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2010-04-15T16:17:00.001-07:00

This is a simple concept, but I actually have to make four seperate screens to get it to look like this. A mock up will be tons of work.

The bottom one represents the screens I'll have to do. Each black shape is another screen I have to meticulously line up. for each print. Dammit.

2010-03-20T16:51:00.000-07:00

I'm still concepting for my personal identity, but these are the ones I liked so far. I'm leaning towards orange with whatever I do. It's my favorite color. Just design is a layered entendre. And incendiary because a lot of the stuff I do can get that sort of reaction. Any thoughts?

the insides

2010-03-03T18:36:00.001-08:00

psd's, G.

2010-03-03T18:17:00.001-08:00

what I have gone with

2010-03-03T18:07:00.001-08:00

crap I did not use

2010-03-03T18:04:00.000-08:00

my other me

2009-11-30T10:10:00.001-08:00

na non denom

2009-11-08T15:38:00.000-08:00

epistimologically speaking, of course.

2009-11-08T12:48:00.000-08:00

go and all shall be revealed unto ye

2009-11-06T22:36:00.000-08:00

http://listverse.com/2007/12/14/top-10-worst-logos/

i don't like being so stationary

2009-10-11T09:13:00.000-07:00

what the fuck ever

2009-10-03T18:03:00.000-07:00

Again, I'm sure you already know this...

2009-09-19T17:48:00.000-07:00

Here is something I genuinely did not know. Numbers, for all intents and purposes have an upper and a lower case, although they do not go by that naming convention. "Upper case" numbers are called titling figures, and "lower case" numbers are called text figures. Anytime one has numbers in a string of all caps the numbers need to be set in titling figures. Anytime numbers are inside normal text one needs to use text figures. This is how it always used to be until the modernists tried to simplify typography (they failed) which is why using text figures is also called "old style" numbers. The practice waned in the 1800's as Advertising proliferated and typography became cluttered, but it returned for a while until the modernists tried to kill it. It came back again until the 60's photo-reproduction killed it again, and then the 80's started to bring it back. A lot of classic faces like Futura didn't even have text figures until the mid eighties when the practice came back. The practice requires hidden keys now, but it's worth it. Write a line and try it both ways. Which do you like better.

new camera

2009-09-19T15:25:00.000-07:00

textual healing

2009-09-13T13:16:00.000-07:00

So, I've been reading the elements of typographic style. It's pretty good. I always hoped there was some set of formulas for good typography. Turns out there are, so I'll post each one as I get to it. Also, this really got me: The first rule of typography– "read the text before designing it." Duh, right? I'm impatient. I, do not always do this. Could be one of several reasons I suck at typography... but not for long.

Some backround: (you guys probably already know this, but I needed a refresher)

An "em" is whatever distance your type size is. If your type is 6 points one em is 6 points. If the type is 123.5 ponts, then one em is 123.5 points of space. An "en" is exactly 1/2 an em. (you need to know this for the formulas).

Wordspace

*A normal typeface should have a word spacing of 1/4 of an em. (Almost all fonts on your machine have this set into them already, but anything from dafont does not)

*Justified type should have word spacing of 1/5 of an em at least to a maximum of 1/2 an em. (You can actually set this in indesign, but you probably knew that too.

*try not to ever justify sans serif type.

Measure

(measure is the length of the text line)
*45-75 characters is fine for single column text. 66 is the ideal.

*multiple column text should have 40-50 characters per measure.

*text with breaks like bibliography can have 85-90 characters per line.

*Short lines of 30 characters or less should be set right ragged. (these are liner notes and the like).

*Try to never have lines below 12 charatcters (margin notes or punchy taglines)

Letter spacing

*serifed type needs more space, sans-serifed needs less space between letters and words

*Now we already know that titles need more space between letters. This one is a case by case affair that common sense can settle.

*Acronyms and strings of digits need 1/20 to 1/10 of an em between letters.

*Titles and headings like 1/5 to 1/4 of an em of space between letters.

*Strings of caps should be letter spaced. The spacing depends on the font and could be 1/20 to one em of space between letters.

