Yeah!

I joined AIGA today. :)

That is all.

Internshipables

I want to intern for The Jones Group.

Immediately.

Beautiful poster in an annual series for the High Museum created by The Jones Group:

Beautiful Chalk Typography

This girl does the most beautiful hand rendered typographical pieces with just chalk and a chalkboard.
See the full webpage here:
Dana Tanamachi

For Liz: Visuals of Atlanta's Snowpocalypse

General article about the cold snap we felt in December.
December's Cold Snap

From CTECreative Blog:


From Creative Loafing:

For Liz: Climate Change Article

Climate Science: An Erosion of Trust?

From Nature News magazine, found on the Climate Central webpage.

This article may help us understand the delicacy of speaking about climate change, whether we are speaking to the general public or to a weather spokesperson hearing about it every day.

designing with context

This redesign was so unbelievably unnecessary.
The logo is halfway decent without any context (save for the upside down 'central'), but the old Comedy Central logo already had such a distinctive look and following behind it. How do you just throw all of that away?

on being carded

How fancy do designers' business cards really need to be?
I found this article from Print Magazine on personal designers' business cards to be extremely helpful and interesting, as well.

Print Magazine

New WIRED page layout

...with the changes to my graph (slimlined color schemes and the addition of information on the graph itself).


I found a few things while flipping through an issue of Wired that I tried to incorporate in this page layout; a few of which include:

-slab serif typeface for headers and body copy (I am using Serifa here.)
-bright colors in illustrations and imagery
-flat shapes and spaces

SERIFS! ...again.

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SERIFS!

The title of my calendar is THE JOY OF THE SERIF, a calendar celebrating thirteen notable serif typefaces in the design world. Each month has a small paragraph describing the typeface's history and briefly describing its unique parts.

This idea came to me because I was looking back at my most recent projects and realized that I have been using nothing but serif typefaces for a while. I think they are extremely classic and beautiful, and there are so many different little nuances between each typeface that I felt the need to explore more with and highlight to others that may not see them either.

This calendar will be bound at the top and packaged in an easel kind of way, so it could sit on someone's desk and one could flip back and forth between the months as needed while learning more about the history of (serif) type. I also wanted to showcase the ampersand in each typeface because I feel like that is the most beautiful character in many typefaces.

THERE IS NO COLOR YET... I haven't even begun exploring that aspect, but I wanted to post the layout of a couple that I am fond of at this point in time.

I like where this is going but I know I have a long way to go before it is a finished product.


EDIT: After seeing these cropped the way they would be printed (ie- serifs getting cut off at the edges), i decided that i absolutely hate it with a passion....especially since I am cutting off the very thing this calendar is celebrating. So I will fix it (ie-make it smaller and not hang off the edge) and update the progress.