My last Blog entry

I may not be the best student. But I do feel like I have learned a lot. I am very stubborn to get into a rhythm sometimes. But overall I believe the class was successful.

It was interesting to learn about the past in graphic design (mainly print), but it can get a little dry. I think part of that reason is I've found a greater interest when design meets with technology and people.

The idea that we can make designs that can interact is stunning, in a way design hits emotion when it comes to all of our senses sight (of course), hearing (example. movies), smell (advertisements with perfume samples), touch (material counts!), and maybe taste....but we can tell what in good taste and bad taste in design (it's more of a feeling). But now we are coming on to something that may very well be considered a sixth sense, which is interaction. And could possibly explode all of our senses out of the water.

Interactive design will link many bridges and fill lots of gaps in the industry to work with others, provide stable work, and opportunities for those who tap into it first.

We're always on a learning staircase of improving, I feel like it's time to shoot up a couple flights and hope for all the hard work we can coast along to a nice path of oblivion.

So think somewhat out of your realm of comfortability and get ahead a few stairs when your young and still full of fresh ideas. You will later have, taxes, work, relationships, and babies consuming your time for creativity later.

good luck!

Aaron Koblin is a fantastic Data Visualization Designer

Aaron Koblin recently spoke at the TED 2011 conference last February. He has done some incredible things with motion in data visualization. He now works as an artistic director at Google.

So Kids learn your programs well, Flash, After Effcects, and (programing) PHP


this is his site

http://www.aaronkoblin.com/

If you have not yet heard of Motionographer...get on the bandwagon

Motionographer is the equivalent of a SwissMiss but dealing with mostly moving images.

http://motionographer.com/

check it out....it's the future

This is where our friend Max works

Max Strizlakfdjadsjfaodfaodja (what ever his last name is) is interning at imaginary Forces.

http://www.imaginaryforces.com/featured-work/

Title design and commercial spots are their specialty.

Because Max and anyone that works in advertising and commercial work really makes me appreciate this quote.


"The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artist. Modern art is a disaster area Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little."
~ Banksy

Better change over to graphic design all you fine artist majors!

the Image says, " Marcel Duchamp is a big French Hag"

I just love the guy

Wayne White is more becoming a hero of mine.

From his great typography and to what he has to say.

"I fucking love the world...because I am going to miss it when it's gone."

Just thinking about that quote since yesterday was the anniversary of the tragic BP spill.

http://waynewhiteart.com/

This one is for Angelica

Did you know it is that easy to become friends with Paula Scher?

It was just one of those random people I sent a request not thinking of getting one in return. But this so far my repertoire of famous facebookers

Paula Scher and Fred Durst

great combination

I am getting real tied, but I must go on

If I could walk into a book and fall asleep in any image in it, I would choose page 452 in our class book.

it is 22-15 Ikko Tanaka.....since I can't find it on the internet the image above is the image it's next to. You can pick up your book and check it out.

Film titles

I have to admit, one of the coolest film titles that I was really drawn to was from Tarsem Singh's "the fall." It was a very visual orgasm for photography nuts, sorry for type-o-philes, but it was toned down to focus on the images

here it is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-UX8rBEgeQ

also watch the trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO0LYcCoeJY&feature=related

Then after that netflix it

The GIF has become somewhat of a great design concept

People always keep talking about new art forms. Some have suggested a twitter account and how one goes about it to be an art on how successful it is.

But I think the true people's champ is the GIF, short for Graphics Interchange Format.

check them out

http://www.screenjunkies.com/movies/movie-news/tin-man-how-can-i-ever-thank-you/

http://warmingglow.uproxx.com/2011/04/links-soothing-cat-gif/cat-brush

http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_gifs/10768/Crazy+Black+Kid/

Come on, some people still don't even think Graphic Design is an art. Those that are visionaries can see it's true worth.

I did rather like

I did enjoy looking at the work of Gunter Rambow.

He truly was a European visual poet. I think in general, using reference that are simple and twisting them into a message is the best form of graphic design there is.

Looking at some postmodern designs

After scanning through postmodern posters, Here are some pictures I don't like.

Pretty much Wolfgang Weingart's posters. I think I am not really in the visually looking of weird constructivist looking post modern posters.

Does this not win as the best movie poster for X-Men?

While scheming for a new blog post I decided to get sidetracked and do something in photoshop.

While back I commented on the shitty X-Men First Class posters. Well since it takes place in the past I wanted to give it a retro feel of a Bob Dylan Poster that Milton Glaser made. It might be off a little since Glaser made this in 1967 and the events that take place in First Class is set during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

So don't blame me for too many flaws....I made it in 5 mins....the same amount of time it took their original designer to make his or hers.

Sorry if I was too serious on that last one

When it comes to stats you sort to have to always be a little serious, but then there are other times (or maybe a lot) I just like to let loose.

That is why I am an avid fan of Olly Moss. I am pop culture nut, but never to the extent of a People Magazine voyeur or a Prez Hilton (plus if you can tell, he never did learn much about design. Check his photoshop skills).

But I've grown up having a weird pop culture/fanboy attitude that has probably helped me loose out with more girls than I realize....because my movies, comics, literature, and music fill that void.

But to conclude, I was seriously almost considering going to LA for Olly Moss's art show, but then my brother had to plan his wedding the same weekend in a year and half in advance. Maybe next time

....Oh yea, so I don't get too strayed away with design history. Here is a picture of David Carson's desktop.

An interesting subject the book missed out on......INFOGRAPHS!

Visual graphics is the soon to be new gold mine of graphic design. Considering in one year we produce more data than all the previous years combined. But we as humans can not process all this information in their true forms, computers can in 1's and 0's but for us to look at that would take ages to figure out what we are even looking at....That's why we need to harness all this data and create it into something visual. By enterpiting and creating data that is easy to understand it helps people be understand their world better and how to function and adapt.

We are in an information overload these days from billions of pictures being put on facebook to trillions of dollars that are mysteriously going places that are not benefiting the majority of the population. By making data easier to understand we can prevent crisises. It is shown that the the financial crisis in 2008 could have been prevented if records could have been easier to read for people processing information comes as quick as it goes (within seconds) to make smarter decisions. Famous staticien and infographic designer Edward Tufte has a valid argument where executing a decision through carefully designed arguments could have saved the space shuttle The Challenger http://www.asktog.com/books/challengerExerpt.html


In time graphics will rapidly almost take over words, who wants to read a several paragraphs when you can understand something by a visually appealing communicative design?

Maybe, I'll write something later on this topic....but I have a few more posts to do

here is a cool site http://www.visualizing.org/ please do check "where is my tax dollars going"

also the infographic above is Linkedin's connection of one person to many (graphs can be sexy)

Can someone fire the designer of the X-men Posters already!

I don't understand how 20th Century FOX works or thinks, but how do they keep under promoting an over 100 million dollar film with shitty movie posters.

There is only two ways I see the lack of creative flow.

A) One of the X-Men producers just wanted to help launch his nephews graphic design career.

B) Is having as much motivation as I am having this semester.

Either way it's pretty bad, it's made me push my limits. I am calling out a nation wide manhunt for the designer who designed these posters. The bounty price tag is set to two nights on my couch to crash.

Let the Search Begin!

I wan't to watch "Love and Other Drugs"

Based on this poster of "Love and Other Drugs," I am thinking of possibly watching this movie tonight. It also might help that Anne Hathaway is nude in the film. But I am going to say it's the poster that makes me wan't to watch it. Because Anne Hathaway has been nude in like three other movies ("Brokeback Mountain," "Rachel Getting Married," and some straight to dvd "Havoc", I could have easily watched them....but no....I am choosing Love and Other Drugs due to a highly creative poster concept.

This makes me think of other films that have had such simple but very memorable posters

The 40 Year Old Virgin, with a beaming Steve Carrell with a warm backdrop that shows the expression that all he really wants is to just loose his innocence.

My first movie that I saw in the theater four times, Jurassic Park, has such a memorable movie poster that I could recreate it from my memory.

Then there is Amadeus, I remember when I was real young just looking around blockbuster (how nostalgic) and seeing this cover and interpreting the movie in so many ways from a Chinese Emperor to a new sci-fi epic. I finally watched the movie in 10th grade to finally realize it was about Amadeus Mozart.

The love and other drugs poster was very exclusive, Hollywood producers relied more on the naked star power of Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal (really can't blame them on that business decision, it seemed solid). But any whose, I have a couple of more blogs to write. Feel free to talk to me in class if you want.