Foundries/designers often promote themselves by releasing a free font. This drives traffic to their site and awareness to their brand/style. Below are examples of two quality typefaces I have come across recently, Lobster and Franchise Bold. For more free fonts check out Font Squirrel. It seems that the fonts available have undergone a quality filter, [...]
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I was doing some spring cleaning this weekend and I came across some old DVDs that I wish were real. Oh, how I torment myself. I created these DVD covers for The Outer Limits as part of an early student project at Portfolio Center. The student project was to take an artist, create a book [...]
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Having tried to design for the Olympics myself (as a student project), I know the guidelines, rules, and comity hoops that need to be jumped through to get anything done. That is why all Olympic advertising, graphic design, and even down to the Olympic Logo itself essentially look dumbed-down and whitewashed. Don’t want to offend. Don’t want to cause controversy.
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When starting a new project, the best way to start the creativitiy flowing is by creating a mind map. I pitched the idea to the team and they decided to give it a try. I pitched the idea to them saying that I would say a word, and they tell me the first word that comes to their head, and then I showed them with an example. I said “Climber!” Brian said “Muscle!”
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Disclaimer: This is a large poster, it is difficult to understand my vision without seeing it in person. This poster was inspired by Marshall McLuhan‘s book, The Medium is the Message. The red type is every bad thing said about me in report cards from Kindergarden to 8th grade. All images used came from a [...]
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