don't do it

Seriously, I wish I could tell what's better on my own. I can tell if other people's designs are good but my own stuff I'm totally blind too, it's so annoying.


Last minute messing around.
(some of these were done by Zed, I won't say which)








And I decided to turn this one in:




because the caps remind me of Jenny Holzer's truisms, and the italics make the caps seem like a
stage whisper.

same thing every time

We recently had to come up with a list of "mantras" about typography that we believe in, then find/ take a photo relating to or describing one of the mantras, then make a poster of it with the mantra in it.

1.
REJECTED. reading flow confusing. text unnecessarily large.

2.
REJECTED. Overkill.

3.
Better, I think. more subtle and lets the image speak for itself.
It's what I have so far, we'll see if anything better happens before Wednesday.

These images are going to be printed at 24x16 inches, and the type size on the last one is 18 pt, which is 1/4 inch tall.

I chose Helvetica because it is what everyone uses all the time, although, incidentally, the type on the door signs is Arial, the cheap Microsoft rip-off of Helvetica. which is even better (in that disgusting way.)

I don't feel like it's phenomenal, but maybe it's good enough to not get me kicked off the show (ever since being forced to watch a couple episodes of Project Runway I have been looking at graphic design school as a competitive reality show.) The photo doesn't look like anything special, but that is sort of the point. I find the dull-headed repitition amusing, and it takes a moment of discovery for people to realize it once they look at the photo... the problem is it looks too boring for most people to get to that point. :\

Fantasy Hollywood

Two movies I would like to see that don't exist (yet):

 

Helena Bonham Carter, Bernadette Peters, Angelica Huston, and Cate Blanchett playing two rival sets of sisters in witchcraft.

Rival mad scientist brothers & father played by Chris Masterson, Neil Patrick Harris and Dominique Pinon. 

 I wouldn't call it "typecasting" so much as I just can't gt enough of some people in certain roles. (let's face it, 45 minutes isn't nearly enough, if you know what I mean, and I think you do, if you know what I mean.)

If movies based on these ideas get made, I don't even want credit, I just want to see it happen.

Finishing Touches

Here's some final stages of a recent design project... we were redesigning a two-page spread from recent NYT sunday magazines.

After a lot of messing around I got to this point. I could tell the end was near but it didn't seem right yet. I wanted color but the application of color so far was bleh.

I was thinking of "punk" stuff and thought about cut & paste zines, label makers and tape and jacket patches... diy, cut-out stuff... and that's how I decided to use these color fields. having them semi-transparent was my first reflex because of the color that was already in the words debutante and model.

After the critique in class I made some other decisions, they suggested that the color fields be solid to make the text easier to read. I also made some of the body copy bigger and less leaded. But I think that straight up these colors are too pastel.

Better? but how would those colors print?

nothing is ever finished, some things just get cut off at deadline.