Conflict Magazine Layout Final Evaluation

My aim for this project was to design interesting and eye catching magazine style layout using graphic and typography. The magazine layout should be based on Conflict taken from the world, the theme I have chose is Joseph Kony army where everyone in the UK, US and Uganda been involved by.

Through my website (blogger) I have shown mine learning and the developement for the final outcome. There is many of interesting artists to look at and websites where the graphics techniques and layouts has been  found. The artists I have looked at is Josh Vanover, Alberto Cerriteno, Ed Fella, Steve Yee, Art Chantry, Craug Ward and tutorial of his work. I haven't shown full of my skills as I been aiming for but I have come up with many of interesting development and I have also learned many of different styles and informations found through this project. There are one specific artist I have gain my inspiration from which is Josh Vanover. The reason I havent used Yee or  eather ArtChantry is because I haven't got enough of time in my time table. As further I have gone I have experiment more with the ideas before choosing my final outcome.

The tinformations I been searching for was research about The Face magazine, Wet magazine, 80s retro idea, comparing three of magazine layouts which were, goo, bad and ugly, what typography is, typography of certain mood or feeling, informations about Joseph Kony and Retro tutorial. This has helped me to develop and come up with specific style of magazine.

What I have learnd through this project is not only the styles and techniques that could be used, I also have found that I should of spend more time to develop my ideas well as my final oucome to end up with perfect artwork which also could be inspired more then just with one specific artists and style.  

Final outcome

Layout for my magazine, typography and pictures.

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/capearcona/ca-normal/
CA Normal Regular font of the main heading using capital letters 'HEAR WHAT IS THE Joseph Kony?'. The writing is simple, as printed in the daily newspapers or using hand machine. The first thing that I have chose is black background, mainly because of the image which is based on black colour to blend it along with the photograph. Photo goes on across the middle of the whole line at the bottom of double page spread layout, displaying the photo of three kids, aged between five and eight, lying on the ground where the camera turns on their faces, looking like the camera would be set on the floor. Three of the children that are the children from Uganda that were abducted by one of the Joseph Kony army, but on this photograph they look happily, visible by their smile. It can be seen that a child in the middle is one of the lider's because the two placed on two sides are in the shadow of his gaze returned to him. On the right side visible is inspired technique by Josh Vanover place where the squares wouldn't exactly obscure the faces of children or either writing. Photo also been transformed in PhotoShop to be two tones darker. Right side shows red badge that has already been used for magazine ideas that I have designed before. It is located on the upper corner of the photograph which slightly overlaps the black space of writing. The circular badge is located on the reverse triangle down which bring down the Kony saying in Kona 2012. As the only background is red so that it caught the greatest attention. On the left side of the lower photograph bears a dialogue conversation between Jacob and Russell who is also leader of the whole company by Joseph Kony was heard. While between the heading and the photo, where the left has been berth for the information to position the grey:

Conversation with Jacop, one of the children from Uganda:

Jacop: we worry that the rebels... they will kill us. My brother tried to escape then they killed him using a panga. They cut his neck.
Jason Russell: Did you see it?
Jacop: I saw… So it is better when you kill us if it is possible. For us, we don’t want to stay.
Jacop: I saw… So it is better when you kill us if it is possible. For us, we don’t want to stay.
Jason Russell: You would rather die then stay on earth?
Jacop: Yes

Jasson Russell: Now, even now?

Jacop: Even now. How are we going to stay in our future? ... 
 Stop the group L.RA. Lord’s Resistance Army. Lieder Joseph Kony. To stop him, ward need to hear what the Joseph Kony is. 99% of the planet don’t know who he is, if they knew, Kony would be stopped long time ago. Joseph Kony has an army, what he's doing is taking a children from they parents and he gives them a gun for shoot and he make then shoot and kill other people. He force them to do bad things. Kony abducted kids just like Jacop. For 26 years has been kidnapping children into his rebel group L.R.A. turning the girls into the sex leaves and the boys into fighters. He makes them mutilate people faces and he forces them to kill they own parents. This is not only few children its been over 30 thousand of them. Jackop was one of them. As the Kony crimes ain't bad enough his enough his not fighting for any cause, but only to maintain his power, he is not supported by anyone, he has repeated used talks re arm and murder again and again. Kony different times proposed peace and then just regained then just regained strength and attacked. This has been going on for years. The crimes basically are crimes against humanity and war crimes committed against the civilian population including murder, sexual slavery, rapes, abductions. A 14year old boy who escaped reports that Joseph Kony now knows of the United States plan to stop the LRA and he is going to change his tactics to avoid capture, now that the great power is after him. Change his tactics to be even harder to catch him. If we take the pressure of if were not successful, he is going to be flowing his numbers.
One of my favourite novels of the outcome came forth best by the very contrast of colours with the same detail is not distract from the informations. But if I had a chance to improve my final outcome I would try to use the colour white as the background I bright same photograph. I also tried to show more specific technique of the artist so that the effect was about 100% better. I also think the letters used could be provide the information may have been much brighter to viewed informations clearly.

