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Wednesday, 5 November 2008

Kona Enduro Coilair 2009

This is one of the best freeride bikes produced by Kona on the market. This bike is good for all types of bike riding downhill, uphill, jumps and freeride. This bike has Fox float front and rear suspension, which can be set to recoil quickly or slowly making it a very useful design for all bike users. The frame of this bike is specially built to be as light and strong as possible. The Kona Clump 7005 Aluminum Magic System 6+1” Travel Frame was especially designed to work for all types of riding. Making the design of the frame excellent. The thought hard about a frame that could support jumping imapact but be light enough to go uphill and have enough suspension to mellow out the bumps goin downhill. The Shimano 575 Hydraulic Disc Brakes are also work of genius. They are extremely effective and strong, meaning they will last through impact and falls. Overall this bike is a bikers dream. It has everything you want a good bike to have. This is a great bike design that will be apresiated by many riders.

Tuesday, 4 November 2008

Bibliography for Alan Fletcher poster

Alan Fletcher
This site has information about where Fletcher got his ideas from and what is his style of designing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/arts/design/26fletcher.html

Alan Fletcher
This site has information about the people and things that inspired him or influenced him.
http://www.designmuseum.org/exhibitions/previous-exhibitions/alanfletcher

Alan Fletcher
This site tells about Fletchers school life and how he started and why he got involved with the design business.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2006/sep/25/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

Alan Fletcher
This site tells about Alan Fletcher’s influences on Britain and the style that he used during this time period.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2006/sep/25/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

Alan Fletcher
This site talks about Fletchers greatest achievements before he died at the age of 74. This site shows his best styles used in his designs.
http://www.designobserver.com/archives/entry.html?id=18011

Tuesday, 28 October 2008

Kawasaki Ninja ZX-14

This is Kawasaki's new motorcycle coming out in 2009. It is called the Ninja ZX-14 and will cost you about $12,399. It is quite a good loking motorcycle especially in black, but it truely stands out with its performance. This bike has 1,532cc four cylinder DOHC engine. It has been finely tuned to give a smooth ride for roads. This bike needs to give a smooth ride at its high speeds. The bike has been made narrow on purpose to avoid drag and to maximize the aerodynamic performance. All the lines in the body work have been designed to maximize the bikes performance. It has the next generation aluminium frame making the bike extremely light which increases its speed. This bike is an extreme high performance bike designed for people who can drive it around a track and truely experience what it is capable of doing. The engeneering behind this is genius. The design of the bike is excellent. Its performance has been maximized by all of its features.

Playing With Photoshop

The picture before (default picture).

The picture after using artistic filter tool.
(plastic wrap)

(palette knife)

This tool makes the picture look hand draw on hand painted. This tool works with any image and both with colored and black and white pictures.

Wednesday, 1 October 2008

Creating a Font

• Make “h” first then “o” and then “p”
• Because “h” has the straight edge and a curve
• The “o” has the full curve
• Shapes within and outside letters are most important

Continue writing words which create the rest of the letters
who structure is based on the horizontal slicing of of terminals.
Nothing cut of at an angle, only complete horizontal
designer cant improve helvetica.

Helvetica Notes

• The Helvetica font is used in Brand names and logos.
• Its simple and easy on the eye
• Its neutral
• San serif
• Perfect spacing. Spacing is more important than the actual font.
• Modernist font that represents modernist ideas.
• Overused
• Ubiquitous (its everywhere)
• Gets boring and not cool. Too perfect, too good, not interesting enough.
• Represents large institutes and cooperation’s.
• New things are cool.
• Modern is becoming retro
• Horizontal slicing off of terminals
• Firm and strong font.
• Lots of car brand use Helvetica because it is clean and clear.
• Helvetica cleaned up company brochures and the look of the company.
• Other than being authoritarian.
• Feel accessible after Helvetica font.
• Font gives the company tone and character.
• Real fonts should have rhythm, contrast and comes from handwriting. This guy said that Helvetica has neither.
• Arial is a clone of Helvetica
• Needs a lot of space around it. Designer tried to make all the letters look the same.
• Typeface is a part of branding and branding is the projecting of qualities.
Other than being authoria, beaurocratic, and epressiam, using helvetica they seem, excesable, transparent, and accountable.

Font gives a corportion a tone... fancy font, fancy company, excesable font, makes it excesable company.

Real typeface = needs rythm and contrast... helvetica has neither

Arial is a copy of Helvetia

Helvetica:
needs lots of space around it
tired to make every letter look the same which is very bad.

Typeface is part of branding, branding is projecting quality

Counter culture movement 1940-1960 act of rebellion who were the founders modernists ; rise of the flower power movement, cutting edge (cutting into the skin), this combined brings the counter culture movement

as a result people wrote back by hand to show that this is better than helvetica.

What you write should speak to the writer and he should be able to understand it. On the other hand, putting something crap into the a illegible font, makes it at least look interesting. When you have a great but too short article make it a hard to read font so the people have to read it very often.

Modernism and post modernism was the difference between objective and subjective.

modernism: