finally a new post

Link to Quimby's website

the other pieces

tool kit

business cards

bookmarks (back and front)

letter head

(there is also an envelope which is not included in this post)

Check it out

I was browsing typographic posters and i found this one which goes along with our advocacy theme and i think is really well designed. It gets the point across using a limited color palette and only type.

afterthought

i just saw my comments for my project, i guess  didn't do as good as i had thought, details i need to pay more attention to the minor details, and just do better and be better. My craft is improving. Its almost over the end is near. As always i wish there was more time and money

Finally Final

The lessig thing was supposed to be this video i made on the side called xtranormal.com basically i watched lessig, he said a lot of interesting things which i didn't necessarily agree with or disagree with but if what he says is true it being a less and less read only worlds then our job as designers becomes more and more important

As a reflection. This year especially these past couple weeks i have been working my ass off. In the end i think it has paid off and i can finally say i feel confident in the next couple years as a designer. There is a lot of work ahead of me but i know i can do it.  I am definitely proud of the exhibit work i did i think that is what proved it to me and i hope to you guys too.  Andrea said something to me while i was working on my spread to make my text columns on my second page just columns instead of notches to "make it easier on me." This wasn't offended but i didn't want to take the easy way out i wanted to solve the type problem in my original concept and prove that i could do it.  I know i have to work a little bit harder to keep up but i hope that by continuing to challenge myself in design. (in the packaging problem making it on such a big scale, in our exhibit choosing someone off the list, in the type animation picking something that was already a song, i feel i only half succeeded at solving this but i have figured out a way i could have done it better) Trying to find a balance between work and school and life in general, trying to stay sane. Discovering how i work best and my process seeming to make everything as difficult as possible is something i am trying to work on not doing anymore.  Gaining confidence and enjoying getting closer and closer to the people in my class are all things i am looking forward too. Goals i have are trying to make more progress in between classes and using my peers as more of a resource i learned how valuable this is during my poster making (cat, chris and michael, thanks guys) and wished i had learned this earlier Thank you Andrea for staying encouraging and helping my work on weaknesses while helping me improve my strengths.  

lesig

check this out

good idea

this is a chair designed by Tokujin Yoshioka, pretty interesting i think.

here is a really good example of a company called Moroso site.  

Since 1952 MOROSO has been designing its sofas, armchairs and accessories with wellknown designers such as Ron Arad, Carlo Colombo, Enrico Franzolini, Marc Newson, Toshiyuki Kita and Patricia Urquiola. MOROSO has been constructing its sofas and armchairs aiming at top quality.

type video

Check this type video out it, i think it may be one of my favorites i have seen yet.

78RPM - MP3 | 70 Years of Revolutionary Protest Music from Dan Flynn| danielflynndesign.com on Vimeo.

And here is a sweet website title collected visuals.

packaging: boxed water

LOOK EVERYONE DOES IT!  here is an example of someone combining clarendon and futura. 

Design Matters, yes it does

Here is a blog long over do,

Design Matters with Debbie Millman and the Bad Boys of Design part 1, is there a transcript of this?

In her intro, which was very nice, she states "you can't be really bad without first being really good"  This comment is good to hear especially after listening to most of the designers say later in the interview they don't pay attention to the typography, it comes last. Except for when she asks Armin who is the youngest designer there. This mak

es sense when you put the pieces together when you go to school and in you

r first design jobs you are working under a senior designer paying more attention to the details you gain experience and those things come more naturally and you ca

n put them them off a til later.  Eventually you start working on more projects on your own as senior designer when you work becomes "bad ass."  

This was one of those things i have been putting off  because it was going to be a

ble to see was was going on and the work they were talking abo

ut. without. Actually listening to a designer talk is acutlaly very visual, i first put a face to all the names she was talking to and here they are and some of the individual things they said:

 

Armin Vitt, graphic designer

on style:

great emphasis on type youngest, finding your own voice still working on his voice/style

what do you think about graphic designers?

 really likes graphic designers except who does mediocre or bad design.

