fighting the proverbial man

I thought this video was really beautiful. Everyone looks so cool.
The lighting and the angles are really nice, everyone and everything looks crisp and sharp, but still remain soft and distant.
YouTube surprises rule.

Today was rough. Tomorrow will be better.

Type Final

This is my favorite thing from the semester. For my Type One final, we had to create a poster which presented four hundred things that had an impact on our lives. These things had to create formula of hierarchy and activate the space within a 20' x 30' poster.

I chose to list the various different models of guitars made by Fender and Gibson, as music has always been of great importance in my life. My family is filled with musicians and I have a certain affinity for guitars. I have an Epiphone SG Special Edition at home, which I bought myself in 6th grade as a promotion to middle school (aka, moving into a new level of teen angst).

Anyway, I'm really proud of the solution, Helvetica Neue Light really lent itself to my endeavor as it allowed me to achieve various different levels of typographic grays and helped to activate the white space. I think that was the most enjoyable part of creating the poster, figuring out the amount of space between the typographic forms and the asymmetrical rhythmic pattern I had developed.

I really love type.

In my TypeOne class, we had to develop a book that highlighted five fonts we were particularly drawn to in a unified manner. I'm proud of my final solution.

They're inkjet prints on a slightly textured bright salmon colored paper. The binding is a heavy weight black paper with a subtle speckled pattern.

Avant Garde and Lubalin Graph are amazing.

But anyway, here are the photos. I'm going to post my type final in the near future, stay tuned!

these are a few of my favorite things

My roommate Claire loves the New York Times Style Supplement and Magazine. From time to time, I'll come back to the apartment to find something ripped out from the aforementioned publications on my desk that remind her of me. 

Yesterday while I was writing, she delivered this: 

Hermès produces most beautiful, special, rich things. I've been using Eau Des Merveilles for the past four years, and probably will continue doing such for a long while. The scarf is so beautiful, and so is the packaging. The production of the scarf was limited to 200, thus making it even more precious. SeeSaw Designs has a nice little blog about it.

I love Josef Albers. He is one of my two favorite painters (Hopper is the other). I am fascinated by his use of color and reductive approach to design.