Chasography :: Blog+Portfolio

Clan Shirts

2009-07-03T22:00:00.004-04:00

I've been working on individual clan member symbols for shirts in our online mulitplayer clan.

This one is for lee. Its the only one I've actually executed into a design as a of now. Its meaning is because he dies a lot. All of them are pretty much inside jokes, we are a very laid back and chill clan that makes fun of each other and ourselves...these shirts illustrate that I think

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The others that have been thought of are mine. which a F-bomb(grenade) since I curse a lot. and Amber's which is a Tent and says happy camper since she is our resident corner camper. We are still thinking of witty inside jokes for everyone else's symbols

PS we are coming up with a new clan name so a new logo should come soon!

UNK

2009-05-31T08:56:00.004-04:00

Okay, its been a while since I've posted on here, if you want to know how my life has been since the last design then check out godlessmanboy.com

Here is something small I designed for my online mulitplayer clan

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happy

2009-02-22T00:07:00.000-05:00

Thanks at the beginning of a new year

2009-01-21T09:56:00.001-05:00

A new year. It will be the year I go back to school. Chasography is now one year old. Thank you all that support me, it means so much!

fucking genocide

2008-12-17T23:24:00.001-05:00

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Two Thousand and Nine

2008-11-06T09:42:00.005-05:00

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This is the Chasography poster for the upcoming year of 2009. It is a bit of veer of my normal modernist style. I actually didn't use helvetica for this one! hah! I used ITC Kabel instead. I was really feeling a geometric typeface for this one and you can't go wrong with the classic Kabel!

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This is also a poster for the upcoming year of 2009. I feel since we have Bush out of office that hopefully we will have a new and better ethic based on experience and utility rather than religion. I know this really isn't a new ethic but it is a change from the norm of America. Hopfully everyone will so the falsity of religion based morality.

Amen

2008-11-02T20:56:00.005-05:00

There is an updated PDF of my portfolio ready to download! and plus I made a portfolio on coroflot, just click the link or the thumbnails in the speech bubble! Enjoy the new shit below!

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Above is a small logo for a new blog of mine. It is set in Akzidenz-Grotesk Condensed-Italic

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Do I need to explain this one? huh? goddammit!

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a quick prayer for those who love swiss modernism and wish to give their hearts to it!

If only...

2008-10-29T22:27:00.000-04:00

Swiss Cheese

2008-10-01T21:08:00.003-04:00

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Monologue

2008-09-28T22:08:00.003-04:00

Dj Psylo logo

2008-09-23T08:38:00.004-04:00

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http://www.myspace.com/psylotrace

Equal Opportunity

2008-09-20T21:12:00.003-04:00

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Revolt

2008-09-10T14:59:00.004-04:00

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!war!machine!

2008-09-02T18:50:00.004-04:00

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This is what I think about our current situation with war. To be a fighting war machine you go through a decontruction and dehumination. This makes you a no fear nihilist. This is the only way to survive war. Esspecailly in this situation, no real reason to be there.

New Stuff

2008-08-31T19:45:00.004-04:00

I've uploaded a updated portfolio. It has been long overdue. I've not really been doing much that took much of a thought process other than stuff that I've had a stable idea of execution. These are what results.

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Above is a culture inspired logo repition for my roots music project The Zompire Brother.

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Above is inspired by Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan

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This is an idea for Ballstomp's second set of songs for a CD.

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Above is a new logo for Ballstomp

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Above is the flyer for the "in the works" Breakfest 2009

Just some stuff I've been fucking around with...

2008-07-25T13:49:00.005-04:00

below is the new logos for my hardcore punk band ballstomp. The latter is a sticker; the top is the type for the cd cover.

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below is the logo idea for the community we are trying to get together that we use only self sufficient energy sources

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below is an idea for LEFT our new blog. It can be found at leftwnc.blogspot.com

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below is an attempt to get peoples attention to come to my blog and check out my shit. An exposure technique!

