Casino - Title sequence [Saul Bass]

Saul Bass (May 8, 1920 - April 25, 1996) worked in many fields of design. But, He was best know on animated motion graphic title sequence. During his 40-year career he worked for some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers. Besides, He also was a designer in film poster and logo.

Casino - Title sequence by Saul & Elaine Bass


the explosion of car is begging of title sequence of this movie. Saul Bass chose the flame as the main scene to begin the movie and then he transfered it to the lights of casino very smoothly. I really like this point. Moreover, the soundtrack is very suitable for the flying and explosion also the light. About the text, he chose a san-serif font, high and thin. But, that is easy to read.

References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Bass
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bwydIuP31Ls

SoulBath

In this entry, I would like to introduce about soulbath website. This website is built on Flash. It is really weird comparing to other websites you have seen before. You will see the background color is gray, it's not quite monotonous with this color, text is creaked and blurry. However, sounds' effects are very impressive. 1 more things, it is a little bit funny when you visit it. Try ;)

When you are at the main page. You will feel this place is as desolate house. There are 4 main parts which are described in: theorem0.1, digidist 0.1, digidist 0.2, digidist 0.4

Visit this webiste: http://soulbath.com/

Graphic designer

Suk & Koch (Violet Suk & Martin Koch)

They have been known as graphic design in Multimedia. They find a playground in broadcast design, creating numerous Image campaigns and Show Designs for networks like Sci Fi Channel, MTV networks, USA network, Comedy Central, She TV and IndemandHD among many others...full detail

House of the Dead 2 - Promo

A short promo of House of The Dead 2 is about 11 seconds. This is a product for Sci Fi Channel that Suk & Koch was done in year 2006. In the short movie is appearance of a woman in the dark. Suddenly, her face changes to devil face with wings of blood. Although, this is short promo but it makes a strong impression to viewers at the 1st look with the sound of scream.

PAINKILLER JANE - PROMO


This one is also a short promo that Suk & Koch was done for Sci Fi Channel in 3/07. The beginning, a beautiful woman steps out in the stage with thousands of flash's cameras. Actually, nothing can not stop my eyes following her steps. It is really suitable with the phrase "HARD TO RESIST". Then, the phrase .Immediately, Flashes change to bullets and coming to her. The deceleration of her move when bullets coming and the phrase " HARDER TO KILL" with strong sound background. The perfect thing here I think that the change from Flashes' camera to Light of Guns when Bullets come out.

You can find out some works of Suk & Koch at website http://www.sukkoch.com/main.html

Graffiti

Graffiti (strictly, as singular, "graffito," from the Italian — "graffiti" being the plural). Graffiti is been know as the action of drawing or painting letters, human, animals...on walls, trains, bridges... without any permission. So, Graffiti is also called Art Crimes

Graffiti has appeared at least since the days of ancient civilization

Graffiti has changed over time into what are known as "modern graffiti"

Currently, there are seven common styles of graffiti that can be listed: tag, throw-up, piece, wildstyle, blockbuster, get-up and stencils. Firstly, a “tag”, the most basic writing, is a graffiti writer’s personalized signature which is written in either spray paint or marker.

Secondly, “throw-up” (or “fill-in”) is normally painted very quickly with two or three colors, sacrificing aesthetics for speed. An artist can also use only one color to outline it on a surface.

Thirdly, a “piece” is a more elaborate image of the artist’s name, incorporating more stylized “block” or “bubble” letters and using three or more colors.


Next, a more complex style is “wildstyle” consisting of interlocking letters, arrows, and conecting points. As the letters merge into one another in an often undecipherable manner, it is harder to read by non-graffiti artists.

Another form should be mentioned is “blockbuster”. In other words, it is a “fill-in” that intentionally takes up an entire wall, sometimes in order to prevent other “taggers” from painting on the same wall.

Another common form of graffiti is “get-up” using stickers. With 5 to 10 minutes spent on a detailed sticker, the supporters of this form suppose that it is in no way lazy and a form of cheating as the opponents consider. Sticker tags are commonly done on blank postage stickers, or really anything with an adhesive side to it.

The last form, "stencils" are made by drawing an image onto a piece of cardboard or tougher versions of paper, then cut with a razor blade. What is left is then just simply sprayed-over, and if done correctly, a perfect image is left.

Sources:
Information is taken from wikipedia wikipedia
http://people.tribe.net/mojoi/photos/1572d0c8-e581-423e-83f0-7ce411ce6df1
http://goeurope.about.com/od/germany/ss/strasbourg_dom_4.htm
http://www.toursaudiarabia.com/graffiti.html
http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/002437.html
http://www.hatland.com/search_hats2.cfm?searchterm=yankees&prodid=8907
http://www.designbyclouds.com/pics/bookoftag.jpg
http://www.fatcap.org/forum/read_5_12391_12391_1,throw-up+session!.html
http://lostshot.com/weblog/2004/images/kasta_lrg.jpg
http://www.lostatsea.net/LAS/archives/features/travel/chilean_street_art/chilean_street_art-4.JPG
http://www.duncancumming.co.uk/photos.cfm?photo=3789
http://sites.unc.edu/daniel/11fall97/finals11/marc/marc/Images/wild2

Vault49

This one is website layout of Vault49 art. It is made by flash. They design hidden navigations, If viewer wants to activate them, they just drag the mouse over the pic and it will disappear when viewer drags out. They have totally 8 navigations for each section respectively: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Music, Editorial, Photo . In each section is their art's works. When viewer clicks on the button, 1 pop-up window will appear.

This website is so weird comparing to others. It's designed in the horizontal page.


At the end point of this page is Client List and locations of their clients on the world.
Click here to view this website: vault49

Logo

There is a logo I design for DIM3 course. The idea comes from 2 sprigs of flowers, I collect and change it to icon to represent for flowers shop. Then, I choose a Bimini font in my PC. This font I found out website www.dafont.com

Art Nouveau design and Psychedelic design

Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau (c.1880 to 1910) appeared in the first 20th century modern style form. The trend of Art Nouveau design style is curvy lines, sinuous, flowers, leaves, marquetry...

Art Nouveau in Painting

Art Nouveau in Architecture

Art Nouveau in Poster

Psychedelic Art

Psychedelic art (1960's) influenced by the craze for hallucinatory drugs, especially LSD. Typical designs feature abstract swirls of high-key colour. Psychedelic visual arts were in concert posters, album covers, lightshows, murals, comic books, underground newspapers

In general, Psychedelic revived some aspects of Art Nouveau.

Sources:
http://www.nga.gov/feature/nouveau/exhibit_city.shtm#
http://www.itic.org.ge/heritage/artnouveau/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_nouveau
http://www.bbc.co.uk/homes/design/period_artnouveau.shtm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_art
http://www.vinylmagic3.it/images/COLOUR%20HAZE.jpg