SIGH #5

LOOK WHAT I FOUND! :D I found this whilst looking at infographics for one of my final pieces of the FMP.


Via: Medical Billing And Coding

VIA: http://www.coolinfographics.com/blog/2011/5/10/sitting-all-day-is-killing-you-infographic.html

It's a great blog too, I recommend subscribing to it.

SIGH #4

It's been a loooOOOOOoong time. But here, I'll share something worthwhile with you to make up for it.

[Click here to see "The 50 Things Every Graphic Design Student Should Know"]

This is a visual essay that is filled with nuggest of wisdom, some obvious, others not; but it is as the author, Jamie Wieck, describes: "a list of 50 things I believe every graphic design student should know on leaving college.


So, I emplore you to take a look, digest what needs to be, and salute you in your endeavours as a member of the graphics world.

Look what I found

One of Holton Rower's "Pour" paintings - reminds me of spin art and some of Murakami's works

ONE TO FOLLOW

Today, my tutor introduced me to a fantastic blog (well at least in my opinion)

SpiekerBlog

Erik Spiekermann is a revered typographer and designer, based in Germany.

SIGH #2

I should've guessed I'd hit my second SIGH round about the holidays, but oh well. What matters is I'm back, mentally refreshed.

Today, I'd like to share with you a wonderful webcomic series a friend directed me to.

Romantic Apicalyptic was created by a russian illustrator and photographer Vitaly S Alexius, who is determining a new digital art style he coins as "Dreaminism". The sense of humour is certainly enjoyable, with a sleek, bleak, gritty setting and twisted, sureal characters - I mean, the Captain will remind us of an exaggerated persona of one or two people we will have met in our lives, certainly.

This style does remind me a lot of Frank Miller's film Sin City, with the whole noir aesthetic. From Alexius' "about" section on the site, he explains that he has used actors and photographs to produce these panels, which does remind me of the Max Payne comic panels very much.

These replaced the conventional "cinematics" from most action games of the time.

 Noticably a different style, the noir trend is still present, and a hunch would say that similar methods were used to produce these panels as they were used in Romantic Apocolyptic. Certainly gives me an idea to use for my next project.

Some Music

I was thrilled to find Bytejacker up and running their online series again since taking a break to reform it. During the comeback episode they played music with bit chip tunes, an overall nice electronic sound (to my ears at least).

George & Jonathan, a duo which I'd like to compare to the likes of Justice and Daftpunk, guys who found each other during their education years and stuck together making music.

So yeah, hit the link to enjoy some bit-chip tunage :D