* Lower case should almost never be letter spaced without good reason. (condensed sans-serifed fonts are a good reason,

*bold or black faces can be letterspaced

Kerning

*kern consistently or not at all

*Kerning is beneficial in odd letter combinations like "Wa" "Aw" "Ay" ect... and it also depends on whether or not the typeface has a slanted axis or a straight one. (was the pencil slanted to write the letter or straight)

*There are actually kerning tables available for almost every font. Google them and they tell you how much space you need between letter combinations

*most of your fonts already do this for you, again, this is for type from places like dafont or the like.

*Letters with commas an pertiods after them should be kerned like a comma after "r" or a period after "P" (you generally want to move them closer together because most fonts just add a general letterspace between punctuation regardless of what letter it is. This works for most letters but not ones that have over-arching parts.

"be careful with not to bring punctuation too close with a letter combination like P.F.which could read as "R E" because the periods.

*Numbers almost always need kerning because they are generally omitted from kerning tables loaded into your font. (and more so than letters because of their shapes)

Leading

*The longer the measure, the more leading you need

*Negative leading is only for short punchy copy, and should only be used if acenders and decenders will not collide.

*Darker faces need more leading (darker refers to line thickness. The thicker the line the darker the face.

*wider typfaces need more leading

*Lines of many caps need more leading

*Add and delete vertical space in measured intervals. (There is a formula for how much lead you need between callouts and notes and all that jazz).

(this will take a minute)

* Any time you have a break in your text you must use a multiple of the leading for the rest of your text before you re-continue your text. (If your lead is 13 points high and you have a picture thats 100 points high, here's what you do: divide 100 by 13. You get 7.69. Thats retarded, so round up to 8, then multiply 13 by 8 which gives you 104. Subtract 100 and you get 4. divde by 2 and you get 2, which means you would have two points above your picture and two points below. That's not enough space, so add another 13 points to your equasion which would be 13x9= 117. 117-100(or your picture height)=17. 17/2(or the two lines, one before and one after you picture)=8.5, so you would need to put 8.5 points of space after your picture and 8.5 points of space before your next line. As long as you kept the space between the line of text before the picture and after it, a multiple of 13, you're fine. This goes for anything you put between lines of text. The book explains this better.

*There are leading tables all over the internet. Google them.

Blocks and paragraphs

*Set opening paragraphs flush left

*Each paragraph after should have an indent of at least one en.

****more to follow****

WTF

2009-08-30T23:55:00.000-07:00

2009-04-07T23:36:00.000-07:00

These are the solutions I came up with. I'm still working though. Any suggestions?

can i get some assistance?

2009-03-23T20:49:00.000-07:00

(it's a miracle).

2009-03-19T12:38:00.000-07:00

This is the final miracle house event logo.

2009-03-09T22:26:00.000-07:00

This is obviously not the norm for me, but I felt whimsical. This ones for you Nev.

keep stairing.

2009-02-26T08:27:00.000-08:00

just my type

2009-02-22T20:24:00.000-08:00

2009-02-19T11:38:00.000-08:00

Brains. BBRRAAIIIINNNSS!!!

let the internships resume

2009-02-12T08:20:00.000-08:00

print that schitt

2009-01-21T20:31:00.000-08:00

I just bought a brand new epson 1400 for $209.00 plus free shipping on E-bay. I'll let you know if every thing's legit, but I'm sure it is 'cause the seller has like 100% satisfaction and there are about 12 for sale all at $209.00.

2009-01-07T20:02:00.000-08:00

bad

good

Sooooo...

2008-11-30T22:44:00.000-08:00

I haven't posted (and I believe the operative word is): "Shit" for quite a while. My bad. I really don't surf the internet. I don't even really watch tv. I draw my inspiration from I don't know, getting drunk in a park, or perhaps watching an ant crawl on the concrete and creating a tiny little ant maze with my spit. But I digress. Being the zenith of all procrastination, I know post for your enjoyment, half a semester's worth of crap.

Crap the first.

This guy gets paid by the government of Puerto Rico.

http://www.thefeejeemermaid.com/gallery1.htm

Next is Something Awful. It's a website that loves photoshop and offending you. Me and photo shop are ok, but I sure do love offending you.

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/morse-erotic-telegram.php

Also I when I do watch tv, it's the history channel. This guy's why we have portable computing machines.

plus this picture is really cool.

It's TESLA BITCHES!!!

I mostly read about guys like this for inspiration. I also look at Hubble space telescope photos. They are completely amazing.

(why don't YOU try designing this)

the good and the bad.

2008-10-20T11:28:00.000-07:00

The answer is yes.

2008-10-20T10:56:00.001-07:00

Yes this will be the shape of my wine bottle.

The answer is yes.

2008-10-20T10:56:00.000-07:00

Yes this will be the shape of my wine bottle.

my inspiration

2008-10-12T22:24:00.000-07:00

I could tell you about the people you know about, but that would be redundant. (Da Vinci, Raphael, Every incredible artist ever). You may notice "fine art" seems to dominate my inspiration. It's true. I feel like GOOD DESIGN and "fine art" are the same damn thing. Intentional beauty. That's what gets me no matter where I see it. Intention. Here are a few of my favorites.

Artemisia Gentileschi

Jules Bastien Lepage

I saw this one at the met and nearly broke down. In person this painting is unreal. The internet really destroys most of its beauty.

Tibor Kalman
The greatest smart-ass of the 20th century... And also so damn clean and deliberate with his design.

And of course, Doc Hammer

so... here's some chicks.

2008-10-08T13:38:00.001-07:00

type detective

2008-09-15T11:48:00.001-07:00

exclusive screening.

2008-09-14T22:52:00.000-07:00

Howdy everybody. I thought I'd sort of show you the screen printing process as I did my candidate screens. My camera's crappy, so a lot of steps are missing, being that the pictures are a blurry blob, but that's ok. I got drunk anyway.

This is a clean screen and some chemicals. You need chemicals. Lots of chemicals.

This is one of those chemicals. Diazo Photo emulsion. You have to mix it up with this tiny bottle of black gunk and it turns green. This stuff epires pretty quick and is super sensitive to light so you gotta work fast.

This is my squeegee. You have to use it to put an even coat of photo emulsion on the front and back of the screen.

This is what coating a screen looks like out of focus.

Now the screen must dry. It takes like an hour in a dark place with a fan. This is a good time to drink beer. (I do not recommend south paw light).

Now you have to take the image you want to burn and print it on a transparency backwards. I don't have any pictures of this because I couldn't hold the camera still by this point, so we will skip ahead to the screen being dry, and developing the screen. You have to put the image on top of the screen and shine a really bright light on it. The intensity of the light determines how long your screen will take to develop. I use a 300 watt bulb for 10 minutes. Works great. ***Keep in mind, a dry screen is like film, and sensitive to light, so limit setup time as much as possible by being completely ready before you take the screen out of the dark***

Ten minutes is a long time. You may get thirsty.

When the screen is developed it will be army green, and the place where the image burned will be lime green. You have to rinse the screen with slightly warm water until all the lime green parts come out and the screen shines through. the screen must dry before you print. Impatience has ruined more than a few of my screen printing endeavors. Not that you can see it, but here's the clean screen.

Tape any parts not covered by emulsion and lay the screen exactly where you want it. put some ink on that sumabitch and in a smooth soft stroke drag the ink across the screen just to gently cover the image. Now gather all your might, and in one strong even stroke, drag that ink across your screen again so the image prints.

Now your done. Well, you should probably clean the ink out NOW. Or you could buy another screen. And oh yes, never clean your screen in the sunlight. That kills screens too. If you want to print the image again after its clean, store it in a dark place. K.

The end!!!

ruff stuff

2008-09-05T22:55:00.000-07:00

elephun with type.

2008-09-03T11:46:00.000-07:00

This is an illustration with the entire alphabet in it.

It's um, ironic.

2008-08-27T11:50:00.000-07:00

http://en70.deviantart.com/art/Make-good-typography-39885910

This is where I work best.