3 - 5 Magazine layouts ideas

Design 1 http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/futura/

Stop the group L.RA. Lord’s Resistance Army. Lieder Joseph Kony. To stop him, ward need to hear what the Joseph Kony is. 99% of the planet don’t know who he is, if they knew, Kony would be stopped long time ago. Joseph Kony has an army, what he's doing is taking a children from they parents and he gives them a gun for shoot and he make then shoot and kill other people.
He force them to do bad things. Kony abducted kids just like Jacop. For 26 years has been kidnapping children into his rebel group L.R.A. turning the girls into the sex leaves and the boys into fighters.
He makes them mutilate people faces and he forces them to kill they own parents. This is not only few children its been over 30 thousand of them. Jackop was one of them. As the Kony crimes ain't bad enough his thousand of them. Jackop was one of them. As the Kony crimes ain't bad enough his enough his not fighting for any cause, but only to maintain his power, he is not supported by anyone, he has repeated used talks re arm and murder again.

 Black background with the merging of the child from Uganda which was one of the injured children by Joseph Kony. White and black logo of incisible children company that the child covers the right side of logo covers but I still found it clear to read. Everything appart from the left-hand side is white and black which gives a seriousness, I do not divert from the more important things. Left hand in the shape of a peace founded with a red bracelet which is attached to round metal saying Stop at nothing proverbs of the company. Gray letters used for the informations found about the case. What could I change in this design is the own color of writing, maybe white or red as well as the technique used, by inspiring artists could be used to my designs.

Design 2 http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/la-goupil/paris/

Invisible Children, Inc. is head quartered in San Diego and employs 43 full-time, permanent staff who work alongside hundreds of volunteers to spearhead our awareness and advocacy work internationally.

Invisible Children first began its work in Uganda in 2005. Invisible Children Uganda (ICU) began by working alongside local visionaries, such as Ms. Jolly Okot, who identified the areas of greatest need in northern Uganda at the time. Relying on this local leadership and expertise, Invisible Children Uganda worked to develop programs on the ground.
He force children to do bad things. Kony abducted kids just like Jacop. For 26 years has been kidnapping children into his rebel group L.R.A. turning the girls into the sex leaves and the boys into fighters. He makes them mutilate people faces and he forces them to kill they own parents. This is not only few children its been over 30 thousand of them.

 In another of my ideas I used only two pictures that are based on the same story. From one of the photographs I cut out a plate with an inscription 'Stop at Nothing', hands well as the writing I have end up with finnal effect of drawing photograph created on PhotoShop. On the left highlighted the picture of a three wery young kids which with  wisible is just a body of soldier from the LRA group with a gun in his right hand. Black background used to make detals stand out, the blending drama also shows the appearances in the situation. I like the previous and all of the layouts where I used a black background, the letters themselves could be of a much brighter and brighter.

Design 3 http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/joebob/dear-joe-4/

Invisible Children, Inc. is head quartered in San Diego and employs 43 full-time, permanent staff who work alongside hundreds of volunteers to spearhead our awareness and advocacy work internationally. Invisible Children first began its work in Uganda in 2005. Invisible Children Uganda (ICU) began by working alongside local visionaries, such as Ms. Jolly Okot, who identified the areas of greatest need in northern Uganda at the time. Relying on this local leadership and expertise, Invisible Children Uganda worked to develop programs on the ground. ICU currently employs roughly 100 Ugandan professionals, working alongside four international staff members to implement and manage program activity on the ground. Three out of four of ICU’ s senior management team are Ugandan. Govement is trying to keep up, and other generation is concerned about tomorrow. Game has new rules.

Re use of Invisible Children logo company, but the scale is much smaller than the previous which calls attention to itself and different photo caption. On the right side is the line where found is the line
where found is the photograph with three visible children standing next to each other holding a weapon, each one of them has from five to seven years. The child appearing in the middle is one which  I have used several times in my subsequent and previous projects, appearing on the faces of indifference, but lso fear, no interest. Photo underlined with the stronger reflection of light where i have found that it might be better if I would merged it with the white background not black. And also in this project I could use a lot more than just highlighting techniques or brighten the picture.

