A great little tool for generating your very own guilloche patterns. What would usually be a painstaking afternoon in Illustrator has been made simple (and quite fun to play with) by this, and with the ability to customise every variable you have total control. The only thing I’d say it was missing is the option to output your creation as vectors..
Have a play here
Lovely animation by Malcolm Sutherland from Flatpack Festival 2011.
“An explorer adventures into an unknown world, yet it seems that he has been there before.
A short animated film directed by Malcolm Sutherland in 2010. With music by Alison Melville and Ben Grossman, and foley by Leon Lo. Sound design / mix by Malcolm Sutherland.
The animation is all hand-drawn; a mix of drawing / pastels on paper and digital animation with Toonboom Studio and a wacom cintiq tablet, assembled in After Effects 7 and edited in Sony Vegas 8.”
I’ve just uploaded the new site for Ellie Tobin Make Up & Hair. Built with a PHP back end to make it easy for her to update, and a Javascript front end using jquery fancybox it’s gallery based and focuses on what’s most important for this site, the imagery. The brief was to keep it clean and simple, and with the help of her imagery I think it turned out quite nice.
Watch the video below to see what you think, or click here to visit the website.
You can also click here to view the full project in my main site.
With HTML5 quickly becoming the build language of choice it wasn’t going to be long before we saw it cropping up used in a music video. Although this has been around for a while I still love to go back and have a play with it, always using different address’ though for a bit of variety. Using Google Street View it takes familiar scenes from your childhood and puts them into the video, creating a personalised experience for everyone that views it. It looks quite nice too.
Have a go yourself here – www.thewildernessdowntown.com
As is usually the way, personal sites tend to get a little left behind in priority lists.. However, I’ve finally got round to updating my This Is My Work site again with a selection of photography and other non-commercial projects. The project shown above is a work in progress typeface called Middlecase. It attempts to bring some of the character and personality often found in lower case characters into their upper case counterparts. The version shown above is complete and fully functional, so if you’d like to have a play with it you can test it out on my main website here.
You can click here to visit www.thisismywork.co.uk.
Also, if you’d like a copy of Middlecase leave a comment below including your email in the appropriate box (it won’t show up in the comment, but I’ll see it) and make sure to mention if you need it for Mac or PC.
Designed in keeping with her printed material (the name in Helvetica Neue 45 Light) I wanted to counter balance that rigidity with something a little softer. Using italicised Baskerville MT the identity aims to reflect the industry, who have a tradition of using established serif fonts, and to draw focus to the ampersand, which was used to highlight her initials (as & is a ligature of the latin et). This mark can also be carried through into places where a full logo isn’t practical (favicons, image watermarks etc) to maintain consistency.
I’ve just finished adding some Spring/Summer touches to the Hoxton Boutique website, no drastic changes this time, but it certainly feels a bit lighter and brighter now.
Take a look here
Or click here to see all of my work for Hoxton Boutique
For my sixth ‘Type I Like’ I decided to opt for a choice a little closer to home, the ‘Printing Types’ manual I inherited from an old tutor at Camberwell. Although without a cover, and by now pretty tatty, whenever I want to remind myself of all of the classic typefaces I appreciate (or have forgotten to appreciate for a while..) I flick through the pages. Its a compendium of beautifully laid out type. No images, no context or usage, just the typefaces in various weights and sizes. I’d recommend anyone with an appreciation for typography gets hold of one of these.
Some of you may already be aware of this handy little tool (as its been around for a while) but I decided to write a post on it as it never ceases to surprise me with its accuracy. Recently I was working on a project where I was sent an existing design that needed a quick edit, but with only a jpeg to work from I couldn’t be totally sure what font had been used for the titles, which is where What The Font! comes in. You just crop out a section of the text you need to identify the font from, upload it (see above) and voila! It returns a selection of options based on analysis of each character. In the example here I’ve used my logo, and as you can see from the final image it returned the perfect match straight away! Also, if you’re not happy with any of the matches it offers, there’s a well maintained forum full of type-geeks to offer their suggestions, and not forgetting the iPhone App for those font queries when you’re out and about…
If you have a font you can’t identify, or just fancy testing it out, you can visit the site here.
After Grafik magazines untimely disappearance in 2010 I’d just started deciding what my new subscription for 2011 was going to be, and what should come through my door? A nicely printed (of course) letter from it’s owners containing a URL to download the last, unpublished issue. Full to the brim with the usual old favourites, as well as being a quite apt (considering my recent contracts) fashion special!
Above is the cover, and below are a few of my favourite spreads from the issue. If you’d like a link to the full PDF leave your email in a comment and I’ll forward it on.
Fingers crossed the relaunch I’ve heard whispers about will happen later this year!
