SETTING UP TYPE IN SPACE printed on transparencies then through a macro 60mm lens shooting film and racking the focus. The type is printed at 3pt.

Creating visual distress with letter forms on transparencies can create an experience which limits the perception of the typographic message. This is leads me to think about how I can create a moment of clarity in a seemly chaotic environment. Looking at the video it seems like the static typography has a perceivable form in [...]

Here’s a look at the wire frames for the Dallas Morning News website redesign I’m doing

This whole typographic experimentation thing is super difficult. Its hard to think about whats been done before and what is uncharted territory, its difficult to comprehend a space which you do not know exists. So have much thinking about sound, and its relationship to typography, I am not sure if I am interested enough in [...]

Think about typography as an audible experience. Each word we read is spoken in our heads.  How can those sounds be translated into an visual form? Charles Burchfield, The Insect Chorus, 1917. Abstract visualization of the insect’s sounds. Accomplished with rhythm and quality in the lines. So how can these scientific experiments be utilized to [...]

WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT THE WEB IN 2011 Two points stood out to me in this post. Respect complexity If a single idea has followed me around this year, from politics to art and work to friendships, it’s been this one: “it’s more complicated than that.” It’s centrally important to seek simplicity, and especially to [...]

The history of the race. The tale upon which the modern Olympic Marathon rests is the mythic run of Pheidippides from Marathon to Athens. He was a professional messenger and, in 490BC, is supposed to have brought a message from the plains of Marathon, where the Greek Army had just won a crucial battle against [...]

Visual Communication by Johnathan Baldwin. 74-77, 96-97. What is culture? Critiques of mass culture. Sub and counter cultures. Raymond Williams culture: 1. the process of a society’s intellectual, spiritual and aesthetic development. 2. The particular way of life of a people, period or group. 3. The works and practices of intellectual and especially artistic activity. [...]

Back to the grind my view for the rest of the semester seems to be a familiar one. 10 New Year’s Resolutions for Designers Reactions to Web Design is 95% Typography Web Design is 95% Typography Are all some blog posts I’ve read recently and my thoughts are as follows: “Learn to write” and “learn [...]