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Lolli-pop by Massimo Gammacurta

Lolli-pop is the latest conceptual still life project by Italian born photographer Massimo Gammacurta. His lollies are edible icons, he handcrafted each one with real hard ball candy. The brands are as sweet as candy for the palate and the eye. The brand association has in fact been replaced by a new meaning through the materiality and the abstract action painting dynamic gestures.

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Honestly, I know I shouldn't be re–blogging something, but this is something i found amazing! Edible brands! I mean, this was probably something that shouldn't be to new to the market. If these could be giveaways at events for these specific or even any other brand I think it could be successful. Being a student in graphic design, I don't think I'd have the patience for this. I re–blogged this from designcloud, and what they had to say about it is below:

Completed, Tropical Drink Book

This is the final mockup of my Tropical drink book, What do you think?

Drink Book Complete, and revisions

The first image is one of the first layout concepts I made, and then it changed to the second image. Making all the type centered, while using hierarchy to help identify each part.

This is was for my beer label assignment. I decided to do a Mexican beer, and named it "Oro" The first label the one on the right is the first one I did that I handed it in. I got some critiques of how the line work could have been done better, minimalistic it is, that it was on the right track but not there yet. It needed to be tied together more.

The second one on the left is the updated version, which I decided to make the colours more vibrant. To make sure they stand out more. I fixed all the curves on the banner. Changed the typefaces, and make the label a bit larger.

Tattoo artistry, I think many people over look this in the Graphic Design world. But this is an art that does deserve praise. Most tattoo artists would have a graphic design background, or illustration or some sort of fine art or design background. This is something that I learned while doing research to for a friend of mine looking into going into this field. Just like art and design there are good tattoos and there are bad tattoos. Tattoos need to follow the elements and principles of design. Line, shape, direction, size, colour, value, balance, graduation, and contrast. Which is easily visible in this tattoo.

Drink Book assignment

Daiquiri, Mai Tai, Blue Hawaiian, Tequila Sunrise, and Lava Flow

Photos for my assignment- These are the five best out of all 10. the assignment is to make a cocktail book. I decided to create one for tropical drinks. Ill be posting the finished assignment in the next week or so. Please look forward to it!

Hugo

Plot from IMDB

Hugo is an orphan boy living in the walls of a train station in the 1930s in Paris. He fixes clocks and other gadgets as he learned to from his father and uncle. The only thing that he has left that connects him to his father is an automaton that doesn't work; Hugo has to find its heart-shaped key. On his adventures, he meets with a cranky old man who works in the train station and his adventure-seeking god-daughter. Hugo finds that they have a surprising connection to his father and the automaton, and as he discovers it, the old man starts remembering his past and his significance to the world of film-making.

I've been dying to see this movie. And IMDB has even rated it, 8.2/10 which is pretty high I think. I would really like to see this movie, when the preview came out I thought it has a unique feel, and take. Which is something I like to look at when it comes to films. Has anyone out there seen it? If so what do you think? do you think it deserves that rating? or not at all?

Images not mine

product description: Mosaic on canvas is an unique decoration on walls, which turns your photo into squares.

This is something I found on interiordesign.net

I was looking at the buyers guide. To see if I could find any unique pieces of furniture. And let me tell you, there us a lot of unique furniture out there. Especially on this website, have a look.

Thought that I'd blog about black and white photography this time.

Personally this is one of my favourite forms of photography. I love how it can capture the feel of the image. I guess that's true about all photography. But there's something about black and white photography that has more of an impact. Don't you agree? There's something elegant about it.

None of the images are mine, these are some I actually found on Google. These are some that I really enjoyed.

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Alphabet Topography by Caspar Lam and YuJune Park

This piece is a physical examination of letterforms as it relates to usage frequency. For example, vowels and consonants like “R” and “T” were given more vertical prominence while lesser-used letters like “W” and “G” hardly make a blip. More on the creative process here. (via)

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Thought I should share this with all of you, it took a while for me to look at it. Down below is the information on the piece. I recommended you see the site. They have so many interesting and powerful pieces for example the stop the violence book. Definitely have a look at the site. I know I spent a good while looking at it all.

Images not mine.

Some Blogs to see

For this post I thought I'd post some Design websites that I look st often. First is Designcloud I really like this site to see all the different posts they have. They focus on Graphic design fields, and relating ones as well. I have posted a few of their posts on my own tumblr. I recommend you take a look at it.

Second is BEANFIELD Another site just like designcloud. Of course they don't post the same things. They even post food, which can always be a plus. This is a good resource as well. A lot of powerful imagery.

