…we give our emotions away in our eye movements, dilated pupils, biting or pressing together our lips, wrinkling our noses, breathing heavily, swallowing, blinking and facial asymmetry. And these are just the visible signs seen by the camera…
some sophisticated new lie-detector technology
the ‘amsterdam music theater’ (HMA) celebrates its 25th anniversary this month and we have been kept busy during the past few months creating a small identity around this event
the ‘HMA’ brand is relatively young in itself so i felt that the sub-identity should stay ‘close to home’, using the existing colour scheme and overall feel, the principal additions are the ’25’ monogram in the logo and the use of metallic silver (instead of the standard black) to emphasise the occasion
the logo has several variations employing the three main colours, red, black and white in rotating combinations amongst the large amount of the material produced were a series of posters, billboards, program brochures, flyers, t-shirts, flags etc etc.
interesting graduation project cinemetrics by KABK (the hague) student ‘frederic brodbeck’
the project is, in his own words: …about measuring and visualizing movie data, in order to reveal the characteristics of films and to create a visual “fingerprint” for them. Information such as the editing structure, color, speech or motion are extracted, analyzed and transformed into graphic representations so that movies can be seen as a whole and easily interpreted or compared side by side…
…is it possible to draw a portrait of contemporary Hungary with only one pencil, held by many? Could we map this country at all with its controversial optimism and pessimism, proud and poetry in one single book? Fifty young visual authors were invited by new media lab Kitchen Budapest and designer Annelys de Vet (NL/B) to put their homeland in perspective. Rather than folkloristic clichés, the authors present disarming personal visions based on involvement. Bound together they shed light on today’s Hungarian spirit; from the best and worst things in life to innocent nursery rhymes and national fraud, from wine spritzer and salty sticks to vegetable gardens and sold-out products. These unconventional stories together express the way cultural identity is continuously in motion, influenced from many sides, and multicultural by definition.
designer ‘annelys de vet’ mailed me recently about her latest book project: ‘a subjective atlas of hungary’ which can be viewed online here
…for the building’s opening in 2007, Michael Bierut and team created a customized program of environmental graphics, including a massive landmark sign on the building’s façade and an interior program of wayfinding and identification signage. This interior signage, largely unseen except by staff, visitors and other insiders is unusual: there are over 800 office signs—each different, and each unmistakably part of the Times…
a really pleasing signage system for the new york times made by pentagram with old archive images…
…early in the design process, the designers and their clients at the newspaper decided to reinforce the unique Times culture through as many details as possible. As a result, every bathroom sign, every back-of-house sign, every public room sign bears a different image culled from the paper’s immense photographic archive. Working with Times archivists, the designers selected historic black and white images to create these hundreds of one-of-a-kind signs…