DB 2.1 V 2.0

So I know I already did this section of this DB, using 'The Lion's Roar' (or whatever it was called) but I just found this video which I like a lot more, and which I plan to emulate stylistically a lot more than the other one.

Flickermood 2.0 from Sebastian Lange on Vimeo.

This video struck me instantly because it does what I would like to do for my motion graphics piece, which is to use text only, but to also be almost entirely un-readable. One criticism I do have of this piece is that the treatment of the text does not really reflect the content that well (although it is hard to tell, as the content is almost completely obscured by the treatment). The text used is the poem Mutability by Percy Bysshe Shelley which seemed to me to be about the temporal, fragile nature of life. Shelley's treatment of his subject matter is quite contemplative, which is not reflected by the fast-paced, chaotic style of the video. However, I think that this piece was made more as an exercise in style than as a kinetic, typographic interpretation of Shelley's poem. The reason I was drawn to the style of this piece is that it fits well with what I want to do in my own work. I am using the song Loser (Beck) as the audio and text for my piece.



What I love about this song is that the words, when listened to literally, are complete gibberish, but they still create a definite mood and suggest a lot of great imagery. I think a style similar to that in flickermood above will be very appropriate for this piece. The style will be a lot more playful, but the effect will be the same (or very similar).


I've found a few print type images in my travels that I like, and may imitate for this:







All these images above were found on typographyserved.com

reading - week 3

Just a quick little something. Sort of a simplified quote from this, when
he was talking about this:


which I thought was a really sweet image.

anyways, I decided to create a ligature of the two words 'Legibility' and 'Communication, and here's what I came up with:

this is one I saw years ago, and just rediscovered. I've always thought that it was well done, and really liked its playful style. And although it's not strictly dealing with type, I also really like the little animated embellishments. I feel like it does a good job echoing the mood and tone of the lyrics as well as the music of the piece, using a nostalgic carnival motif modernized by the use of simple vector graphics and bold sans-serif type. I know it is not really cutting edge graphically or stylistically, but I think it is a solid piece of design that works well, which is what I hope to achieve in my own work.

So I spent way too much time on

this,

but it was fun to do.

Kind of poor quality because I had a hard time getting it into the right format for upload. Had to export it as a gif from flash and then convert that to avi in quicktime. yuck.

the line is from the Bringhurst reading:

"The word form can be surgically revised, instead of rewritten, to become the word farm or firm or fort or fork or from or with a little more trouble, to become the word pineapple"

Just throwing this one up. Tango with Cows by Wassily Kamensky. Definitely my favorite image from the Drucker reading on concrete poetry.

Pretty Jesus

I've decided to change the poem I'm going to use for db 1.4, but I thought I'd post this little excerpt from my image for 'Pretty Jesus'. I like the way it looks, but don't feel like it fits the text.

Twisted, folded, and pleated letterforms

So it's the start of week 2 and I'm just getting this blog started. Woops.

anyway

I had a lot of fun putting together this image based on a line (only part of a line really) from 'Dimensional Typography'
I'm not totally happy with the spacing in 'folded' but I wanted the 'I' and 'L' and the three 'ED's to line up, and that was the only way to do it.

More to come soon!