Michael Ian Kaye currently with AR advertising agency, 

what do you define as success?

"feeling good about what one does during the course of thier day and night and being able to sleep teaching thinking learning"

on style:

doesn't think he have a style but others do coming up with the ideas likes picking typefaces that help support the clients he has prohibits him from having a style. He has the WTH factor alwyas tryign to get a reaction to engage the viewer "Lets have a conversation"

Michael is currently working on Beyonce and Tina Knowles brand identity for thier new clothing line, Derone, and previously worked with/on Kate spade

Peter Feigenbaum, I couldn't find a good picture, but this is some of this work it is from Trainset 

Ghetto, a model railroad depicting NY in its worst state

currently working on

new book deal radical diy culture, do it yourself

James Victore work described as holding passion and purpose, and through this interview you can definitely hear some passion.  This is part of his dirty plate exhibit, which he is holding becuse most said

he was an artist not a graphic desiner, which he embraced and produced this exhibit.

on style 

"James: clients pay him for thier opinion that is his style" 

what bothers you most about graphic desingers?

that they are graphic designers overly concerned

with asthethic we do things specifailly pickign colors and type we do for ourselves

I had a hard time finding a picture of Mark, but i think this is him, he currenlty works for  city parks foundation puts of couple hundred events 

When asked who thier favorite female designers were here are some of the answers

Mark:  Karen greenberg,  Ray Calacubou and Martha Stewart

Armin: Margo Chase

Working with women as a design partner they generally take care of the money and making sure things stay smooth as well as design except for peter he does it on his own.

In defending design, we are not 1-dimensional ultimately buying a sense of humor, style, sexy, no interesting in picking typography last thing,  before you turn the computer on it comes to your head visually. 

Armin: book deal specificaly for graphic designers, trasnforming his blog into book form. Resoinsibility of todays dsigners, should do what they believe in thier society, designers don't owe something to anyone.  

Michael:  doesn't owe anyone but has the opportunity to make the world a better looking place and impact the world and make it a "better place"

Peter: definitly opportunity do what interests you, craft that means something to people

85% of work produced is mediocre, milton glasers i heart new york you don't really plan that becoming the part of conversation.  

Title sequence

My roomate and i watched this film last night and i was very intrigued by the title sequence take a look it is made from found images and illustrations very playful and great transitions. It was done by a company called Reel FX the site isn't that interesting but the stuff they do is.

     inspiration for outside of package for graphics

Paula Scher

There are lots of quotes i took out of this video, she covers many things throughout including logo design, identities, typography and a bit about her work.  She starts of describing typography as sculptural as she said that her sketch was i was looking at as more of a layout came to life. When designing the jazz logo there are some things that real stuck in my head.  She says he has never been a refiner that when she does something it is usually fast and her clients point out they aren't buying any process that she solved it too fast, which she replies her process is 34 years and this second, the second it took to come out with design. She operates with instinct and if she doesn't get it on the first time she will get it on the second if not on the second then not usually at all. A different word for the same process we are building on now as students and the experimenting type of process Steven Heller mentions. She mentions the computer is the opposite of design  that a designers computer should be a light box that we move around through heat.  I like that she gets a lot of her inspiration from working with her hands and working on the computer is sort of for finalizing.  I am a very hands on person and it makes sense to use things you can physically move around.  

"It doesn't smell like an art supply it smells like a car"

David Carson

The first thing i want to point out is the similarity between David and Paula when it come s to talking about the way they like to work. He used to do magazine spreads with his hands moving pieces around.  This i think is part of that age of people who didn't have computers to work with.  I like having that as a step before going directly to working on the computer.  He says as we move more toward computers that it is important that we become more self-indulgent in out work.  Doing things for the hell of it.  The starting point he used in RayGun was reading the article and interpreting it. This is definitely something i want to remember that we are interpreting words into visuals, Paula also says something along the lines of turning people values into visuals.  We are helping people to communicate their thoughts to others in a quick meaningful way. 

