Monday, 26 October 2009

Untitled - Designer Unknown

This is quite decorative, it has played on the religious saying "Ora et Labora" which means "Pray and Labor" but changed it to 'Flora' which means plant life... this has been visually translated into the pictures of the people and the flowers surrounding the type.
Clever...
Jesse Hora - 'When it rains it pours'

This is quite an illustrative piece of design. It looks like it has been screen-printed and has only one subtle colour, solid at the top where the umbrella is, and more broken up by lines down by the typography which gives a flowing feel.
I like this piece for its unique-ness and clarity.


Wojciech Majierski - Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials

This design has been based on a letter-press... using uppercase and lowercase, different weights and different fonts of type as well as a glyph for emphasis. Showing all the things that it can do.
They've used a lot of different images, photographs and shapes and a few different colours to show all the possibilities of screen-printing in a subliminal way.
Unknown Designer

This all about the over-lay of colours using a sarcastic tone in the message. This could be seen as a political message...

Unknown Artist... found on a tumblr blog

The artist has structured the piece as one picture which has had a single tone layer added on top with the type cut out.
I like this because it is an interesting way of working which i haven't considered doing before.

I like the way this looks as a piece, however it is not legible. It took me a good while to see what was written.... which is just a series of letters and icons.
There is too much included in the piece, and not enough differentiation between the colours and the different sections. They could have used a more efficient colour palletor different sizes of letters to make this work better... but i think that is the point.

Play and Fluo - The Balance Network

As a piece I really like this design. However when you look into it, the colours they have chosen on a black background make some of the type illegible. Maybe a brighter palette would have worked better in these areas?
Otherwise, I really like how the photograph and the type work together...