I’ve recently become interested in Kinetic Typography through watching videos on youtube. I feel the most effective kinetic typography is shown with live characters in movies.

Kinetic typography is defined by moving text through animation that portrays an idea or emotion. I think the examples below show that.

Below are some examples of kinetic typography, I’ve found while searching on youtube.

*Warning: Examples NSFW

I actually quite enjoyed working with Illustrator again. At my job I don’t really get much of a chance to do something creative. Currently I’m working on another file which I hope to show next week.

A few weeks ago I found this cartoon from the 1970′s explaining design to the public. The film explains the importance of design and how it improves everyday life. It also explains the pitfalls of bad and impractical design.

It’s interesting for me, that the ideas behind design haven’t changed that much since the 1970′s. In fact most of what it is said in the video can be compared to Donald Norman’s “Emotional Design”. Design should be functional but also aesthetically pleasing. It’s a pretty interesting video and worth watching.

On Saturday, Adelaide Fringe announced the competition to the Fringe Festival open. During the years of the Fringe there have been some great designs and anyone can enter!

This year’s entries are allowed (or encouraged) to use a range of mediums such as animation, sculpture, photography etc.

For more details on the Fringe go here: Fringe Poster Competition

I never use this term: Form follows function

- Dieter Rams

Dieter Rams is an industrial designer whose works in closely associated Braun. Rams explains his designs though one term “Less, but better“. While studying at TAFE I had learnt if you could explain your ideas and design philosophy through one sentence, it is a mark of a truly great designer.

Perhaps it is time to break out of the mediocrity shell.

Dieter Rams explains his design philosophy through 10 simple design principals:

1. Good design is innovative
2. Good design makes a product useful
3. Good design is aesthetic
4. Good design makes a product understandable
5. Good design is unobtrusive
6. Good design is honest
7. Good design is long-lasting
8. Good design is thorough down to the last detail
9. Good design is environmentally friendly
10. Good design is as little design as possible

More on Dieter Rams:

Design Boom interview

Youtube Video (Much better quality)

More in depth explanation of Ram’s Design Principals

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep”

-Scott Adams

“Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures”

- Harvey Pekar (writer of American Splendor)

While there I picked up some business cards with great typographic examples:

Because sketches are faster, require less overhead, and by their nature are perceived to be less ‘done,’ they are better suited to the task-artifact cycle of design exploration. They should be considered an effective modeling process for designers to be able to conceive and predict the consequences of certain design arguments during the design ideation phase and subsequently leading to better design.

- Will Evans

It’s interesting as web designers we’re facing an old problem which has somehow become new.