Music Monday: Cee Lo Green – Fuck You [Video]
Besides the beautifully created animated type, the song by Cee Lo is definitely a hit and easy to vibe to. The first time I heard it I said it was real jazzy. Friday night at Aunchies over drinks and social rhythm, the song came on and everyone broke out in song. Enjoy.
Start of the semester
Something I quickly put together for my typography class. It reflects just what it says, it’s calm.
Straight Forward
Check out photography by Jermaine and Nell, whose eyes for detail create NYSF Photography.
Video: And He Gets The Girl – Lupe Fiasco
I recently stumbled across this video at PMD. It’s a classic Lupe without the “fear,” one of my favorites at that. The video was expressive, Matthew Metoyer does well with typography and use of visual-aids.
Benny Gold x Hersk Days of Gold
Scott Hersk (hersk.com) lent his hand for the Days of Gold shirt. He and I have enjoyed more skate sessions together than I can remember. This design is inspired by our skate adventures and the retro 80s colors really add to the nostalgia. I love how the vintage skateboard products and spots create the letters of the design.
Elements of Fashion
Remember when I said I was on the hunt for fashion show flyers +I was designing a layout for BSU.. Well this ended up to what I submitted. I hardly had any direction or specification on what should be included. The theme for the night is elements – Elements of Fashion – water, earth, wind +fire. I wasn’t satisfied with the top typography but I was pressed for time, and other things were happening at the same time.
Durex Sex Ad
The new Durex campaign made entirely of typefaces by German illustrator/designer Andrej Krahne. Nuff said!
Spott’d @Culture Shoq
It’s Surreal: Kanye speaks on nostalgia x opinion x creativity
Kanye gets real deep with this one. From where he’s been to where he’s at now, the need have an opinion and the need to create. ‘Ye makes a heart felt address on Alexander McQueen’s contribution to fashion, damn, that was a big blow. The only fact is “COMMON OPINION”.
I’m on the plane listening to the college dropout. It brings back so many memories. When we made it I had all 6 parents, 4 grandparents and my mom and dad. Now I have my dad and my grandfather.
Music is so nostalgic. Every song I listen to brings me back to when I first played them for my mom, when I first played from for Dame, when I first played them Jay, when I first played them for Kweli, when I first played them for my niggas back in Chi, when the album first came out, when I first called Ebro from Hot 97 and begged him to play through the wire, when DJ Pharris blew me up in the Chi.
We used to be the niggas rocking polo shirts, Louie back packs, paper denim jeans, and exclusive Adidas from Sporty LA. We were the underdogs. I never feel like I’m not the underdog. I never felt completely comfortable. I’m tormented by the need to create. With the loss of McQueen I feel like we lost one of those faces of modern creativity’s Mount Rushmore.
There were times that the only thing that kept me on this earth was the need and responsibility to create. Maybe McQueen felt his job was done because his last collection was the greatest of the decade. We are all so hurt. I know we’re selfish because he brought us so much joy and inspiration.
I know how it feels when the night demons come. We can’t let them control our hands and feet. Sometimes when it hurts so bad we have to just lay in the bed. Just lay in bed and don’t move please, I know how it feels. I wish McQueen could have just been still. Don’t let the psychiatrists give you their drugs because it slows down your wings. Society and public opinion can beat the wings off of angels. When god sees they can’t take it anymore he brings them back home.
During this new album process sometimes I turn the music up and drink and cry. When something sounds so amazing and ground breaking I’m reminded of why I live. I drink the pain of now 2 generations and breathe our melodies and messages. The music keeps us alive.
I was blessed with the opportunity to bring my and others dreams to life. It’s like performing magic or something. It’s surreal. We bring the unrealistic to reality. “Go hard, go hard, go hard” echoes in my dreams. When I wake up and brush my teeth and look in the mirror it’s like I see Michael and my mom and Malcolm. Who’s that African in the background mom? Oh he created the original layouts for the pyramids but was written out the history books and his MTV award was given to “aliens”.
