Ghost Signs

Photo: Ash Bishop, Brilliant Sign Co

Gorgeous victorian signage discovered under layers of plaster in a newly converted bar would be cool enough, but in a fun coincidence the new signage for the bar, Casa Blue, echoes the type from a hundred years before.

Cool Stuff From Around the Web

Metal Lion by Selçuk Yılmaz

How the Main Titles for the "Black Swan" Became a Work of Art.

Star Wars High School

7 Package Design Trends You Should Know About

The Art of Competitive Aquascaping.
Who knew this was even a thing?

The Hammered Metal Art of Selçuk Yılmaz

B E A U T Y - dir. Rino Stefano Tagliafierro from Rino Stefano Tagliafierro on Vimeo.

Paper 1 for Visual Communications: History and Issues

Explore the idea of the Mechanizied Eccentric* (links to a pdf). How is it a change from traditional forms of entertainment and how does it influence contemporary work. How have the themes explored in the Mechanizied Eccentric essay become part of our combined experience? What themes have been left behind?

Use a live performance (theatre, music concert, etc) that you have attended recently as well as the videos shown in class to support your thesis.

Cellphone's Dead – Beck

Einstein on the Beach

Etienne De Crecy

All papers should be in correct MLA style. Hand written papers will not be accepted. 

*For an introduction to László Moholy-Nagy and point in time in which he is writing this article, read page 17 of Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality.

You will need to read this, think about it, read it again. It is not a difficult read, but it is very conceptual and you want to make sure you understand what he is saying so you can talk abut it.

Rebirth of The Doves typeface

The original Doves type was crafted by punchcutter Edward Prince from drawings of Nicolas Jenson's 15th-century Venetian typeface. There were a number of recreations of Jenson's type during this time period, William Morris's "Golden" type among them, but Doves is considered to be the most faithful to the original Venetian forms.

Doves was created for The Dove Press in 1899 and the press was very successful, fully selling out printings of its work before they were even produced. Not long after the turn of the century though, the partners in the press, Emery Walker and Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson had a falling out and the press closed. Their terms of contract specified that Walker should have possession of the type should the business dissolve. Cobden-Sanderson could not bear the though of someone else using 'his' type, and over the course of 5 years, starting in 1913, he made hundreds nightime trips to the closed shop, each time taking away more of the type and matrices to dump in the Thames. By January of 1917, the deed was complete. The Doves type was gone, seemingly forever.

A century later, Doves lives again, now in digital form, thanks to the research and painstaking efforts of Robert Green from Typspec.

The 1934 Belchfire Runabout

Cutaway illustration by Claude Lacroix

Everything you need to know about Donald Duck's car.

Creativity Fluid

A Tribute to Beer & Design

(And a very cool one page web site from Northbound Design.)

A Round Up of Links for the Job Hunter

On Networking

Jessica Hische — Non-Creepy Networking: Party Etiquette

How To Sell Yourself in 30 Seconds and Leave People Wanting More

3 Reasons Networking is a Job Search Priority

How Selfless Networking Can Boost Your Design Career

How to Network (Successfully)

Cheat Sheet: 9 Professional Networking Tips

Job Search

18 Good Reasons You're Still Unemployed

10 Tips for an Awesome Coffee Meeting

Social Media

What Does Your Social Media Profile Say About You?

Job Interviews

Interview Questions for Creative Professionals: How to Answer the Usual Suspects

Mastering the Art (and Science) of Thank You Letters

18 Things to Bring on a Job Interview

Time Management

6 Time Management Tips to Help You Better Control the Clock

Inspiration

The Science of Great Ideas (I'm glad someone is finally calling bullish*t on that cool looking left/right brain illustration.)

The Write Stuff: How to Improve Your Writing Skills

Continuing Education

The Beginner's Guide to SEO from the cool folks at Moz

Cool Links Wednesday

Just a few links this week:

How Disney simulated the snow for Frozen

How Huge Door-stopper Fantasy Novels get made. This is super cool. I love print shops and bindery machines are like magic.

Noah Fecks Photography

Artist Paints the Human Body in Ways You Cannot Imagine (The headline is overwrought, but the work of painter Alexa Meade is super cool….)

Children's Art Re-imagined

Dave Devries

Dave Devries, author of The Monster Engine, starts with a children's drawing and then paints them as realistically as he can. I'm sure I have seen this done in 3D as well, but I can't find the link. In looking for it I discovered this is kind of a thing though. You can turn children's drawings into 3D-printed sculptures via the Crayon Creatures service, and a whole bunch of plush toys that have been made based on children's work.