Kinetic Typography

"Kinetic typography—the technical name for "moving text"—is an animation technique mixing motion and text to express ideas using video animation. This text is presented over time in a manner intended to convey or evoke a particular idea or emotion. "--Wikipidea

I found the technic called "Kinetic typography" is a really effective and interesting way to express emotion by using typography in animation. I have saw this technic using in movie credits, I found it's lively and fascinating.

They are uselly usually no scenes included, but only audio and moving text, however, a good kinetic typography animation which use appropiate fonts and motion still convey a strong mood and feeling to viewer, Certain fonts can brought out certain emotion, the size and color of text plays a part of emphasis, combine with moving text and audio, viwer would have an immersed sense.
 
I have seen FIGHT CLUB many times, after I watch this clip, I found the method remarkably effective at creating a "you-are-there" feel.

chamical Burn-Fight Club

Hero of Dots

Hero from Miguel Endara on Vimeo.

Human eyes and brain are very interesting, we see millions of black dots, we also see a lifelook face, depends on the ways of seeing.

The "hero", made by Miguel Endara, a drawing of his dad composed entirely out of 3.2 million ink dots and 210 hours work.

For me it is an amazing work,different level of distance, intensity make single insipid dot alive. simple elements such as dot, line, certain shapes are always a base of design. The work "hero",only element Endara use is dot, small, distinct dots of pure color can form an vivid image, those contour, shadow... Never downgrade those simple and small elements, they brought big inspiration.

Spirit of book

The writer is the spirit of the book.

shape of sound

‘The Shape of Sound’ is an interactive audio-visual performance by Dead J and Dora.S. They use music as the trigger to dictate the visual transformation. The visual element includes dot, line, surface, triangle, square, sphere and other basic geometric shapes, with the music interaction it brings a swift and fierce audio-visual experience. 

a lovely font from a design magazine

I've found a magazine cover from a Chinese design magazine"设计界”, loved the font of title, the squares and the gaps, for me it's a great font design, its accurately converys the tone of the magazine.

keeping warm

Winter's coming, physically and mentally getting slow... don't forget keeping yourself warm. 

Interesting daily drawning from Rolfe Bautista I found on G+.

Qi Pao

The cheongsam  /tʃi.ɒŋˈsæm/^[1] is a body-hugging (modified in Shanghai) one-piece Chinese dress for women; the male version is the changshan. It is known in Mandarin Chinese as the qípáo (旗袍; pronounced [t͡ɕʰǐ pʰɑ̌ʊ̯]) Wade-Giles ch'i-p'ao, and is also known in English as a mandarin gown. The stylish and often tight-fitting cheongsam or qipao (chipao) that is most often associated with today was created in the 1920s in Shanghai and was made fashionable by socialites and upperclass women.<sup>[2] 
defination from wikipedia.


Searching and gathering information for my "hero" assignment, stray from the point as usual... found this image accidentally, adore it! such a nice dress, beautiful colour,!! For me it's not only a dress, it's also means a period of history, means 20s of China, the golden age of Shanghai,means a lot more...</sup>