Monthly Archive for April, 2009

Letter Design

Published
by
Rascus
on April 30, 2009
in Design
. 4 Comments

Our assign­ment was to create some­thing with a letter from our ini­tials in Illus­tra­tor. There had to be at least 5 dif­fer­ent type­faces used and only one color. I decided on the letter L since it seemed the most flex­i­ble letter.

Over Spring Break I saw a movie on YouTube show­ing a hexa­pod robot mod­eled after an ant (See here: A-Pod). Though I might make a model of that. It turned out to be a bit more dif­fi­cult to make.

Letter Scorpion

It ended up being more of a robot scor­pion thing. I wish I could’ve had more con­trol over the out­lines to give it a better sense of depth.

Now I have to finish my per­sonal flag…

Ambigram

Published
by
Rascus
on April 2, 2009
in Design
. 3 Comments

An ambi­gram, also some­times known as an inver­sion, is a typo­graph­i­cal design that spells out one or more words not only in its form as pre­sented, but also from another view point, direc­tion or ori­en­ta­tion. The words spelled out in the other view point, direc­tion or ori­en­ta­tion may be the same or dif­fer­ent from the orig­i­nal words.

-Wikipedia

One of my first real assign­ments for my Graphic Design class was to create an ambi­gram out of my name. It tok me a while to figure out what I was going to do, but then it hit me: I could do my name in hex code! I looked around for a hex code trans­la­tor and found this site, which offers hex code and a lot more! It took a lot of sketch­ing and help from Mr. Bryan to get the forms just right. I’m pleased with the over­all result.

ambigrams

Noah Leigh (Note: the “N” and “L” are in uppercase)

4E 6F 61 68   4C 65 69 67 68

I’ll have more assign­ments to post later.