 Design 4 http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/charlesborges/louisiana/

Invisible Children first began its work in Uganda in 2005. Invisible Children Uganda (ICU) began by working alongside local visionaries, such as Ms. Jolly Okot, who identified the areas of greatest need in northern Uganda at the time. Relying on this local leadership and expertise, Invisible Children Uganda worked to develop programs on the ground. ICU currently employs roughly 100 Ugandan professionals, working alongside four international staff members to implement and manage program activity on the ground. Three out of four of ICU’ s senior management team are Ugandan. Current international staff members fill roles that revolve around communicating with ICU’ s San Diego office and international supporters. Govement is trying to keep up, and other generation is concerned about tomorrow. Game has new rules. Complicated world. In Uganda 2003 children are running through their life. People forget and you’ve got to remind them, it takes numbers to remind them and if interest wanes, then it’ll just, it’ll go away and I’d end up standing out there alone trying to do something to support completing the mission. It’s got to be 2012 stop the group L.RA. Lord’s Resistance Army. Lieder Joseph Kony. To stop him, ward need to hear what the Joseph Kony is. 99% of the planet don’t know who he is, if they knew, Kony would be stopped long time ago. Joseph Kony has an army, what he's doing is taking a children from they parents and he gives them a gun for shoot and he make then shoot and kill other people. He force them to do bad things. Kony abducted kids just like Jacop. For 26 years has been kidnapping children into his rebel group L.R.A.

turning the girls into the sex leaves and the boys into fighters.

White background with payloads the same kid as in previous designs, its inscription tshirt which now is more appearing by the size of a picture 'do more then just watch' it letting you know that everyone can took a  part in the company Invisible Children, which means that everyone in the world can participate. At the bottom of his right hand appears as if hooked around, red which brings the attention and gives you information of Kony in 2012. While on the left side we can see the portrait of Joseph Kony face bears fear and anxiety, it seems if he was looking into a child and whole of the information given about him. Only what could I add to this design is to combine two of the design ideas of Josh Vanover.

Design 5 http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/typeart/writing-machine/

Conversation with Jacop, one of the children from Uganda: Jacop: we worry that the rebels... they will kill us. My brother tried to escape then they killed him using a panga. They cut his neck. Jason Russell: Did you see it? Jacop: I saw… So it is better when you kill us if it is possible. For us, we don’t want to stay. Jason Russell: You would rather die then stay on earth? Jacop: Yes Jasson Russell: Now, even now? Jacop: Even now. How are we going to stay in our future?... Stop the group L.RA. Lord’s Resistance Army. Lieder Joseph Kony. To stop him, ward need to hear what the Joseph Kony is. 99% of the planet don’t know who he is, if they knew, Kony would be stopped long time ago. Joseph Kony has an army, what he's doing is taking a children from they parents and he gives them a gun for shoot and he make then shoot and kill other people. He force them to do bad things. Kony abducted kids just like

Jacop. For 26 years has been kidnapping children into his rebel group L.R.A. turning the girls into the sex leaves and the boys into fighters. He makes them mutilate people faces and he forces them to kill they own parents. This is not only few children its been over 30 thousand of them. Jackop was one of them. As the Kony crimes ain't bad enough his enough his not fighting for any cause, but only to maintain his power, he is not supported by anyone, he has repeated used talks re arm and murder again and again.

Kony different times proposed peace and then just regained then just regained strength and attacked. This has been going on for years. The crimes basically are crimes against humanity and war crimes committed against the civilian population including murder, sexual slavery, rapes, abductions.  A 14year old boy who escaped reports that Joseph Kony now knows of the United States plan to stop the LRA and he is going to change his tactics to avoid capture, now that the great power is after him. Change his tactics to be even harder to catch him.

Black spaces disconnected from each other where at each different informations and images are used. On the right side bearing a red background with black outlines of a girl who is holding her finger over the mouth, what means the silence that is turned to the child. Second, the middle line in the white colour I used only black visible details. While on the right and last of appearing black and white drawing of the child turned  to a girl holding weapon on left with a sad face Express. The only design for which I do not think I could of make any changes for.



Font for magazine layout

Californya: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/typo5/californya/


Mr Canfields: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/sudtipos/mr-canfields/
DearJoe 4: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/joebob/dear-joe-4/

Zapped: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/coolfonts/zapped/

Louisiana: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/charlesborges/louisiana/
P22 Cezanne Regular: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/p22/cezanne/

War Game: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/suomi/war/
Miss Stanfort: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/sudtipos/miss-stanfort/

Darmhagh Underwood: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/everson/darmhagh/

Capistrano BF: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/bomparte/capistrano-bf/

Retro Tutorial

Tim Green

Hailing from Manchester in the UK, Tim Green is a freelance designer and illustrator, and an obsessive
collector of music and ephemera. He is now based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

 

      You will learn how to surreal montages that have that authentic washed out vintage look. If you choose your own shots, it’s not important to ensure they have a vintage appearance. In fact, it’s probably better if they don’t, as we want a consistent retro look that is best applied in Photoshop. What matters more is to ensure that the photos do not contain clothes, hairstyles, architecture or other elements that are obviously recent.  
     
      Step 1
       Create a new A4 portrait Photoshop document in RGB mode. Surfer as an important element in the piece, place asuitable photo at the top.

