Players Lounge: Illustrated Typography

Death of The Internet: This is me: Alternate Ending.

Inspiration Blogger and Typeface

Typeography insperation i recently found! The type above is very similar to that i created in my recent project 'this is me' (Death of the Internet).

Wanna come play?

Death of The Internet: This is me.

Briefing/Background: We are entering a world absorbed in social networking. A world that want's to share a global network of friends, promote shared interests, views and create new digital worlds where a minority can grow and survive without fear or intervention. The fact that masses of Web pages, server space, personal time and effort is applied to network software websites like: Facebook, Myspace, YouTube and Last.FM. Peer-to-peer networks and other file distribution software such as the popular Bit Torrent and Limewire proves that people are willing to invest heavily in a better quality of 'digital' life. This is an ever-growing market of interest in a world that wants to be reacquainted through Email, RSS, Blogs and Podcasting. What if digital networking didn't exsist and yet we still yearned this new-found obsession to communicate on a global scale? What if it was in an analogue format? A 'Print-Based' promotional poster? A Royal Mail-pot-ready artefact that documented you, your interest's and fears. A single artwork that illustrated who you are and why?

Jenny Holzer

The work of American Instillation and Conceptual Artist Jenny Holzer.

'Jenny Holzer is famous for her short statements, formally called ‘truisms’. some are common myths while others are just phrases on random subjects in the form of slogans.'

A Day In The Playground.

Gridlines in the Environment.....An idea of mine..

After spending a sunny sunday afternoon in the school playground, listening to Moby, equipped with a pair of scissors and a white bed sheet i created some grid structures and typo myself......

Helvetica vs. Arial

Play the game here (CLICK!)....and see which font will champion!

Baby, don't sweat....

Ode to The Cribs....possibly one of the best bands ever????

'it's all about me!' (helvetica style)

"it's all about me!'' I created this design at college, for an entry design to advertise the Art and Design end of year show. I combined text and image, using Helvetica cutouts with the images of my fellow students who's work was displayed in the end of year show. Unfortunately this design wasn't chosen, but i loved creating the design and taking the photos used was fun in itself! 'Pose guys....' I got my inspiration for this design wandering around Times Square, ankle deep in snow over Christmas 2007. As the 'arty one' out of the group of friends i was holidaying with i found my self more interested in visiting the art gallery's and the attractive text that kept appearing on the subway signs than shopping!

Oblivious to the museum exhibitions at the time, I visited the MOMA where a huge exhibition was celebrating 50 years of Helvetica, then continued on to the Guggenheim where the gallery was taken over by an exhibition by Richard Prince in which a large amount of his work displaying whitty jokes, typed in Helvetica. Aside from the sunset view from the Empire State building, visiting these two exhibitions was definatly the high point of my holiday. http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.php?id=4506

After reterning to college i had ideas flowing for my 'it's all about me!' designs. And after much development i finished the brief with a selection of brightly coloured, Helvetica image based designs!!