Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Random Design Fun: Maxim's Spine and Japanese Fonts
You Can't Miss: Maxim (groan here)
I may be the only one who never knew this, but over the weekend I discovered something new about Maxim magazine. The spines of each issue in one year, when placed together form a picture of a girl. I don't necessarily like the pictures, but that is one of the most creative ways to get readers to read every issue of the magazine--and possibly could increase subscription numbers because people want to see what the picture becomes. Did everyone else know about this?
YCM: Media Bistro
I wandered around Media Bistro this afternoon and found the Designers Corner forum. The site has a TON of forums, but this specific one has a lot of sub topics. One interesting thread I found was some girl in Laredo with an associates degree who 'wants to be a art director' and there were a ton of replies, from people saying 'you'll never make art director EVER' to 'go for it' Someone did bring up the difference between a BFA from a design school and an advertising or journalism degree. Mizzou was mentioned somewhere in the middle, apparently our program trains people proficiently in the technical aspects, but our 'designs skills are lacking' Obviously these mizzou grads were not in our class--because our class has fantastic design skills :-p This is still something that continues to worry me, but I won't go into it again. Here is the link
AIGA blog
This week, Nick Currie and Hisae Mizutani talk about typography applied to the Japanese alphabet. Nick was visiting in Japan and took pictures of different signs around town (this reminds me of our graffiti exercise in two weeks) and the two talked about what type styles were being used. It was pretty funny, there was a sign using an art deco style, with contrast between thick and thin lines in the letters, but everything was written in Japanese symbols. As I looked through them, I could actually follow what the two were saying about different type styles, so I know I'm already interpreting what we read last month in Graphic Style and Typology.
I may be the only one who never knew this, but over the weekend I discovered something new about Maxim magazine. The spines of each issue in one year, when placed together form a picture of a girl. I don't necessarily like the pictures, but that is one of the most creative ways to get readers to read every issue of the magazine--and possibly could increase subscription numbers because people want to see what the picture becomes. Did everyone else know about this?
YCM: Media Bistro
I wandered around Media Bistro this afternoon and found the Designers Corner forum. The site has a TON of forums, but this specific one has a lot of sub topics. One interesting thread I found was some girl in Laredo with an associates degree who 'wants to be a art director' and there were a ton of replies, from people saying 'you'll never make art director EVER' to 'go for it' Someone did bring up the difference between a BFA from a design school and an advertising or journalism degree. Mizzou was mentioned somewhere in the middle, apparently our program trains people proficiently in the technical aspects, but our 'designs skills are lacking' Obviously these mizzou grads were not in our class--because our class has fantastic design skills :-p This is still something that continues to worry me, but I won't go into it again. Here is the link
AIGA blog
This week, Nick Currie and Hisae Mizutani talk about typography applied to the Japanese alphabet. Nick was visiting in Japan and took pictures of different signs around town (this reminds me of our graffiti exercise in two weeks) and the two talked about what type styles were being used. It was pretty funny, there was a sign using an art deco style, with contrast between thick and thin lines in the letters, but everything was written in Japanese symbols. As I looked through them, I could actually follow what the two were saying about different type styles, so I know I'm already interpreting what we read last month in Graphic Style and Typology.
// posted by teresasanserif @ 9:14 AM 
