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.