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Alexis Marcou

dobleclic — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:30:16 +0000

Genial Work of this youngster ilustrador Greek.
An ilustrador is a graphic artist that specialises in the improvement of the communication written by means of visual representations that correspond to the content of the text associated.
The illustrations can be requested for clarificar concepts complicated or objects that are difficult to describe textualmente or also can be required like appeal, as it is the case of the cards of congratulation, in the art of the covers of disks and books, in the interior of printed matter or like advertising.
The ilustradores contemporary win the life creating material chart for his use in books of boys, advertising, newspapers, magazines and the web. The estilografo, the ink and the aerograph, have been replaced in good part by the computers, tool that dominates the industry nowadays, although a lot of ilustradores follow using traditional tools to day of today.

Treats of a relatively modern movement. In his first moments had a lot that see with the painting of caballete, with the architectural decoration and with the drawings realised for the magazines illustrated.
The daily use of the illustration has been basically the one of the advertising, loaning to do announcements of any type of product, to decorate the cover of a book, a comic, of a game of computer, or to do appear the image described in a book of tales.
Of course no only the one of the advertising is the only use of the illustration; in the years 80, age of gold of the illustration, and still in our days, a lot of artists opt for doing his this style to the hour to create his work, as it is the case of the teacher Frank Frazetta, Burne Hogarth, Tim White, Berni Wrightson, H. R. Giger, Olivia, Dave McKean, Liberatore, Milo Manara, Esteban Maroto, Boris Vallejo, Julie Bell, Luis Royo, Oscar Chichoni, Alex Ross, John Romita Mr., Vicente Segrelles, and a long, larguísimo, etcetera. It does not treat but of another current more inside the contemporary period, an artistic movement, perhaps of less envergadura and acceptance that a lot of others, but that definitely already is being taken into account by the History of the Art, when being a visual media created for the masses, as it can be the photography, the comic, the poster or the cinema.
We understand by illustration, in general terms, any work drawn with watercolour, Chinese ink to plumilla, oil or aerograph (and practically any another technical artistic), with alike or equal characteristics to the ones of the poster and the comic. The influence of the poster is clear: the two are allocated to the world of the product and of the consumption. The illustration shows striking to the viewer so that it buy for example a comic or a book simply by the cover. In the illustration and in the poster the forms show of a wonderfully exaggerated way, brushing the fantasy, usually the image appears generously coloreada, with a lot of light, and that contains an iconic message prepared for an instantaneous perception of the message, a message that has to be impactante, that call the attention of the viewer. With a composition ordered harmoniously so that the distinct elements of the drawing carry to a correct and fast reading of the work.
According to Chichoni (ilustrador and cartoonist of comics) ?… In a true gender of painting poses a fact prevalentemente aesthetic, where the composition and the use of the colour are used to to have a preponderancia on the anecdote. In the illustration, instead, exists always a narrative load more evident and direct. Therefore I think that an illustration is a sum of aesthetic quality, good technical and narrative originality?.
In effect, the narrative aesthetics of the illustration is the one who compares and does background brothers to this and the comic. The comic exerts an influence innegable in the illustration. The complete volume of a comic has to resumirse in the cover. All a sequence of viñetas can tell in an alone image illustrated, and to his time, can say that each viñeta is an illustration, as it collects a real time passed in an alone image. It is thus that almost all the ilustradores treat equally the art of the comic and vice versa: almost all the cartoonists of comics create illustrations.
In definite, the illustration treats of an iconic drawing-graphic allocated usually to the massive diffusion in identical mechanical copies between yes on flat and static support.
The illustration, as already it has said , is a visual media created for the masses. The bibliography that the study in this way of communication (the photography, the poster, the comic, the illustration, the television, etc) has generated along the 20th century is immense, even main that the one of some traditional artistic genders, and however, the History of the Art has remained in some extraneous way to this phenomenon, and this in spite of the development of some methodologies that could have manifested more affine, as it has History Of the Social Art.
In the field of the History of the Spanish Art resulted pioneering the essay of the professor J. To. Ramírez on Means of masses and History of the Art, whose prefacio carries the date of 1976, in which by first time loaned attention no only to the study of the mass media but of special way to what involved his apparition and study in the context of the History of Art. Already it said then the professor Ramírez:” it Is absurd the opposition art-half of masses: the comparable to the painting and the sculpture of the Renaissance or the Baroque, is not the art of our galleries, but the images of the comics, of the posters (and therefore of the illustration) of the cinema or the television?.
The illustration is a fantastic field where can develop an art figurativo of very high quality and with a wide spectrum of modalities. Each artist can exert it to his way; from the classical concept of the illustration like visual interpretation, generally of a writing, to the free creation of a universe typical of a terrain maybe nearer to the painting.

