As part of his talk at FOWD London 2009, the Future Of Web Design seminar, Mike Kus screened this short film to help illustrate the process he went through when designing the individual slides for his presentation. I always find it so inspiring to see other artists’/designers’ techniques in motion.
Graphic Design: The Forgotten Web Standard - Slides in 3 Minutes from Carsonified on Vimeo.
Here’s a great example of animated typography! I love the guitar in the song, too!
Human rights declaration from france multiculturelle on Vimeo.
With the rapid advance of web design, more and more designers are utilizing the many powerful tools of Photoshop to illustrate some very creative (and very graphic) websites. Only recently, I’ve stepped fully into this method by experimenting on my own site to best learn what to do and, probably more important, what not to do. If you’re highly influential, there’s a risk that you’d be sucked into recreating what are fast becoming trite trends that seem to pop up around every corner you look. Bubbles, for example. Bubbles and deco foliage. It’s a good bet that 6 out of 10 graphic sites you visit nowadays will have one of the two (if not both) oozing out from the header and trickling down the sides like some fungal overgrowth threatening to swallow the entire interweb. I’m not entirely sure from whence this viral sense of design first sprang into being, but it has definitely spread like wild fire. And frankly, I don’t care for it anymore. It’s been around for a few years now and was initially viewed as quite an interesting approach, but lately, and as with most trends, it is clearly being overused. It simply is neither unique nor interesting. Continue »
A while back I saw a program on APT discussing a massive undertaking by renowned calligrapher Donald Jackson to redesign the St. John’s Bible into the first handwritten, illuminated bible commisioned since the invention of the printing press. Jackson approached the Benedictine monks of Saint John’s University and Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, who advised him on the interpretations of the text to which Jackson himself would illustrate. A small team of professional calligraphers under Jackson would aid in transcriptions. The completed volume was commisioned by Mary and Eugene Frey as a gift to Archbishop Harry Flynn to celebrate his 11 years of pastoral service to the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. The presentation took place back on April 24, 2008. Continue »
I stumbled upon this awesome video tutorial while studying up on web design. It’s a perfect demonstration on the process of taking a sketch and turning it into a digital piece of art; ya know, like what I do from time to time. But, while I don’t do a lot of the comic stuff like this video demonstrates, it does show you all the manipulation involved with such a process. Continue »