Olympic designs

Getting excited for the Olympics are you? Well these designers are through there simple shapes conveying motion, action and most of all a British win let hope!

Fontstaches

This is an ingenious idea, found on an ingenious website Beardrevue.com. hope you like it as much as I do. Best fontstache has got to be the Mexican-esk Mr. Cooper Black... 

Current Project

At the moment I am currently working my final project of university (Graphic Communication) called The Big Idea. I have to create, through any media, a piece of design, which communicates the word PREJUDICE in an new light, visually. Through research I have become very interested in the psychological side of design, which is a key part in communicating a message.  I have learnt this over the 3 years I have been studying Graphic Communication.

What I have become fascinated with is how incredibly fast human brains can form an opinion. Looking into material such as 'Blink' by Malcom Gladwell, which is the study of cognitive thinking and how we judge people within the first seconds of seeing or meeting someone 'thought with out thinking'. Rapid cognition is a key part in Prejudice. I am interested portraying the way that prejudice can be a useful technique to use because looking at why it is bad for society has been done over and over. I want to prove to my audience that prejudice can work in your favour. I will post my final outcome in 2 weeks...

The making of Ephemicropolis from Peter Root on Vimeo.

Peter Root created this metal city using nothing but staples, he calls it 'Ephemicropolis'. I just found this on the designboom blog and thought you might like it.

Stamp it and move on

Wax sealing has been around for decades. It involves heating up the wax and stamping an already engrained emblem or figure on top in order to seal a letter. I have always thought since I saw this the first time that it was an incredible way of communicating a personal message and a final statement. This technique has brilliant connotations of using your own personal symbol to seal the bounding envelope. The wax also leaves a really nice, smooth imperfect surrounding, around the perfectly hand made shape or symbol imprinted into it. It is such an old technique but just using that stamp, thrives passion of a graphical design representation. 

With my graduation creeping up on me this stamp represents another stage in my life that I will hopefully have completed and put my personal mark of achievement on. This is not an end though, this is just the beginning of the next adventure!

Julien Vallee

Julien is an incredibley talented individual creating concepts that play with reality and supernatural. His main skills lie in his precise hand making of paper models and creating motion graphics through these attributes. I have been a fan of his work since the start of Uni after seeing the first piece for MTV One 'featured below' in a D&AD book. He has done loads of amazing creative motion and still graphics since then. Check him out...

DanseDance from Julien Vallée on Vimeo.

This is one of Vallee's newest animations for Danse Dance. Have a look and see just how his mind works.

This is only a few of the creative pieces Julien has created but to see more of his work why don't you visit his website:

http://www.jvallee.com/index_jvallee.html

Thanks a lot for your crazy inventive solutions, much respect. 

Globo Logos from Julien Vallée on Vimeo.