Sunday, May 6, 2007

Stamp Art

What is a stamp art? Is it simply a crafting processing of different materials on a plate panel? Yes it is. However, the expression or the idea should be concerned as an important part. A stamp art sometimes creates an impression due to its unique layout-expression.



Commonly, a stamp art is developed on a plate, which could be made from glass, wood, thick paper, plastic, or steel. Then the artists express their idea on it by using different materials such as pieces of paper, color ink, and anything which is suitable for the expression.


Rubber stamp art by Michael Dare:



This is a rubber stamp art, which creates a beautiful painting in colors. The shapes are complicated but together they make a nice balance.


Charm Box:


You can make your own unique box's lid by crafting your favourite materials on to the lid



Christmas Card_00295:



This Christmas card was developed with stamp art। Grid layout also is popular in stamp art। Is this a kind of module grid?


Triangle Collage:






Once again I wonder is this a deconstructed grid layout or module grid layout with triangle shapes? However, the color expression is really impressive!

Thursday, May 3, 2007

Century Gothic - a nice font



Century Gothic is a kind of font, which is based on the geometric style sans serif faces. It was designed in 1991 for Monotype Imagine-a typesetting and typeface design company. It takes stimulation from Sol Hess's Twentieth Century, which was a successful Futura typeface in 1937-1947.
Century Gothic has a larger x-height, and more stroke width. the face is totally full circle counter for its lowercase ‘o’, ‘q’, ‘a’, and ‘g’.
This typeface is useful for headlines and display in small quantities of texts, particularly in advertising. Gothic is the word related to something very natural. Therefore the Century Gothic typeface could be suit for the cases, which express the beautiful feeling, natural feeling, and perfect feeling. However, due to its layout based on the sans serif, it should be use for modern printing.

The following links are more detail about this typeface:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Gothic
http://www.fonts.com/findfonts/detail.htm?pid=205644

The public welfare poster


This is a public welfare poster, which talks about "saving fresh water".
When I made it, I thought about the audiences and the voice of the message.
The target audiences are everyone. Therefore, the voice of the poster would be clear and simple.