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PIY

2008-06-20T18:39:00.005-04:00

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PIY stands for print it yourself which is a way I am going to destroy the no good designers of Western NC that charge out the yin yang for art charges. I will design what ever anyone wants for absolutely free, no art charges what so ever. I'll then give then a high resolution PDF to exact size to their specifications and then can take the file to the nearest print shop or copy center to have it printed. No capital for me to spend but my time, which is expendable at the time being. All work will still be under my copyright, but that's not the important part. I'm here to show people that they are spending too much for amateur bullshit. So sign shops around here charge up to 20 bucks an hour for art charges. All still come out with ugly amateur bullshit. 20 dollars an hour and you know it takes them forever to do it. Good design needs to be prominent, I am the Oil man for the design world. I wish no one else to succeed. I will smash those you confront me, because my service is free, you just have to print it yourself, easy as that. This won't pick up until later this year, mostly because I bought Chasography.com from some company and it won't be available for me to make this blog as Chasography.com

Here is some more little pieces I've been working on lately:

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Above is a little piece about a time year in my life I would like to live over and over, the year of 2004. This was simple times, but it didn't seem so then. It seemed to be random and unorganized and hard to understand. But it actually had a simple grid like order, much like the layout of the piece. It seems random and disjointed, but is actually in much order.

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Above is a hoodie idea that is long overdue. My band that was conceived and started around 2001. Dressed For Tragedy was a big part of my life, if not my entire life. The friends in the band plus the friends at shows deserve a hoodie for created the most fun and heartfelt times of my life. Again, I'll best year was 2004 when we actually played our first show, that is what fuels the first design, the simple times.

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This is a simple shirt idea for those you think life is FUBAR and don't mind expressing it.

Change

2008-06-08T21:18:00.008-04:00

Its been awhile since I've cranked out some ideas. I helped design an album cover from Greg today and I've started some new blogs, but that is about it. I've been busy working my day job but I'll soon leave that job for another. A copy guy will be my new job. Not exactly a designer but at least I'll be around print work and get a discount on computer stuff and prints. I did this really fast for our background on our computer for Amber when she was down, it worked: it made her smile

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I've changed to look of this blog, from red to cyan and I've designed a new logo. I needed a change for the new year so I don't have to be reminded how last year ended and why. The new look was for myself and the site, for both the same reasons. The site needed a pick me up and fresh new look and color scheme. I needed a pick me up and a fresh new feel to keep me going in the design field even though I was thrusted out of it by idiots. Change is neither bad nor good but inevitable.

My portfolio needs an update soon, It will happen and I shall post of it!

Design me a well designed cookie

2008-05-29T19:39:00.002-04:00

that would be cool!

I need

2008-05-01T13:14:00.003-04:00

A Mac.

For real!

quote from a mind

2008-04-18T16:14:00.002-04:00

If you design a stop sign, make it red. - Wesley Treadway

Above was a quote from Mrs. Lock's class last year, by our own Wesley Treadway.

Long live oblivion

The in thing to do!

2008-04-10T10:58:00.004-04:00

It seems that since the Helvetica movie has came out and Helvetica had its 50th last year. that hating Helvetica seems to be the in thing to do. Before that seems that people that used it, used it. Those who didn't, didn't.

I guess I'm not so cool.

An ode to the blood and gore films.

2008-03-23T21:58:00.004-04:00

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A letter to HVO

2008-03-20T16:42:00.004-04:00

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Nuff Said

New Ballstomp Logo

2008-03-19T22:46:00.003-04:00

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Langdon Geometric in the works

2008-03-15T11:57:00.006-04:00

I started designing this over Christmas but once we lost our place it got lost in all the packed stuff. Well I found my grid pad and took some pictures of the rough sketches. I don't have any font making software but i think I may try and design the letter forms in Illustrator. It wouldn't be a font but at least it would be digital.

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Identity

2008-03-08T19:16:00.014-05:00

Identity, a word that has come up in the news a lot as of lately. It is who we are, our good name if you may. We here all these threats of identity theft and credit card fraud. These days the only thing keeping our name alive is being in possession of and I.D. card or S.S. card+number. Its rather scary that all we have is something that can be easily stolen.

In the design world identity has a similar but different meaning. Most people think of the word logo, which is a graphic or type copy written by a certain organization as their I.D. card or S.S. number. It is imperative for a company or organization to keep their logos safe from theft just as a person word keep is S.S. card safe or birth certificate.