2008-08-26T23:48:00.000-07:00

Why yes, there is a website that shows you everything you would ever want to know about a candiddate.

2008-08-26T22:22:00.000-07:00

Thought this might be useful for typeography:

http://www.ontheissues.org/john_mccain.htm

http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Barack_Obama.htm

All of the candidates can be found on this site but I
figured these two would be used the most.

you've just been served ey. ed. sure.

2008-04-16T11:08:00.000-07:00

go here if you like being awesome.

http://formassembly.com/forms/20856

2008-02-27T10:51:00.000-08:00

Now go here because Mr. Haring sure says a bunch with pictures.

http://www.haring.com/

type o

2008-02-27T10:48:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o1U4o1bc2k

its typerific

Evrybody gets laid!!!

2008-02-18T10:30:00.000-08:00

Cigarette companies have excellent package design. Go smoke. And go to this website. Japan makes everything which seems a bit ludicrous, wildly attractive.

http://www.kilian-nakamura.com/blog-english/index.php?s=tobacco

gd

2008-02-13T14:03:00.000-08:00

So I checked out sagmeister's site. I had no idea. He refuses to do what he's supposed to do. All the other designers i've seen seem to, i don't know, pay attention to their clients. I don't think he does. That brings me hope for design. I especially like his all out commitment to whatever the hell he's doing. He got fat for a poster. I can morbidly respect that. I see only the boundaries of composition in his work. Nothing else.

2008-02-06T11:31:00.000-08:00

Umm, I take it back. This is anexcellent post card.

2008-02-06T11:29:00.000-08:00

I'm pretty sure God would hire a better graphic designer than this. Seriously though, this is why I hate post cards.

2008-02-06T11:00:00.000-08:00

My whole body is pretty much covered in tattoos. Tattoos have been pretty overlooked in the art world for centuries. Really they aren't considered art by the majority of the world, but I challenge each of you to find a good tattoo that does not display the principles of graphic design. Most of the old tattoo designs are beginning to replace other graphics on shirts and hats and the like at trendy little boutiques world wide. The very concept of tattoos is to convey meaning in a small part of the skin. Really good tattoos are impecible graphic design. Take this one for instance. It's completely balanced, well planned out, and the water married with the lotus flowers has a succinct meaning in tattoo culture. It just looks cool. dammit.

2008-02-06T10:58:00.000-08:00

I don't think I really need to say anything.

its like if thomas kincade did typography

2008-01-27T21:59:00.000-08:00

(go here)

http://www.costelloart.com/papyrus.html

did you know?

2008-01-27T21:52:00.000-08:00

Gothic means sans-serif. I did not, and I learned something today.

it's all about the benjamins

2008-01-27T21:31:00.000-08:00

I found out that poor richard's almanac was printed in a variation of Garamond. I kind of assumed that it would have been printed in Franklin gothic, but no, that didn't exist until 1902. I also found out that so was pretty much everything else for a pretty long time. It looks crappy because franklin's printing press sort of sucked. Plus everything was placed by hand. It took a crap load of time. (um, ya. I was trying to quote something from poor richards almanac to a friend, so that's how come this is so random).

grahic design uber alles.

2008-01-14T10:59:00.000-08:00

These girls look very similar. Graphic design is universal!!!

i just vomited in my mouth a little.

2008-01-14T10:51:00.001-08:00

Um, seriuosly? This was created by the University of Alaska Anchorage. This is why nobody goes to the university of alaska anchorage for graphic design.

i just vomited in my mouth a little.

2008-01-14T10:51:00.000-08:00

Um, seriuosly?

mosque i repeat myself? Typeography

2008-01-14T10:44:00.000-08:00

This is site is pretty rad, ya know kids, tubular and such. Ping is apparently doin' a thing on Iranian typography. I remember checking some of this stuff out in art history. Muslim cultures decorate all of their mosques in type, being that their religion bans all other images in places of worship. Go here or die a little inside. http://www.pingmag.jp/2006/12/11/iranian-typography-now/

let's face it...

2008-01-14T10:42:00.001-08:00

Ummm, pretty kick-ass.