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combining graphic design with programming.

God knows what they mean. Some matey created a layout engine and a really efficient graphics library in python. And then apparently lost almost all of the code. "Computers suck", he says. He's right.

Narratives 2.0 - visualising music

Visualising music. The music's segmented in single channels....lines move away from the centre point over time, and vary with frequency.

ASHES57

a few wicked poster designs by ashes57. particularly the top two at least.

medicine research - energy tablets etc

A few designs of energy bars and tablets. Stuff to keep you going all day. The style of design appears absolutely unique to this type of product, I can't think of many other things that share similarities with them. Italic letter also appears to be favoured here, quite obviously because of their forward-moving stance.

Medicine research - NHS promotional material

couple of functional but incredibly boring pieces of design. Makes me wonder why I chose Medicine as a subject.......the facts and the long words are interesting but the design is just not. But then again, it doesn't really need to be interesting, but it would be nice if it was just a slight bit captivating to look at. The balloon idea's cool but I don't really understand it.

medicine research

I suddenly remembered a book a mate had borrowed from the library, called 'art of the label' or something like that. I just remember it being full of proper old label designs for most products really, one of them which I'm sure was medicine packaging. Anyway, I can't get to the book right now, but I thought i'd look up some similar items on the internet.







I found these images on www.etsy.com

I quite like them to be honest, if you found a bottle of medicine in these days with a label similar to one of these then I'm sure you'd be less than tempted to take it. They all seem less regulated and branded than modern medicines.

Design for screen - Give Up Art. again.

Back to one of my favourite design companies, who produced a series of short animations for a Japanese TV station. They won the pitch after going up against about 20 other companies worldwide, so respect to them i guess. They are pretty cool animations, intended to 'provide a small moment of calm in between the frenetic pace of the channel's regular output', which is exactly what they do. i just dragged some pictures over but i'll drop the link as well, as it's worth looking at a couple of the video samples they have on there.

http://www.giveupart.com/wowow.html

art on the underground

a cool bit of typography for some jubilee line art exhibition, designed by Richard Long. who is a fine artist. raises some interesting questions in my head.............

it really annoys me though that the grey coloured line is not actually continuous throughout the whole image, as it really seems like that was the intention. oh well. it's still quite nice anyway.