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.

3D Typography

Dunno what to do with this yet, trying to give the word aura an aura. Watch this space, I'll think of something :)

David Carson.

My favourite graphic designer because he's so amazing with typography and even when he only works with black and white it still looks mint so he's one of my major influences when it comes to typography.

"David Carson continues to be one of the world's most distinctive typographic voices - much imitated, but never matched." - Ellen Lupton ID mag.

Got this the other day

It's all the best stuff from Computer Arts magazine from the past few months all in one and it's sexy as fook.

Go on this...

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2hmk3E/designerscouch.org/show_news/854/ghost-in-the-machine-by-erika-iris-simmons.html

I wanna try it but I don't think I have enough patience

3D typography brief

We got a brief to pick 5 words and of about 20 and had to present them portraying their meaning so I messed about on Photoshop and ended up doing this which I actually like. Reminds me of them posters advertising gigs/festivals influenced from the days with actual good music in england.

Tried to show the word's meaning through the font so obfuscate is hardly readable, enigma has to be looked at harder to figure out what it says, the white marks on dusk reminds me of stars, aura has a rough area around it like an aura and profound is purposefully juxtaposed in contrast with everything else. 

I changed the colour of it a few times and it looks pretty cool with the background in red and in yellow. 

I really really really wanna try this light graffiti thing.

Some dude called Hidden Moves that I found on tumblr

Thought they were pretty cool. Congratz whoever you are, you are my first post.