Website; Type News
This site has many many topics on type, illustration, design basically everything in the communication world, but its main priority is typography. There are some excellent examples of work on here and many illusive type designs. It offers inspiration and other designers portfolios of work. If there s any new type out there thats hitting the world hard its guaranteed to be on here. Great for that all need inspiring spark, if your searching for that perfect logo font or 3d text with an impact. I also noticed it has a cool packaging section with great ways of displaying information design on the packaging certainly worth checking out.
Drawing; Jen Starks Felt tip drawings
Anyone feel high just looking at these? They are produced by Jen Starks and whats so cool about them is that there done using felt tip pens!!!! They look digitally illustrated but whats better than using a felt tip pen. I’m glad to see some one is keeping the old traditional ways strong!!
The drawings are original and amazing the way they incorporate space and colour and seem to endlessly flow into one another, you can pick out so much detail and little things from them. I love the creativeness behind them. It would be awsome to find out what inspired Jen to do them and how they initially started. The rest of her work is presented at www.jenstark.com. Check it out
Design, Innovation; Car Parking
In the New York Times online they have a great article on new car parking. This cool new innovate way takes up less space, is more eco friendly and saves time. They are popping up all over Europe and I reckon it wont be long until they hit our sunny island of England. Who could resist taking your car to be moved around and parked by robots its amazing!
Book; 100 Monsters
100 Monsters is the work of 344 artist. They have been his obsession for the past year, they began as an exercise of drawing something everyday and evolving everyday items as inspiration. “What better to blow a few drops of ink into a shape and make that shape a monster” Quoted from the artist himself. For one hundred days he filmed himself drawing a different monster everyday and posted it on the blog dailymonster.com, the site gathered people from all over the world who began to comment on the monsters and create stories for them and personality’s. The monsters brought together a network of people and created huge online debates and funny scripts. Thus he decided to produce this book which is like a time capsule of the 100 days and includes the monters drawings, names and stories from all the people that left comments about them. The book features all 100 monsters and 257 stories about them. This this goes to show how some small drawings/doodles caught the attetion of the people and how from one innovational idea to another lead to the end book which I am sure will be a huge seller. A must see I think its brilliant, the creative monsters all stemed from ink are a classic.
Design; Paper cut outs
Granted from the title it doesn’t sound to exciting but just look at the final creation. The work is by an artist called Jen Stark who is a big drawing inspiration of mine. She produces these fascinating sculptures by layering hundreds of pieces of card together and then precisely cutting out individual sections and crafting them. Talk about creativity from paper to this, in my opinion its awsome.
I guess you could call it modern day art or sculpture but the time and patients it must take to produce these is impressive and I dont think there ll be much room for the error of an over cut. Her website is www.jenstark.com its a must see to views these amazing pieces.
Website; Dont click on it.com
Think you need a mouse to use a computer? Thin again!
Dontclickonit.com has created a powerful interactive website investigating the need or no need, for the click i.e selecting icons, buttons and generally interacting. They have harnessed clever original ways of selecting links on their site and thus removing the need for the click! The interactive possibilities generated by the site are amazing and spawns a whole new potential for how we engage ourselves on the net and with software. They have an interesting pole on the site of how many people couldn t resist the urge to click, myself inluded. Its certainly a one to check out.
Museum; The National Glass Centre
The National Glass Centre is a unique venue situated in Sunderland thats allows people to see how how glass works from all over the world are produced. It also lets them explore there own visual creative ideas with glass by allowing them to mould and sculpt pieces from themselves.
The building is made from steel and glass the entire roof is created from glass allowing people to go up and look down ‘Not good if your scared of heights trust me!’
The Centre provides local exhibitions and National exhibitions for the general public and also education facilities for schools.
There aim; ‘Our aim is to be a centre of national excellence supporting the production, exploration, presentation and enjoyment of contemporary glass.’ You certainly learn alot about glass when you visit more than I ever thought went into the production of glass and also the endless possibilities you can achieve with it.
Website; Neave.com
Neave .com is avery impressive website created using flash.It is the interactive playground of ‘interactive designer’ Paul Neave. The pieces of work that allowusers to test,play and exxperiment in 3d worlds and even interacts with your built in camera and microphone. The site is a great example of how to keep your audience interested with simple navigation, sounds and by challengeing the user. The site works across all size pixel screens and even has the option of enlargeing to full screen.It is similar to the lynx efect website with its use of coding and interaction.
What makes this site extremely powerful is its use of 3D interaction it is allowing new possibilities in the way the internet can be viewed and interacted with. The use of powerful colour schemes makes it fresh and gives it a new technology feel.
This site is must view and a very impressive use of flash and interactive design.
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Graphic Communication Designer Adam Atkinsonis a young, fresh and diverse communication creative. Currently just finished a Masters in Advertising and Design at the University of Leeds and working at Momentum Worldwide in Manchester as an Advertising Creative
Having returned to Leeds in 2009, (where he graduated with a BA International in Graphic Communication Design,) from Whitewater to complete a Masters, he has expanded his education, skills and expertise into the areas of Marketing Strategy, Consumer Behaviour and Internet Marketing, combined with Visual, Persuasive and Integrated Communications.
