A very interesting talk by Stefan Sagmeister on design and the benefits of “sabbaticals“.
Steampunk Design (is intriguing)
Steampunk is a sub-genre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date. Wikipedia.
Some intriguing examples of steampunk:
Categories: Collections.
Yellow in Web Design (is beautiful)
When people ask me what my favorite colour is I always reply with yellow, but you wouldn’t be able to tell by looking at things I make, things I use and things I buy. I want to use yellow more, especially in web design. If you’re looking to break away from using the same blue in every one of your designs as well, then get inspired! Here are some beautiful, yellow web designs that I’ve found.
Categories: Collections, Inspiration.
Beautiful Examples of Letterpress
As of late I have been extremely intrigued by the beautiful impressions of letter-pressed designs, so I began collecting as many beautiful examples as I could find. Here are my findings:
Categories: Collections, Inspiration.
Typography School
An absolutely wonderful video of David Dabner at the London College of Printing:
Some interesting points that were mentioned:
- To many, letterpress seems like an obsolete practice, but even to this day David teaches letterpress to his students.
- Computers make students sloppy. And that makes for sloppy thinking and sloppy approach.
- Good typographers can think; if you can’t think you produce a lot of nonsense, and in thinking you can delete the non-essential.
- They stop actually using pencil and paper and they work directly on the computer, which in itself is OK, but I think the computer inhibits their ability to develop.
- An analogy could be someone playing jazz, you have to learn how to use the instrument first, otherwise the music will sound terrible.
- It’s a tool, and just like any other tool you need to learn how to use it.
- You do become elitist because you care, you need to be a little bit elitist, there’s nothing wrong with that.
- You’ve got to care about what you’re doing.
Categories: Video.
Raised Point
Well, here we are. This is the personal Blog of a young man; a student studying multimedia who enjoys many different genres of art.
I look to Blog about what inspires me, what resources I use and maybe even publish some tutorials.
Categories: Updates.