       Step 2

       Next, place a beach scene in the centre section of the document. Select the Eraser tool E and, using the settings shown and create a smooth transition between the two images.

       Step 3

       The next image added which had a clearly defined foreground to add perspective and depth to the piece which meant to blend it in. Simple used the Lasso tool L to select the pier, the person lying on it and the handrails, and pasted the selection into the bottom third of the document.

       Step 4

       Add a VW Camper van and the sandy beach it was parked on bit.ly/qC30cB. This was meant to be part of the foreground, repeated the procedure of Step 2 to blend it in and soften the edges. Change the van layer’s blending mode to Screen which made the contents vanish because the background layer is white by default. It can be can fix by selecting the background layer and inverted the colour to black Cmd/Ctrl + I.

       Step 5

       Once the composition is complete, it’s time to work on the colours. First, go to the Adjustments panel and add a Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer at the top of the layer stack so that it affects all the other layers. Set the Brightness to +10 and Contrast to +20. This gives some bolder tones to work with.

       Step 6

       Here’s the important bit for that faded vintage feel. Add a Curves adjustments layer at the top of the layer stack. Select Red from the channels drop-down menu or hit Alt + 3 and adjust the red curve as shown essentially to increase the contrast in that channel.

       Step 7

       Hit Alt + 4 and tweak the green curve as shown, upping the contrast though not as much this time.

       Step 8

       Finally, hit Alt + 5 and adjust the Blue curve as shown, reducing the contrast a little. Vintage-style effect, although obviously it’s too garish as is.

       Step 9

       To rectify this, add a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer at the top of the layer stack, and check the Colorize box. Use the hue and saturation settings shown to achieve a sepia tone and change the layer’s opacity to 40%. This gives a more muted look.

       Step 10

       To add to the vintage feel, scanned the back of a cloth-bound book to use as a textured overlay. You can download a texture from bit.ly/bKXsOa. Place the texture, ensuring it covers the whole canvas, then set the texture layer’s blending mode to Screen and the opacity low enough that the effect is subtle.

       Step 11

       At this point add more details, starting with another beachside crowd bit.ly/f1BeAI. Trie different layer blending modes to see what helped it fit best. Soft Light and moved the layer behind the pier/person to keep that edge clean.

       Step 12

       Add a sunset photo bit.ly/oSXCJ8, flipped horizontally to give the top of the image more interest. Some blending at the bottom of the sunset image was necessary as described in Step 2. Then set the layer’s blending mode to Overlay.

       Step 13

       The top area was looking a bit too washed out now, especially the surfer. To strengthen the colours, portion of sky from the VW Camper van image and placed it at the top, with an Overlay blending mode and with the opacity at 60%.

       Step 14

       Add some non-photographic elements by drawing circles, taking their colour from the main image with the Eyedropper tool. Merged all the layers containing the circles Cmd/Ctrl + E.

       Step 15

       To finish, duplicated the merged layer and experimented with its blending mode and also with layer positions, trying to find the most pleasing way to integrate the graphic elements into the final composition.

Craig Ward Tutorial

Step 1 – Creating the Background

The background of wallpaper is going to help set the mood. Using a dark background will make the typography stand out of the image. Create a new document with the dimensions you desire. 1280x1024px. Set ther foreground colour to a dark gray #111111 and the background color to black #000000. Then grab the Radial Gradient Tool and create a light to dark gradient near the center of your document.

Step 2 – Setting Our Text Boundary

Since the text to be in the shape of your choice, the easiest way to achieve the shape is going to create a large 9 and then use it to place other text. To accomplish this, grab Type Tool. Then place a 750px 9 using the font Century Gothic set to bold so that it is located in front of the center of gradient. Set the color to #6dcff6 since the font will look blue later. Then lower the opacity of the layer to around 20%, since it is only being used as a guide.

Step 3 – Placing the Type

Before jumping into the vast pool of words to fill the 9, think about what the ahead of time should be. Since the wallpaper is related to Tutorial9, fill in with words that define the site, such as Photoshop and Design. Think how different you want the type to appear. Limit ourselves to one font? Use only the font Century Gothic, because it has a strong yet clean look, and will allow easily to fit the font into the 9. Feel free to use multiple fonts in own work. For this, ifferent font sizes and styles can be used. Increase the size of a font and make it bold so that it stands out, or make it smaller and use a crisp or smooth style to make it more subtle.

Step 4 – Coloring the Text

Afrer having the vast stream of words filling our 9, you need to make this image look amazing. Lets start by lowering the opacity of 9 to around 2%. This way it will help give some border around our text, but not too noticeable.

Place all of the text layers into a Group Layer > New > Group. Duplicate the group by right clicking it and selecting Duplicate Group. Click OK when the dialog box appears. With the new group selected, right click it and select Merge Group. This will take all of the layers in group and place them onto a single layer. Hide the group that still has all of the text layers in it since having this single layer with all of the text. Select merged layer palette and add a Gradient Overlay Layer > Layer Style > Gradient Overlay.

