Kinetic Typography Stumble

This is a website that I came across on www.stumbleupon.com whilst stumbling typography. Its called kinetic typography which is a animated. Kinetic means one thing lending to another like a domino effect so the movement of one piece of type leads to the movement of another......I love this conept!. The person who created is a student which suprised me the most.

Typography Brief

Ok so the last three weeks we have been concentrating on typography and creating logos through typography.


Our first task was to make as many designs as possible with one letter in one typeface and it had to be done in black marker and withoutr distorting the orignal letterform. My letter was g and my tyepface was Baskervillle. Out of the the mutliple designs we created we had too pick our best tweleve. Here are the results.

Our second task was to distort the letter e.g cut away pieces, stretching, manipulate cetrain areas in shapes.

Creating a g brush and filling the g with g's :)

Using the puppet tool to distorta and manipulate the g into a different shape

A selected pieces of the 'tail' of the g and placing them in a scattered pattern

Using the liquify tool

Distortion withphotocopier of the tweleve design from the first week

Freezing the Stamps :)

 For the easter break i thought id mess around with display options for the stamps i thought it would be nifty to freeze them in ice cubes.

I found this silicon ice mould in the dealz shop in town. Since one of my ideas was a melting penguin I couldnt resist buying it and trying it out :)

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Final Designs

The following images are the first designs I came up with for a final design the theme was how global warming effects a animals and their habitats and the concept was that the animals were melting away. I know this is surreal but I thought it would ad shock value. The images were made using found images and manipulating them on Photoshop. I thought the first batch of stamp designs were decent enough but the message was a tad confusing, My tutor and a few fellow student kinda of got a oil pollution theme from the images which isn't my theme. So I tad to go back to the drawing board.

I thought this was my best image so far but the message is confusing

I thought this had a slight citizen Kane look about it. I ratrized this image by mistake so its blurred but I print this out  before I made this mistake



The next four designs are the final pieces. I was given the advice to make the animals look more like ice sculptures melting so i went with this Idea. I also incorporated a slogan for each.

In conclusion I found this project both interseting yet frustrating. I found the research and photoshopping the images interesting and exciting but i the concept and the stamp idea I wasnt too fond of .I hope the finished design will be ok but I'm not 100% confident about6 the final design. I believe if we were given a defiant theme or clarified 'conservation' and if this wasn't a stamp design project but a poster campaign it would have been more successful.