Milton Glaser

Such a weird looking guy. Business man and an artist, where do you fit?  I hope to be able to manage both some day, doing whatever it is i will be doing.  The book How to Be a Graphic Designer talk about these elements of the business pleasing clients keeping track of finances. I read an article on design observer  and number four reiterates this point.  There are also other good points i suggest you taking a look at if you get a chance.  He comments on us having access to peoples minds. Things still amaze him, don't lose that.  There are so many tools not inspiration is hard to not find.  I find inspiration in everything especially now that i look at hand type and see it as design my roommates doodles packaging everywhere. When i go grocery shopping, websites, magazines, t-shirts everything has design elements in it, design is in everything.

On my trip...

So this weekend we had nationals in Oxford, Ohio and there are three things i would like to share with you about our journey.  

1. Once we got in we had dinner at Big Boy yes the same big boy that Dr. Evil was in the Austin Powers movie. The type on the inside was pretty interesting i thought i would share it.  I like that they took different pictures for both B's and that none of the letters were really taken from a straight on point of view so tension is created within the huge white frame.

2. For graphics.  We went to a park for lunch on there form of Mass Street actually named High Street.  In this park there was a bench donated by none other then the local Rotary Club.  Which happens to be the club i did my posters for.  "Service above Self"

3. Due to the fact i don't have my own camera the other thing will be posted as soon as someone puts a picture up of it.  It is the t-shirt they made for nationals.  It is typographically hideous, just awful.  But i paid $10 dollars anyways just so i could share it with you guys. 

"Rethinking Modernism, Revising Functionalism" Katherine McCoy" 

The first thing i want to express after reading this is how happy and excited i am to start recognizing more and more what these designers are talking about without having to google every name and movement.  There is something to be said about Andrea having us read this piece  by someone who studied under Massimo Vignelli when she herself has studied under a comparable name such as Paul Rand.  Like in a game of telephone there is only Andrea's interpretation of the message between me and Paul.  A quote that stuck out to me is  "Text can be animated with vices and images can be read, as well as seen, with an emphasis on audience interpretation and participation in the construction of meaning"  i am currently reading "How to be a Graphic Designer without losing  your Soul" and this quote reminded me that when doing a design there are always three people you are designing for;  you as the designer/the design world, the client, and the audience all whom speak a different language.  In combining these thoughts i too agree with McCoys concluding statements that change is possible and it does matter in all lives.

"On Overcoming Modernism" Lorraine Wild

"Unfamiliar forms of work produced in response to major changes in technology are often classified as 'ugly' because of their formal strangeness, and interpreted as evidence of aesthetic malfeasance, the obliteration of standards and practices of craft." When looking at this statement in the context of Cult of the Ugly i look to the closing paragraph where the comment "Ugliness is valid, even refreshing, when it is key to an indigenous language representing alternative ideas and cultures" I think it is important for this sort of experimental work that has been classified as ugly work being produced. When deciding if something if something is ugly based on its functionality...well,  the functionality of this experimental work is given by us discussing its ugliness.  Its function is other designers looking at it and deciding it is "ugly" in order to to have something that is "beautiful," to see that it doesn't work or that it will work with a change to give it a function not just for designers to sit and discuss but to the audiences, clients, and designers as a whole. The concluding paragraph is another interesting subject and reminds me of ( i know one thing always leads to another) Remember Type and Image that we read for Jeremy and the kid is trying to explain to his grandma about his project only to have her ask what he really did, she didn't understand.  It goes back to the three audiences we design for.  Different aspects are seen and understood by different audiences. That is just the way it is, in my opinion at least.

