MASA again...

Im gona go out and buy a pad of graph paper tomorrow

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MASA

MASA was born in Venezuela. So I had to look at this guy, as south America seems a lot more interesting than most other places on the planet. its too late at night for me to get all descriptive and creative with my words, so here's some pictures, all I can say is his style is fresh and I'm sure I'll be adopting (stealing) many elements of his work at some point in my life.


i like this


this is fresh also



this is quite nice



this is very pretty



mmmmmmmmmmm yes.

nuff said.

More..

Another Burial album cover. I got the LP of this back at home, I'm hoping at some point the price for it will skyrocket, we'll see though, they have to stop pressing them at some point.

Couple of nice bits of typography.

Si Scott

I'm not the biggest fan of proper swirly stuff but this bit of type is really nice. And I heard he went to the same uni as I did my foundation course at so fair play, he must be one of the best. haha.

Victor Moscoso

Victor Moscoso. An older student on my foundation course said he had a load of these old zap comics, I don't know how rare they are or whatever but I bet they're quite expensive now, I might check sometime. He also told me he would bring them in some time and show me them. He didn't, and I'm not doing foundation anymore, and so I haven't ever really seen them. All Ive got are these images and an article in a Grafik magazine. That's the only Grafik magazine I've ever bought because I'm not gona be paying 9 quid an issue just because it's printed on the most expensive paper in the land

Brie Light

I changed my mind about the typeface. Using this one now. I think it suits Matt more than the other one. And I could download it for free. That means I could manipulate it in Illustrator straight away as a font. Rather than the other one which I could only get hold of after ripping it out of a screen shot, meaning I would have to crop out every single letter before being able to use it in illustrator. otherwise I would have had to pay 200 quid to download it as a font. Not up for payin that.

Jigsaw typeface

A typeface by Johanna Bil'ak, who bases herself in Netherlands. 

For the next part of Alphabet Soup I have to make a typeface for my partner who is Matt tucker. It will hopefully represent his personality and character. The brief states that my letterforms must be based on manipulations of an existing typeface, and so it seemed logical to choose a typeface that I am guessing might already represent his personality in some way. 

From the interview I got the impression that he is pretty chilled out, relaxed, creative and has slightly alternative interests. I feel that this Jigsaw typeface holds those sort of characteristics - to me it gives off relaxed, informal vibes, and contains some interesting alternative designs.

Of course i'll actually have to ask him if he likes it first.

burial

artwork for Untrue by Burial. everything about it is perfect.

Sequences research

A few examples of sequences....






Fibonacci sequence....I thought I would start with a fairly obvious example of a sequence (1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21 etc...) where the one number is added to the number before to get the next number. Anyway somehow you can use this sequence to make shapes like the one shown above, using some kind of equation and mathematical ability. Seems like from where the spiral starts the squares double in size, after the second one anyway. I'm sure this sequence could be used in many ways, apparently it's in nature a lot aswell, which is actually pretty crazy as numbers are a man-made creation and nature appears to be entirely random.



The fact that the randomness of nature can sometimes be linked to a logical ordered sequence of numbers is mad, almost means you can argue for the existence of God. But I don't believe in God. This one would take a lot of thinking about.


Binary code.....



Binary code is pretty interesting too as a sequence, well actually the sequence itself is actually really boring, but the fact that the every single digital thing in the world runs on two numbers is, well, fair enough really.


Time-Lapse imagery...



I also really like this style of photo manipulation, it gives you a sense of time which you would imagine would be very difficult through a still image. Not quite sure who made this but here's a link to the website: http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/archives/photos_landscape/060828_1662.shtml   - it has a lot of nice photography of downtown Toronto and a few other places.