Gallery Opening Visit: CORE

This past Thursday (it was First Thursday Art Walk Day in Downtown Seattle).
I went to visit one of the Galleries in Pioneer Square call CORE for show opening of Scott Mansfield. He is mainly teaching Graphic Design Program student at the Art Institute of Seattle, and I enjoyed the show and I was very much inspired by his sculptures!

You can see his sculpture works from this page.









The show will go on until May 28.

http://coregallery.org/
Location:
CORE
117 Prefontaine Place South
Seattle WA 98104
Business Hours:
Wednesday – Saturday 12:00 – 6:00 P.M.



I hadn't gone to any gallery visit for a while specially on art walk day of First Thursday. I walked around a little bit to see some stuff on my way to the bus stop, but unfortunately weather wasn't so good. I may want to walk around the area another first Thursday in summer. I think there will be more people and more art works to see out there when weather is much nicer.

Search Engines for Visual People

These sites are search assistants with a highly intuitive visual interface.



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http://www.oskope.com/
First, you choose search services from amazon, e-bay, flicker, fotolia, yahoo image, or youtube, and then you can type your search keyword. You can see each site with its preview images. There are several ways to display and you can even change size of image display.



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http://search.spacetime.com
This is another interesting site I just found. You can just type your keyword and it'll give you preview of the pages you are looking for. You may find pages you may interested in from their preview image without reading descriptions of each page. I think this site would be handy when I'm looking for some type of tutorial, cooking recipes, and more!
You can search by Google, Images, Wikipedia, and YouTube.



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http://www.visuwords.com/
This is definitely fun way to search online. This is graphic directionally!
It is quick to look up something you want to know. You have to try it find out:)

50 Free Fonts For Web Designers

I found the link I could download 50 fonts for free, and I thought I
should share with others. I founded this page on Splashnology. It was a little bit of boring work (click, click, click,click....) to download all these typefaces, but I sure feel I got a little bit richer when I have more fonts in my hard drive (Yes, I do know they were free!).
Check the link out. You may find some you want to have in your computer.

These are some of the example of typefaces you can find in the link:

InDesign: Playing with Type2 ~"Subtraction"~

I posted similar project I have done in Adobe InDesign using word "Transition" yesterday. This is with word "Subtraction" version. The visual has to support meaning of the word, and two images below here are what I came up with. I personally like first image a lot. It reminds me a little child plays with paper(origami to me) with scissors. Could it be from my childhood memory in Japan?

Definition from answer.com:
-noun.
1.The act or process of subtracting; deduction.

InDesign: Playing with Type1 ~"Transition"~

These were done in Adobe InDesign using word "transition." How design could support a word is very interesting. I had so much fun doing this project!

"Transition" by dictionary.com:
-noun.

movement, passage, or change from one position, state, stage, subject, concept, etc., to another; change: the transition from adolescence to adulthood.

from adolescence to adulthood.

The first image has "S" as its transition, and I also created color transition of white and black. Doesn't lying "S" look like a good transitional icon?


I did another one with "Transition" using letter sizes and color values. Letter size is getting smaller moving left to right, and letter color is getting lighter up to down.

Periodic Table of Typefaces

I found this great table of typefaces and I thought it is great infographic for anyone, but specially for designer. This one page could tell you common basic typefaces we should know!

These are considered as some of the well designed typefaces. It would be helpful to have one on my wall or somewhere:)
Go to this link for some options to own one for yourself!
http://www.squidspot.com/Periodic_Table_of_Typefaces.html

I think most of people don't really pay attention to typefaces surrounding us, but they are everywhere, I mean they are everywhere you go. There are overwhelming numbers of different typefaces, but these are pretty common and easier to find in you computer, I think.

Let's think more about typefaces:)

Creative Campaign: life is too short for the wrong job

I found this "jobsintown campaign" with slogan of "life is too short for the wrong job." I thought this is well done campaign and wanted to share this here. This campaign was for German employment website call jobsintown.de. I wish I could see some of these posters around me then I won't be so bored waiting at airport, for example.

Images below are the company's four-year print ad campaign, designed by scholz & friends berli.