Now anyone who has been through some design education would have played with pen on paper to make a typeface (probably even without the teaching too), but Dave has gone that extra leap.
If you have ever done any HTML or CSS coding you will know it’s limits are the limits of your knowledge, and Dave has managed to script this typeface purely from code. It uses black/coloured blocks and circles mixed with white/background coloured blocks creating a geometric font. It hasn’t been created for practical use, more just to see the possibility. Over on the face’s page you can see an ‘Inspect’ display where you can see each block overlap and form.
Going another leap, he has created four point sizes: 28px, 56px, 140px and 280px.
Another personal interactive film. Though I must say; this one’s more than worth the time.
I’m not completely sure on why this has arrived. But it is either for Arcade Fire’s new album released last month, or Google showing off what they can do without flash, or possibly Chris Milk sharing his skills – whichever reason, I’m not interested. All I’m interested in is that it works. I like the song, I want the album; I like HTML5, I’m sold away from flash; I like the design, I’m now interested in looking for more of Milk’s work.
I think at this time you should open the site yourself, check out the video and return for the rest.
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So hopefully you haven’t cheated, and you have watched the Wilderness Downtown.
One thing that really impressed me was that it didn’t ask you for where you live now. It asks us for where we were brought up, now it wouldn’t really matter what place we put in – but the song is supposed to remind us of our past and HTML5 is supposed to be showing us we don’t need to rely on flash any longer. I felt having somewhere we may not have visited for many years an original step, I could easily imagine someone saying lets ask them where they live and we can insert clips around their current life.
Some effort must have gone into this piece and it has become one of my favourite interactive works instantly.
Another to add to the series I’m watching, Mad Men, networked by amc. It is based around a 1960′s ad agency called Sterling Cooper in Madison Avenue, New York. Although the company is fake, they include real accounts and competition from the time.
Don Draper (Creative Director): “Advertising is based on one thing, happiness. And you know what happiness is? Happiness is the smell of a new car. It’s freedom from fear. It’s a billboard on the side of the road that screams reassurance that whatever you are doing is okay. You are okay.”
Jon Hamm plays Don Draper, a strong minded creative who has a reputation with the ladies. He, as with all the cast, plays his role perfectly – everyone has a purpose and really makes you (well at least I) feel that we’re back in 1962 pitching to Lucky Strike or American Airlines.
There are four seasons so far, and it’s still running. I’m currently as far as season two and loving each episode.
To add to this, last night they won their third consecutive Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series.
Mad Men is currently playing on BBC Four, and so you’ll be able to catch it on the BBC iPlayer.
There’s many mini flash games across the web, and I think the advertising versions – you know the ones, where you shoot 5 ducks to win a house – are slowly disappearing. Replacing this is Facebook games, apparently 90 million people were playing FarmVille last March (I’ll post about that later).
Simple flash games are good though, when you want to take a break from work. Or in the case of this game, when your account team get on your back.
Go throw some pencils. Since you wouldn’t get away with it in reality – you can in ‘virtuality’.
Originally in a limited print run of 1000. Laurence King have republished without the bookmark ribbons. I was unable to get one of the limited edition versions, but I have managed to get one from the second run.
Simply put, this is a hand sized book containing 400 logo designs. I gave this basic description since the book is very simple – each page includes a black and white (sometimes grey) inspiring logotype, along with company name, year of design and finally a description of the company. Doesn’t really get any more focused on logos than this. Ordered alphabetically by company, it is easy to find and return to a specific symbol.
One of the greatest things I find about this book is that I can open it randomly to see a little inspiration.
It does have one downside however, maybe not to everyone. But personally, I can’t understand why there are two black pages with white logos. It just leaves two grey lines running along the fore edge – for such a clean book, it makes it a little unbalanced.
