Contacting creatives

Scouring through Behance and stumbling across beautiful typography across the world, I found a creative known as Pellisco who was the designer of beautiful typography. 

I felt it would be only right to feature some of this designer's work.

Pellisco is an undergrad student studying Graphic Design in Colombia, I still felt it would be relevant to contact this designer and interview him about his methods.

 The email which I sent to him had to be adjusted from the template email, and I explained how we in Leeds, England were creating a typography blog to showcase fantastic work.

Pellisco wrote thorough replies to the questions that I asked and the answers were ones that had different content other than asking a British or Leeds based designer the same questions

PPP presentation

Here is the final version of my PPP presentation, unfortunately I was ill on the day of presentation so for that reason I was unable to vocally present my information.

My presentation covers a variety of topics each connection, but not crossing on one and other's information. How I got into graphic design is where I started, to give information about my self and why I am interested in Graphic design.

American Psycho business card scene

I have come up with a personal branding idea based around the famous scene from American Psycho:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cISYzA36-ZY

This is a well known scene amongst film viewers and graphic designers, for this reason creating branding based around the ones seen in the film would be something striking and powerful, obviously the idea has been directly taken from the film,but that can be justified in certain circumstances.

Based around the business card found in the movie, I have chosen to replicate that design but using my details as a graphic designer. Using the quote 'Good artists copy, great artists steal' to show the pun which relates to the reason why I have created this design.

"One of our first fun projects. Most who’ve seen the film American Psycho recall this most memorable scene in which the boys sit around a conference room comparing business cards."

"Standard 2″ x 3.5″ business card. Hand-set in Century 10pt and Centaur 8pt typefaces and printed on hand-cut Holyoke paper. “That’s Bone.”

Research into the typefaces and font sizes used allowed me to replicate the design used. 

This is how the design looked after being mocked up on indesign, obviously it is the print finish and higher detail effects which allow the business card to flourish and gain a sense of class. I will attempt to print this design onto a similar stock, but will be unable to emboss the text at this stage, meaning it wont have the exact same feel as the iconic design.

Final pictures of the business card on a thicker, off white stock to replicate the card created in the film American Psycho. Marco photos show the detail and make the point size readable.

First things first manifesto:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=first+things+first+manifesto&oq=first+thi&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0l3.2922j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

https://www.adbusters.org/blogs/why-i-am-renewing-first-things-first-manifesto.html

http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/first-things-first-manifesto-2000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Things_First_1964_manifesto

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Things_First_2000_manifesto

"those with creative talent to pursue more socially meaningful causes, from designing signage for streets and buildings, to educational materials."

Originally created in 1964 by designer Ken Garland, re-created in the millennium by Adbusters, now being proposed to be recreated by Cole Peters and released in March 2014, The First things first manifesto can be summarised as a pledge in which creatives would be part of which would then rest a moral obligation to design for the greater good, on their shoulders. In this day and age, the manifesto will be open to a greater and wider audience but still aims to have the same effect, and in my opinion something such as this is needed more than ever, it could drastically benefit England and Europe in it's current state. 

Alex Tew. Pioneer and future genius?

"Did you know that in 2005 in order to pay for college, a student in England made a 1,000,000 pixel webpage and put up the space for sale at $1/pixel…"

"This website is also know as the “Million Dollar Homepage”. It was created in 2005 by the Wiltshire student Alex Tew in order to raise money for his education. On the website there is only one page – the Homepage and and it has 1 million pixels arranged in 1000 × 1000 pixel grid. The idea of the website is to sell links to other websites which costs $1 USD per pixel. The website gained popularity really quick and in no time it ranked in Alexa around 127th place. The Million Dollar Website made a gross of $1,037,100 in less than five months. You can see the website here"

"From the outset I knew the idea had potential, but it was one of those things that could have gone either way. My thinking was I had nothing to lose (apart from the 50 Euros or so it cost to register the domain and setup the hosting). I knew that the idea was quirky enough to create interest ... The Internet is a very powerful medium".
 Alex Tew, 22 February 2006

I was intrigued in what sense the by sold each pixel of his website's space, so I followed the link to find his website's homepage.

The final product is very impressive and it is amazing how the publicity generated from this venture actually earned a revenue in the fact that the companies knew the reader's of the article could visit this site and then would be target of the advertisement placed there.

I feel the boy has a made a pioneering  attempt at making money in the 21st century and at very little cost on his on part.

This project created by Alex Tew was back in 2009, and after graduating his  from his College, he is now Founder & CEO of Calm.

Followed on twitter by Famous people such as Steven Fry, and Barack Obama, he must have recognition in American Press.

Alex Tew, Founder & CEO of Calm runs a website which claims to be a "2 minute pause in your day" where you are aided to relax and fall into a 'calm' atmosphere.

I feel Alex Tew should grow in Success in America, and in the Viral world. His first role of selling pixels for $1 was very inventive and creative, and if his mind scheme and entrepreneurship continues, I imagine this person to make a lot of money, and some very interesting concepts.