Step 5 – Adding a Title

Let’s add a title to the wallpaper, Centruy Gothic / 36px / Italic and use the same gradient overlay as before, except from left to right instead.

Step 6 - Adding Texture

Now let’s add a texture over image. Place the texture on a new layer on top of your document. De-saturate the image Ctrl+Shift+U and set the layer to Overlay.

Step 7 - Re - Colorization

In the next steps add some more random and vibrant color to the image. Create a new layer and set foreground to #6dcff6 and background to #000000. Then go to Filter > Render > Clouds. After the layer is filled with a mixture of blue and black “clouds”, set the layer to Overlay and lower the Opacity to 25%.

Create another new layer and change your background color to white. Once again go to Filter > Render > Clouds to fill your layer with blue and white “clouds”. Then set layer to Overlay and lower the Opacity to around 70%.

Simple enough?

As you can see, the hardest part of this tutorial was filling the document was text. Adding effects was actually quite simple. After learning all of the tools in Photoshop you will find yourself creating complex works with minimal effort. Feel free to experiment and create your own unique works.

To get the effect above, create a new layer and went to Image > Apply Image. Then I used a Filter > Blur > Motion Blur and set the layer to Lighten with 35% Opacity. After that, create a Gradient Map (Layer > New Adjust Layer > Gradient Map) that went from #ec008c to #e77418. Finally set the gradient map layer to Vivid Light.

How to create a wet ink typography:

Follow this Photoshop tutorial to create an awesome distorted type design. Using a range of Photoshop brushes  you can create the appearance of printed type that has come into contact with drops of water, breaking up the text with oversaturated drips, runs and splats.

I was recently out at the clothes store and came across a cool t-shirt by Diesel. The design featured some nice typography that had been treated to some image manipulation to give an awesome effect of wet ink, as if the design has come into contact with drops of water that distorted the print.

I remember originally seeing a similar design by Craig Ward, with his amazing ‘Ink and water don’t mix’ design. I’m not sure whether Craig was also behind the t-shirt art, but I fancied giving the effect a go myself, so I booted up Photoshop and started experimenting. Follow this walkthrough to see the simple steps of creating a similar design, using ready-made brushes to distort some typography of our own.

Start work in Photoshop by creating a new canvas. I’ve chosen to create a landscape poster. Set out a phrase using a classy and sophisticated font, such as Bodoni.

Split the words into their own layers and move them into position to form a balanced layout, align elements of the words with the letters above and below to give structure.

We could get our hands dirty and splash some ink onto some paper and scan in the results, but instead we can take the easy route and use ready-made resources from generous designers and artists. Scour the web for collections of ink splatter brushes for Photoshop. Here’s the selection I personally picked out

Download and arrange the ABR files into a file. In Photoshop click the tiny arrow in the Brushes palette and select Preset Manager then load all the ink brushes.

Pick out interesting ink shapes from the various brushes and paint odd splats and runs over the type on a new layer. Adjust the size of the brush by using the square bracket keys.

Tailor the shape of the ink splatter towards a similar area of a letter, so for instance if it’s a long ink mark, paint this over a suitably long, straight letter.

Give some letters some major distortion by adding plenty of ink marks, but keep the words legible when viewed at 100%.

Some brushes in the set are created with paint brushes. Since this design is meant to look like it’s naturally distorted by water drops, just pick out the drops, splats and subtle drips.

You can reuse brushes while avoiding any repeating shapes by rotating the brush in the brushes palette. Grab the circular crosshair to adjust the angle.

When the design is nearing completion, download some spraypaint brushes to make use of tiny drips to add some little touches to the design.

Download a grungy paper texture to add some visual interest to the background. Desaturate the image and drop the opacity right down to 15% to leave subtle background tones.

Take a look over the design at 100% and make any final tweaks. Adjust the opacity of any layers that are taking too much prominence, and use a small soft round brush to blend in specific areas of ink and text.

Artist - Craig Ward

 

