırıldı.
* Dergi yok, bunun yerine 2 ayda bir çıkacak olan geri dönüşümlü kağıda, kraft kağıdına basılan içerisinde mağazaya işini vermiş olan tasarımcılarla, müzisyenlerle yapılmış röportajlarında olacağı, çok beğenilen ürünlerin tanıtıldığı bir booklet düşünüldü.
* Ürünlerin etiketleri ,
* Stickerlar, stencil olabilecek (logo stencil’ı da olabilecek gibi düşünülebilir) kurumsal kimlikle bağlantılı şeyler,
* Ürünlerin konulacağı kağıt poşetler (genel olarak kraft kağıt ağırlıklı sistemler) tasarlanacak.
Çin Restoranı:
* Neutral, Türkleştirilmemiş bir Çin restoranı.
* Restoranın paket servisi kapları,
* Menü, peçete, ıslak mendil, stick (bambu olmayan), ıslak mendil kabı,
* Çalışanların giyeceği önlük,
* Paket servislerin yapıldığı scooter üzeri giydirmesi,
* Buzdolabı Magnet’i,
* Ev servis menüsü,
* Web sitesi tasarlanacak.
* Restoranın duvarlarında, iç dekorasyonunda olacak posterler, fotoğraflar düşünülmeli.
Filed under: Project, To Do list
October 16, 2009 • 10:38 am 0
Hello everybody, I uploaded the PDF of “DIY” in the Media Library. Make sure you go through the process shown on page 2 and 3. Let me know if you will have any questions regarding this.
Filed under: Graphic Design
October 8, 2009 • 11:47 am 0
Amazon.com
Filed under: Graphic Design , color, design, Graphic Design
• 10:02 am 0
The Typo Berlin 2009 met this year with the topic of “Space”. It had a diverse group of speakers, like all the way from super script typographers, Alejandro Paul, to Chip Kid who apparently was completely satirical as usual. Of course the grandfather of typography, Gerard Unger was there too. What I found quite interesting was Ebon Heath’s project Building a Typographic Ballet. This Brooklyn based designer “dedicates his time to saving the world through Cell Out Project and to the creation of amazing hand-cut typographic mobiles, and typographic jewellery”.
Filed under: Fine Art, Graphic Design, Object Design, Typography
June 16, 2009 • 9:10 pm 0
I was in Rovereto, Trento (Italy) for a few days and as a person who has been exposed to the massacre of type in Turkey all his life, I was really impressed by how a well-established typographic tradition creates such variety without compromising quality (even though it isn’t fully immune to the Comic Sans plague).
So here is my typographic impression of Rovereto and Trento. (click on it to see the full size)
— Cem
Filed under: Graphic Design, Typography , Italy, signs, street, Trento, Typography
May 11, 2009 • 3:15 pm 0
Here you can see 136 movie posters with Trajan.
Trajan is an old style serif typeface designed in 1989 by Carol Twombly for Adobe. The design is based on the letterforms of capitalis monumentalis or Roman square capitals, as used for the inscription at the base of Trajan’s Column from which the typeface takes its name. Since lower case forms were not in use in Roman times, Trajan is an all-capitals typeface. Instead, small caps are commonly used, and a more complete set of glyphs contained in Trajan Pro (a 2001 update of the original typeface) includes a lower case of small caps.
Although Twombly was the first to do a very literal translation of the Trajan inscription into type, a number of interpretations (with added lowercase alphabets) predate Twombly’s, particularly Rudolf Weiss’s eponymous typeface of 1926, Frederic Goudy’s 1930 “Goudy Trajan*,” and Warren Chappell’s “Trajanus” of 1939. (from wikipedia)
— Cem
Filed under: Graphic Design, Typography , movie poster, trajan, Typography
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