The creation of logos is a stressful task. It is something I would not want to be the main focus of my career. But of course if I had to do it I would, I just would not want to do it everyday. Logos should be simple, concise, clean, legible, readable, accessible, and above all professional. coming to an agreement on the look of a logo takes hours even days of brainstorming, it is not something one can just whip up even if the end product is just a slash and and a dot. The sad part of it all is no one will even recognize or think of the work gone into make that slash and dot. The actually creation of the slash and dot could be very easy, but the going through so many ideas, brainstorming, proofs, and drawings is the stressful part. It is a big responsibility as a design to create an identity for an organization. I would be responsible for their sales and image through the logo I create. I don't know, maybe if I design my first real identity for an outside organization then I may fall in love with the process and the power. The power, it must feel really empowering if you design a great successful identity for a powerful and successful business. I wouldn't know, yet.

Enough with all this talk and I'll show you why I decided to make this post. While I was in design school one of our projects in design II was to create an identity for ourselves. The one I made was quite atrocious! It was a tracing of my head done in all black, white, and gray, White eyes, gray face, black hair and beard. It looked like a graffiti for some tyrant! Across the face, I had "Pile-On Booking" repeated in some sans serif. I had booked some hardcore punk shows under that name and wanted my logo to have something to do with it. Well, the bottom line is it didn't work.

The closest thing of a logo for myself would most likely be the header of this blog. It actually has gone through one change though the change will go unnoticed to the non designer. It started out set in Helvetica Black but I changed it recently to Helvetica Bold and the red is now a pure CMYK red. The bold is just a bit more readable and slick that the black.

Logo 1:

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Logo 2:

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Below is a logo for my fiancee and her photography. The shapes make up a camera and the type reads any way you would like it to with the colors separating the actual name.

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Below is a new identity for Rock Of Sea, which is Max Kath and I's film company we make short films under. The first is our old logo and the second is the fresh new one which has never been used yet.

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The first logo there wasn't the first logo for Rock Of Sea. The first logo wasn't really a logo, but a picture with bad type that flashed on the screen at the beginning of a couple of our films. It can be seen here in the 2003 short film "Remember?". Enjoy it below!

A Modern Moral Satire

2008-03-06T17:22:00.009-05:00

The other day at work, I was outside in the cold with my feet completely covered in water and my shoes completely filled with water cleaning up the garden center and building tables. I was pretty much by myself besides one of my managers working in the same area and helping. I had time to think and I thought about my views on this whole God ordeal and how I can design a specific view of mine.

I don't like bringing up religion in conversation on even the single fact that I am an atheist into conversation, just because I don't feel like being preached to and told how wrong I am and how I'm going to hell. On the topic, if I was to get into one of these topics I wouldn't want to embarrass anyone by debunking and completely schooling them in a debate on science versus myth, especially in a professional or work environment.

Below is a work in progress and is most definitely probably going to change before its officially added to my portfolio. It is called The Morality Of God, as noted in the type. It is a modern piece and using only geometric shapes I illustrated a scenario that baffles me about Christianity and how this idea is considered moral and just. I am not going to go into explaining everything the details about this piece here but if you would like to know then ask. I will be happy to explain it to you. I will only go into this when it is wanted to be heard. Other than that, enjoy the piece.

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Day Job + Freelance Design

2008-02-25T10:51:00.006-05:00

I'm coming to a maybe temporary idea of what I will take on the design and/or work world. I don't want to work for another design workplace for long time. I want to take on the look of the town on my own with freelancing and hoping to further my success from there and one day start my own studio. Working for someone designing at least around here is a nightmare, I need design to be second and work be first. I need money to take care of my family, and I don't need to worry about losing my job over something stupid. I'll design like I want to with the training and constrictions of my past education. I don't want to have to worry about an uneducated schmuck telling me what I can and can't do. Working a day job and design of night is what I'm going to do. I want to have some exhibitions and zines out. Speaking of publishing, I'm writing a book and hopefully it will get published. I will of course design my own cover and page layout. If it does get published, you can buy it on this site.

Good Type + Bad Layout = Bad Desgin | Good Layout + Bad Type = ?

2008-02-21T12:46:00.008-05:00

One can get away with a bad type choice if their layout ends up being awesome. The key word to that sentence is can; it can work, not it will work. I don't think any layout would mend the horrors of Papyrus or Comic Sans. Typefaces like Arial or Gill Sans are two typefaces that can work if using a killer layout. But you have to think if someone could think of a great layout would they know about the type they are using? I know that some people may have an inner knack with eye pleasing layout but either only have the typefaces that came on their computer. I'm not sure what the problem is but we may be able to look past a horrid typeface choice if the layout is great, but of course it would be much better with a firm typeface choice.

