Reblog Article # 4: Taiwan Pavilion

 This article is about the Taiwan Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale Curated and designed by architect Jimenez Lai. The pavilion is a collection of nine small houses, each embodying one domestic program and based on the theme of "Fundamentals" such as a house designed around the aspect of sleep, and a house designed around the aspect of social eating. Designer Natasha Jen of pentagram created an identity for the exhibition mixing typography and colorful graphics. 

I find the integration of graphics into the title of the identity really fascinating and inspiring, I appreciate how the designer incorporated them together rather than creating a logo that was one part graphic and the other part words you so rarely see that in a logo. Though as much as I can appreciate this mixer and appreciate how good compositionally it looks the words are somewhat hard to read and it bothers me some that the letters are inconsistent. With some letters directly on top of others I feel as though I should be reading certain words vertically as well but though don't spell anything. But despite that I still appreciate how the logo looks and what it is trying to convey.

Pentagram website:
http://www.pentagram.com/work/#/all/all/newest/

Taiwan Pavilion by Pentagram:
http://new.pentagram.com/2014/07/new-work-taiwan-pavilion-at-the-venice-architecture-biennale/

Reblog Article # 3: Hallelujah! It’s a Pentagram Revival

This article is a report from the Design company Pentagram about their company's  "Revival" and to celebrate their commitment to the city of Austin, as well as give away their newest publication The black book or  as they called it "The bible".  The poster was created as an ad for Pentagram's revival party I find it interesting how it seamlessly combines the obviously edited cow head onto a religious painting. They even added Pentagram's black book as "The bible in the poster". Though the poster is set up in the style of a religious painting it doesn't lose it's targeted message of a fun party. It relates to my work because i'm not only interested in illustration in graphics but also because of the concept of combining animals and humans together in a seamless "natural" way and this poster is successful in that.  

Article:
http://new.pentagram.com/2008/04/hallelujah-pentagram-austin-ho/

Site:
http://www.pentagram.com/work/#/all/all/newest/

http://gra4950c-graphicdesignportfolio.blogspot.com

Reblog Article # 2: The Leo by Hyperakt

The Leonardo is a contemporary museum for science and culture located in Salt Lake City, UT created in honor of the renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci, Hyperakt created it's logo as well as it's design, typography, and color pallet using elements of science, technology, and art all things that Leonardo da Vinci was interested in.

I'm very much the kind of designer who brings other elements into my work and is greatly inspired by other art pieces that I see, so I really appreciate how the company was able to add new elements to old and famous Da vinci icons. Such as the contemporary Vitruvian man and woman the designers created for the bathroom symbols.

The museum itself seems to be very innovative and interactive and fun so the color choice of saturated pink and a bold san serif font are very appropriate for the design. I'm also interested in the way they reversed the word "The" to "EHT" in the logo, I can see why they did it because the E in "The" and the L in "Leonardo" would have gotten jumbled together but I still find it fascinating that you can still read the backwards "The" as just that. I think that us attributed to the font and spacing that they used.

 

 

 

Link to the Article:

http://hyperakt.com/items/leo/

 

Museum Site:

http://www.theleonardo.org/about_the_leonardo/what_is_the_leonardo/

 

Link to the Blog:

http://hyperakt.com/

Reblog article #1: Gift maker toys for PNC by Invisible Creature

The article is a report from Invisible Creature describing a project where they were asked to design a series of original toys based on the "12 days of Christmas" song. the toys they created were very unique because they're design allowed for customers to mix and match certain parts to essentially create their own toy or version of a toy and purchase them offline. They also setup an event where people who create a toy are entered into a drawing where they could win a 3d printed gift.

I found this article relevant to my work and design process mainly because of the use of the Makerbot/ 3D printer and how you can customize an object easily through that process. I also really liked the idea that the company didn't just create a toy that people may or may not buy but they also included the ability for customers to customize the toy for themselves making it a bit more personal to them, this way the designers give more options without having to do more work.

 
Link to the Article:
http://blog.invisiblecreature.com/gift-maker-toys-for-pnc/

Home Page:
http://www.invisiblecreature.com/intro/