FINAL VIDEO!!!!!!

journal entry

i read Type Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry and  Ways of Looking at a Typeface and found them very interesting. I find it funny that so many people used futura yet i haven't found myself using it once. I enjoy how our type class expects a reason for using a specific type, for example my book covers i used interstate because it was highly legible and was very propaganda like.

I enjoyed ways of looking at a typeface because i found it amusing how it relates freedom of fonts to being primiscuous. I felt this way at first in type 01 when we moved to the computer because i was allowed to use a wide rage of fonts.

a few substitutes for futura could include...

Gill sans- not as pointy 

Akzidenz Grotesk

mews gotic

rotis sans

trade gothic

Univers

some cool package designs

A new way at looking at those old products.

round 2

Shining City on a Hill from Chris Klee on Vimeo.

Type in Urban Settings

This project reminded me of an assignment from my highschool photo class. We were shown the same example of the alphabet from looking up. We were required to go around and shoot things in nature or urban settings that resembled letters. On top of that we were required to shoot the photos in order from a-z. I feel that this assignment was kind of like it but more eye opening because i have a new understanding of type that i didnt have in highschool.

MY JOURNEY THROUGH L_TOWN

"insert title here"

Stefan Sagmeister brings up the interesting point that design can make you happy. The title "insert title here" references the designer who goes around putting empty speech bubbles around new york. i agree that design can make you happy, lately i have found myself wondering around looking at different designs and when i find logos that i like i find myself happier inside.

i also listened to ursus whehril - tiding up art- a swiss graphic designer

he uses a comedian approach to give his presentation and he talks about cleaning up abstract art. he also talks about how swiss design is very simple and organized.

Graphic Design// logo in motion

http://www.people.ku.edu/~cklee/images/logo.swf

Obey

//I feel that this poster is communicating that war is no good. Obey uses propaganda style

posters to show his anti war stance. This one makes an allusion to vietnam and the flowers 

in the barrel of the guns. The stripes in the background also allude to soviet union posters.

Its a juxtaposition between love and war that makes this poster interesting.//

revised posters