Animated

Lately, I've become very interested in 3-D animated type. I love the look and feel of these wonderful videos, they take me to a whole new place. It is very refreshing, to me, to see videos like these because they aren't the traditional type on a page; but rather type in time and space etc. I find 3-D work very interesting because it is nice to take type away from it's traditional 2-D form (on paper anyway) and treating it as an object. In a way, I feel 3-D motion graphics treat type as an object just like the letterpress did. Anyway, here are some videos I find really awesome!

 

Like Minded Studio - AMP POSSIBILITIES
aesthetictherapie - PLSTK Free Font
Nicolas Lichtle - ANODINE (free AE animated typeface)

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After searching Behance for all these videos, I also found a designer who uses awesome 3D type in his work, Dimtry Rockstar. I believe he does Motion Graphics, however, I can not find any videos of his work, below are stills.  Visit his Behance portfolio here: www.behance.net/thisisrockstar

I would really love to do some Motion Graphics like these someday. I hope this inspired you!

Hooray for 3D!

Coming Soon.be is a design studio located in Belguim. I found them a while ago while looking for installation inspirations for my foundations computer class, and I've been visiting their website ever since!  I love the way they incorporate 3D work in their design. When I look through their portfolio and see something that looks purely digital and then find out that they had actually made it, I am very surprised and in awe.  I feel making something—to the extent that they do—establishes a connection between a designer and their work. They really spend time physically with their objects rather than staring at a screen which is why I feel their designs are so considered and very well done. I'm not saying that designers who do purely 2D design don't spend time with their work or make unconsidered designs, I just feel that there is a slight difference. Sort of like type setting before computers and typesetting now.  As Prof. Holohan mentioned, mistakes were simply not made when setting type by hand simply because of the amount of time it would take to correct it. By looking at their designs, I am reminded that a graphic designer does not have to purely rely on Illustrator or Photoshop to create.

Here are some of their works:

 

 

I absolutely love this BC design!

Where Science and Typography Meet

Designer Cam Wilde has made typographers everywhere a cheat-sheet; the Periodic Table of Typefaces.

Originally posted on the Behance Network, this table is a meta-list of 100 "popular, influential and notorious" typefaces, arranged and organized to stylistically resemble the classic Periodic Table of Elements. Organizing fonts by Family (or Class), the table is a wonderful resource to aid all of your typographic choices.