Historical photographies re-created in Bequeath

dobleclic — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:16:44 +0000

One of the toys that to marked history is Bequeath, since it carries us to a world of imagination built by pieces with which can give him form to a world of possibilities for boys and big, is the case of Mike Stimpson photographer interested the one who re-creates historical photographies with figures of Bequeath.
Stimpson Programmer of video games of profession began with these fans from 2007. “Lunch atop To skyscraper” It was the first reproduction in where Stimpson says that it had to buy more than 30 minifiguras of Bequeath to ensure that there was sufficient variety as to imitate to the men in the photo of Ebbets.
To continuation present them some of the most representative of this homage to the photography and to Bequeath.

Designers curriculum

dobleclic — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:39:44 +0000

Descárgate esta elegante plantilla creativa de curriculum para diseñadores y creativos; en PSD para Photoshop ( CMYK ).

: Plantilla de Curriculum para diseñadores

: Plantilla de Curriculum para creativos

Author: Rafi
File Resolution: 8.5″x11″ 300DPI
File Format: PSD
Keywords: Resume / CV PSD template
Size: 6.53 MB (zip)

Logos with something hid

dobleclic — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:24:38 +0000

We present you a selecta collection of logos with messages hid, that do a subtle wink to the intelligence and graphic elegance.
It looks for the message and thinks in as do it for your project ;)

Circular logos

dobleclic — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:58:53 +0000

Collection of the best brands with circular logos, try to identify them!

The best graphic design blogs

dobleclic — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:56:35 +0000

This is the top 50 of the blogs of design according to the PageRank of Google:

Design Observer: writings about design & culture

Smashing Magazine – a weblog dedicated to web-developers and designers

Core77 / design magazine + resource /

PR 6 blogs

Authentic Boredom – by graphic designer, Cameron Moll

Coudal Partners: a forum for creativity and experimentation

CR Blog – News and views on visual communications from the writers of Creative Review

Design Notes published by Michael Surtees who tries to see life filtered through design as opposed to placing design on a pedestal

Dexigner – popular design portal featuring the latest design news

Hicksdesign – Journal of a small creative agency based in Witney, Oxfordshire, UK, authored by Jon Hicks

I Love Typography, devoted to fonts, typefaces and all things typographical.

Mark Boulton: Design Thinking. Web Delivery. By a designer based in Cardiff, UK.

Quipsologies – Corralling the most relevant and creative on- and off-line bits that pertain to the design community.

Randa Clay Design – Design, Marketing, Blogging, Branding and all things Creative

Russell Davies – incredibly diverse UK-based blog on topics associated with design

Speak Up > Design Dialog

Subtraction 7.0 – NYTimes.com’s Design Director, Khoi Vinh, blogs about design and other relevant info.

swissmiss – tina roth eisenberg | swiss designer gone nyc

Typographica. A Journal of Typography.

Veer: The Skinny – provides visual elements for use in professional creative work

Veerle’s blog 2.0 – Webdesign – XHTML CSS | Graphic Design

You the Designer – Graphic Design Blog

PR 5 blogs

Logo Design Love: a website dedicated to all things logo.

Ace Jet 170 – Found type, print and stuff

AisleOne – Design, typography and everything else.

Anamorphosis. learn design create

Be A Design Group – a blog for graphic designers, created in March of 2004 by Adrian Hanft and Bennett Holzworth.

Chris Glass, The Last 10 Days. A creative fella’s journal from Ohio.

Creative Curio – Learn, discuss and explore the realm of graphic design.

Designers who Blog – features blogs discussing graphic design, web design, illustration, marketing, photography, branding, writing and advertising

Design Adaptations | Charity Ondriezek

Design is Kinky – a proudly Australian blog on design

Design Sojourn | Strategic Industrial Design Blog

DesignM.ag — Articles and Resources for Web Designers

Design View: Articles, Essays and Opinions by Andy Rutledge

Elite By Design a freelance and web design community website

Fuel Your Creativity – Find your spark

Grain Edit – covers contemporary graphic design / illustration, as well as design from the from the golden era of advertising (1950s–1970s).

Graphic Define Magazine – focuses on the business of running a graphic, interactive, or web design studio.

ideasonideas, a blog that invites dialogue on issues relevant to communication designers and brand strategists

Inspiration Bit – Get inspired and learn from the latest technology, art and design buzz on the Web.

Inspiredology – covers everything that inspires us.

