First of all, the team at Maricor/Maricar have a gorgeous website. In their own words the Australians are illustrators, designers, animators and embroiderers. I’m going to have to do a whole separate post on their embroidery work alone but for today I just wanted to highlight this simple chalk mural. The little detail of having shading on the curves knocks it out of the park for me. ”Fail better” couldn’t better capture what I’m trying to do out in California, too.
(Source: goodmorningasif)
Via Hello You Creatives
Capitales d’imprimerie
Spaghetti Letters, Léo ReynoldsTasty Alphabet, Mel B.Apples, Ana Benaroya
Typography Assignment: Create a word out of real objects.
This is the second version of this assignment which was also made of food. I can’t help it. Food is so wonderful! (smile)
This process was a bit more tedious in that I wanted to create a whole scene from scratch and did not want to waste food. I prepared a full spaghetti and meat sauce dinner (okay okay I had help!) and enjoyed my meal. Once the temptation of picking at the spaghetti had subsided, I went to work arranging the pasta and sauce into a visually interesting composition, got up on my step-stool for an overhead angle and snapped some photos. My concept was loosely based on a child who enjoys their food and ends up playing with it, hence the knocked over pot, mess everywhere and playful word.
In class critique today, it was pointed out that the messy word doesn’t actually look “yummy”. Some agreed and some disagreed. What do you think? I’m biased, as pasta always looks delicious to me! (smile)
The chocolate experiment
As development into creating the imagery for my magazine-like interview for print, I decided to experiment with type and food.
In part of the interview I have with Oded Ezer he’s questioned;
‘What is the purpose of your experiments?’
“My first purpose is to have fun. Experimenting for me means playing a game as seriously as a six-year-old boy would. However, I feel that when I really succeed in making something fun, I often manage to surprise myself with something new and unexpected. The hidden purpose of it all is to find fresh ideas for treating typography, words and single letters.” - Oded Ezer.
His reply is my influence to experiment with typography loosely with few boundaries and enjoy the experience of creating type in new and interesting ways.
Via Amanda Ferris.