On the other hand bad layout will not look great even if using Futura or Helvetica. Type gurus will see the design and all they will get out of it is the fact that they can say, "Hey, that's Futura." but it doesn't go any further than that. I've seen Helvetica used in the most horrible ways even though I love the typeface I can't get across the bad design esthetics and most likely bad kerning, leading, or tracking. These designs were probably done when Helvetica was a default on PC and if those same designers did that design today they would use Arial or Tahoma.

Good designers, please watch the type you use to push your designs to an extra level. Bad designers, please stop centering everything; kern once and a while. Oh, and kerning and tracking are not the same thing.

Portfolio Is Uploaded

2008-02-04T13:32:00.002-05:00

I am sure there are still mistakes and typos. Let me know any critiques and proofreading as you like. The more honest the better! Please note that the best way to view is by downloading it from your browser. If you don't have Adobe Reader you can get it here.

pro+gress

2008-02-03T16:40:00.003-05:00

My portfolio is done all but being proofread a third time. I am going to make sure this one is nearly perfect. Once I get a new job I am buying some new typefaces that my computer lacks such as Helvetica and Futura in various weights. I'm ready for Linotype to finish their Windows version of the FontXplorer or I can just save up and get a Mac that would be ideal but money is a very big deal of course.

HVO denied my unemployment, which is completely bogus. I am now frantic to find a new job and knowing that I will not be compensated for my off time makes me sick to my stomach. I have a promises meeting with an employer on Tuesday. They have my resume and I will be getting them my portfolio once it’s done, as you all know it is still under construction. Wish me luck!

Gill Sans seems to be everywhere. I'm not sure why its not the greatest typeface ever. I am actually not a fan of any humanist. If I want stroke contrast then I'll just use a serif typeface. Go grotesque its chic!

Degree Versus Freelance

2008-01-29T14:10:00.003-05:00

I feel that freelance work beats most design school students work that graduate. I'm not sure what the statistics are though I have a hunch. Freelancers have this power, this spirit for design that some of the grads that just want a job in a high pay field. I'm sure there are cases that freelancers do not know a lot of knowledge that design school can teach but once they have it the world is in their hands. But a devoted freelance designer most likely researches his own path for design and design aesthetics. I don't have a degree but I went to school enough to know how to use programs but I already had a fire for design. While in school it was hard to research and do your own work because you have so much school work to do and when not doing that you are working it becomes tough to find who you are as a designer.

DESIGN MORE
RESEARCH MORE
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
LEARN EVERYTHING YOU CAN
DESIGN MORE
DESIGN ALL THE TIME

Design Police

2008-01-22T18:46:00.002-05:00

Dustin, my friend and co-student at Johnston Community College, shared this great site with me in a comment for the previous post. Enjoy!

Design Police

"Let's Fill That Space!"

2008-01-15T14:18:00.001-05:00

I came across this video on YouTube. I find it hilariously true about today's designer earn for filling all space possible. enjoy.

Jobs Wanted

2008-01-14T16:38:00.002-05:00

If there is any jobs out there looking for a new talented designer with new ideas, feel free to email me at chaselangdon@hotmail.com

I'm always up for input and constructive criticism, feel free to comment at any time. Please try and keep professional please! We are designers not children, keep it in good taste!

And remember, If anyone needs something designed for a cheap price, fliers, posters anything! let me know I'm always up for a challenge!

Portfolio Is Under Construction + New Ideas

2008-01-14T11:31:00.005-05:00

My portfolio is under construction for the time being to fix a lot of mistakes because to be quite honest that portfolio was thrown together in one night for an interview the next day. I do not condone this type of procrastination or laziness but it happened and all I can do is just move on and make it better. Most of the work in my portfolio was work from school, except for a few designs that were done freelance. I'm not working hard trying to perfect it maybe even starting over from scratch to make my portfolio more readable and accessible. Thank you for understating.

Here are is a couple of projects I'm currently working on.

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Above is a poster idea for Chasography. It will be 33x24 landscape orientation. I tried to illustrate this almost random or experimental yet still in order feel of Chasography. I have been designing using a grid and not point sizes as of lately. I never use fonts anymore, I type out my copy and then convert to outline as soon as I'm sure there are not typos(in which is almost suicide for me ha ha) I then size by grid to get my aligning in perfect harmony but yet still asymmetrical. It gives an ode to the constructivist era.