"An Interview with Steven Heller"  Michael Dooley

"experiment" is too broad

This is interesting to me because i think that full out experimentation is supposed to be broad.  This kind of experimentation is when accidents happen, some good some bad.  A comment Andrea made about my book cover process was that i had a lot and most were really bad. But i was experimenting i needed to get those out of the way in order to get to the final.  There were already size requirements and other things that come with making a book cover title and author blah blah blah so with image i gave myself no boundaries sometimes i was just checking out effects sometimes placement then after realizing those things didn't work i was able to use those things i learned for the finished project and i am sure in other projects to come.  What are the limitations of Graphic Design? The marketplace determines these, if i do work for myself just to do it here are no limitations maybe it gets seen by someone and used in a way i never would have thought maybe it doesn't.  Failing is a part of success through experimentation and process of creating "ugly" work and "beautiful" work, we hope not to "diminish all of design" but to know all of its faces, ugly or beautiful.

Observing the Observer

Graphic Van

I really enjoyed following the thoughts of Kenneth Fitzgerald's regarding The Chesapeake Van March 2009, an article titled I Believe in Design

I was intrigued at first by this van so bright and colorful displaying its friendly messages spreading the word of Jesus everywhere it goes. I wish the pictures were closer so i could see more of what the posters said.  But that is not the real point of this article as i found out.  The van has a plethora of  handwritten typography and bright neon colors.  It is interesting what Mr. Fitzgerald brings up about faith being influential to many designers work.  Design is everywhere in religion.  think of the great pyramids they were designed to meticulously so the Pharaoh could safely reach his resting place in the heavens.  The secret passages and different passageways form the architectural standpoint is great but also the tombs made of gold and rubies the hieroglyphics set on grids.  One of the best examples of page layouts are in the talmud on the right is the grid and the left is an explanation of the grid, these are well designed if you ask me, i feel i can back this up by saying is is combing so many elements and the layout is understood by Jews and non-Jews alike on the left is an explanation of the different pieces.

 

Back to the article which he ends with something i didn't know and tying the whole thing to a design perspective.  I will let you read and find out and here is pictures to prove it. You may have known it i didn't design in everywhere, believe. I can't believe i didn't know.

Basilica's New dome

National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.  There was a contest to design a a new domor the Trinity dome.  The contest was won by two  freshman.  There presentation can be found here and what do you know it looks like what we have been doing.  I love seeing that and i know when the group goes to Dallas this week they will see similar things too i can't wait to hear all about it.  One of the reasons they are said to be picked as stated by Geaorge Martin is "

"Usually what rises to the top . . . is a punchy idea. In this case, it was their depth," Martin said. Their design "wasn't a one-liner."

not a one liner huh.  I like that i will think about that there is so much to selling your idea, to convince others of its brilliance.  

Final...Finally

so here is my final video.  i am proud of it there are some things that i still can't get to line up, and i have spent what seems like countless hours.  The process book for me this time was the hardest part, and no matter how many times i went through it i still didn't get all the information in for some reason. Including my renders, and come to think of it i probably should have but this paragraph in my project overview.  Oh well here's the vid. 

Aftereffects?

World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.

"the video"

My vimeo account will notify me by email in approximately 35 minutes when the newest version of my video is added to the site. 

Typography is everywhere here is a collection of typographic images.  

Pretty simple easy to read, but not effective enough considering people are still playing in the fountain.

Hand drawn type, they are similar in the sense that the letters are not consistent with each other but i think this is also one of the aspects that make the sign more interesting to look at.

this is my favorite one.  It is YMCA made from the children forming the letters this as a silhouette was the logo for the YMCA camp we stayed at in Boulder Colorado. 

My first response to Sagmeister and one of the reason he is so popular is his humor the other we would could all agree on is his work.  When you enjoy doing what your doing or if something makes you happy it is more likely to turn out well.  For example the speeches we are working on right now.  As i was listening to the speeches on the server none caught my attention so i did my own research and remembered something that made me happy the Suncreen song. Compared to the GOOD Website i found it to be easier to navigate, this could be because it has a very similar setup to Youtube so i am more familiar with it.  I like the colors and witty feel of GOOD.

TED

-he is a list maker,  i am a list maker 

-He bring

s up trying to do design without sitting  behind a computer all 

day.  I really like that he brings this up  because some of the the coolest designs are not done all digitally. Like the billboards Sagmeist

er designed by photographing words at a site, they are more 

unique and interesting to look at.  

