Mike Perry and my new mouse

So, upon getting a new mouse over at Best Buy, I found a selection of Microsoft ones that were designed by various artist, one by Mike Perry. I am now going to post some typography and illustrations by the New Yorker because I really like his quirky style.

http://www.mikeperrystudio.com

New Thing 2

So last night, my roommate and I decided to go to Wendy's and try their Bacon and Blue burger. I went in thinking it was going to taste great and it turned out to taste horrible. The "Blue" was actually blue cheese and it was not as tasty as it sounded. I have no idea if blue cheese is suppose to taste the way it did in the burger but both my roommate and I did not enjoy the taste and I would not recommend it to anyone.

Ellen Lupton

I didn't have much of an opinion on her when reading our type book but, biased on discussion, I can understand how she only goes one way with typography. While, a clean, crisp style can look perfect in the right setting, I quite enjoyed rugged and rough type. While it is not used very often, it can be perfect for certain type of advertising; like West 49 and skateboarding. I think rough and rugged type tells a story behind it and gives it sort of an extreme edge.

Mac vs. PC: Windows Vista

Everyone is pretty familiar with the MAC vs PC commercials running around. I've always enjoyed the humour behind them. I have to say, my favourite is the one with Windows Vista. I had Vista for a few years and I can understand its annoyance (just got Windows 7 and is much much better). MAC is usually seen as hip, young, "attractive". He appeals to a younger audience while PC appeals to an older. He's business like, dopey, "unattractive", awkward.

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New Thing

So a few days ago, I decided to go and see the new X-Man movie, X-Man: First Class. I have to say, going in, I expected it to be a horrid movie given the last few x-man films were a little dull but, this one I absolutly loved. Its was different and added a goos storyline to the characters. I quite liked seeing how Magneto went from working with Professor X to rebeling against him and not working with normals. I did enjoy how he taught Mystique how being different can be something extrodinary, that she shouldn't feel the need to hide what she truly is. A very nice message.

Overall, the movie is amazing and worth seeing. Thumbs up!

Richard Florida is an American urban studies theorist.

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famous quotes:
“If an employer is serious about attracting and retaining talent, about making Wisconsin the kind of place they can do business over the long haul, they've got to understand that the ability for all people to feel welcome is absolutely critical.”

"I think we do need more time off, but it's not a government issue. It needs to be a social thing. People need to realize that working all the time and ignoring families is not healthy.”

"If the foreign talent cannot get into the United States or faces considerable delays in doing so, companies are in effect forced to go overseas to get it.”

"L.A. draws highly skilled Asians and San Francisco draws highly skilled gays, but D.C. draws highly skilled everybody -- gays, Latins, Asians, Africans, scientists and so on, ... The trick will be to avoid pricing ourselves out of that creativity.”

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

Noam Chomsky -  is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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famous quotes:
"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume."

"Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever."

 "Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation."

"We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others."

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Herbert Bayer was an Austrian American graphic designer, painter, photographer, sculptor, art director, environmental & interior designer, and architect, who was widely recognized as the last living member of the Bauhaus and was instrumental in the development of the Atlantic Richfield Company's corporate art collection until his death in 1985.
In the spirit of reductive minimalism, Bayer developed a crisp visual style and adopted use of all-lowercase, sans serif typefaces for most Bauhaus publications. Bayer is one of several typographers of the period including Kurt Schwitters and Jan Tschichold who experimented with the creation of a simplified more phonetic-based alphabet. From 1925 to 1930 Bayer designed a geometric sans-serif Proposal for a Universal Typeface that existed only as a design and was never actually cast into real type
In 1928, Bayer left the Bauhaus to become art director of Vogue magazine's Berlin office. In 1936 he designed a brochure for the Deutschland Ausstellung, an exhibition for tourists in Berlin during the 1936 Olympic Games - the brochure celebrated life in the Third Reich, and the authority of Hitler. However, in 1937, works of Bayer's were included in the Nazi propaganda exhibition "Degenerate Art", upon which he left Germany.
In 1959, he designed his "fonetik alfabet", a phonetic alphabet, for English. It was sans-serif and without capital letters. He had special symbols for the endings -ed, -ory, -ing, and -ion, as well as the digraphs "ch", "sh", and "ng". An underline indicated the doubling of a consonant in traditional orthography.


Fonts Designed by Herbert BayerProposal for a Universal Type
Bayer Type
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Animated neon movie posters by Mr Whaite

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Favourite Designer

Timothy Walter Burton is an American film director, film producer, writer and artist. He is famous for dark, quirky-themed movies such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands and Sweeney Todd. He has directed 14 films as of 2010, and has produced 10 as of 2009.

As a young man, Burton would make short films in his backyard using crude stop motion animation techniques or shoot them on 8 mm film without sound. (One of his most famous juvenile films is The Island of Doctor Agor, that he made when he was 13 years old.) He was a very introspective person, and found his pleasure in painting, drawing and watching movies. His future work would be heavily influenced by the works by Edgar Allan Poe he read, and the horror and science fiction films he watched, such as Godzilla, the films made by Hammer Film Productions, the works of Ray Harryhausen and Vincent Price.

Burton graduated from CalArts in 1979. The success of his short film Stalk of the Celery Monster attracted the attention of the Walt Disney Animation Studios, who offered young Burton an animator's apprenticeship at their studio. He worked as an animator, storyboard artist and conceptual artist in films such as The Fox and the Hound, The Black Cauldron and Tron. However, Burton's personal style clashed with Disney's own standards, and he longed to work on solo projects.

From November 22, 2009 to April 26, 2010, Burton had a retrospective at the MoMA in New York with over 700 "drawings, paintings, photographs, storyboards, moving-image works, puppets, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera," including many from the filmmaker's personal collection. The show also includes amateur and student films, music videos, commercials, and digital slide shows, as well as a complete set of features and shorts.

Burton plans to remake his 1984 short film Frankenweenie as a feature length stop motion film, distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The film is set to be released on October 5, 2012. He is also set to direct a film adaptation based on the television series Dark Shadows. Johnny Depp will portray Barnabas Collins as well as co-produce the film, and Seth Grahame-Smith is currently writing the script. However, Dark Shadows will be pushed back due to Depp and Burton's commitments to other projects. During Comic-Con 2009, Burton confirmed that Dark Shadows will be his next film.

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The reason why I enjoy Tim Burton so much is due to his creepy innocence in anything he creates and has been an inspireation to my own artistic works. The first time I ever saw anything of his was when I was 10 years old, having seen The Nightmare Before Christmas with my Dad in threatres. Growing up, I was huge fan of Beetlejuice and the Batman films. Ever since then, I've always liked his style and the works he created having seen almost every film with his name attached. He was also inspired by one of my favourite authors, Stephen King.