Craig Ward from the steppes of rural Lincolnshire in eastern England, now lives in New York. After graduating in 2003, Ward worked as a designer / Art Director at several major advertising agencies. Ward is fascinated by the concept of word as image and continually explores new techniques and methods to provide more meaning in headlines and text. Passionate about pushing the type of its capabilities, Craig Ward straddles the line between illustration and typography in their work. The last of his projects was crashing glass, playing with perspective, and even the collection of hair from the floor, all in the name of typography. '' The word client is often confused with readability. Legibility and readability are two different things, and I think it is all too easy to be legible. It should make people want to read something opposed to just laying it out there. "
"The software allows you to make these clear, colorful and highly detailed bitmap fonts for use in Photoshop," he explains. "I wanted to confront the organic elements that do not have any control over these really purely designed fonts and see what happens."
"Oprogramowanie pozwala, aby te przejrzyste, kolorowe i bardzo szczegółowe kroje bitmap do wykorzystania w Photoshopie," wyjaśnia. "Chciałem zderzyć organiczne elementy, które nie mają żadnej kontroli nad tymi naprawdę czysto zaprojektowanych czcionek i zobacz co się stanie."
"I could do whatever I liked, it's the best and worst kind of brief you can have" - he was having his hair cut when inspiration struck. "I was looking at the floor and a couple of clumps had fashioned themselves into the vague shape of a letter. I thought about brushing it into an existing typeface, so I went and asked for hair from the floor. I think they thought I was some kind of weirdo. Then I rubber-gloved it, bagged it up and brought it home."
One clump fell into a perfect circle, inspiring him to adapt his usual process of starting an alphabet with the letters 'A', 'B' and 'C', to building it up from the letter 'O'. "It was completely accidental," he reveals. "Some shapes fell into letters very naturally - the 'K', 'G' and 'R' especially." Not all were formed so easily, however, and he admits to having to come back to some later.

Intrudoction

Simple technique which looks so complicated and takes only about 10-15mins to get amazing results. It shows how you can get the job done very quickly in Photoshop.
Step 1
Create a new document with dimensions; 1200x800px then create a new layer and select the gradient tool, click the gradient preview in the main toolbar and choose the gradient that goes from black to white. In the main toolbar change the style to radial and drag from the top right corner to the bottom left to get something similar to the image below. Now just change the opacity of this layer to 15%.

Step 2
Select the text tool, click once in the middle of the document, change the paragraph alignment to center and choose a bold sans-serif font Helvetica or Arial Black. Change the size to 150pt and type your message. Go Window>Character to open the character adjustments, highlight text then adjust the leading and tracking to get text spaced appropriately and change the tracking to 100. The image should now resemble the image shown below, note that it’s important that there is enough space between the letters to add the plants.

Step 3
First, in the layers panel, change the fill opacity to 0% then right click on the text layer and go to blending options and add a drop shadow using the settings shown below, you can lso see the result after applying it.

Step 4
The next few steps are the most important so make sure you follow them correctly as you’ll be repeating them a few times. First create a new layer then select the brush tool and select one from the floral pack you downloaded and click once to place it; try and get it looking like it stemming out of the text like in the image below.

Step 5
Go to the text layer and change the fill opacity to 10%, this is so we can see the text while we go through the next few steps; it makes it easier for this part but we’ll change it back later. Go back and select the floral layer.

Step 6
Ctrl+click on the text layer, note that the floral layer should still be selected.

Step 7
Select the polygonal lasso tool and in the main toolbar change the mode to intersect and make sure feather is set at 0px and anti-alias is checked. Now what intersect will do is to select only the parts contained within both of our selections, we’ve already made one selection so this means that no matter what we are not going to have a selection that extends outwith the text. We want it to look like the flowers weave in and out the letters so some parts have to be hidden behind the letters. Here we want the flower to go behind the bottom of the ‘D’ then through the hole in the middle so to do this you would draw a selection with the polygonal lasso tool and that will make a selection of everything included within both the text and our selection, so only the parts where they overlap.

Step 8
Now to hide this part just hit Delete then Ctrl+D to deselect.
Step 9
Okay now repeat steps 6, 7 and 8 to hide some more of the flower, flower is hiden behind part of the ‘N’. The same technique need to be used from step 4 to step 9 with some more flow brushes.

Step 10
I now added even more flowers and put in some of the smaller ones to balance out the image so none of them were looking too bare, again use the same techniques to hide parts of the flowers.

Step 11
The last step to finish off this image is to refine some of the details as you’ll notice that some of your flowers don’t look like they are stemming from the letters or some are a bit too sharp. Select the brush tool then go back to the basic brushes and choose a 2px hard round brush then create a new layer then paint in some extra details freehand. I’ve shown a before and after example and you’ll notice that I’ve rounded off some of the corners also.

Conclusion

There is a lot further you could go with this image like adding thorns to the text or even putting in some tree brushes.

 

 

Artist - ArtChantry

 Arthur S.W. Chantry II born in year 1954 April 9 in Seattle now is a graphic designer, often associated with the posters and album covers he did for bands from the Pacific Northwest, such as Nirvana, Hole and The Sonics. He is also recognizable for his work in logo design. Chantry designed the cover for Some People Can't Surf, which was written by Julie Lasky. His work has been exhibited at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum, the Smithsonian and the Louvre.
His artpieces usually represent people's faces, their portraits are most often gave an impression of old made​​. Obscured lines that overlap in their faces, as for instance the eyes, mouth or covering the whole. The lines he placed on a words, sometimes sentences defined which are related to the photographic topic. The ypography is used more than a simple printed letter in which has always been chosen for the different size and colour of the line backgound. Pictures were black and white, has always been to obtain an effect of old age as well as by the same types of people as they were as the main object where looking like an old stylized fashion. This technique can be used for my development and final piece for straightness and use the same shape but I may see if by the further messages view.