-Just a random 

thing  that this reminded me of is a man named Randy Pausch he is a man with pancre

atic cancer fighting for his life one day at a time.  He gave a lecture at Carnegie Mellon the series was on wha

t you would do if you died tomorrow.  He gave the lecture for his kids but in an academic setting.  This relates to 

Sagmeister using personal experience and his little pieces of advice in his design, like the sunscreen song and like, Randy Pausch using personal experiences lead to success. 

-Ed Ulbrich: How Benjamin Button got his face

A comment on something he says "We basically just put something together to get through the meeting" There are always steps process is very important. Sometimes you have to abandon what you know and step outside your comfort box.  Research all your options like in F.A.C.S. then apply it what you know.  The movie was very long and i had a hard time sitting still in it but this was so cool seeing how it was done.  This movie took a very long time the details really help make it what it was from the design aspect.

-Miru Kim: Making art of N

ew York's urban Ruins

After listening to the first minute f this i almost was not going to watch the rest of it.  But i am actually glad i did. This is a very weird project and to see how someone came up with it is very interesting.   I have a fascination with things like this.  I feel like i could never think of it but really it was a simple curiosity that sparked her interest.  To the left is one of my favorites of the series.

-J.J. Abrams: The Mystery Box

"Hope, mystery is the catalos for imagination."  "Mystery is more important then knowledge." Lost i love lost! He is very funny a common thread in most of the designers who talk. He is refreshing and talks about content and effects. I really want to know what is in the mystery box.  

-How good is good?

He starts it off with lists, a recurring  theme. "a year i had put aside for experiments only, was that i'd like a part of my studio to move from creating cool things to significant things." Significant.  Like using his diary, things he thinks are signifiant, and communicating them.  Working in visuals the designer can communicate his message to a wider audience but sometimes visuals are not as clear, the challenge.   This article mentioned some more big names which i am happy to say i am now able to add to my vocabulary.  This was an all around inspiring article to see how big of an influence designers can have.  You really don't know the impact your design may or may not have until after it is put into place.  I feel he has set up a scale you can compare your work to putting the piece through these questions to see if your work is well...good.

After Effects

this is all my text.  I obviously have some major timing issues and other kinks to work out.  Before making too many perfections though i am going to get some input. Here is the link to my Vimeo site in case it doesn't show well uploading through blogger.

I know i am behind

Here are a couple of posters that i feel are good representations of what was talked about in the Reading Type and Image. 

In this poster the type is working on two levels.  As image in the crown and in the scarf but in the scarf it is seen first as type then as image.  The poster as a whole captures its audience first by the silhouetted image and colored crown.  

this poster is one i think we have seen before and demonstrates type as image then using some of the techniques we read about cuts away part of the type which truly captures the meaning the poster is trying to portray.  

These are i feel are pretty typical when thinking about typographic posters.  Each follow the same path of starting in the upper left corner then leading your eye to to the opposite side of the page down and the "twist" guiding your eye the opposite way it is used to to the lower left hand corner. 

Good Journal

VIDEO

When i first wooked at good i was surprised to find out it was an actual magazine up unitl now we have been looking at things related specifically to a design audience.  I was happy to find these excellent examples of say type in motion.  The intro to the videos is excellent in the first four seconds 4 to five seconds has such an interesting combination of text and image it draws my attention is right from the beginning.  This one is quite complex i would say and every time i see the beginning i see a different graphic, it also goes fast.  This intro definitely has flash in it i feel like given the graphics any of us could have figured it out which makes me very excited. In the GOOD News section of videos the animation is so simple, it is a series of scaled images. The guys mouth could be frame by frame by frame or in flash a movie inside of a movie.  This makes me feel so good about using my abiliies in the real world. The type videos cost of war and the state of the planet were really good examples of using type and image on a minimalist level.  The images could easily be taken away and the text would still have the motion of the object, or for example on the 8 golds medals graphic which has no text the word god could have taken on that drop from the top motion the medals did.   

