San-Serif

In typography, a sans-serif typeface is one that does not have the small features called "serifs" at the end of strokes. The term comes from the French word sans, meaning "without".
In print, sans-serif fonts are more typically used for headlines than for body text.[1] The conventional wisdom is that serifs help guide the eye along the lines in large blocks of text. Sans-serifs however have acquired considerable acceptance for body text in Europe.

Print

Print is simple English hand-writing. It is the first form of writing that American children are taught when they are of age to go to school. Print includes Serif and Serif typography. Print as all forms of English writing have capital and lower case letters. Print type goes from a to z, and it includes numbers and symbols.

cursive

Cursive is any style of handwriting that is designed for writing down notes and letters by hand. In the Latin and Cyrillic languages the letters in a word are connected, making a word one single complex stroke. In British English, the phrase "joined-up writing" is far more commonly used, while the term "running writing" or "link script" is sometimes used in Australia. Cursive is considered distinct from the so-called "printing" or "block letter" style of handwriting, in which the letters of a word are unconnected, and from "print-writing", which is a cross between cursive and printing, with some unconnected letters and some connected. In the Hebrew cursive and Roman cursive, the letters are not connected.

Logo type

Today there are many corporations, products, services, agencies and other entities using an ideogram (sign, icon) or an emblem (symbol) or a combination of sign and emblem as a logo. Resultingly, only a few of the thousands of ideograms people see are recognized without a name. It is sensible to use an ideogram as a logo, even with the name, if people will not duly identify it. Currently, the usage of both images (ideograms) and the company name (logotype) to emphasize the name instead of the supporting graphic portion, making it unique by its letters, color, and additional graphic elements.

Neon

The neon sign is an evolution of the earlier Geissler tube (also called a Crookes tube), which is a glass tube for demonstrating the principles of electrical discharge. Neon signs are used for many purposes.
At the 1893 World's Fair, the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, Nikola Tesla's neon lamp signs were displayed. The development of neon signs is credited to Georges Claude and the first public display of a neon sign was of two 38-foot long tubes in December of 1910 at the Paris Expo. The first commercial sign was sold by Jaques Fonseque, Claude’s associate, in 1912 to a Paris barber.

Serif Type

In typography, serifs are non-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols. A font that has serifs is called a serif font (or seriffed font). A font without serifs is called sans-serif, from the French sans, meaning "without". Some typography sources refer to sans serif typefaces as "grotesque" (in German "grotesk") or "Gothic", and serif types as "Roman." These terms are no longer commonly used however, except in specific font names.

Francesco Cangiullo

Francesco Cangiullo was born in Naples in 1884, son of a well known wood sculptor. He initiated classical studies, at his mother's wish but gave them up to dedicate himself to poetry. In addition to collections of verse, he published novels, short stories and works for the theatre, and contributed to magazines such as "Lacerba" and "La Fiera Letteraria and to newspapers: "It Tempo", "It Mattino", "Il Giornale d'Italia". He embraced futurism with enthusiasm and brought to the movement the fruits of his fertile inventiveness: pentagrammed poetry, surprise alphabet, humanized letters, surprise theatre. He withdrew in 1924 and continued more independently his work as a writer and poet. He lives at Livorno and Still continues to contribute literary leading articles to the Roman newspaper "It Tempo".

Alphonse Mucha

Alphonse Mucha was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist. Mucha produced a flurry of paintings, posters, advertisements, and book illustrations, as well as designs for jewellery, carpets, wallpaper, and theatre sets in what came to be known as the Art Nouveau style. Mucha's works frequently featured beautiful healthy young women in flowing vaguely Neoclassical looking robes, often surrounded by lush flowers which sometimes formed haloes behind the women's heads. His art nouveau style was often imitated. However, this was a style that Mucha attempted to distance himself from throughout his life; he insisted always that, rather than adhering to any fashionable stylistic form, his paintings came purely from within. He declared that art existed only to communicate a spiritual message, and nothing more; hence his frustration at the fame he gained through commercial art, when he wanted always to concentrate on more lofty projects that would ennoble art and his birthplace.

Vilmos Huszar

Vilmos Huszar was a Hungarian painter and designer, most famously known for being one of the founder members of the Dutch art movement De Stijl.
He emigrated to The Netherlands in 1905, settling at first in Voorburg, and was influenced by Cubism and Futurism. He met other influential artists such as Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg, both central figures in establishing the De Stijl movement with Huszár in 1917. He also co-founded the De Stijl magazine and designed the cover for the first issue.
In 1918 he designed interior colour schemes for the bedroom of Bruynzeel house in Voorburg. From 1920 to 1921 he collaborated with Piet Zwart on furniture designs. He left the De Stijl group in 1923 and collaborated with Gerrit Rietveld on an exhibition interior for the Greater Berlin Art Exhibition. From 1925, Huszár concentrated on graphic design and painting.

