Well the Winter semester has come to end. So as some of you set sail for summer feast your eyes on these links:

An amazing video made with a text editor (above).

A brilliant video by David Wilson.

Interesting concept for MTV’s Cherry Girl.

Google Map Typography.

Interesting work by the Neo-Con Collective.

Fun with shredded paper strips.

Photographer Dustin Diaz gives you insight into his photography.

Awesome sci-fi book covers.

The amazing modified books of Brian Dettmer.

The WTC logo archive.

Amazing photo composites by Peter Funch.

Great design work by Ken Briggs.

A great post about Airside’s process on the creation of a logo.

Nice posters by Zdenek Ziegler.

Eye lists the top 10 type blogs.

Great jewelry by Ted Norten.

Nice work by Micah Lidberg.

Speak Up shuts down, we’ll miss you.

Nice making of images and videos for Digital Kitchen’s Seattle International Film Festival.

A guide to AfterEffects shortcuts.

8 ways to improve your typography.

The tools artist’s use.

Awesome work by Scott Campbell.

The Rotten Fruit Tardis.

Great book about Advertising by Geigy.

This video has been out on the interwebs for some time now but I figured I would share it as some of the seniors soon approach graduation in a few weeks. Nick Campbell of Digital Kitchen (and greyscalegorilla his personal site) shares his thoughts on what it takes to get into the business of motion design.

I personally think he hits the nail on the head when he says that in school you need to know the basics, good design principles, good typography, etc. He makes it a point to say that the creative stuff and formal stuff comes first, and then learning software is something you can do at anytime.

This is very much the philosophy of most architecture schools, teach design first, then upon graduation and in the real world one learns the nuts and bolts of putting buildings together, working with clients, etc.

If you get a chance check out the blog on his site greyscalegorilla there are plenty of good things there especially some nice Cinema 4D tutorials.

So, this isn’t perhaps the coolest ever video and the Fatboy Slim song is a bit distracting but I think there is a real context here about our changing society. It’s definitely not the card catalog, no such thing as internet, days that I grew up in.

Kris.

If you love competition, logo design, and money, you might want to give this site a shot. I just found it through Facebook ads, but pretty much you make and upload logos for a company, and if they choose yours, they pay you a couple hundred. The only downside is your logos have to be uber awesome since tons of people also upload (hence “competition”).
Crowdspring.com

I figured in light of a plea for typographic help I would actually create a post featuring some books and sites that may help the struggling designer. As for gaining a better understanding of typography a great deal of it comes from looking and trying to understand why things work. Emulate other designers whose work you admire to figure out what they did and then make things on your own. You only get better at it by doing it. So here’s a list of resources that may help you:

On the internets:

Typographic Posters (typographicposters.com). Has a great directory of images of work, from avant-garde experimental type to good old clean grid based typography.

The Behance Network (behance.net). Run a search on Behance without specifying anything other than the category of typography and you will find some great things.

I Love Typography (ilovetypography.com). Nice blog that has lots of type related posts.

TypeNeu (typeneu.com). Another blog site full of good current typography.

Swiss Legacy (swisslegacy.com). A blog dedicated to looking at the history of Swiss design and current work that invokes the days of the international style.

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I’ve finally had some downtime (being under the weather forces that upon you) so I now have time to post several things found on the web over the past month or so:

The work of Kristian Mercado NY Cut and Paste Finalist.

Great video for N.A.S.A. by Three Legged Legs.

PSST! 3

The Lost Tribes of NYC.

Speak Up gives us several US designers to bookmark.

The fun work of Bosque.

Edo period monster illustrations.

The mind and spatial bending game play of Fez.

The diverse portfolio of Justin Claus Harder.

Nice article about designing your first body typeface.

Interesting project Super NAFTA Land.

Great window displays at Selfridges.

Great video to highlight an equally interesting lecture about gaming.

Nice hand done typography by Andy Smith.

Dutch designer Jan van Toorn.

The Book Cover Archive.

Beautiful wooden installation.

The Mentalists give use iPod instrumentation to cover MGMT.

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