♥ (Friends of Type)

Man in the Mirror

Well if I needed an inspiration for this week this would most definitely be it. Mico Toledos set of Music Philosophy are a combination of type and music. PERFECT! you know since thats what we're suppose to be doing in type 2 anyways.

I can't be random?

Random system is kicking my butt! Suggestions pleasee! Unfortuantly I don't have a picture of the original but here it is redone for those that remember the first version

Update: played around with this stamp thing just to give it some texture, let me know which one is better/any other suggestions

Finally!

Spring break has finally arrived and so far is looking very relaxing. Our teachers were wonderful and didn't pile too much work on us.

Type - no drop cap, poster, inspiration, or process due.. but I'll probably do it anyways. We just have to fix up our posters and start on the grid system. I'll probably find a day this week and just go poster crazy! Hopefully, I'll be able to start working on including analog because I've wanted to do that I just have always felt too rushed!

Form - Photo form is our new assignment which is somewhat based off our sonic form. We are going to create a "book" using photos of an object, person, or place and create a narration using the photos and form of the book alone. My inspiration for this project comes from graffiti artist Banksy! I love Banksy's little girl with the balloon and have been even considering getting a tattoo of it. Although I don't necessarily want a heart shaped red balloon, I'm gonna be buying lots of red balloons and spending way too much time photographing them. I'm trying to take as much as possible in as many different settings and times that I can. As for my sentence of narration I don't want to think too much about it yet just kinda wanna see what I get.

We also need to think of the form of the book, I have several ideas going about non-book looking books but I also really like the idea of a simple photo book such as the one below. So we'll see what happens.

Print - task for print is to bevel my edges of my plate (will have to wait till I get back to school) and make a drawing from observation. NOT FUN! Don't really know where I'm gonna go with it but I guess we'll see.

My goal for spring break - RELAX and get organized. So many hectic things and not enough time to figure them out.

Army Strong - Drop Cap (Process 5)

Yay so delayed of a post! I don't know how I forgot my process.. or even to blog this past week. Things are getting crazy I NEED SPRING BREAK. But anyways, green drop cap.. yeah I pretty much thought of every green object that I could and picked from the list the one that I found most interesting. I trekked all over Newark until I found green army men (closet location to where I started, yet last place I checked). Surprisingly they now seem to make them in every color which was annoying. I played around with the army men for a while before finally deciding to just be cliche and make an A. Lame, I know. They were hard to form into a letter and the hot glue was a mess as usual but I think it came out alright in the end. In critique people suggested possibly making it with serifs.. which I want to try but it got damaged on the way home and needs some fixing first. Process pictures below!

Crave This

So I sit here starving waiting for my dinner to arrive and figure oh hey I'll go check out one of my regular websites. What do I find? The word cravings out of every possible food I could want right now. Talk about obnoxious.. all it did was make me even more HUNGRY. Stomach, not happy; Design inspiration; very happy.

In the Rainforest

Alexandra Valenti - Photographer

This week's inspiration comes in the form of a website. Urban Outfitters is actually hosting a huge concert series in Austin. They've been posting for weeks information on bands and stuff going on there and recently just put a link to their website that gives out all sorts of information on places to go and stuff to do in Austin. I figured a little background information could help me out with this project for designing upcoming posters.