show posters

When I was at Las Vegas, I noticed this poster of broadway show. I really enjoy this poster. The " LOVE" with organic lines and shapes to create an fantasy environment. The background colors and shape give us a feeling of the magic of Cirque du Soleil together with the spirit and passion of The Beatles to create an intimate and powerful entertainment experience. I haven't got a chance to see the show, however, I prefer its poster rather than the poster of "The Phantom of the Opera' which I did see it and really enjoyed the show.

On the other hand, the typography in the poster of "The Phantom of the Opera" seems more interesting than in "LOVE", yet there is one weak point that the "mask" between "T" and "M" is too close to each other. Hmm, is that the benefit that I took typography class!!

Logos of Las Vegas Hotel

Last weekend, I went to Las Vegas, a city full of cutting-edge technology, and splendid entertainments. To advertise the entertain, there are all kinds of advertisements, signs and magazines spreading over in this city. I then, unavoidably, look at logos of hotels and shows, and posters too. I collect some of them and posted here above. I especially like the one “Te No”, and think that I should redesign my own logo. I need to improve my brand identity to a simply yet meaningful one.

GAUGE speaker Austin Garza

About two weeks ago, I attended a GAUGE speech by Austin Garza. I really enjoyed his speech about his process of his work, his mythology, his experience, especially his philosophy. Mr. Garza has a different view aspect from other designer. He created a story for the project of Mexico City, the “Mexico eclipse”. Also, he likes to travel adventure to explore the nature beauty, such as his trip to Sahara desert. In addition, he took photos for his book. He is not just an artist but also a business man too. I really admire his creativity that he had some boring and ordinary project but he created brands and a series of relatives to promote the place and give the object a totally amazing look, for example, the project in LA and Xanadu shopping mall in New Jersey.
Above all, I think his lecture is well organized with the slide show as well as the sequence of his story. Further, I love what he said about Taiwanese people, hey, I’m proud of my people, and they are really what Mr. Garza said, good to be friend.

Morteza Momayez/Iranian graphic designer

While I take my classmate Christine’s advice and search for some Iranian graphic designer, I found Morteza Momayez, he was known to the greatest Iranian graphic design master. He introduced the Iranian graphic design to the world. He was referred to Iranian artists of new generation as the father of graphic arts. Also the 5,000-rial and 10,000-rial paper bills currently in circulation were designed by Momayez. I personally like his logo and identity design with the shape and color, positive and negative space. The above identity logo look very simple and strong in shape yet just significantly represent the subject company or organization.

Chinese Calligraphy

Two days ago as I checked on other classmate’s blog and I saw “Iran Calligraphy” which was mentioned in Christine’ blog, I do think that’s really unique typography. And yesterday, I company my friend to buy vitamin and visit this new branch drug store, I saw a four separate awesome canvas fill with Chinese calligraphy. Each of them is a Chinese character in different font type surrounded, in other words, they are all the same character in one canvas. So totally, there are only four greeting blessing words for a newly open store in four canvases. I think most them are pictographs.

Book Design

While I searched book design and checked the sources that my instructor Jimmy gave in the class syllabus, I found this very interesting and elegant book design in AIGA web site. I am so fascinated by the design. The book, A Little Book on Poverty & Glory, is a book about Protestantism. The typography is so elegant with rich illustration, the curves and position that set in the text. Even though it’s overlap, it’s still legible. Also the pictures that set in the top of the pages with the warm rich red, orange color and some organic and shapes echoes the illustration in the text. However, I have a problem with that “bread&tongue press” with bold and solid black caught more attention to the viewer than the body text did which is regular san serif in mid tone. Over all, I think this is very well designed book that would catch reader’s attention and want to read it over and over again, just like a painting, an art work.

business card design

While I'm designing my business card I searched some cool design and found this web site
(http://creativebits.org/cool_business_card_designs) really interesting. In this blog/web site, there are various of ways, such as quality of a business card, shape, and display. I especially like marriage counselling one which is a red torn card with a scotch tape on it ; and separation lawyers one which is a perforated card demonstrate what a separation lawyers does. As for display, I prefer the one that the letters with extend tree branches.