Artist - Steve Yee

Steve Yee wlasny punkt odniesienia jest myślnik w chińsko-amerykańskich. His father came to the United States as a paper son, not accepted but excluded in the land that he chose to live. 'To the world around me I became neither Chinese nor American but jook sing, a term I was called growing up in California. This phrase translates as someone who is like a hollow piece of bamboo, an object that looks Chinese but is not and only empty inside'. Yee work takes a form in the ritual and meditation of his background, to understand this hollow piece of emptiness in the same qualities and to see this hyphen in Chinese-American nor experience but to see the hyphen as a bridge between time, culture, and identity.

Begin his work by overlapping Chinese characters traced from magazines and newspapers from Beijing, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and digital Chinese typefaces online by not either knowing what these characters mean but by adding and reconstruction to these characters, he created a pattern that has been used as a template to shape a wood substrate, artifacts. Neither paintings nor sculpture but relics of story. Used the combination of materials such as rice, tea, and ashes or blood, clay, and cut queues or spent firecrackers, crushed bones, and gunpowder that serve as visual metaphors of ancestor’s journey coming to America. The process of mixing materials as an alchemy of immortal elixirs and performing altar offerings are the basis of his work. Whether in a world of globalization or multiculturalism, people struggle to find a connection between where they have come and where they are heading. 'But no matter who or where you are, the people of your indigenous roots have sought this connection through the burning of altar offerings.'

It is visible from each of its move is properly justified, and as you can see it has a strong history of his actions. Each of his artpieces links something to itsmself, it is something else from the artists i have been looked at but I don't think, that there is something that would have taken my eye out of the field of researches.

Artist - Ed Fella

He practiced professionally as a commercial artist in Detroit 30 years before receiving an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1987. His new love of teaching inspired him to become a student at the Academy. Currently lives in Los Angeles, taught at the California Institute of the Arts where he still teaches today and published his own unique work in many design publications and anthologies. His work is in the National Design Museum and MOMA in New York. His spare time is devoted to self expression and experimentation with typography. He started his drawing and typography work in sketchbooks which are viewed on his website. He has drawn in sketchbooks for over thirty-seven years. Fellas do everything by hand, a true artist in every sense. He built his career over 30 years in the profession of design are still using pencils, pens, pencils, knives, etc., by refusing to use the computer. Ed Fella said, ".. there comes a time when you need to pack them and retire .. stop, do not compete with the current generation .. let all the money, all the work, all the glory of the Thirty years is not enough. Do not want to be burned and may have another career. "

Colors are used most often in a specific word, usually the colors were painted using the color pencil as you can also notice by the way of letters painted. Another technique which reminds me of fantasies, but combined with the elegance of the black colour. In just one drawing, you can even find a four produced fonts, different from each other.

Artist - Alberto Cerriteno

Alberto Cerriteño is a Mexican illustrator who has lived in America for nearly three years now. Artist inspired by urban vinyl toys, alternative cartoons, and the pop surrealism movement, Cerriteño has developed his own personal technique and style, having always present a delicate hints of traditional Mexican artistic influences in his management of rich textures and decorative patterns. Alberto Cerriteño developed his own technique and personal, recognizable style. It represents the delicate traces of traditional Mexican artistic influences and decorative patterns. Striking contrast with the combination of desaturated colours and ink, sometimes featuring a vintage coffee finish. His illustrations have been recognized by progressive art institutions such as Juxtapoz, Create, Drawn!, The Little Chimp Society, Computer Art, Communication Arts and IDN among others.

On each of his photos can be always seen his own, specific style using either pet or set up man. Approximately are also most often repeated pattens, simple symbols such as a ball, stars, trees, and others. Fanrasy colours are chosen like in real life would never existed from the very beast selected. Also included is the place on which the animal is set on such as a mountain or the same floor. The final outcome is always looking very childish but more reminding of abstract and energetically. It also grab attention of people, the style is very interesting but I doubt that also, it will be difficult to use it in my final outcome by the way how I all ready thought to use it in my layout, classic and elegant.

Artist - Josh Vanover

Josh Vanover is a expressive photomotaz artist which is focusing on the use of repetition, human photography including own portraits at times.

