type2: Final Typographic Motion Video

Beautiful Things from Mary Lim on Vimeo.

"I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares. That's my intent." -Saul Bass

I chose this particular quote because of Bass' simple desire to make beautiful things. Dealing with the motivation to design, an architectural floor plan seemed fitting to the subject. The video begins with a black screen, just like a blank slate, and constantly refers back to Bramante's floor plan of New St. Peters in some way.

The personal design process of this made me realize a couple things: that I enjoy designs that involve the viewer to put together pieces of the puzzle to make the whole and that I need to work on my time management. Generally, deciding on an idea takes a long time for me, especially because I want everything to be perfect. However, this takes time out of my production time, giving me less of an opportunity to fix and edit. I need to work on quickening my design process. 

type2: progress

type2: progress

Work in progress!

Some things I need to fix:

-Timing of letterforms, shapes, especially the "kaleidoscope-looking" frame

Have yet to do:
-Finish kaleidoscope frame
-Put in the floor plan shapes layer by layer

type2: MSU feedback

MSU collaboration

"I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares. That's my intent."

type2: motion progress

I was finally able to divide the squares of the floorplan on Illustrator using pathfinder. I also decided to use a serif typeface to go along with the shapes of this image, which can be seen in the video below.

type: inspiration

This video features Marian Bantjes. I was particularly inspired by her work because of her ability to make art that pertains not only to the fine arts but also to the commercial aspect of graphic design. The quote I chose for the typographic motion project directly relates to this video: both address the artists' personal desire to create beautiful things. Though I myself would not make the types of things she does, I do appreciate her talent in making people think.

(Bantjes talks about this in the video) This work especially spoke to me because of its simplicity yet complexity. Each unit that makes up this composition is an illustrated, abstract letter. When put together in differing combinations, it creates these patterns. Though in actuality these units are simply letters, when assembled in a particular way, it creates something complex. 

For the type motion project, I'm thinking of doing something similar using these letterforms...

Maybe I'll design each letter in my quote and make it to come together into something comprehensive...

type2: aftereffects with Eloise

I'm still learning the basics, but AfterEffects didn't seem as difficult as I thought!
All of these short clips reference the children's book Eloise by Kay Thompson

type2: 3 iterations

type2: in motion

 Final Quote:

"I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent."

Saul Bass 

2 Storyboards

type2: research

Brainstorming "design methods, ethics or awareness" associated with graphic design that new designers need to know...

• graphic design as a tool for manipulation (advertising)
• motivation/intention for creating art
• "I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent." - Saul Bass
• failure as an essential aspect of design
• "Failure is built into creativity...if the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure." -Saul Bass"
• "It is very important to embrace failure and to do a lot of stuff - as much stuff as possible - with as little fear as possible. It's much, much better to wind up with a lot of crap having tried it than to overthink in the beginning and not do it." -Stefan Sagmeister
• the design process
• "So this is the design process or the creative process. Start with a problem, forget the problem, the problem reveals itself or the solution reveals itself and then you reevaluate it. This is what you are doing all the time." -Paul Rand
• "Read. Travel. Read. Ask. Read. Learn. Read. Connect. Read." Erik Spiekermann 
• "A graphic designer usually makes hundreds of small drawings and then picks one of them." - Bruno Munari
• "It is important to use your hands. This is what distinguishes you from a cow or a computer operator." - Paul Rand
• the digital revolution 
• "The tools of the designer were confused with the skills of the designer...The accessibility of production tools undercut the design profession since "anyone" could make a flier or a brochure." -Johanna Drucker
• "You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously." - Wim Crouwel
• what influences a designer
• "Everything hangs on something else." - Ray Eames
• design as a job / part of life
• "I'd sooner do the same on Monday or Wednesday as I do on Saturday or Sunday. I don't divide my life between labor and pleasure."  - Alan Fletcher

some examples i found:

http://vimeo.com/channels/kinetictypography 

Make it better from Sebastianbap on Vimeo.


The Social Network Kinetic Typography - HD from Spencer Bailey on Vimeo.
Karloff, convergence of beauty and ugliness from Thibault de Fournas on Vimeo.