- [note]For viewing older Posts, please use the archives of the months down at the bottom. For some reason the navigation in this template is broken. The site is going through a redesign itself, so I didn't think it worth my time to fix it. [/note] A daily redesign in an hour or less. The objects chosen to redesign are picked fairly randomly every day. I try to find what I redesign the day I do the redesign. When the year is up I hope to have developed the ability to concept, and execute quickly with great attention to detail.
- Goin’ Old School
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So, as you may, or may not have noticed, I’ve been trying to do something I wouldn’t normally do. A running joke at school is about blood splats. Anything with a blood splat, must be cool, right? My school is a very traditional grid based, European inspired design school, so the blood splat isn’t something anyone would use. So I thought I’d give it a use. Actually, todays entire design was based around the idea of a blood splat. I thought a Blackletter would look good with it. Some days I try to be inspired by the piece I’m working on, and others the piece is purely content and the design is what’s driving it. Today is a design day, I took no thought to the content here, it may as well have been Lorem Ipsum in there. Today is the second day in a row (and second day total) that I actually ran out of time. I was still positioning things when the time ran out, so I just left them where they were. I would like to see the red copy a little higher (i think).
Type: Notre Dame, Sabbath Black, Bickham Script
Software: Illustrator & Photoshop
You and your “European inspired” art school! How dare you snub the blood splat! HAHA! In all seriousness I think the blood splat is totally appropriate here. It adds just enough of a threatening feel to those violating the Mac Lab’s rules. Oh and by the way, some of us ARE inspired by Lorem Ipsum!
I like it except it reads Samplef to this simple mind
The creative use of the blood spatter brings a smile to my face, and I’m always a sucker for GOOD black-letter fonts. Well minus gang tattoos that is (Riley I’m lookin’ in your direction).
Wow, something I quickly made–instead of design made it on your blog. Nice redesign.