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Above is a shirt idea for my screen print line. The background on this is that living in a rural town sometime really sucks, and all we want to do is get out an get to somewhere that's more got more to offer, with me its design. I just want to find a place to where I'm not going to get fired for having ambition for the design world and having a blog and portfolio for those to see that would be interested in it. So, I better not search out a good conversation, its all a waste of time!

Work In Progress

2008-01-10T12:18:00.003-05:00

Since I've been home a lot aside for going to employment and job searching, I've been working on some freelance designs.

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Above is a shirt of hoodie design for my current hardcore punk project, Ballstomp. To the left is the logo that would be screen printed just above the left breast and the to the right is what would be large across the back.

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Above are two flyers for small film fests we had and are going to have. The first flyer is of a film night that Max, his girlfriend Collen, My fiancee Amber, and me are having once Max and Coleen return from Raleigh. The second flyer is one we had in November. We have these little "film fests" often. Rock of Sea is Max and I's film company. We have been writing and filming short films for years now and hope to continue this into a career one day. We hope to be hosting small film fests within the year.

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Above is a shirt idea for my line of screen prints. It is a "western yin yang." My western yin yang is two crosses, one is right side up and the other is upside down. to signify the symbols of good and evil of western culture. If you wear this shirt you can show off your acceptance of good and evil working together in unity or nirvana. while using a western culture friendly cross. Typeset in Bauhaus medium, in all lower case to also give salute to Herbert Bayer and his universal typeface featuring only lower case letters.

Maturity + Design

2008-01-04T16:41:00.002-05:00

Maturity and design go hand in hand. Graphic designers and looked upon as professional problem solvers. With high pay comes high responsibility and with responsibility comes maturity. Mature adults look for rational and simple ways to solve problems well as design projects. The best answer to design question is usually the simplest, but may undergo countless hours of proofs and editions to get to that design nirvana or gestalt. In life we are trampled on with many problems that require a clear, non-hostile approach in problem solving. Attacking some one's personal life with childish accusations in a professional setting is very immature and in my opinion is screaming "fire me! fire me!" As design professionals we should choose our words wisely and not attacking someone you have no idea what they are capable of. I have had to learn to choose my words wisely even in the most subtle of settings.

New Years Resolution

2008-01-01T08:52:00.002-05:00

These are design related

Designing and creating a new fresh portfolio
Getting to know at least 10 local designers(with more knowledge than just how to use a program)
Finishing and publishing my typeface
Getting a design job and sticking with it for saving lots of money

These are not design related

Being the best father a child could ever ask for
Being the best Husband a wife could ever ask for
Being the best person I could ever ask for
The Sox are going to win the world series again in 2008

Local Design News Update 1

2007-12-28T10:29:00.002-05:00

Emerson Woelffer: At the Center and At the Edge

February 1 – May 31, 2008
Opening reception: Friday, February 1, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Curator’s talk at 7:00 p.m.
Free for BMCM+AC members / $3 non-members

For more information go to Black Mountain College
or click on my link to the right of your screen.

Typeface: Langdon Geometric

2007-12-24T17:19:00.001-05:00

I'm on a new plan in designing my typeface. I'm going in the direction of Herbet Bayer of the Bauhaus by denouncing capitals and going completely geometric. I'm almost done a new draft of it. I'll post it when I'm done with that draft and scan it in. Langdon Geometic is the name of my typeface.

Max is going to review Helvetica sometime after Christmas. My friend Dustin who was a co-student of mine in design school wants to see it so we will watch that after Christmas too.

By the way, Merry Christmas!

Helvetica: The Movie

2007-12-18T09:04:00.002-05:00

I received my copy of Helvetica yesterday in the mail. My wife and I watched and I loved and surprisingly so did she! The cinematography was outstanding the interviews were engaging, funny, and informative. I loved it, It was really a beautiful film.

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Max Kath is going to be coming in time to time to review films and I have asked him if his first review will be Helvetica. He agrees. He is a 4 year major at Western Carolina for film studies and hopes to be making his first feature in the next couple of years. I've known this guy for pretty much all of my life and I'm pleased and honored to have him come on this blog to review films (what he does best). I'll be designing the posters as well as editing his films.