Information graphics

i found this section to be very interesting it reminded me of a mix between our map project and our last project of making posters from data. This ne imparticular does in excellent job of tellin gmy eye were to go.  It shows a map of where this pill travel and also is putting data into a graphic chart.  Most of the other ones does this same thing although the gas one is just a chart. 

Magazine 

the magazine has some very interesting articles.  I like that all of the articles are something different.  Different in a way i wouldn't think to let's say google it on my own and different in that they are not all on design or only business in the U.S. they are form 

everywhere. Some of the designed graphics along with the articles are usually really interesting.   This graphic on the right "thinking inside the box"  really caught my attention simple but paired with the title thinking inside the box really made it work for me.  the section that intrigued me the most on the site is the section titled Good Guide to Shadowy Organizations. An interesting random topic even for the history channel none the less a magazine, but that is just anther thing to add to the list of likes i have for GOOD, variety. 

Conclusion

all in al my experience on the GOOD website was good enough i have added it to my my favorites.  I really liked how there is such a variety of ways to get the information.  Weather it is in an animated news  video or reading and article or text and image and speech working together to tell the story or in a chart.  The colors of the site are black and this greyish color and in most of there stories as well but the interesting things have a bright color that also help in getting your attention.  

Link

Check it out

Did i get it this time?

"Ping"

FOUND IT!

As for the videos that were posted:
Sound when watching them with the sound off i tended to not pay as much attention (like in the first one that is in a different language) but what i did really like in this video was the transitions.  In these days with movies an films having so much action going form just seeing words on a screen is not very exciting and doesn't keep peoples attention( or maybe just my very short add attention span) i relate this to when the sound is on i feel attached like i am moving with the words it is a different sensory experience.  However there is a big difference when the sound is just music  vs the words being read out loud. In the third set of videos  the Janus commercials use this technique and it really helps convincing the consumer to believe in it, the mans voice is also a part of this.  
Transitions i fell very in love with tragic peaceful death one, with and without sound.  The continuos line felt like music guiding me through the words and message. The transition in this one is different, in fact there weren't any but you always felt like you were moving that something was forming and since it gave you the sense you were moving backward the that the words are coming from behind you, i didn't know what to expect.  Then the line ended and all there was was chaos, serene chaos and i loved it.  Creating depth  with the type is very engaging like in the electronic music is happening. 
Type and Images i really like the ones that use type as image, there is some of it in the tragic peaceful death one but it can really be seen in the  one typolution example.  There is no words in the music complimenting the simplicity of the black and white color palette. There is a lot of personality to it though which  is supported by the green message it is visualizing.   Just talking about type now Hitlers speech example there is a lot of type on the screen at one time almost the whole way through, this is something i didn't like it was distracting me from what the words were doing although i did think they did a good job of showing static.  A good example of type and image working together is the Muhammad Ali quote, "you must be the change you wish to see"  it was short but alive 

I seemed to become attached to the ones that were slower and felt like i was supposed to be reading and paying attention to the words like in the universal declaration of rights. example, no words in the music, just using basic scale changes, rotations and a few icons to help get the point across. 

I can't figure out how to embed a video for some reason so here are some more links
I really like the ">transitions in this one especially how engaging they are making my eyes move around the screen and the change in typefaces makes a for a more interesting scene.  The music is creepy though. 
Ah Sesame Street.  I know we can do way better then these but the simplicity of them makes a lot of sense and they are putting in a lot of effort to create a variety in changing the words before "ake".  Here is another example i like when they turn the pages and the "r" changes colors, not a bad idea.  A more animated approach.
This one has some really nice transitions, the ones in the beginning where they split in half are pretty interesting.
Some actual after effects type animation, this makes me excited to learn how to  use the program.  Depth and variety can be seen in this, there seems to be alot of layers.  The type doens't have as much animation 

...

you know how it says it is automatically saving posts, can i go back and see those.  Something was wrong with my HTML then my window closed, now i have lost all my stuff.

