Wednesday 24 November 2010

Fast times at woodside high



A clip from "Fast Times at Woodside High," the video that accompanied Matt Richtel's 11/21/2010 New York Times article. See the full clip here here when it's working

Tuesday 23 November 2010

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Last minute touch ups to student exhibition spaces for Tonights opening. Last I saw there was a sound system being rigged up in the graphic design area along with a live graffiti session. The fashion show steps out at 20:30 in the multi purpose hall and promises to be an eye opener. There are several disciplines on display throughout the campus so give yourself time to explore - alternatively come back during the week as the exhibition is open until Saturday. Enjoy Design!


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Monday 22 November 2010

Gabriel Dawe - Installation Artist

Found on thecoolhunter.net



It's The Cool Hunter logo as an art installation. Gabriel Dawe's colorful 'Plexus installation is currently showing at the Dallas Contemporary in Texas.
The construction is made out of gütermann thread, wood and nails attached at either end to blocks of wood, the effect is like a real-world version of computer generated imagery. Stunning.

Enjoy with thanks to thecoolhunter

Saturday 20 November 2010

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address



"I learn't about serif and sans serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great"

Thursday 18 November 2010

Tattoo Typeface


Argentinian type designer Alejandro Paul's latest face, Piel Script (piel, pronounced pee-yell, is the Spanish word for skin) has been specially developed for use by tattoo artists...
The typeface has a huge number of alternate characters (there are 41 different uppercase As to choose from) and plenty of ligatures and swashes to personalise your tattoo text designs.
Read further here

Tuesday 16 November 2010

CPUT GD2 Student in the top 3


Congratulations to Inus Smuts who has made it to the top three students in the Banksy Competition sponsored by Onesmallseed, Adobe and Learning Curve.

Good Luck Inus

TOP 20 Fonts for web (published in .net magazine this month) chosen by Elliot Jay Stocks

1. Georgia
2. FF Meta Serif
3. Alternate Gothic No. 1
4. Helvetica
5. FF DIN
6. FF Tisa
7. Droid Sans
8. Ronnia Condensed
9. Calluna
10. FF Unit Slab
11. Proxima Nova
12. Clarendon URW
13. Museo Slab
14. Fedra Sans
15. Centro Sans Pro
16. FF Trixie
17. Bree
18. Times New Roman
19. FF Kava
20. Avenir

Saturday 13 November 2010

50 Magnificent Examples of Moleskin Art

Moleskin art is a form of art that employs any medium, style, or technique on moleskin surfaces. Moleskin is a dense cotton weave that comprises a surface ideal for writing, drawing, panting, or sketching. Moleskin journals are popular for their convenient size, trendy appeal, and the portability and quality for artists. Read on...

WTF?



Subcarpati - Am crescut pe la Romana from z00x on Vimeo.


Ionut Negrila and Mihai Calota created this beautiful animation of a street sign figure coming to life.

According to the artists, the production involved:

  • 57 stencils
  • 3 black spray cans
  • 8 9-volt batteries
  • 3 different light source
  • 5,313 photographs

Thursday 4 November 2010

Jacques user testing his new office space in the GD Dept.

Holding Bansky



The Graphic Design Students of CPUT recently entered the OneSmallSeed Banksy Competition. Of the many creative entries, 4 of our GD Students have made it to the finals. Keep an eye out for the next issue of OneSmallSeed where their work will be featured.

Inus Smuts ‑ Google
Aimee Sawyer ‑ Rhino
Inus Soutschka ‑ (1) ‑ the illustration
Anthony Chute ‑ Be yourself (1) and (2)

You can view theirs and many more great submissions here

Image featured: Inus Soutschka

Wednesday 3 November 2010

Creative Playing Cards



Go shuffle your deck here and on the flipside

23 Brilliant Logos With Hidden Messages



juniors/graduate position

Hello my extended network of friends, Romans, countrymen.

We are looking for juniors/graduates to join our rapidly growing team of
online advertising experts and the following is an informal job spec.
Suitable candidates can contact me and I'll be able to give them more
information and answer any questions.

Our company specializes in Pay Per Click advertising on Google, Bing, Yahoo
and YouTube. If you are unfamiliar with the term, Google it and look at the
ads at the top and to the right ‑ thats what we do but theirs a lot more to
it than that. We have some of the best minds in the industry steering the
ship, we are very good at what we do and we have the local and international
clients to prove it. In a nuttshell, the potential candidates need to have
the following:

‑ A quiet ambition to succeed
‑ An awesome personality and attitude
‑ Be able to speak and type English proficiently
‑ A basic understanding of the Internet and search engines
‑ Great time and task management skills
‑ Attention to detail
‑ References that will honestly tell us how awesome they are
‑ A penchant for numbers, formulas and Excel
‑ A strategic marketing and business brain
‑ The ability to learn quickly

They don't need:

‑ Relevant experience
‑ A degree
‑ A car
‑ An uncle who is a big shot at Jupiter drawing room
‑ Design skills

I won't sugar coat the positions available: They will start by doing reports
and helping the team build accounts. At times they may find the work a bit
mundane. If they show promise their is the potential of rapid career
development.

Please pass this on to anybody you can recommend for the position.
Candidates can contact me via email on urry.mark@gmail.com . Recruitment
agents will be shot at first site.

Thanks in advance for helping us or for at least reading this far.

Cheers,
Mark

Tuesday 2 November 2010

30 Conversations on Design



Sit back and be inspired and/or amused here

2010, An amazing show...


You are invited to the 2010 CPUT FID Graduate Show taking place from 23rd to 27th November. The opening night on the 23rd from 18:00 is traditionally a crowded affair with plenty of rubbing of shoulders and great networking potential. The evenings events are followed by the usual get-out-of-control party at a nearby venue. Please contact me if you wish to come and view the students work afterwards, during the exhibition week.