Thirdly is a funny one its Typographer Ryan Gosling It talks about type using images of the actor Ryan Gosling. It talks about all aspects of type including tracking and fonts. It's a good one to see to laugh about.

Let me know what you think about these blogs.

#Typography #design #graphic design #blogging #websites #resources #photography #art #Architecture

The Summoning By Kelley Armstrong

Images not mine.

Chloe Saunders sees dead people. Yes, like in the films. The problem is, in real life saying you see ghosts gets you a one-way ticket to the psych ward. And at 15, all Chloe wants to do is fit in at school and maybe get a boy to notice her. But when a particularly violent ghost haunts her, she gets noticed for all the wrong reasons. Her seemingly crazed behaviour earns her a trip to Lyle House, a centre for disturbed teens.

At first Chloe is determined to keep her head down. But then her room mate disappears after confessing she has a poltergeist, and some of the other patients also seem to be manifesting paranormal behaviour. Could that be a coincidence? Or is Lyle House not quite what it seems…? Chloe realizes that if she doesn’t uncover the truth, she could be destined for a lifetime in a psychiatric hospital. Or could her fate be even worse…? Can she trust her fellow students, and does she dare reveal her dark secret?

Taken from http://www.kelleyarmstrong.com/the-summoning/

This is a book I read a couple years ago. It's one of my favourite trilogies, I definitely would recommend this book. It has a lot mystery, love, hardships, its funny moments too. If your someone who would like a book like that or loves books on supernatural powers take this one for a read. I finished it in 3days, the first book I couldn't put it down and it leaves you wanting more. Its captivating, and thrilling.

#The summoning #Kelley armstrong #books

I had to originally choose a typeface that matched a song and write a rationale for my choice. I thought, that I could choose a video and uses fonts to showcase the song. This is "You da one by Rihanna."

In this video you see a lot of different fonts, the images above are just a few. Rihanna also has a couple of tattoos that are just phrases, that are shown a lot in this video as well. So I feel that this video shows a lot of type, which I actually really like. There is hierarchy. As shown in the second image. Also in some words, for example feelings is a font that I can see being used to showcase the meaning of the word. There are some fonts that I can see that are script fonts or fonts mainly used for tattoos also being used but, I think that is alright in the case of this video because it does show the message of the song.

Images not mine.

#Rihanna #You da one #type #Typography #photos #tattoos

Burj Al Arab- Elements and principles of design.

Images not mine.

I'll be discussing the Burj Al arab using the elements and principles of design. Firstly, I can see colour, shape, movement, pattern, line, and shape. I'll be using the principles as well to further my points. Colour, the building itself is white, but at night as shown in the image above it's colourful and catches attention. Shape and movement, the shape of the building reflects a sail from a boat in my point of view. its an organic shape, which causes a sense of movement while looking at it. Which Dubai is well known for their beautiful architecture. Pattern, the way the building was built shows the line which shows intrigue to the viewer.Repetition and line go well together here because that'sone of the most intriguing parts of this building.

Do you see any that I may have not mentioned?

#Burj al arab #design #principles of design #elements #Architecture #art #Dubai #beautiful

50 reasons not to date a graphic designer

I saw this list last week and found that I related to it... a lot. There's some that I don't do... or maybe I do without realizing. Go ahead take a look for yourself, if your designer this is bound to put a smile on your face and even if your not but know someone in the profession it will make you laugh.

Here's a few examples: 1. They are very weird people. 2. There are billions of them in the world, like colors on the screen of your computer. 3. They will analyse conversations in layers. 4. You will spend the day assembling furniture from IKEA. 5. They drink and eat all kinds of weird sh*t just because they like the packaging. 6. They hate each other. http://abourbonforsilvia.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/50-reasons-not-to-date-a-graphic-designer/

Has this happened to you?

When you got your mind set on a project and you go to check. It's already been done? This has happened to me numerous times... For example I have a Beer logo and label project and I came up with the concept of day of the dead. I checked online and there's a ton of them like that. Here's the link below.

http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2011/1/25/mictlan.html

These are two portraits I've taken. Along with a flower I took while I was on vacation in Cuba. The first and second image taken were for projects. The third was taken while I was on vacation in Cuba. I feel that they are successful because of these reasons:

First image was to incorporate an illustration in the photograph. Lighting had to be only one light source. I wanted the person in the photograph to be looking at the illustration and vice-verse. Second image was just to take an Artistic photograph. Which I feel was accomplished. because I wanted a mystery look to the image, the person looking at the photo could wonder what she's looking at.

The third was just the flower, from Cuba. To see every detail in the flower.

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