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DMCA Stuffs for the Essay

mewsaib — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:46:55 +0000

Dump:

www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA
http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2006/11/03/how-not-to-use-the-dmca/
http://www.meetarpit.com/wordpresscom-takes-plagiarism-issue-very-seriously/
http://www.labnol.org/internet/filing-dmca-complaint-to-google/8185/
http://www.blogherald.com/2007/06/25/the-20-best-free-anti-plagiarism-tools/
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/09/dmca-notice-of-copyright-infringement.html

Art Nouveau Posters

mewsaib — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:43:23 +0000

Just dumping some here for later reference:

http://www.villagehatshop.com/artman2/uploads/1/art-lautrec-jane.jpg
http://oxygenee.com/sitebuilder/images/Absinthe-Robette-52KB-324×438.jpg
http://www.trashmenagerie.com/images/Poster%20Art/mucha_job.gif
http://www.srichinmoycentre.org/Members/barnaby_mcbryde/images2/mucha.jpg
http://i29.tinypic.com/2eolmki.jpg
http://emptyeasel.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/posterbyjuleschelet.jpg
http://www.neworleanspast.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/ArtNouveauPoster.jpg (Crap Q)

Also look up AN types.

Further Art Nouveau Stuff

mewsaib — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:09:45 +0000

Just some more links to peruse when I get back:

http://www.graphic-design.com/DTG/Design/nouveau/nouveau.html
http://www.graphic-design.com/Type/nouveau/index.html
http://gds.parkland.edu/gds/!lectures/history/1890/artnouveau.html (Nice site!)
http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/c19th/artnouveau.htm
http://limeshot.com/2009/free-vectors-series-art-nouveau-card (A how not to.. link)

Also look into some more Art Nouveau artists, I don’t want to get stuck on Lautrec. Research the Japanese influences as well.

Art Nouveau!

mewsaib — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:11:44 +0000

Basic researching of Art Nouveau for the project, read all when you get back;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Nouveau
http://www.nga.gov/feature/nouveau/exhibit_intro.shtm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_de_Toulouse-Lautrec
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithography
http://www.howstuffworks.com/stone-lithography.htm

Magazine Project

mewsaib — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:25:09 +0000

Ok, so we now have to redesign a Magazine article (4 page spread) including all the original text.

I’ll need to look into InDesign a lot more for this project as I have little footing in it. Tomorrow; pop down to the library to look through existing articles, pick a crap one. If that fails go down to Borders and browse the endless amounts there.

Quick links to read later:

http://www.robbmontgomery.com/2008/07/how-a-magazine-spread-is-designed-and-the-handwriting-of-typographers/
http://tinglingpixels.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/design-a-magazine-spread/
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Adobe-InDesign-1839/2008/10/Question-regarding-Indesign-magazine.htm
http://typophile.com/node/47265

Note that the last one looks particularly useful, look more for that.

Also do some research on the legibility of Sans/Serif fonts and which to use in Magazines.

Book Design

mewsaib — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:22:41 +0000

Onto designing the cover of a book (front cover, spine, back cover). The catch is it has to be typography based (well otherwise it would make the fact that this unit is ‘Typography’ redundant). Initial ideas are to redesign (oh yeh, you have to redesign* a book cover) Sabriel, Gone with the Wind or The Hobbit/LOTR. The latter seems to cliche’ and obvious, especially with the ease of using an ‘o’ as the ring. Sabriel had some ideas bouncing around my head, mainly due to the heavy use of symbols in the story, which the main character ‘plucks’ from a metaphorical river. The concept would be a stack of words which eventually filter out to the text ‘Sabriel’.

When the Wind Blows, Robert Pattison, usually has the direct reference as it’s cover (of wind, wings and feathers) however another very common theme within the book is that of stem cell research. The imagery of which is strong, emotional and could be easily represented with type (with cells being of an oval/circular shape).

http://oanastoicamujea1.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/sabriel_cover.jpg
http://www.boggnasker.dk/vbforum/members/kathrine-albums-mine-yndlingsboger-picture145-sabriel-garth-nix.jpg
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n7/n36647.jpg
http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0017-1/%7BD3D66402-96FC-424E-ACB7-EC1097057B09%7DImg100.jpg

Typography and Logo Design

mewsaib — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:51:35 +0000

Looks like I have to create a logo design based around myself.

The logo design should be ina standard font so I’m thinking of Franklin Gothic Demi at this moment in time, albeit just because it’s the one I use most often and care for. Unsure whether to incorporate colour into it, it seems like a useful option but obviously it would be best not to rely on the colour to speak too much, as there will most likely come a time when a logo has to be printed in B&W.

Aaaanyway looking into logo design here’s a few links to read up on at a later date:

http://www.logolounge.com/logotrends/
http://www.logolounge.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=607
http://www.code-interactive.com/thinker/a112.html
http://www.webmonkey.com/tutorial/Web_Typography_Tutorial_-_Lesson_1
http://www.webmonkey.com/tutorial/Web_Typography_Tutorial_-_Lesson_2