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The British design agency Uniform has started the project called ‘326490’. 32 | 64 | 90 is an international creative showcase, featuring a curated group of 32 creatives from the 32 competing countries in this year’s World Cup.

Representing their national teams, the creatives will produce original 90 minute artworks that document their nation’s journey through the tournament. I became the Japanese representive and created three posters for this. The timing was bit short for me as I normally spend a lot of time on concept making before design, but I really enjoyed pure creative work. http://326490.com/ [Japan vs Ivory Coast]  [Japan vs Greece]  [Japan vs Colombia]

326490

サッカーワールドカップ開催に際して、イギリスのデザイン会社Uniformが世界各国のクリエイティブをサッカーと同じ対戦表で競わせる 「326490」プロジェクトに日本代表として選出されました。ルールはシンプルで自国のゲームが終了後、サッカーの試合時間と同じ90分以内にそのゲー ムのリスポンスを自分のクリエイティブで表現するというもの。

残念ながらも日本は予選で敗退してしまったため、このプロジェクト用に3作品を作成しまし た。じっくり考えてものを作るほうなので、正直90分はきつかったのですが、ひさしぶりに純粋なクリエイティブを楽しめました。 http://326490.com/

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Moving – Norman Foster on Art

Moving – Norman Foster on Art has been featured in Quotation Magazine website.

http://quotationmagazine.jp/news/post-4238

 

Moving – Norman Foster on Art

Thomas Manss & Companyにて手がけた「Moving – Norman Foster on Art」がQuotation Magazineのウェブサイトのニュースに掲載されました。本作品は450ページを約1ヶ月半で手がけるというかなりタイトなスケジュール。毎日、必死になって作成してました…。

http://quotationmagazine.jp/news/post-4238

ラフ400ページを2人で3日以内に仕上げる予定が、家庭の事情で一人母国へ緊急帰国してしまい、結局自分一人でデザインすることに…。もはや修行の域です。こんだけのボリュームを作成していて気づいたのが、デザインしている最中、無意識にたくさん決断をしていること。この位置、この画像サイズ、文字の位置などなど。最後のほうは意識が朦朧としてきて、デザインというより、ただ要素を配置してるだけになってきました…。それでもなんとか3日にできたので、スケジュールにも少し余裕が生まれ、その後はスムーズに作業できました。

展覧会がフランスで行われるため、この本は英語とフランス語のバイリンガル。フランス語は英語よりももっと細かい文字組指定があり、ほんと大変…。ヘアーラインスペースと呼ばれる、文字通りすごい小さいスペースを括弧のあととかに入れます。普通に人が見て、このスペースがわかるのかな…。と、短期間ながらも文字組みにかなり気合を入れた本です。

今まで作ってきたなかで一番ボリュームのある作品となりました。
現在、同じくらいのボリュームの本を作っているので、今年はいいポートフォリオができそうです。

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A7 and A5 in store

I just found the A7 and A5 packaging in an Apple store.

A7 and A5 in store

ふと近くのアップストアにiPhone5を見にったら、ついにでてましたBowers & WilkinsのA5。
パッケージングのデザインが昨年末からはじまり何度も修正を加えてここまでたどり着きました。 やっぱり店頭でみえると感動する。小型なのに、そのサイズから信じられないとてもナチュラルな音をだすA5。正直買いたい…。

Grid SystemsGrid Systems

Grid Systems

I became 29 years old last month.
My dream, working outside of Japan, finally came true,
and it has been almost a half year since I became a graphic designer.
I thought it would be great to buy something related to  Graphic Design for myself.

Then I purchased ‘Grid Systems in Graphic Design’ by Josef Muller-Blackmann, father of Grid System.
This is an essencial book for graphic designers.
I have read this in the university a couple of times,
but I would like to learn more European design while I’m in London.

Hope I can master type settings in English.

Grid Systems

グリッドについて勉強。

先日、29歳になりました。
夢であった海外での就職がついに叶い、
新人デザイナーとしてスタートをきって早半年。
なにかデザイナーとして役に立つものを買おうと考えました。

そこで自分への誕生日プレゼントに購入したのが、
グリッドデザインの父・Josef Muller-BlackmannのGrid Systems in Graphic Design。
グラフィックデザイナー必携と言われる超有名な本です。
在学中からちょこちょこ読んでいたのですが、
せっかくヨーロッパにいるのだからきっちり吸収していこうと思ったわけです。

これでアルファベットの文字組は綺麗にできるようになりたい。

Cinema Redux

cinema redux almost famous poster finalCinema Redux Photo 3Cinema Redux Photo 2Cinema Redux Photo 1Almost Famous has a soundtrack of over 50 different songs. I have created a visual diagram of the entire movie soundtrack, each colour representing a different song. The white space indicates where no music is played. The key to the poster can be found on the back of the album sleeve. The horizontal width is equal to 60 seconds and the vertical is equal to 120 minutes which is the duration of the film. By producing a record sleeve as a packaging for the the poster i was able to tie it in with the theme of music.

16’28” by Hoon Kim

162061620716208162111621216213162141621516221162221622316224This project proposes a new way to represent spoken words on the page—not in black text, but in patterns of color. The project’s title is the length in minutes and seconds of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. I created a system of representing vocal intonation by matching six colors of the spectrum—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple—to respective volumes and pitch. (Red was high and loud; orange was less high and loud; and so on, until purple was silent.) The resulting bar graphs appear in a book. There are two sets of graphs: one representing Martin Luther King Jr.’s oratory, and one representing my reading of the same text. Each spread illustrates 30 seconds of speech, and on each spread, we see the difference between King’s lively spoken voice, with it’s greater variety of color, and my reading voice, which appears relatively static.

16’ 28” gives us a supplementary way to interpret and understand texts by adding another sensory experience. Just as children learn about music by playing the xylophone, which associates sound with color, they might better learn languages by associating sound with color. This system might also help hearing-impaired people imagine intonation.

http://whynotsmile.com/

Jax de Leon-Illinois: Visualizing Music

Music is a powerful, emotional medium that is much more difficult to quantify than, say, financial data or earthquake patterns. This project is an experiment in taking an audio recording of music that is beautiful and personally meaningful to many listeners, deconstructing it from different vantage points, rearranging it, and building it up again into visual interpretations. This project visualizes lyrics, instrumentation, notes, patterns, and word usage. Hopefully these interpretations will provide another way of experiencing this album, although no amount of analysis can adequately represent the visceral response one gets when presented with a compelling piece of music.

http://www.jaxdeleon.com/

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Jax de Leon

Typography for Information Design

The concept of that “the simpler the form of a letter the simpler its reading” was an obsession of beginning constructivism. It became something like a dogma, and is still followed by “modernistic” typographers.

This notion has proved to be wrong, because in reading we do not letters but words, word as a whole, as a “word picture.” Opthalmology has disclosed that the more and the letters are differentiated from each other, the easier is the reading.

Without going into comparisons and the details, it should be realized that words consisting of only capital letters present the most difficult reading – because of their equal height, equal volume, and, with most, their equal width. When comparing serif letters with sans-serif, the latter provide an uneasy reading. The fashionable preference for sans-serif in text shows neither historical nor practical competence.

Josef Albers, Interaction of Color