Fluidesign Blog

Despite it’s lack of kerning, this piece really speaks volumes. The choices in animation really improve in the second half, as the message builds up, when compared to the rather slow start.

I’m comparing this piece not to the GOOD animation from earlier, but to this one piece by Heebok Lee, who currently works at Prologue and was an inspiration to me (not the typeface, but the animation) when I had my fling with animated type:

It’s interesting to see quality animated type come from After Effects but not from Flash. And a little disappointing. Especially considering that there’s no real video in these pieces, and vector type will really improve the quality while keeping size down. The girl effect website itself, sleek as it is, could be a done in the same way as the video. We see type experiments being done here and there in Flash, like this one from a previous post, but hopefully more exciting and moving pieces will show up.

(girl effect video thanks to infosthetics.com)

How important is logo design? I mean, if Apple or Nike didn’t have sleek, evocative logos they’d probably still be industry leaders. Right? Would we feel any different about their products without the iconic apple or swoosh?

Well, why don’t we take a look. I decided to do some un-designing for both brands with the use of Logo Generator. This evil little website spits out free, instant logos… and you get what you pay for.

Yep. That’s very bad.

But, I couldn’t stop there. Why don’t we see what wonders it will give us for Fluidesign?

No comment…

Color is the ultimate tool a designer has at his or her disposal to communicate feeling and mood. Cymbolism is a new website that attempts to quantify the association between colors and words, making it simple for designers to choose the best colors for the desired emotional effect.

Subway trains are, since the beginning of graffiti, the most popular way to make your artwork travel. Slinkachu just found a new way to make his graffiti live its own life.

Go Metro Yeaah ! Go Snail !!

The Ampersand, Esperluette in french, aka “&“, is the main character of this blog.

Btw, it leads to some good links, like this one for example.

It’s a game. A really cool one:

I don’t know the specifics. Like what platform it’s on, or when it’s coming out, or who made it Kokoromi. The gaming industry’s been bland for a long time. I’m glad things like this and the wii can help more of us appreciate the visually different, rather than just things with high production value. Another current (anti)trend in games is low budget. During one session of a gaming class while in my major at UCLA DMA I sat in just to hear Jenova Chen from USC Interactive talk about his work, notably Flow.

With games getting smaller and easier to make for individual creators just as quickly as they are becoming more complex in the commercial industry, I wonder if someday we can all make our own ‘games’ and tailor them to our needs and dreams.

How nice of Slate to combine two of my favorite things: data visualization and scandals. Each scandal is represented by a colored circle that encompasses the people who are implicated. Hence, Venn-diagram heaven!

Being a recent graduate of Ringling College of Art and Design, I of course have to mention the long-awaited launch of the school’s new website. The complete re-design was done by two of my classmates as a project in the design center, the school’s in-house design studio.

In my opinion (totally unbiased, of course) the new site is pretty amazing. One of the new features that’s particularly impressive is the video section. Here, students give viewers a glimpse into their creative minds by sharing their personal sketchbooks and studio spaces, all while talking candidly about their experiences at Ringling.

I’ve been there on Saturday and I really enjoyed it. Check it out…

This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in L.A. Photographs
June 14, 2008 – Sept. 15, 2008
Library West Hall and Boone Gallery

“Contrary to popular belief, Los Angeles does not defy description so much as provoke it. Literary representations of an “earthly paradise,” a “city of dreadful joy” and, more recently, a “city of quartz” are among the best known in a seemingly endless stream of identifiers. Over the past 150 years, potent relationships between glamour and catastrophe, sunshine and noir, have fascinated photographers trying to explain an elusive Los Angeles…” more information

Frank Chimero’s project.