2013 - a brand new, fresh term

Wrap it up

This term, our first assignment was to wrap up a car which we had to design based upon our corporate identity. Since i did the jazz bar 'cazyap', i thought using a station wagon might be a good idea. Since live concerts are happening in the club, technical devices, sound systems, musical instruments are probably going to be moved from one place to another, so a big station wagon seemed the best option. We were told that it would be the best if we put the logo on the right side of the car and to put the web address or any contact at the back of the car. So that is exactly what i did. The main issue was the usage of the color. I knew i had to go with red and gray, but where and how? First i tried to make something with lines but then i realized that it had nothing to do with the identity then i just took the last two letters of 'cazyap' from my logo and put it on the right side of the car. I put the web adress at the back of the car. There you go the initial version;

Elif Ayiter told me that i should lighten up the windows (obviously i messed it up) and just take the burgundy lines out. I will fix this tomorrow and then post it here the last version of the car wrap up project.

2013 calendar trial #1

We have a calendar project nowadays for which we have to design only the first three months. It can be a desktop calendar, a wall calendar, anything you like it to be. When we were told that the calendar must be at least A3 size, i decided to go with the wall calendar. My intention was to make something simple and clear because i thought that noone would spend more than 2 minutes to figure out the dates. But at the same time i wanted the calendar to send a reference to cazyap logo. So i played with words 'ocak', 'şubat' and 'mart' and tried to make them look like the logo. But at this point i'm not pretty sure playing with the letters will fit to all months. When it comes to the images i used; i selected three instrument photographs from sxc.hu. They were not great photographs but i tried really hard to think what they could become as Elif Ayiter says. So i played with their colors and changed their appearence a lot. One cannot tell immediately that they are musical instruments after the changes that i made.

So i'm posting the earlier versions of the photographs for you to see the dramatic change.

This one i chose for january.

This one is for february.

This one is for march.

Here is my first calendar trial:

2013 wishlist

After i heard pretty bad comments about the wishlist that i posted earlier, i started on designing new ones. So i got the approval for the one i liked the most. I was thinking about carving the letters on a wood panel, but our teacher told me that would be a pretty hard thing to do, so she suggested me to print the wishlist on an acetate and then stick it on the wood panel. So this is how it looks like;

This is simply a test run that i made to see how it would look like, this is bad photograph but still gets to show you how it looks.

PSDG Creative is an internal group working across the disciplines of video, motion graphics, illustration, sound and digital framework. There are five teams within the whole group; music, sound, visual arts, fabrication and creative. I find this corporate identity very successful. Every little detail represents the five divisions as part of one coherent mark, a pentagon. Also the designer made different colour palettes for each division. This looks great.

DNB is a Norwegian bank. The main idea behind the long line of the letter N is to represent the characteristic of DNB as being a bank that stretches all along the coast from North to South. The company welcomes you as a customer, creates a line, a bond between itself and its customers. The long line really serves its function in a great way, the typeface, the minimalism are the tools to emphasize, again, the line.

These cement figures dangling from umbrellas inside the EBC office centered in Prague are part of an installation titled 'Slight Uncertainty' by artist Michal Trpak. These people hanging from the ceiling look absolutely amazing. They are made in a way that so elegant that they do not strain our eyes, they are simply joyful to look at.

Lovely Damien Hirst.

New year is on our door. Hope 2013 will be better than 2012 in ways of serenity, happiness and joy. Would like to put some presents under the world's largest Christmas tree, Stockholm.

almost

The letterhead, the business card, the envelope are ready. There is still some work left to do on the folder. These days, i am struggling to come up with something heart warming as a christmas gift. I am thinking about making a box which has a tabloid wish list looking like a restaurant menu, a room odor which emphasizes the glamour and comfort, a CD covering christmas songs, a tiny little bottle of champagne with two little champagne glasses. I actually made the box but right now it looks pretty big, i guess i am gonna divide the pieces into two layers to make the box a bit smaller. The main colors will be red and white. I am also planning to use cotton velvet and gold color to translate the glamour of christmas spirit.

The wishlist will be something like this if i get the approval for it, of course;

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Minimalist-Sense/3770558

These are pretty manimalistic and pretty fantastic. The second one actually won a prize from Design International for the Graphic Design of the Day. There is a strong sense based on classical modernism, representing some action or feeling.

http://www.behance.net/gallery/ROBERT-GELLER-Branding/4837795

This personal branding design is again very minimalistic. White and black stripes turn the corporate identity into a refined label. Less is definitely more.

Risking life, Belgian street artist Strook made this impressive drawing titled Metropolis inspired by Lang's 1927 film. The drawing was done entirely with white marker inside the concrete building in Bruges, Belgium. Because of the changing light patterns during the day the piece looks as if was done in black when viewed opposite a light source. Looking beautiful.

This work is the branding for a new photography resource. I think the general concept is pretty catchy and active like the art of photography itself. The arrangement is simple so that you can find whatever you like very easily and look at it clearly.

Luminous exploration into shade. The initiative here is to bring a breathless animal to life, in western civilization, light usually represents life. So the designer decided to use shade as main un-material instead, in order to create a paradoxical approach to life. Apart from the main idea, it does look visually really appealing.

These days in va 444, we are making some trials on glitch art. So i am going through some examples of it quite some time. At first the whole concept looks very complex and simply ugly but these examples ,which i found on behance,are the proof that glitch art can be beautiful. I am amazed to see that playing with pixels, changing the datas and the codec of a file can result this good.

This is simply lovely.