Kinetic Typography Experiment
I’ve always admired some of the more elaborate kinetic typography examples out there. They’re good to watch if you’re looking for examples of creative things that you can do with type and graphics with modern tools. There are a lot of bad examples of it out there too. The trick, I think, to making a successful one, is to discover a literal or metaphorical visual theme that complements the speech you are animating and be consistent with it. I thought I’d give it a shot. It’s not quite as elaborate as some...
read moreAn Entire Radio Program About Type
This is sort of a typophiles wet dream. An hour of radio dedicated to a discussion of Typography. One surprising take away is that the Coca-Cola logo is based on someone’s actual handwriting who was trained in a kind of penmanship called Spencer Writing. There is also an interview with Matthew Carter the type designer responsible for Verdana as well as Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones who designed the ‘Obama’ font Gotham. Here is the link to the show page: http://www.wpr.org/book/091101b.cfm Update: It’s come...
read moreGuess what this is …
This is an image that can be printed out and posted on walls or signs or what not. What does the image represent? Nothing in the traditional way an image represents something. It’s a code–like a bar code–an image with embeded information. These are called QR Codes and are apparently all the rage in Japan. See if you have a cell phone with the QR Code reader software on it you can use your cell phones camera to decode the message, photo, music or whatever up to 1 mb! Pretty cool. I can see how advertisers might want to use it...
read morePeat Wollaeger Mountain Dew Bottle Project
I had the privilege of working on this project for the Mountain Dew aluminum bottle can roll out (the first soft drink to be packaged like this) with Peat Wollaeger my friend and a stencil artist. The over all experience was a good one except that at the end of the video a frame comes up that says that it was shot on an RCA Small Wonder, whatever that is. This is completely false, I shot this video with a Panasonic DVC 30 and a Panasonic DV-GS 700 (for the time lapse) each with an after market wide angle lens attachments. Post production and...
read moreI’m excited about Final Cut Studio 2
This release of Final Cut Studio seems to have everything I hoped for. One thing in particular is the new Color app that comes with the new suite. I love the fact that you are going to get near Photoshop level control over your video images now—and not only that but save the settings in portable files that can be traded in much the same way that Photoshop layer styles can be passed around. This is of particular interest to me because I’m a bit of a color nut when it comes to video. Maybe it’s my graphic design background and years of...
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