http://www.craftyfish.com/blog Design in the real world Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:31:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Became a bit distracted while exploring routes for a new branding project. It must have been the dry corporate nature of the client which led me here. Thought it was quite sweet so decided it was worthy of a post.. Hand lettering is so much more fun! http://www.craftyfish.com/blog/2010/07/21/ooh-just-there-more-more/ More interesting Parisian angles. This time from the drawing board of Architect Christian de Portzamparc. Situated in The Parc de la Villette, La Cité de la Musique-One of Francois Mitterand's Grand Projets- helped give new life to the area that was previously home to the national abattoir and slaughterhouse. With ... http://www.craftyfish.com/blog/2010/07/14/angles/ A short distance from Gare de Marseille Saint-Charles. It was hot damp n dirty. Massive embouteillages right through Marseile, desparately trying to get the car (cheap Quiksilver branded Renault Twingo with no balls) back to the hire Co and not miss the TGV to Paris. This kinda summed up the ... http://www.craftyfish.com/blog/2010/07/09/its-all-in-the-detail/ From the Parc de la Villette a Paris. Today it exists by itself with no need for an explanation. Tomorrow I may add my pennies worth. http://www.craftyfish.com/blog/2010/06/26/form/ The little Croatian village of Bol on the western coast of the island of Brac is a wonderous place. The beach of Zlatni rat and a monastry that snuggles against the aquaramine waters are two outstanding features of this beautiful Croatian island. It was far from the fighting of the ... http://www.craftyfish.com/blog/2010/06/15/hrvatskua-preporoda/ Absolutely stunned by this adshell in Pigalle Metro. It was meant to be delivering some sales pitch for some useful, but ultimately pointless item - probably electronic but is clearly not doing anything of the sort. So much more satisfying than the intended ad i'm sure. "Look Mummy what is ... http://www.craftyfish.com/blog/2010/06/11/electric-kool-aid/ The cards that appeared in the envelope because I know you were wondering. No post production but just shot in macro with spot focus hence the small area of texture visible in the middle while everything else is out of focus. Not unlike tilt-shift which uses depth of field to ... http://www.craftyfish.com/blog/2010/06/06/the-contents/ The typeface will be recognisable to anybody who has ever entered the London Underground system as being Johnston Sans- the precursor to todays Gill Sans and designed by Edward Johnston. When they say 'coloured' they mean hand tinted, and the set comprises various period images of London; A steam ship ... http://www.craftyfish.com/blog/2010/06/03/johnstone-sans/ Here's some wrapping that niftily manages to combine three of my favourite things: Lovely colour palette, repeating geometric shapes and cheese. ................ lots and lots of cheese. http://www.craftyfish.com/blog/2010/05/19/comte/ Really starting to have fun in a 3D world now....and no, that's not the 'Avatar' kind. This is a cropped frame of an animated sequence that i'm working on at the moment. In it we see the the camera fly-by the word 'relax'- translated here in Katakana -as it mutates ... http://www.craftyfish.com/blog/2010/05/05/relax-without-max-2/