Business Cards Designs: Portrait or Landscape?

One of the first questions, that graphic designers usually ask of themselves when embarking on a business card design, is whether or not to orientate their design as landscape (horizontally) or portrait (vertically). Some designers tend to prefer one way or the other, all the time. On occasion, the decision is easily made, given the dimensions and [...]

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Shared Inspiration: Beeple Talks Process, 3D Sound Robots, Work to Watch

We got to once again enjoy the work of Beeple aka Mike Winkelmann this week with his Instrument Video Nine, featuring a new batch of 3D sound-making robots. The work landed him on the top of Vimeo, and rightfully so. Mike now shares some of his work flow All the (wonderful, hand-rawn) pictures by Mike Winkelmann. The robots video at bottom. Tools used: Video: Cinema 4D, After Effects, Flash, Vegas, Fireworks Audio: FL Studio, Vegas What was the workflow like? A lot of people ask what came first, the music or the video. They really sort of came out of a back and forth process. Sometimes, I’d first model something like a mechanical arm. And then I’d find a sound that kind of fit it. Then I’d sort of fit it into the music and finally animate it. Then I’d kind of go back and maybe tweak the sound or tweak the instrument as need. Other times I’d start with a sound that I really liked and figure out what I can model that might look like it makes that sound. After the 3D animation was done, then I did post production work in After Effects which was new to me. Subprime was pretty much a straight render with very little even color correction. So learning how to do more of a proper post production was also a challenge. How were the audio and video synced? In terms of how the audio and video were synced, this was mostly the “brute force” way. When I first started out, I tried to use some of the built in tools in Cinema 4D to sync sound and animation, but found them to be a bit too simplified for what I was look for.. I am still too new to 3D animation to understand much of the scripting language in Cinema 4D which I no doubt could have used to automate this process. That combined with zero knowledge of MIDI really limited my options to just sort of buckling down and busting this motha out the only way I knew how… a whole lot of keyframes. This was definitely quite tedious but because the timeline is so well laid out in Cinema 4D, it really wasn’t too bad. What was your inspiration for the piece? I really just wanted to make some sort of glitched out, futuristic, infographicy, 3D mechanical robot thing that was perfectly synced to music. I also wanted to it be much, much ‘darker’ than subprime. Early on in the making of it, I saw this video by New Judas that I absolutely fucking love. http://vimeo.com/764015 I also really like some of the infographic stuff that has been going around, obviously the Royksopp piece and the Feltron project http://feltron.com/. I wish I could have done a better job with that piece of it, but that was done towards the end of the project and by then I was pretty well spent on ‘er. Did the “cult” success of your earlier pieces get you work which allowed you to put together more detailed projects? My commercial work and my personal work are VERY seperate. My day job is a graphic designer for a very, very small IT firm, where I am the only designer. I do mostly web design for pretty reserved corporate sites that leaves very little room for too much creativity. Thus the need for my personal work where I can blow off a little steam The videos I am doing now is the result of having more patience putting together more involved pieces and also actually having learned the tools needed to put together more involved pieces. But yeah, my personal work is my personal work, I’ve made very, very little money from it and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. Jaymis Loveday contributed to this story. instrumental video nine from beeple on Vimeo. 크리에이티브 커먼즈 라이선스 이 저작물은 크리에이티브 커먼즈 코리아 저작자표시-비영리-동일조건변경허락 2.0 대한민국 라이선스에 따라 이용하실 수 있습니다.

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Paris Fall 2010 Fashion Week: 8 Things We Want to Buy Now!

