Doubt

I woke up in the woods covered in blood. Which means I am either crazy or a werewolf, but I'm not a nobody.

Love this quote so I was just messing about on photoshop with it.

Breaking Typography Rules

We got 10 rules of typography and we had to break them. I loved this as I always want to break the rules, so I immediately wanted to jump the gun and make a poster breaking every single rule, then I thought I should take the time to break a few at a time, because by breaking them you learn to understand them, and I found out some really good ways to break the rules that make them look better than when you abide by them, which is just plain boring.

So my A3 poster, using song lyrics. I used All Signs Point To Lauderdale by A Day To Remember 'cos i've been listening to it none stop since I got their new album. This poster shows me breaking the rules of: putting the header large and at the top of the page, never using all capitals in the main body of text, never use over 8pt or 10pt for main body text and subtly applying stress onto certain words. So, obviously to break these rules, I placed the header at an angle near the bottom of the page, made all the main body of text in capitals, made the font size of the main body text over 10pt, and put a ridiculous and completely unsubtle amount of stress on the necessary parts:

I looked at this and because I'm a perfectionist I wanted every part to be where it looked best, so I needed to make a couple of changed to this. I wasn't sure that I liked the way the last two letters of the "THAT" and "FIT" don't quite fit into the "2," even though there is some irony there which I quite like. I changed the size of this opening verse/chorus so that it didn't overlap the 2.

I also thought the kerning needed to be changed so when I edited it I changed it to -75 and I think it looks way better. The letters in the inside of the top of the 2 was annoying me because I wanted it to look like it was layered onto the other side of the numbers, and taking this into account meant there should not be letters on left side of the letters, so I changed this too; I also brought the main body text down to the bottom of the 2 as I think it looked like it flowed more instead of being cut off like on the one immediately above.

To me it kind of looks like the top right part has been teared off and the rest is on a page in front of it. I love the boldness of the numbers and I put stress on these parts because at the end of the opening on the verse in the song it counts to 4 and I made the numbers get bigger because the singer shouts each number louder.

I LOVE this guy's posters.

have a deeks: http://www.ibraheemyoussef.com/work.html

Buy Nothing Day

Right so this was a brief to try and advertise and persuade the public to not spend money on the 27th November, as it's Buy Nothing Day. I'm a stubborn larl bastard and I knew that if somebody told me to day this by giving me a flyer or showing me a poster I wouldn't do it, it'd have to be something I went away and looked into myself. 

Keeping this in mind I decided to make it so that the poster/leaflet's purpose was to get people to look on the website and read about it themselves, and then decide wether they liked the ideas behind it (www.buynothingday.co.uk) and whether they would want to contribute. 

Also taking into consideration that there must be more stubborn people out there than me, I decided to create the slogan "I Double Dare You" because if I'm ever dared to do something, I'll want to do it just to spite the person who dared me. So all I included on my posters was that slogan and the website, so people would see the "dare" and be intrigued by it and go on it, and form their own opinion. 

Anyway, here are my final ideas.

This is like the 5th one of these because I wasn't happy with the first ones and I don't really like this one that much but I do like the way the orange and the yellow on the card and scissors stand out because they're in focus and rest isn't, I think it looks quite good. I experimented with the text down along the bottom and up the side and ended up with it just like this. 

Then I went onto photoshop and decided just to mess about with text and colour.

Right so this one was basically just Helvetica (<333) in really bold text with the website in red, so it's eye-catching and so the viewer knows that's it's additional information to the dare that they know nothing about (YET!).

I changed the kerning of the text because it is not until I found out about kerning that I realised how horrible looking the default text is on computers. 

Below is the same font, colours etc but I added a white brush to it, giving it an almost mysterious effect. Kind of. I thought this looked quite cool and it adds to the whole unknown dare thing:

The one below was just an idea that came to me when I'd ran out of ideas with the black and red. I like the way it's quite in your face and busy and then at the bottom in the white space there's just the website. I originally had the red at the bottom in the middle but it didn't stand out enough so I made it smaller and put it in a blank white space:

I used the green and grey that www.buynothingday.co.uk uses for these:

 I think the top one looks like some sort of xbox advert. I like the bottom one because I think the green just looks really nice with the grey. 

