Earth's Alphabet...

This is an interesting Typographical Poster that I founded while surfing the net. It's made by Vladimir Zivkovic a Croatia designer who used images from Google earth to create the piece. For a better view of the poster and some of the close up visit his website: http://www.behance.net/oriontrail/frame/346478

Typographic Poem Interpretation

In are critique for are personal identity design some of are peers were using international characters to show the influence that their heritage has in their work, which in my opinion it is a really creative approach to the solution because they are not only sharing a personal interests and respect for their background but they are also showing how they can work in different markets as designer. Since that critique I have been looking at a lot of international designs made by people form countries like China, Japan, Russia and the Golf. Nod Young is a designer from Beijing, China who made these designed called The Puti Tree an interpretation of a original Zen classic, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch. In this piece we observe a simple typographical layout that plays with geometrical like Chinese calligraphic full of vivid colors to express the mood.

CreativeTypography book

Just wanted to share this creative typographic book that I found is made by Aldis Ozolins, you can get a better look of this piece and of some other great and creative pieces made by the same artist at http://www.behance.net/AldisOzolins/Frame

Calligraphy PART#2

These are other calligraphy examples that I came across while surfing the internet and I thought they were good to share with you guys. The design and the layout is really clean it shows great use of negative space and how you could mix computer design with handmade artwork . These seven calligraphic paintings are part of a brochure design made by Khawar Bilal in his work description he mentions that these were his first attempt to produce these kind of calligraphy, in which he combines with nice quotes to complements the design. His inspiration are to great artist Hassan Massoudy and Julien Breton.

These are the link for the two artist:

Julien Breton Site:
http://kaalam.free.fr/
Potfolio:
http://www.behance.net/Kaalam

Hassan Massoudy Site:
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/hassan.massoudy/

Calligraphy

While looking for inspiration for are personal identity logo design I ran into these calligraphic designs that caught my eye. Calligraphy comes form the Greek word kallos "beauty" and graphẽ "writing", it is often called the art of writing. Calligraphy is the art of giving forms to signs in a stylish way. Calligraphy is an old art which as influence a wide variety of cultures from the Japanese to the Arabic and to the Western. It even has evolve threw the years dividing it into two type of calligraphy the Classical and the Modern. Modern calligraphy ranges from functional hand lettered inscriptions and designs to fine art, while Classical calligraphy differs from typography and non-classical hand-lettering improvised at the moment of writing. I did know that calligraphy was still so popular to design until I did my mini research and learned about it. Hope you enjoy these examples as much as I did...

Type made of found objects

While surfing the internet I ran into these type samples and they remind me a lot of are own found type project. Hope these examples inspired some of us in the layout usage and in the design of the 7 letterforms.