The Finale

Concept Statement: 

1. an all encompassing, fully enveloping, completely overwhelming

2. "Passion is a positive obsession. Obsession is a negative passion: Passion gets you through a hard time obsession is the milk that soaks your cereal soggy. Passion is fuel for your car obsession is fuel for addiction. 

To suggest:

-the void only found inside a prison cell

-the feeling of attachment as soon as you see a puppy

-the need to help, like the children in Africa commercials

-the  mysteriousness of an empty spooky town

quick links to speeches i found

I listened to some speeches on the server none really grabbed my attention. So i started looking for my own

Steve Jobs and text

This speech has some very interesting parts in it that could create a good visual.  In his first story he sums up and gives a lesson about it.

"Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."  

The dots reference good visuals and i think what he is saying is strong.  I believe int he words which i think will help when creating the visual for it. 

Another good part of this speech is:

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

This section is about his being fired from a company he started.  His emotions in this paragraph go from excited from the start of the company to the end when he is completely devastated.

There are two other sections i think would be good for this assignment.  I wont post them though. but they are the last section when he is talking about not settling.  The second is When he talks about death there are many parts i like in it it would be hard to pick 20 seconds worth especially because he talks slow.

I am sure you have heard this one.  The Sunscreen song, which was not actually a song to begin with but an article.  The words are so true i love this song.  It would be very hard to pick a certain part of this song/speech.  I probably can't do it but i am defiantly going to try. 

Here is one by cartoonist Bill Watterson. I haven't been able to find it so i can here it but i have the full transcript. Maybe i can do it how i would read the words. This is the section i like.

We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves. Our idea of relaxing is all too often to plop down in front of the television set and let its pandering idiocy liquefy our brains. Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery-it recharges by running.
You may be surprised to find how quickly daily routine and the demands of "just getting by: absorb your waking hours. You may be surprised to find how quickly you start to see your politics and religion become matters of habit rather than thought and inquiry. You may be surprised to find how quickly you start to see your life in terms of other people's expectations rather than issues. You may be surprised to find out how quickly reading a good book sounds like a luxury.

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Post Secret

One of the things i love to do when i am board is look at postsecret.com.  There is something  about the way people decide to make their postcards.  The look they have to them and this video particularly  has a nice sketchy alive affect. 

You have been warned

There is explicit material in this one but it is very funny, it is from Donnie Darko and i think it is a very good example of  illustrating different people talking. 

Such a good scene from Good Will Hunting, but in type.  This one is a little bit confusing it is a little more dependent on the sound. 

This is probably a bit more what we are supposed to do.

Trollback

-Lets just say he is amazing.  His imagination runs wild connecting separate pieces and connecting them.  Even the intro to the three of these videos, which i assume he had some part in, just makes so much sense.

-to find inspiration look elsewhere, probably not design books 

-when putting things in motion, the gestalt principals are a good place to start it seems with tension,closure, pattern just to name a few

-At the beginning of part three he talks about how they don't do interactive things, a sad thing to think about i wonder what kind of cool interactive things he could think of.  

-How to get a person from one point to other, Designers are story teller's.  how to get good at this is of course practice; write a short story or music. I really don't like thinking about this because i hate writing but i am learning that writing is a skill i must get better at and can't ignore any longer.

Flight of Knowledge

  I thought this was a really good use of type as image

I found this web page designed very well the images and organization are classy and intriguing.

As i was looking for different ways to design my process book here are some interesting things i found.

This site is very typical of translating type to image 

This site is a business week article about Apple's design process. Pretty interesting and similar in a more dedicated manor to our process in coming up with a design.  One of the things i really liked seeing is there 10 to 3 to 1.  Coming up with 10 developed ideas the 3 refining them almost all the way through then narrowing that down to one which they take all the way.  

Last but not least is a site with the some of the best online portfolios my favorite was Chuck Anderson's No Pattern .  i like his logo and the stuff he does it definitely has a style to it and his t-shirts are something i really liked.