1. GIAMBATTISTA VALLI'S BUBBLE DRESS/DRESS COAT Bubble coats slimmed down into sleek silhouettes at a few Paris shows with Thierry Mugler, Akris, and Giambattista Valli showing sophisticated interpretation of the usually casual puffer. A nice alternative for those who eschew and/or can't afford the fur that's been all over the Fall 2010 runways. >Shop bubble coats on Bluefly 2. EVERY LEATHER THING AT HERMES (AND THE HATS TOO!) Lightweight leathers were all over the Spring 2010 runways, and for Fall 2010 designers are still into their skins. I love how they tailored them into fitted blazers, sharp trou, and flowing skirts and dresses at Hermes. And I'll take two of the hats they showed many of the menswear-inspired looks with too. >Shop Hermes on Bluefly >Shop leather on Bluefly 3. TSUMORI CHISATO'S GRAPHIC PRINT DRESSES & PONCHOS The graphic stripes at Junko Shimada and the popping prints at Tsumori Chisato made me smile and that's what I like to do in the winter when everything's grey, cold, and muzzled under layers of swaddling winter clothes. >Shop graphic prints 4. THE GROMMET EMBELLISHED COAT AT A.F. VANDERVOST It's a simple detail, but the strategic placement of the grommets take this classic camel coat from cool to drool. >Shop coats on Bluefly 5. PRETTY MUCH EVERY TWISTED, KNOTTED, CUT-OUT, BLINGING DRESS AT ELIE SAAB Just when you decide to exercise budgetary restraint and make do with the already ample collection of dresses in your closet, Elie Saab has to come and design a collection of twisted, knotted, cut-out, mini, maxi, sheer, bold shouldered, criss-cross strapped dresses that you can easily justify buying. I mean, who has a micro mini sequins dress with shoulder cut-outs? Huh? Purchase justified. >Shop dresses on Bluefly 6. VALENTINO'S PLEATED TWO-TIER, LACE-TRIM DRESS Another simple concept dress that I can't get out of my head. It reflects the trend of the moment -- girlie-girl dresses -- without looking "trendy" at all. >Shop lace trim dress 7. THE PATTERNED LEATHER COATS, JACKETS, & CAPES AT GARETH PUGH Gareth Pugh breathed new life into leather outerwear presenting stripe-effect leather capes and ridged jackets with asymmetrical cuts, funnel necks, and other unique details. >Shop leather More... >WWD is tracking Fall 2010 trends exclusively for Bluefly! >Milan Fall 2010: 8 Things We Want to Buy Now >London Fall 2010: 6 Things We Want to Buy Now >New York Fall 2010: Everything We're Oohing About >Fall 2010 Fashion Week Coverage >Spring 2010 Fashion Week Coverage [photos courtesy of Style.com]

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Creating Icons in Illustrator Using Basic Shapes

When designed creatively and effectively, icons are a great way to convey a simple, universal message without having to use words. If you look around at the iD site, you can find icons everywhere. Take a look at the Web & Graphic Design Course page…it has a nice large icon right at the top of [...]

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The Art of Michiel van der Born

Michiel van der Born is a painter and lettering artist working and living in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Michiel graduated “cum laude” from the Royal Collage of Art with a degree in Graphic and Typographic design. Here he learned to draw type, building fonts, writing with a brush/pointed pen, etc. Directly after his study at the [...]

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Logorama: Best Animated Short Film Award

The movie Logorama [logorama-themovie.com] is a 17-minute animated film made by the French collectibe H5. The film depicts events in a stylized Los Angeles, and is told entirely through the use of more than 2,500 contemporary and historical logos and mascots. The film won the Prix Kodak at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 82nd Academy Awards. Logorama explores the extent to which logos are embedded in our daily existence. "Logorama presents us with an over-marketed world built only from logos and real trademarks that are destroyed by a series of natural disasters (beginning with a hurricane, cyclone, tidal wave...). Logotypes are used to describe an alarming universe (similar to the one that we are living in) with all the graphic signs that accompany us everyday in our lives. This over-organized universe is violently transformed by the cataclysm becoming fantastic and absurd. it shows the victory of the creative against the rational, where nature and human fantasy triumph." Watch a short snippet of the movie below. See also All my Faves and All the Logos. Via Under Consideration. Also at Design Boom and Wikipedia.

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CHS Literary Mag Earns 2 National Honors

