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Monday, February 4, 2013
Japanese Designer Uses Motion To Reveal Hidden Typography
Typography
| The Japanese designer going by the alias, MountStar has taken playful motion graphics to new heights, while using minimalist techniques. In "Hidden Typography," motion graphics are used to reveal words unseen on plain black backgrounds. |
The designer's minimalist take on typography is a playful and effective use of the tools of graphic design to deliver maximum effect.
The series titled, "Hidden Typography," uses motion graphics to reveal words unseen on plain black backgrounds. Water-inspired lines pour over the word, and beams of lines bounce around to reveal another example.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Timothy Samara's Design Elements Is Accessible and Informative
Books
| Timothy Samara's book, Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual, available in print and on Kindle is simply the most compact and lucid handbook available outlining the basic design principles of layout, typography, color usage, and space. |
imothy Samara's book, Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual
, available in print and on Kindle is simply the most compact and lucid handbook available outlining the basic design principles of layout, typography, color usage, and space.
Being a creative designer is often about coming up with unique design solutions. Unfortunately, when the basic rules of design are ignored in an effort to be distinctive, design becomes useless. In language, a departure from the rules is only appreciated as great literature if recognition of the rules underlies the text.
Graphic design is a “visual language,” and brilliance is recognized in designers whose work seems to break all the rules, yet communicates its messages clearly.
, available in print and on Kindle is simply the most compact and lucid handbook available outlining the basic design principles of layout, typography, color usage, and space.Being a creative designer is often about coming up with unique design solutions. Unfortunately, when the basic rules of design are ignored in an effort to be distinctive, design becomes useless. In language, a departure from the rules is only appreciated as great literature if recognition of the rules underlies the text.
Graphic design is a “visual language,” and brilliance is recognized in designers whose work seems to break all the rules, yet communicates its messages clearly.
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Infographics Designers' Sketchbooks
Books
| In Infographic Designers' Sketchbooks, more than fifty of the world's leading graphic designers and illustrators open up their private sketchbooks to offer a rare glimpse of their creative processes. |
Using a wide variety of techniques, they transform complex ideas into clear, engaging, and memorable infographics. In recent years, books and websites have been collecting the field's best. While stimulating, these finished projects offer little insight into how visual solutions were reached, making them of limited use to designers wanting to produce work of their own.
In Infographics Designers' Sketchbooks
, more than fifty of the world's leading graphic designers and illustrators open up their private sketchbooks to offer a rare glimpse of their creative processes.
Organized alphabetically by designer, Infographic Designers' Sketchbooks combines both breadth and depth in 352-pages. The topics span range from politics to science to pop culture to finance.
The book excels at showing how essentially dry, complex scientific information is brought to life by storybook-like infographic imagery embedded with raw data. Still, however polished the final product is and whatever data it represents, the common theme is a good old-fashioned sketch at the start.
It is incredibly interesting to go behind the scenes of a designer’s work process, through their sketches.
Author Steven Heller is the cochair of the MFA Designer as Author Department at NY's School of Visual Arts. He is the author of many books, including Graphic, Typography Sketchbooks, Scripts, and Shadow Type.
Co-author Rick Landers is founding partner and co-creative director of graphic design studio Landers Miller Design.
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