Milton Glaser

Milton Glaser is a graphic designer, best known for the I Love New York logo, his "Bob Dylan" poster, and the "DC bullet" logo used by DC Comics from 1977 to 2005. He also founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker in 1968.
In 1954 Glaser was a founder, and president, of Push Pin Studios formed with several of his Cooper Union classmates. Glaser's work is characterized by directness, simplicity and originality. He uses any medium or style to solve the problem at hand. His style ranges wildly from primitive to avant garde in his countless book jackets, album covers, advertisements and direct mail pieces and magazine illustrations. He started his own studio, Milton Glaser, Inc, in 1974. This led to his involvement with an increasingly wide diversity of projects, ranging from the design of New York Magazine, of which he was a co-founder, to a 600 foot mural for the Federal Office Building in Indianapolis.

Tristan Tzara

Tristan Tzara was a Romanian poet and essayist. He was one of the founders of the Dada movement, known best for his manifestos. He was a collaborator with Marcel Janco. It is speculated that the word "Dada" comes from the Romanian "Yes, yes" and is thus originated from Tzara and Janco's contributions. It is more commonly believed Tzara picked a random word out of a French dictionary and got "Dada", a child's word for a hobby horse

Herbert Bayer

Herbert Bayer was an Austrian graphic designer, painter, photographer, and architect.
Bayer apprenticed under the artist Georg Schmidthhammer in Linz. Leaving the workshop to study at the Darmstadt Artists’ Colony, he became interested in Walter Gropius's Bauhaus manifesto. After Bayer had studied for four years at the Bauhaus under such teachers as Wassily Kandinsky and László Moholy-Nagy, Gropius appointed Bayer director of printing and advertising.
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. Bayer designed the 1925 geometric sans-serif typeface, universal, now issued in digital form as Architype Bayer which bears comparison with the stylistically related typeface Architype Schwitters.

US type

This is U.S. type. It is used in high-way signs among other things. It is a form of typography

scribble

This is childlike type. It is more crude, more informal, and looks more rushed then any other kind of type. It usual looks like a 5 year old just picked up a pen to spell a word he or she just learned.

fatigued type

This is fatigued type. It 's fatigued because it is faded which makes it hard to read. That's whats happen to any kind of writing if it isn't constantly or properly kept up.

Greeting Cards

Greeting cards are used to display a certain emotion and even a since of humor. It contains kind words of affection for a particular occasion or just to say hey for no reason at all

graphic design

This is my second year in graphic design. Needless to say I'm in computer graphics 2. It has been a very intrigueing experience so far. Although it is not what I expected. I am planning to major in animation in college so it reqiures som ability to do graphic design . I chooise this course because I figured it would give an preview of what my major would be like, and it has. I have to admit that its not easy.

art nouveau

is an international style of art, architecture and design that peaked in popularity at the turn of the 20th century (1890―1905) and is characterized by highly-stylized, flowing, curvilinear designs often incorporating floral and other plant-inspired motifs. The design style is recognized during a fifteen year period and in several of western European centers, but the influence of the design language is recognized beyond the time and place of the original Art Nouveau.

motion graphics

The amazing new world of motion graphics, its incredible what you can do with a green screen and a few computers. Motion graphics has evolved over the years and has became a major industry. It Is used in everything from commercials to day-time soap opera's. This is also a form of graphic design.

"The Boggy" ya digg

This is psychedelic graphic design. This came from the era of the 70's, when most of our parents were wearing bell-bottom pants high heel shoes, afro's and listening to parliament funkadelics. Hey I can get hip to the "funk" ya dig

Magazine Covers

This is a magazine cover. Magazine's use the most popular people in Hollywood at that period in time to put on their front covers. Needless to see most times these people must be visually attractive. They use this to attract an audience with the readers, who they want to buy an issue or two of that magazine. This is a form of advertisement as well as a form of graphic design

event poster

This is an event poster. It is posted in any place that people walking by are likely to see it. It Is posted to let people know of an upcoming event and the deatails about the find. Something like a invitation. It is also a form of graphic design

neon type

This kind of type is called neon type. This kind of type is used in building signs to light up and advertise a place of business. As shown in the picture above

graffiti

This kind of type is called graffiti. It is usually used on the walls of city buildings. Most graffiti is done with spray paint. Alot of teenager love to create graffiti maybe as a form of rebellion as well as a form of expression. An outlet from the stress of everday life

wee mee

I took a lot of attributes from myself and put it onto the wee me. Although it does not look exactly like me it has some similarities. For instance the way I dress. The wee me also personifies my personality in its expression more then the way I look.

starting out

I have never written a blog before but I hope to write more blogs in the future. So that I may gain the experience and skill to write a interesting and vivid blog. I feel that write blogs will be an interesting and fulfilling experience.