Typographic posters
8 Feb 2010
by Danny Chan
Check out some fresh poster designs by David Murawsky (DD07) at typographicposters.com.
Get some inspiration online
16 Dec 2009
by Clarence Lee
DesignM.ag launched an additional small network – Icon Fever to their six gallery sites. Icon Fever will showcase the best icon packs available for designers. At this time it includes 42 excellent sets of icons, and more will be added on a daily basis. Check out the other five galleries in the Inspiration Fuse network.
Graphos on Lovely Package
13 Nov 2009
by Clarence Lee
Congratulation to Michelle Lam from DD13!!!
Her final project – Graphos Playing Cards has been showcase in Lovely Package. This print project involves branding and typography, each card tells the unique story of a specific area of focus in typography.
Ryan Uhrich DD07 update
26 Jun 2009
by Ryan Uhrich
Hello DD’s. My name is Ryan from DD07. I haven’t posted on here for a long time. I’ve recently created a simple blog on tumblr for posting some of my experiments in design, photography, 2D/3D animation and music. I’d like to share it with you.
http://rublog.tumblr.com/ (This one is for inspiration and stuff I find)
Hope you like it, comments welcome. 
Typography video by DD14
25 Jun 2009
by Clarence Lee
Check out the typography videos done by DD14 students in term 2.
TYPO Berlin 2009 (Day 3)
25 May 2009
by Andrew Schulz
The day started with a seminar that answered a question I had been posing since beginning web development, “Why can’t we use custom typefaces on the web?” It didn’t seem like it was technically difficult to achieve. To my surprise the issue has been already solved by W3C. They have created a @fontface tag in CSS to allow users to download a font into their cache.
Roger Black a technologist designer was talking about this and said that it’s the foundries that wouldn’t license fonts to be used on web. It would allow users to pirate fonts if they knew how to access their cache. Roger argued that people who pirate fonts will be doing so from torrents and proposed that we open the web up to some typographic diversity.
The second speaker, Ebon Heath, finally brought some lustful desires to some damn sexy type. He was a Brooklyn designer and began creating typographic mobiles with quotes, excerpts or feelings. These mobiles were pieces of art that experimented and played with grids in the third dimension of space.
My interest and heart beat really began to rise when a designer from Paris, Philippe Apeloig, rose to the stage. He talked of his systematic exploration of typography in his design. Every word he spoke seemed to be eloquently pondered before delivered. He took simple communication design to a higher universe by showing his process of thought. By the midpoint of his presentation I was in awe and knew this was the amount of thought and precision I needed to go into my work. After it was done I wanted more and started the pursuit for his mentorship.
The conference was ended with Sol Sender presenting the creation of Barak Obama’s campaign brand. He did a good job showing the process from its beginnings but didn’t push any boundries, which could have been restricted by the client. Overall it was an excellent end to the conference and made up for the lackluster start. I learned more of myself as a designer and the work I will strieve to create rather than insight from the speakers. When attending a conference in a foreign country on your own you have to put yourself out there to get the most out of it. It was a leap into this outstanding world of design that I intend to explore and push myself to impact society for the better.
TYPO Berlin 2009 (Day 2)
22 May 2009
by Andrew Schulz
I decided to get up early to catch a calligraphy workshop and finally discovered the language labeling system in the program. Being in German made half of the workshop irrelevant but I still enjoyed myself and it brought me back to elementary school, the last time I had attempted the craft. Throughout the day I attended seminars on SwissCom branding, Ale Paul typeface designs, and the use of shading in type, none of which truly captured my attention.
It was Mario Lambardo who stepped on the stage with his impressive body of work that finally grabbed my eye. His presentation fought to contend with my Project Management teacher for the most slides in an hour. Mario didn’t show much process or talk through any of his design but showed clean and simple design to the highest caliber of detail.
Chip Kidd later presented his talk of “Bitch, I don’t know your life!” which was the most entertaining of the conference. He was a great story-teller and hilarious though he went through his process in design like it was nothing. I have yet to be impressed by any of his book designs as they seem nothing more than a muse to the eye.
It was the second day full of talks and I was starting to feel lost in the translation of the German language. I thought it wouldn’t affect my experience as most talks were translated into English but I couldn’t help but feel like I was missing some words that wouldn’t translate and beginning to feel like passion itself cannot transend language barriers.
TYPO Berlin 2009 (Day 1)
21 May 2009
by Andrew Schulz
After hearing about TYPO Berlin through a close teacher friend, it seemed it would be a great first step into the design industry post graduation. I discovered a wallpaper competition and entered a design illustrating a Joseph Beuys quote which won me entrance to the conference. It was because of this that I didn’t have many expectations and was just extremely excited to be there.
The keynote speaker of the conference was Esther Dyson talking about her journey training for space voyage at Star City in Russia. Being forever enticed by space tourism, her talk proved to be a disappointment as she only described her pictures from her flickr account like it was a family vacation. After an uninspiring keynote and a missed workshop because it was full, the day was saved by the exuberant Joshua Davis.
I had been familiar with Joshua Davis after being intrigued by the world of Flash and ActionScript in which he’s considered the pioneer and rockstar that brought art to the interactive medium. He chose Space as the theme of his work for the year and talked about creating boundaries with an infinite amount of possibilities. One of his artwork pieces which he set up in a public space to have people colour revealed that age determines a lot how we react and behave. Kids would jump in and know exactly what to do, while the older the potential contributors were, the less certain they were if it was “cool”. His message was that it’s okay to do “stupid shit” and mess up, and that we should feel free to act like children more often.
At the end of the first day I wasn’t overly impressed by the caliber of speakers for such a respected conference. I thought Joshua Davis was an excellent speaker and showed some great insight for experimentation in design. Otherwise I felt the need to see someone as impassioned with their work as I wanted to be. I looked forward to the next day, hoping to observe greatness and see some damn sexy type.
