Helvetica

I watched the documentary "Helvetica" the other day thinking it would make it easier to pick out my font for my graphic design assignment. It just made things complicated.

shown to me by Elissa Rowe

The documentary made it seem like Helvetica was the ultimate font. 

So I checked if it works on my illustration. 

In Helvetica, "Fuckin" seems abusive and direct. It also doesn't fit the illustration well. 

When it is in my bubble front it feels playful and less abusive.

I think in this case Helvetica doesn't work. 

YEsss the Sixties!!!

Ken Kesey threw parties all over the U.S in the 60's called the "Acid Test" and made music with a bunch of weirdoes. 

Bob Weir from the Grateful Dead 

"I was in a candy store. All the stuff that was happening was new: this rock and roll explosion, the Acid Tests and all that kid of stuff. No one had ever even imagined that stuff like that possibly happen until it did. It was actually better than realizing my dreams." 

from I Want to Take You Higher, p45

America's Educational System

Now we know why some Americans are so stupid.
Its not their fault. Blame the Educational System.

Davis Guggenheim, the award winning filmmaker who did 
"An Inconvenient Truth" shows the world how bad the public educational system is in the U.S. It is depressing to see so many children struggling for better lives when they can't do anything about it. I hope American child support organisations know what they are doing when they start up schools in undeveloped countries. 

Project 1: Experimental Book

 Make an experimental book based on a certain community.

• Two to Three double page spreads
• limited colour palette (two to three colours)
• demonstrates thoughtful investigation of typography 
• experiment with book design (folding, binding...etc)
• experiment with materials in book-form 
• folds to A5

Some visual research 

That my name! Skeletorrrr!!!
Its a documentary about the lifestyle of crazy bike messengers from NewYork City.
It was first released around the early 2000's, before the
messengers and fixed gear bikes got all popular.
http://www.iamfatterthanyou.com/2011/03/“pedal”-–-documentary-about-nyc’s-bike-couriers/