I think although there is only one bit of text and it is in the bottom right, it looks really effect because the way I view it is that people read from lift to right and top to bottom, so if you have a basically blank page but then something across the bottom, (especially the bottom right) then the viewer will take in the whole page, because that is the way their eye automatically views things, rather than placing it at the top of the page with nothing underneath, as there eye won't take in the rest of the page. 

These are pure cute

http://blog.oneplusinfinity.com/?p=5742

Bored. So did these...

Started off doing this basic piece of crap:

Muddled up the letters of my name in big black letters and put them so it was barely recognisable and then wrote my name  in white font and layered it on top of the rest. It is an ok starting point I suppose but it's too round for my liking, needs to me messed up a bit, but I like the way the white font against the white background basically creates shapes in the black and you don't have to see them as letters if you look close enough.

So the previous design ended up like this. I created a later behind the original layer and used loads of different scruffy type brushes until I found some that made it look right and balanced (in a way). Also there's a few smoother strokes in there which I thought looked quite good in a juxtaposed way.

So THEN. I did this (which I fairly love):

Did the same as I did with the bigger black letters spelling out my name, but this time I angled them so it gave the outline sharper points etc. Added white and also grey brush strokes which I think makes it look quite cool. I took ages figuring out how to put the white letters and ended up spelling out "CHARDYKATEMILLER" (my name obv) and did one so it made plenty of nice shapes in the black layers behind it, and then I copied the layer, made it bigger and flipped it upside down and just kinda layers it above/on top of it. Added another "CHARDYKATEMILLER" in black and smaller at the bottom right (golden section waheyy) because it made me think of a logo type thing and I thought it might be good for people looking at it to see what it actually says because it's not as clear as the first one I did.

Then I kept looking at it and thought it needed something extra to frame it:

So I used a couple of different black brush strokes and yeh, there it is.

I'll give you 10p if you can guess who my influence for these is ;)

3D Typography

I projected "aura" onto Chris 'cos it made it 3D and when I think of aura I think of a person's aura. Fairly like this.

Today..

I ended up with blue soles on my doc martens cos i stood on paint and made footprints.

Art is breaking the rules.

http://mwmgraphics.blogspot.com/

Magomed Devjenko

mint mint mint mint mint
http://www.iammago.com/blog/blame-game/

Minimilast wallpapers

Omg.

Jizzworthy.
http://www.diftype.com/#4 -

So I wanted this to be kind of satirical, exaggerated Tarantino style, and these lyrics remind me of someone killing someone and not giving a shit who finds out so they do something as obvious as writing a post-it note saying what they’ll do then they get caught. So I did the background like jail cell bars and newspaper in the background cos obviously murder would be in the newspaper. I didn’t really want the lyrics apart from the “cry” to be obvious because if it was a film poster I wanted it to kind of symbolise the fact that you couldn't see into the murderer's mind. Dunno, I got bored in the last half an hour of the image manipulation workshop so this wasn't even what I was meant to be doing but I like it better than the thing I was meant to be doing. So aye.

Ben Heine

 Thought these were cool.

Sagmeister Day

This brief was mint. And yes I really did cut the word into my hands. Mine, Chris, Carty, Leigh, Lauren and Ste's outcome :):):):):)

Problem Solving

This is a bit shit but I like the lettering because it kind of balances it out. It's a plan for a billboard in response to the problem of not being able to get out of bed in the morning so I just exaggerated a stupid amount and ended up with even an atomic bomb not being able to wake me up. It's meant to be playful and not serious and they were just rough doodles but I think they're relevant to the meaning behind it.

Haven Project

Mine, Chris, Lauren and Leigh's houses at Derwent Water. My camera died after one photo so I had to take these on my photo so I'm not uploading any of because the quality is shit but we walked up to that surprise view Paul and Jan were on about and we left our houses on this fellside so who knows where they are now...

Found these.

Here: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1qD7Px/www.hypnoteis.nl/
Looooooooooooooooove the way they've used typography, especially on the "Cover" and "Magnum" ones.