The spring 2009 edition of Guildscript has been recognized beyond the district's borders. March 13, 2010 The Columbia High School art and literary magazine Guildscript received two national recognitions, a first-place award in the competitive American Scholastic Press Association competition and the rank of "Excellent" in the 2009 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Program to Recognize Excellence in Student Literary Magazines. The award-winning edition was published in the spring of 2009 under the direction of Literary Editors-in-Chief Emily Hahlbeck and Hillary Knecht; Art Selection Committee Leaders Katie Haas and Emily Hahlbeck; and Design Editor Molly Hoffman, all 2009 graduates. Faculty advisors are Mary Brancaccio, CHS English teacher, and Cindy Malhotra, CHS graphic arts teacher. The American Scholastic Press Association selected Guildscript as one of only 105 literary magazines to receive this national award. The NCTE program awarded the rank of "Excellent" to 207 magazines, 30 of them from New Jersey. The publications are judged on the high quality, variety and artistic strength of the content. The more than 40-page magazine features both writing and artwork of Columbia students. All students are invited to submit work to a panel of judges, who determine which to publish. "Names are covered when each piece is judged," said Brancaccio, in a press release. "The pieces are accepted on merit alone. Students who think their work won't make the cut are often surprised. "I believe students in this school understand what real genius is and what it means to be a writer and artist. From the caliber of conversations I hear around the building, I know there is a strong intellectual climate here." In a letter to the reader, found in the front of the magazine, the literary editors described the content of the publication. "From deranged marionettes to a crazed boy obsessing over ice cream, this Guildscript reflects the creative vibe of Columbia's student body," wrote Hawlbeck and Knecht. "We have received an abundance of submissions revealing the artistic and literary abilities of our peers. We were satisfyingly overwhelmed by the process of choosing from such impressive pieces." The editors also talked about a new group formed to support Guildscript, called Writer's Group. Meeting once a week after school in the library, members of the group support each other's creative talents. They write, revise, edit and critique their work and then submit their best writing, hoping for acceptance into the magazine. Julia Wolkoff, one of the current co-editors-in-chief, said many people don't realize how talented the student writers are. She said she is often asked if most of the work submitted is poetry about teen angst. "The inquirers would be amazed to see the work submitted encompasses a broad range of emotion and diverse thought," she said in a press release. Co-Editor-in-Chief Cory Meyers explained, "This is a very unusual collection of work. We pull from so many students from such diverse backgrounds, which makes Guildscript so interesting to read." Brancaccio gave credit to the top notch artwork that is submitted for publication to the strong art program at Columbia. "So many of our students, who take a wide variety of art classes here, go on to become professionals in their fields," she added. "The graphics department is no exception. The care and attention Ms. Cindy Malhotra's graphics students gave to the look and layout of the Guildscript certainly helped it win the recognition it received."

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Free Floral Vectors

You can never have enough floral vector elements in your design collection, so here’s a selection of some of the best free floral design elements that I have found on the net. If you know of some others, please feel free to leave a link if you’d like to leave a comment. Floral Pattern by Phil Mel Drawn Floral by Stock Graphic Designs Floral Ornaments by Idealhut 9 Floral Vecors by Mujka Floral Vector by Xe0s Free Swirl Floral Vector – by Web Design Hot Flowers Vector by Dragonartz Vector Flowers by Open Graphic Design Vines & Flowers ...

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Missing George W. Bush: A 'trend'

by Mark Silva Imagine the delight of a retired president, roosting in Dallas where a presidential library and think tank are being erected in his name and reading the morning headline about Americans missing him. Then again, Matt Damon's Green Zone also made a debut with a graphic and dramatic reminder that the premise for going to war in Iraq was groundless (No WMD's). The Fort Worth Star-Telegram arrived with news that that billboard in Minnesota picturing a smiling George W. Bush with the question, "Miss me yet?'' isn't the only sign of 43 Nostalgia cropping up these days. T-shirts, hats, coffee mugs and other Bushaphernalia are cropping up on the Internet as well. It seems that things have gotten brighter for Bush since leaving office on Jan. 20, 2009, with an approval rating of 22 percent, the paper notes -- "the lowest for a president in at least 70 years.'' His favorability rating last month stood at 38 percent in a FOX News / Opinion Dynamics survey. Among Texas Republicans, his favorability has risen to 79 percent, according to Public Policy Polling -- he should have run for governor again. "There are those who may have disagreed with President Bush on a few issues," Tarrant County, Texas, Republican Chairwoman Stephanie Klick is quoted as saying. "Now that we have President (Barack) Obama, many would prefer President Bush to be in office again." The former president and wife Laura have retired to Preston Hollow in Dallas, where he jogs, works on his memoirs and prepares for his library and public policy institute at Southern Methodist University, the former first lady's alma mater. The search teams in the Damon thriller about seeking WMDs in Baghdad may have come up empty, but the 9 mm pistol found on Saddam Hussein hiding in a spider hole in Iraq wlll be among the artifacts on display at the Bush library and museum. Last week, the Star-Telgram notes, 13 of the top 100 items sold online by CafePress featured the "Miss me yet?" Bush design. (The Cafe Press design is pictured here.) "An average of 500 of these items are sold each day. The site now has more than 7,700 "Miss me yet?" designs, compared with 1,320 in February, company spokesman Marc Cowlin said. "It's still going strong," Cowlin said. "This seems to be a larger trend that will continue," Cowlin said. More than 14,000 people have signed an online "We miss you" letter to Bush. "Although time is often kind to former presidents, something different is at work here," the letter states. "While it usually takes 10 or more years for a good president to be appreciated for his contributions, in less than 18 months Americans of all political persuasions have begun to miss your strong leadership, no-nonsense foreign policy, and pride-filled vision of American exceptionalism. "In the short time that you have been out of office, our country has sunk to an unprecedented low point," the letter says. "Mr. President, we miss you."

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