design

about face – david jury
typographie – emil ruder
typographic systems- kim elam
designing type – cheng
thinking with type – ellen lupton
graphic design: die neue typography – jan tschichold
how to think like a great graphic designer – debbie millman
graphic design: the new basics – ellen lupton

everything written by josef muller-brockmann

i am currently working on a new website to display my recent design portfolio. i am hand coding it and find it much more controllable, in addition to allowing me to get exactly what i want. also, development time is quite comparable.

i am excited for this framework that i am developing to display my work because it is very to the point, easy to use and easy to update.

it will be finished before this coming semester starts; in only one weeks time.

i am gathering resources for my upcoming course on the history of japanese design. here is my unedited list:

new design:tokyo – edward gomez

graphics japan – kazumasa nagai

jpg: japan graphics
japan graphic design compiler
the media scene: illustration
street graphic tokyo – barry dawson

made in japan – reed darmon

graphic japan – natalie avella

sayonara home run – john gall

japanese graphics – beautiful streamline

graphic design in japan vol 1
graphic design in japan vol 11
contemporary architecture of japan – hiroyuki suzuki

tadanori yokoo

little boy – takashi murakami

kenzo tange

the aesthetics of the japanese lunchbox – ekuan

the graphic spirit of japan – richard thornton

12 japanese masters – maggie kinser saiki

japanese art – joan stanley-baker

modern japanese design – penny sparke

vernacular typography that defines the identity local neighborhoods.

digital brainstorm:
- expound upon book grid and structure
- the way contextual information is displayed
- the binding
- organizational and division signifier
- iconography
- image display structure
- extra book information
- index display
- break up sections; scale, color, caption. show the whole neighborhood as context, then zoom in with specific details
- essay and contextual information
- back matter, instances that break the classification, anomalies.

i entered a political design contest at behance.net for their what matters most competition.

Inspired by the current state of affairs and the importance of the coming election, I designed a poster that imposes a critical commentary; it’s not your average campaign poster.

I took this opportunity to voice an issue about the loss of progressive values and a lack of positive action from our elders. This statement is intended to force those who have neglected these values to rise again and triumph the message they once stood.

I am currently tied for first so if you appreciate my design, please cast a vote at:
http://www.behance.net/Contest/What-Matters-Most-2008/52607/132504

note: no registration is necessary. enjoy the design, scroll to the bottom and press the “Click to Vote!” icon.

- a forecast on the potential futures of food; specifically the aquacultural harvesting of fish
- a visual component stating the viability of producing sushi in unlikely places

designed for an all school visual dialogue about the next potential president.

i took this opportunity to voice an issue about the loss of progressive values and a lack of positive action from my elders. this statement is intended to force those who have neglected these values to rise again and triumph the message they once stood.

i made an educational public plaque to bring attention to and inform passers about the typeface helvetica.

a visual reaction to an article about hydrokinetic energy.

the collaborative type face is now complete. the process was surprisingly fun and we worked well together. the project was valuable because i gained new skills, from the style i work to the way that i work. this project put me into uncomfortable areas that allowed me to grow by overcoming the tasks in front of me.

the typeface was pieced together from photographs that we took from around our school. it comes together to create cohesive letterforms, used to communicate in both form and concept.

i am not a very good writer, but i wanted to further challenge myself, so i wrote a description that summarizes our concept:

typocalypse post is a poster-weight typeface designed to evoke notions of a posthuman earth through the contrasting forms of biotic horticulture, eclipsing remnant forms of a long forgotten human civilization.

the lingering fragments that persist are everlasting cicatrices from the saga of human existence. the old forms no longer serve the purpose of their opulent fabrication but instead house the context of restored vitality. from the end of one to the beginning of another, this typeface tells the tale that unites each forevermore.

the conflict amid these two forces sways back and forth on a precarious equilibrium that momentously threatens the existence of both; in this case, typography prevails.