Horizontal Punctuation

2007-12-17T14:37:00.002-05:00

It has been brought to my attention that most novice designers do not know what a hyphen is correctly used for. Hyphens should only be used for connecting words such as co-worker or pickup-truck. They should not be used for dates or separate thoughts. An en dash is used for ranges such as dates, an em dash should be used to connect separate thoughts. Its critical for designers to use these punctuations correctly, especially when work is being sold to the public.

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Typographical Routine

2007-12-14T15:48:00.002-05:00

The reason why people with no design knowledge pick the type they do, is because they don't know any better. They've seen their school essays all been forced into Times New Roman 12pt. They see their sans-serif type all being forced in Arial 12pt . Its okay if you don't know to some point. Ignorance is bliss in some cases.

I'm getting worried when designers, sign shop owners, only use these bland routine typefaces. Times New Roman isn't horrible its just that there is so many other choices out there for more honorable serif typefaces. Jenson is only one of many great serif faces to choose from, but you can't go wrong with it. Designed by Nicolas Jenson in 1470, Jenson has been around for a while and has sustained the test of time to be one of the industries most widely used serif faces.

Arial on the other hand is complete crap! I've always hated it even before I was a designer. I just found that it was even cooler to hate it when I became a designer! Arial really does mimic and wanna be Max Meidinger's Helvetica. Helvetica has a love/hate relationship with today's designers I just happen to be one that loves it. Designed in 1957 it is considered a neo-grotesque typeface. Grotesques are known for their stagnant appearance and serious tone, due to very little of not no stroke contrast. Helvetica most definitely fits that category.

I just don't get how designers (not regular people) choose faces like Times New Roman and Arial to do sold work. When they could go the extra mile, pay the extra buck and get some good typefaces for outstanding work for our public to see.

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Futura + Refrigeration = No serifs, Perfect Circles, and Cold Milk

2007-12-14T09:07:00.003-05:00

I made a few magnets to go on our refrigerator and thought why not typographically educational ones? I made one for Helvetica, Garamond, Bodoni, Baskerville, Futura and Avant Garde. I took a picture of the one on Futura they are all the same point size and layout.

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The only AIGA chapter close to Clyde is Knoxville. There is not to much is going going on there though, Charlotte is the next closest. I want to create a new chapter for Asheville, but as of right now I don't have the resources to do so. I'm going to research and find the small design firms around Asheville that would be interested.

I've started to try and design my first type face, Its really rough right now because I've only been through one draft for now. I'm looking to perfect it soon. It's geometric, with equal letter width as the cap heights, also with a low x-height. It may or may not work. I'm going to try and make it work and not change up my plan, I'm going try and stick to the equal letter widths with the height even if it does look like crap right now!

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Futura also makes your cake taste even better, and colder!

Try It!

I'm keeping this blog instead

2007-12-14T08:37:00.001-05:00

Here is a post from that angel fire one from yesterday before I delete it!

Wednesday, 12 December 2007
Artist Refuge
Now Playing: Colors - BTBAM
Topic: Community

Okay, I watched Fully Awake the other day, the documentary on Black Mountain College. It got me thinking. I want to create some sort of refuge per say for artists of mixed media(design, type, art, painting, drawing, pen, photography, film, theatre if its artistic it goes), apartments or low cost housing with a large hall for working on whatever you wanted to work on, your rent would pay for your supplies and living cost. Every one has to be an artist of some sort and it would not be very demanding on how good you were per say the community would grow with time. Every year everyone needs to have a stopping point or final product to go in the annual mixed media art festival and in the annually published book. I want to create a chain reaction of art explosion. This will take time and money but it is a dream and all dreams start with a thought and become reality.

First post just to see if I like this better

2007-12-13T15:47:00.002-05:00

So far this has struck me as better just in the fact that I can type with out having to wait five seconds for my screen to catch up! another test is to see if I can edit and place HTML in my posts. I hate having to upload a photo every time I put it in a post, because I'm always having some design to show the public but I just don't' feel like uploading and resizing rather just using HTML. is fine by me from photo bucket. I don't care where it is I just want a blog to where I can post images and show my work for free (until I buy some space to get Chasography.com going)

Test No. 1

did that show up as an image of a typographic monograph or just n ugly HTML tag? if it worked then click on the thumbnail to see it full screen!

Test No. 2

definitely lost.... having better typeface choices than Arial, Verdana, and Times. boo! but maybe I can make my line lengths about 5 words like I want instead of full screen...

Test No. 3

I'm going to search this in Google to see if it actually comes up.