My font!!!

Walbaum (The best creative romanticism font in German)

Nowadays, we could see typography everywhere in our life. We may not notice them but they are alive and it is with us for a long time. I would like to give some momentous about person who became very influential in typography.

Tate Liverpool Gallery, Eiichi Kono, in1986, England

Early 19th century, Erich Walbaum designed new type of font, which is called Walbaum. Walbaum, Didon style, was designed with Bonia and Firmin Didot. In late 18th century, Romain du roi, designed by Louis XIV in 1700, published to impact in France and Italy. Romain du roi was drawn mathematical and artificial beauty font. However, Didone style does not have any serif and a horizontal stroke and a vertical stroke meets a right angle. This style is geometrical and mathematical but no more leftover penmanship style. Appearance and popularity of Walbaum caused by a great contrast of tine stroke, a typography development, and social culture’s changing.

Orsay art museum sign system visual manual,Visuel Design, in 1986, France

http://blog.naver.com/linigy/80002331107

Photoshop

Today, every funny pictures or amazing pictures are made by Photoshop program. While I was searching on the internet, I found really great pictures which were composition of food with just ordinary pictures. The skill is perfectly unrecognized. So, I also tried to make it as a similar function.

http://www.worth1000.com

http://www.freefoto.com

http://www.bigfoto.com

Self Portrait

This work is my assignment#2 portrayed myself by electronic machines. So, I simply thought what am I and then I realized that the things should be used everyday around of me because when I like it or need it, it also would be a part of me. Therefore, all my pictures are taken by me and I just figured out those pictures on right position of my face.

My face background was became the motorbike’s wheel due to it is very important part that in Vietnam I usually take the motorbike and I love to ride it. I chose the computer mouse for my eye because when I see something on computer, it automatically clicks. The other stuffs are also relative with my life.

Reflection my work

I have been studying design almost a year. I had a lot of assignments for designing something or writing reports but it was not often reviewed after finishing the project so, this time, I tried to reflect on one of my work in the first semester. This is my visual diary which expressed or described my feeling and principles. That time, working was really good time to think about myself and my environment because I should think what’s going on and what’s around me. Finally, the most important thing is that I had the passion to learn and design something. I must keep that in mind and try to achieve my goal.

Research for the public welfare posters

Searching material is very important step for starting or doing your project because you might get their ideas or internalize more data for your work. There are many clever welfare posters all over the world. First poster is against drinking drive a car. This one is the most brilliant idea due to designer focus on a drinker’s standpoint so people can grasp easily the message of poster. It is simple but it has a strong impact.

Second poster is an Anti-AIDS campaign. It shows a pretty obvious visualization of the message that AIDS does not spare anyone. It could be everybody if not protected.

The last is made from Korea and the message of this poster is not to waste food. The food we eat is also money, if we could see our food as money, would we just throw it away??

http://cafe.naver.com/hebba/719

http://blog.naver.com/tae_ram/80035686689

http://blog.naver.com/docuforum/40036636408

Fonts exercise

This exercise is very good for how to choose perfect fonts to articles because every articles have own their emotion so we must seriously consider about choosing fonts.

I chosen ‘mood’ word and I tried to play 3 different styles and fonts, playful, blue and romantic. I concentrated to focus on matching style and font. It was really hard work due to there are more then a thousand fonts and you have to choose correct one. Also, I realized the color is the secondly important one.

Pixel work

I saw Tuan’s blog which mentioned about pixel work. It was quite interesting for me and then I just tried to make pixel work. This work is unlike with victor graphic so every pixels must have individual color and the shapes.

Those skills depend on looks more professional or not. So in my work, I wanted to express myself as a fox because I heard that I look like a fox. Does it look like me???