ABC3D Book

This is another great book called ABC3D, and features the whole alphabet in 3D pop up form. It has a really clever design, with some letters becoming others, throught the use of transparent pages, shiny pages and opening the book out to retract an element. I particularly like the U-- must have taken a steady hand to do.

Effective Design, Urban Type Study

These are by Effective Design, from a project called Urban Type Study.
They link very well to my current typography project called Neglected Type, where we document neglected type in Lincoln and then catalog it in some way.
I particularly like these two photos as they have been forgotten and are faded and ripped away.

See more here-- http://www.effektivedesign.co.uk/project/urban-type-project/

Human Sized Photoshop

Human sized Photoshop
I really like this life sized 3D version of Photoshop, a lot of thought has gone into choosing the objects and layout to best fit with the actual design. I especially like the drawers at the top that make up the menus- very clever.

See it big here-- http://www.flickr.com/photos/18697966@N00/2982281565/sizes/o/in/set-72157608377333404/

Data Flow

This book is also really interesting, it's called Data Flow and is about ways you can graphically show information-- charts, statistics etc. Some great and different ideas of how to visualise info, to not just clearly show the information but to make it look good while your at it.

Link-- http://www.gestalten.com/books/detail?id=ceaea7651adf9ba0011b78b89b9d0295
This one's a bit pricey.

Julien Breton

These are ridiculously amazing. They are by Julien Breton, he created these using light and long time exposure photography. The result is great, he is also a very skilled calligrapher (which comes across) I really like how he has got the change of weight of the light, making it look like hand written calligraphy.

Here he is-- http://kaalam.free.fr/eng/index.html

Tauba Auerbach

I happened to come across this great designer called Tauba Auerbach, she works a lot with typography and uses Maths within her concepts. Most of her work is about binary opposites, I especially like her series of statements that proved yes equals no.

Check her out here-- http://www.taubaauerbach.com/

Playful Type

This book looks AMAZING-- It's called Playful Type, it's a new book that was released in september and looks at how Graphic Designers are being more experimental with typography, especially with handmade type. It includes manual lettering, calligraphy, collage, long time exposure photos and ice blocks.

If anyone would like to buy me it I wouldn't say no. (Christmas is just around the corner)



Link is here-- http://www.gestalten.com/books/detail?id=ceaea7651adf9ba0011b69a6a1500267

Typeflash

This is just something for fun-- check out Typeflash (http://typeflash.com/) You can make your own little typography animation using some preset designs and then change the colour of the background and text. It's also got tools to change the leading and kerning, which I thought were pretty useful.
I could spend hours doing this!

Morfai Animations

These are really interesting animations at http://morfai.blogspot.com/2008/11/selection.html

They are really simple animations using the lasso tool in photo shop to make selections in images to make it appear as if part of it is moving. I especially like this one of the swimmer, as the moving water works well and he has got the selections in the right place to make it seem realistic.

Website Design Brief

This is the Crosstitch background to the website I'm designing for a University project. The brief is to design a site for a band with a least 5 links.

I chose the band Bishop Allen-- the crosstitch idea came from the homespun aesthetic of the band and I wanted to design something hand rendered to fit with this.

I hope the rest of the site comes together as I really like this as the starting point.