There’s no such thing as fact anymore, only opinion. The closest thing we have to fact is “common opinion”. Everything is an opinion. The way you dress is an expression of your opinion. Your religious beliefs are your opinion. The music you turn up loud is your opinion. For most people it’s easier to just agree. For me the hardest thing is to ‘just’ agree and that is what sparks creativity, the feeling that something can be better, the feeling that something’s missing. The feeling that something’s needed.
BIZY DREAM’N
What’s happen’n y’all? I’ve neglected my audience, we’ve neglected our audience. School’s been killing me so much that I’ve kinda let our direction veer a little off-track. As a result, I decided to put everything on hold for a little while to start back in March. We still have a few loose end to knot up, but we’ll be going through it while still keeping up to date with the happen’n.
Also, I’ve been restructuring Bizy Dreaming, now Bizy Dream’n. A lot lately has been about change and about research. Before, I think Bizy Dreaming was too stiff. Where’s my personality in that? The simple change is due to how I text. I truncate my -ing’s, not by much, with -’n. Here it goes. I hope y’all feel this one.
Graphic Design: Bizy Dreaming logo (revived)
I’ve been working on my resume to try to get everything back in order. Your resume is a reflection of you and I was looking really lazy and not capable of taking on any jobs. The original Bizy Dreaming logo didn’t last for long with me, I guess it wasn’t that good of a logo. As I was working on my resume I really wanted to add a piece of me in there and Bizy Dreaming is something I conceived, I toiled and try to endure, so I changed the logo from something stiff to something with more character. Y’all like?
Check out the old logo after the jump.
Hass Grotesk
Helvetica’s creators, Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann, would have never imagined that their sans serif masterpiece could become one of the world’s design classics. “Neue Hass Grotesk”, its original name
All Bizness!
Some sick stationary/business card design! These three designs in particular are not only aesthetically soothing, but all are printed on a textured paper. I love print, I like textured print assets; for those still fond of print and/or the print era I know you can relate. There is something about tangibility that gives it more value. The design behind business cards are at odds with each other – Colorburned is casually composed, Carlos Benet has eccentric vibrancy, Kyle Van Horn is strong and vivid.
Type Treatment in Ad Design
Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers: England
Amnesty International: Ted Bundy
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Video: “Love Away” Kinetic Typography
By: Chris Brice
Music by: Curvine
Kinetic typography is technically defined as an animation technique mixing motion and text. It is presented in a manner intended to convey or evoke a particular idea or emotion.
Design and Design.com Book 2009
Design and Design are gearing up to release the 2009 edition of the book containing 730 images (365 Graphic Design and 365 Product Design) that were featured as a design of the day for each day in the past year. The upcoming book due to be released in January 2010.
More photos after the jump
Foreign Artistry
Work by recent Leeds Metropolitan graduate Christopher Goodwin. The UK really has particular ability in design.
Source via: We Made This
10 Bang-up Uses of Typography
While I was browsing the web I came across 53 Mind-blowing Uses of Typography on Outlaw Design Blog. A lot of which I found really good and carefully designed, and even inspiring. As a result, I chose 10 for you to appreciate as I.
Let’s be inspired and kre8!
I want you guys to spot and/or create ah-mazing uses to typography in your worlds, photograph it + send it here so we can start our own archive.
We Back!
Collection, designed by NYC Red
Keep it Surreal Magazine
If we was ever to have our own publication in the future, I’d come back to the very first design laid out, ever. Regardless of having a thinking design team, I’d go back to the very beginning; when it was just us. Sort of like a tribute to how it all started.
Here is our first cover design in the development stages. I’m going for a Noir themed design. I feel a little skeptical about the headline/logo text. The composition may be kearned to close compromising the space between “Keep and it” and “it and Surreal.”
Chad Harris
Broccoli
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