ISO50 – The Visual Work of Scott Hansen

Jasongraphix :: A journal of art, thoughts, and projects by Jason Beaird

Noisy Decent Graphics by Ben Terrett, a Graphic Designer in London

Positive Space :: The Graphic Design Blog

Spoon Graphics – the personal project of Chris Spooner, a UK based Graphic / Web Designer.

Swiss Legacy – Graphic design and typography

The Dieline – packaging design blog

The Serif – Your daily dose of design inspiration

things to look at – plenty of images, and oddly, things to look at

Three rules to design a good logo

admin — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:30:08 +0000

Define of what are done the good logos is a difficult task because it depends of a lot of factors, however there are three rules that although they can violar? It will be under his own risk.

1) Law of the Solidez

Give him a Photoshop to somebody that has not studied design is like giving him a full medicine cabinet of medicines to a boy. The Photoshop and the medicines can do wonders? When they use for what were done and no when us atascamos with them. Logos with gradients, shadows, bevels, glows and the rest of effects that Photoshop allows, will be able to be the logos of the day? And only they will last a day. A logo is an identifier, is not an image, is not a photo? It is a shield of arms. The best logos of the history are done of solid colours and regularly to one or two inks. It is also the only form to ensure that it work in black and white.

2) Law of the Escalabilidad

Taking a leaf of the yellow directory and reduce it to two centimetres of height? Now it treats to read it. It is an impossible and only a necio would dare to do it Why then do it with the logos? A logo has to be clear, clean, aim. The perfection is not the moment in that no longer it can add at all more, but the instant in that no longer it can remove at all more. This is a logo? The essence; and when we arrive to this essential level, can reduce it of size without losing detail any.

3) Law of the Originality

Stereographic Photography

dobleclic — Wed, 18 May 2011 09:47:58 +0000

The estereoscopía, image estereográfica, or image 3D (three-dimensional) is any able technician to collect three-dimensional visual information or to create the illusion of depth in an image. The illusion of the depth in a photography, film, or another two-dimensional image is created presenting a slightly different image for each eye, as it occurs in our usual form to collect the reality. A lot of screens 3D use this method to transmit images. It was invented first by Sir Charles Wheatstone in 1840.

The estereoscopía is used in photogrammetry and also for entretenimiento with the production of estereogramas. The estereoscopía is useful to see images renderizadas of a group of data multi-dimentionales like the produced by experimental data. The three-dimensional photography of the modern industry can use scanners 3D to detect and save the three-dimensional information. The three-dimensional information of depth can be reconstructed split of two images using a computer to do relate the pixels corresponding in the left and right images. Solve the problem of correspondence in the field of the vision by computer aims to create significant information of depth from two images. At present we can enjoy of the estereoscopía in cinema with the new Digital format 3D.

The photography estereoscópica traditional consists in the create an illusion 3-D from a pair of images 2D. The simplest form to create in the brain the perception of depth is providing to the eyes of the viewer two different images, that represent two perspectives of the same object, with a small similar deviation to the perspectives that of natural form receive the eyes in the vision binocular.

If it wants to avoid the visual fatigue and the distortion, each one of the images 2D has to present preferably to the corresponding eye of the viewer in such a way that any object to infinite distance perceived by the viewer has to be perceived by this eye while it is oriented just right to forward, the eyes of the viewer are not crossed neither diverge. When the image does not contain any object of infinite distance, like a horizon or a cloud, the images have to be spaced appropriately more near.

40 Logos with typography

dobleclic — Mon, 16 May 2011 09:19:01 +0000

The tipografías also have personality; or by his forms, dimensions, finishings or by the evocation to some event or work of the popular culture. In the following compilation are 40 works of art realised with tipografía that achieve to transmit through his sources the corporate message of precise and suitable way.

Cinemagraph, the new GIF images

dobleclic — Thu, 05 May 2011 08:50:49 +0000

All know the format GIF. That that began like images in movement to decorate webs and that little by little has remained relegado to show instants of humour without audio of films, series and videos that have purchased some importance in the Network. Now, promoted by the photographer Jamie Beck and his boyfriend, the designer Kevin Burg, has arisen the movement Cinemagraph, defined eat “Something more than a photography but less than a film”.

It treats to create GIFs encouraged of very high quality and touch artistic, where only there are some elements in movement. I leave you some examples:

Inventive and surprising. Still I have not tested to create one but already have a tutorial to do it. In principle it does not seem complicated. What have to do is to matter the video in Photoshop CS5, showing all the frames and use masks to show only those zones in which you want movement.

Source: Pisito en Madrid