Type and Code

Today I've been experimenting in processing with text, simple stuff but with some nice results even just as eye candy. I was inspired by this workshop called 'Type and Code' (http://www.yeoahn.com/typecode/index.html) and decided to play around with some of the techniques it covered on the website.

Video of some of the animations can be viewed below, the quality has suffered a bit but for the record the white dots are @'s and probably my favourite. Now if only I could remember how I did it:


Hope to experiment more soonly!

Storyboard sneakpeak

Here's an example of a few storyboards/concept art for my title sequence. More to come soon!

P.s. Working on 3cubed in after effects has driven me insane

Animated Alphabet

Alphabet.. done!

Alphabet development

More development of my alphabet today. Managed to get the video camera recording after a bit of pestering the technicians at uni. I fed the picture of the letter into the TV via my mac, and then recorded it with the old camera, I played around with the focus and shutter a bit which gave me some cool glowy effects.

Looks quite nice when like above, but sometimes it was a bit too overpowering so I may just use it a little, if at all.

After filming the letter with the old VHS camera, I then set up a DV camera (too many cameras!) and fed the VHS camera into the TV via scart.

As I fimed it with the DV camera I used the tracking, pause, skip frame, rewind and forwarding to try and create some cool effects. It involved a lot of mashing of various buttons to work out what worked best. Skipping between pausing, rewinding and forwarding is particularly effective.

Here is a little bit of a film to show what kind of stuff I got, this is my favourite bit I captured.



Hopefully do some more letters tomorrow.

VHS Fun

We have been set a project for our Digital Practice/Media Through Time lesson to create an animated alphabet. Something along the lines of this:

This is an amazing piece of work created by dropping the letters into a tub of cornflour and water.

I'm interested in the idea of playing with VHS tapes and seeing what type of effects I can get by altering the tracking, fast forwarding etc. Managed to find this old VHS camera in the studio that tapes normal size tapes.

 

 Bought it home and it still works, just need to keep it plugged in! I wanted to use it to feed into the TV though so bought a normal red, white and yellow to scart cable and then an old VHS from a charity shop (teenage mutant ninja turtles yeah!)

And it works! Later today I'm gonna try the old selotape over the edge trick and try to record over the tape with a sample letter. First of all I need to get a DVD or something to get the alphabet onto the TV... or to be even more geeky, I could try and feed my mac into the tv, then feed the tv feed into the camera... confusing? Very!

How to do a two step wallflip

Work for this weeks Information Graphics deadline. Had to create instructions in the form of text, audio, pictoral or diagram for an extraordinary task. I decided to do a two step wallflip (the one where you run up a wall then flip backwards)

Here are some of my outcomes, click for detail!

Pictoral:




Diagram:


Text:

Obama Badges

Quick first year project creating badges to celebrate Obama being elected president. Took inspiration from one of his speeches and used the idea of Obama supporting all types of people.

Excess

Finally decided to update my blogger, posting some old work from the end of my first year in uni.


A website based around the idea of an excessive ammount of time wasted on the internet. Website best viewed in full screen.
Click here to go to the website

'Kern' game

Found this cool game which is a little like tetris only using typography to create the correct 'kerning'. It's a game that has been made for the iPhone and looks like great fun, and very well designed too!




Source: http://technabob.com/blog/2009/02/17/kern-the-game-for-typography-nerds/

Transformation posters

Here are a few of my final results for our typography - transformation part 3 project.



+ happy new year everybody!

Cutout type books.

Books that have been cut into and painted over to create weird effects. I particularly like the one above as it looks a bit like a maze.


See more from Brian Dettmer here

Yes you can!

click for full size.

I really like this poster because it involves interaction, and rewrites itself. Cool concept.

Found @ FFFOUND.

Shaz Madani

Really cool designer, who does a lot of interesting stuff with typography. I particularly like this piece to the side as they have used the text to create a kind of illustration. I also like some stuff they have done with cutting lots of paper out to create 3d typography.

Check out the website for more: http://smadani.com/

My wookybook

It doesn't actually have any wookies in. However! It has lot's of happy birthdays. We made them in typography the other week and I've finally decided to take some photos.





Fin.

Typepaste

Does exactly what it says on the tube..

Great fun, I like the use of aquafresh.

Typographic Map

Very clever!

Smiths Letterpress

Letterpress valentines cards relating to the Smiths. Sure, they're my favourite band and I am bias but I also think it's a lovely design.

Neglected Type

I'm currently working on a project were we have to find neglected city type, catalogue it and make it into some kind of outcome. (most likely a book)

Here are few of my favourites from the neglected type I have gathered thus far. I have been around both Nottingham (my home city) and Lincoln. I want to use both cities to create a transition between the two.

I have also been looking at cigarette packets and signs quite a lot because not only are these neglected (thrown on the floor, mis-used, torn etc.) the packets themselves are neglected by the people smoking the cigarettes, avoiding the messages such as 'smoking kills'.

Iphone Clock

Apparently this has been around for a while, but seriously how cool? You can use any of your own photos to create completely original clocks.

Klim Type Foundry

Although their fonts arnt really my sort of thing, I do love the actual design on the website.



The text which reads almost like a 'Manifesto' or list of achivements and uses their own typefaces, one for each lines, which are highlighted when you rollover and you can click to see the font. Simple but very nice.

Link: http://klim.co.nz/