with the neon lights bright…

07/08/2015 by alaundre

Neon Sign Museum  |  Las Vegas Nevada Originally wanted to take a late afternoon tour so that I could use the sunset as a lighting effect, but the only available tour schedule I could fit into was the evening tour the day I was there.  I was unsure about how well the signs would look at night considering only a few of the old neon signs are actually operational, but the lighting setup at the tour was great. It was […]

Categories: art | design, create • Tags: digital photography, guided tour, las vegas, lighting, museum, neon lights, night photography, photography, signage, signs, tour, typographic art, typographic design, typography

bareback : a tomato project

04/08/2014 by alaundre

recently acquired an old book from my wishlist . Written and Designed by Tomato Bareback is brilliant. A stunning collection of personal work created and compiled by the members of the world-renowned, London based art collective, Tomato. It was 1991 when Steve Baker, Michael Horsham, Karl Hyde, Jason Kedgley, Rick Smith, Simon Taylor, Dirk Van Dooran, John Warwicker and Graham Wood pooled their creative talent and started a journey that would become one of the major success stories of the […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: art, books, design, design books, graphic arts, graphic design, typographic design

random memories : the streets are littered with people who can’t think straight

01/28/2014 by alaundre

Categories: art | design, create, random / life • Tags: cellphone photography, diary, fragments, memories, musings, photography, recollections, street photography, thoughts, typographic art, typographic design

astheyleavebecomeshardertoholdonto

12/19/2013 by alaundre

Categories: art | design, create, random / life • Tags: abstract, abstract patterns, cellphone photography, design, digital camouflage, graphic design, life, musings, patterns, textures, thoughts, typographic art, typographic design

boundaries : multimedia experiment (1.5)

11/11/2013 by alaundre

– Example:

Categories: art | design, create, listen, random / life • Tags: abstract, audio visualizer, boredom, design, graphic arts, graphic design, motion graphics, multimedia, multimedia design, social media, typographic design, video

boundaries : multimedia experiment

11/10/2013 by alaundre

– What You’ll Need: Smartphone or other video recording equipment Music, your choice, electronic or dance preferably Instructions: 1. Start playing the music. (Youtube link provided at the bottom of this post just as an example) 2. Take your phone or video equipment and take a video of any part of the animated gifs below zoomed in to one or two of the gifs. You can scroll up and down if you’d like. 3. That’s pretty much it. A semi […]

Categories: art | design, create, random / life • Tags: abstract, boredom, design, graphic arts, graphic design, motion graphics, multimedia, multimedia design, social media, typographic design, video

idn extra 08 : typographic posters

04/22/2013 by alaundre

IdN Extra 08: Typo/graphic Posters – Data Typography, Graphics, and its Application in Creative Poster Design Type design and typography is one of the key elements of a basic poster design. On the one hand, headline type needs to be legible to communicate the message of the poster; but how do you balance it with the rest of the elements of a poster? Graphics, photos, information, illustrations… indeed, there is a lot to be considered in a poster than one […]

Categories: materialism, seen • Tags: design, design magazine, posters, typographic, typographic design, typography

the art of the title

08/08/2012 by alaundre

. this post will not have any artwork THE ART OF THE TITLE really great site with breakdowns of title sequences from both movies and television, and the designers/studios behind them. ;

Categories: random / life, seen • Tags: design, film, film production, motion design, motion graphics, multimedia, multimedia design, title design, typographic design, typography