The first image expresses a profile man image which is fragmented into couple pieces and put in order, all following into two fragments that represents two different techniques in a expression of one emotion, sadness. This can be discovered by the element that's overtaking the image, fragment of sad mouth area which is also explored within a fragment contributing under skin area, bones only. Second image gives an impression of the graphics ripping apart the human profile image using geometric shapes only. Within a bigger fragment the face expression is repeated where it gives a bigger impact on the outcome interpretation. The third image gives an impression of ripping the face apart or in my understanding a new beginning by the way it looks like taking off one skin layer, getting rid of the past. The last image uses geometrical repetition again to create the overall mood impression stronger. I am planning to take few of this artists elements forward for my final outcome, in among the others, the separation used throughout the use of geometry. I like the way how small fragments putted in his work make a massive impact within the final understanding of the emotions represented.

Styles of typography in design

Image replacement by text is the technique where text, letters or even full understandable lines were used which arrange the shape and produce own shades of any selected image so that the lines were not visible, only words. This technique can be used in many ways for example like you can see on a picture by the left corner, filling in its entire inside as aid slow or the means that may be empty and only the outside filled with words. Basics lines can also be replaces as inside can only be flowing away with combining few letters with the outside. As can be seen with this technique it is very time consuming, sometimes it may contain from one week to several months time, depending on the size and the choice of a thing but it is worth the ending result. I thought about using this type of technique for my final piece but I'm afraid that I will not have enough time.
Combination text with photography and illustration is based on mixing them both, good for use in magazines, posters and other products where the words must be used, and the own illustration makes the product attractive to people is printed by the interesting shapes. Cover letters and their colour can be arbitrary, depending on the drawing, well as the own picture or illustration is arbitrary in the technique and material, each type of use is impressive. Sometimes the illustration can adjust what is not used in own words of the speech  given only by letters, or vice versa. Text mixed with photographs could also be involved in this order on  pictures were the words are hidden between the lines, this can be used in many ways, but however it is done, the outcome will be successful. Unfortunately, this technique can not be used for my final outcome and thus the need to produce an own magazine layout, information could be shown in the photographs which is the time consuming but it would not be worth for the entire layout, the concentration would not be focus on hidden words but in the informations needed. Also the theme of my magazine is based on very serious and must given the similar feeling to audience but in the most common technique is a fantasy or mixed which cant be used..
Abstract shapes and letters, this is technique where by using only manual or computerized techniques for the magician to be complicated or mixed shapes and images so that they are barely comprehensible, sometimes it is very similar to scribble that is also very interesting for use. Colors or not can be filled in with letters in any shape are mixed with the drawing, the letters sometimes can resemble all the rest, drawing or a simple throw themselves from where can be also eye catching. Just as with photograph illustration, text does not allow me to use them in the final piece by the theme that I have decite it to based on.
Typography silhouette, elegant style and worthy of attention, one of my favourites. Based on only the outline of the specific shape of the image which is filled with only the colour of your choice. I’m side the specific outline filled, can be arranged with words that fill the emptiness. The letters can be also carefully filled in the middle or forward outside the lines. Frequently, this technique is used in the profile portraits which really get my attention. Depending on the time, maybe I'll be able to use this technique in my store which would of make my layout more eye catchable.
With color and pattern, the basic and just the writing plays a major role. The entire card surface structure need only use of the same letter. Font is free of choice but it must be thick so that it would be possible to place shapes or drawings in side of each letter, so that the drawing would be clearly represented. Image may show specific situations, the scribble may be used be used or evern understandable layout of photograph hidden by the back. Another of the interesting techniques, but they are required for my produce design which does not allow me to use them.
Typography and illustrations, a very interesting technique but it can't be often used. It is based on the history of the decoration in the eyepiece of one letter but the letter itself must have a simple, white design as not to distract attention from the own drawing, also so that the own letter cauld be easy to read. I've seen this technique so many times but most often when I been searching for new fonts to use or inspiration. Shapes can be mild, decorative or even completely filled with information graphics. This technique pleased me very much, but I will view in my view further researches if I would be able to join the rest of the quality of my images done.
Augmented Typography, and also this technique is very interesting but very time consuming and difficult to obtain good ending efect. This technique means that the letters were done on the based of 3D sculpture. As for example on the left exaple you are able to see the outcome from one of the specific typography artists. This letter was made ​​of paper pulp stuck to each other as blacks and then carefully cut out of the same shape which must of been cuted using only a sharp item which did not tore to pieces and so that the shape was very evenly cuted. Technique worthy of admiration, but it is not something I'm looking for because my job is to create a flat and not artpiece sculture.



Recycling typography, the artist by use of backlit additional letters such as are used in the logo for stores is represented in her photographs. Using them to recycling and repair, she gets very interesting effects in photographs using the letters in every side and anywhere it can be posibble. These lights are used in the night, when they are surrounded by an interesting items as you can see on all of her photographs. Interesting and not encountered photograher. As you can see the letters come in different shapes and colors where the final results can be very interesting.

As you can see typography can be understood and used in many ways, sometimes you can also come up with something that at the same time has never been found. For instance and Silohette style is useful for any images and outcome which are based on typography.