personal development plans

29 January 2010

Typography

Was doing some research online and came across this bad boy...

http://www.typographicposters.com/#

Top website for some awesome typography. Have a look - it may inspire.

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28 January 2010

Illegible font?

What do you think of this font for a signboard? (It belongs to a hairdresser located in Oxford Street).

Everytime I pass by it really annoys me because I'm not able to read it! Apparently it says Razor Edge, obviously when you know what it says it's easier.

Maybe it's just me...Could you guess what it says without knowing the actual name?

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27 January 2010

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2wBVYk/www.good.is/post/imagining-augmented-reality//r:t

Take a look at this animaton. I am not too sure it's what the future will be like, but its probably not far off.

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25 January 2010

LDN

I have been in London since Thursday working. But I managed to get a few snaps. This is beautiful.

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wow animation

A lot of different things going on here....I tried to do that red sheet thing before, and kinda failed.

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Mirror's Edge

This weekend i've been playing a video game called Mirror's Edge, it's all about free running around a city which has become a kind of ignorant Matrix-style way of life. It's pretty short but it's the most engaging game that i've played so far in this current (rather un-inspirational) generation of games, it's rekindled my faith a little in the industry.

I thought that i'd post some footage of the game as it may offer a bit of inspiration in regards to this latest brief, the game itself is a CG model world with some brilliant textures....but at the start and end of each level the cut scenes are vector animations. Have a look-see.

2010 is certainly looking like a promising year for video games. Fingers crossed.

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21 January 2010

Zombieland - Review

This film is about a group of guys that tries to survive in a world invaded by zombies.

To survive, one of the guys has come up with a list of rules that you need to follow if you don't want to become a zombie.

Throughout the movie, when the characters whether follow the rules or break them, the name of the rule appears on the screen and interacts with the action... It's quite hard to explain, have a look at the video and u'll get what I'm saying.

What I like about it, it's that the typography makes the scene less serious, it actually makes it funny.

I quite like zombie movies, I've seen a few; and even if the idea of zombies invading the world is a completely imaginary theme, in the films they take it very seriously, as it could happen in the real life.

Whereas in Zombieland, everything is taken as a joke, I would say they have done a parody of a zombie movie.

Also, the main character they have chosen, it's the typical actor you would see in American teenagers' comedies playing a dumb guy. In Zombieland, he plays the same guy, although this time he is kind of an hero. Again, we see it's a parody, because this actor, who in another zombie movie would be the first to die, in this one he saves everyone from the zombies' attack.

Also, there's this guys who actually enjoys killing zombies (something that never would happen in a regular zombie film) every time he sees a zombie he comes up with a different way of killing it.

I really liked it, although I wouldn't say it's a great movie, but it's a fun movie to watch on a sunday afternoon for example. However, if you don't like zombie movies, don't watch it...!

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