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Everyone and their grandmothers have made typographic posters using Helvetica and I thought it was about time I did as well. Anyone who’s watched the film Helvetica will know the history of the font and it’s ubiquitousness, as well as the ease it provides in making safe, reasonably good looking designs.

So I figured if using Helvetica was practising safe design, it’d be considered the condom of fonts. Hence the poster. Larger image after the jump.

PS – The quotes on the bottom of the packaging are made up. From my knowledge, none of the designers quoted ever said any of those things.

Can you guess what this is a picture of? Click the link below to find out.

It’s actually a picture of the night sky, while raining, taken with a Canon G10 with a 580EX mounted on top. Using the flash and a slow shutter speed, you can capture the light of the flash as it refracts and reflects inside the water drop, and as the drop continues down, the light eventually escapes and the brightness diminishes, give the effect of little comets going up and leaving a tail.

Above is another picture, though as you can see, I’ve been in the rain a little too long and my lens has water on it.

And one taken at a higher shutter speed. Good illusion of space.

My first real attempt at making a Super Mario World custom level. I used a tool called Lunar Magic and a SNES ROM file.

I wanted to design a rather compact level, but from what I can tell, there’s a limit to the number of sprites you can generate per screen and since the level I made consist of 3 screens, I needed to recycle most the sprites. You’ll see how I managed in the video.

Yeah, I got married earlier this year, and it was my job to make the invites. Our wedding wasn’t in any way a traditional one ( no walking down the isle, no groomsmen/bridesmaids etc. ) so I wanted the invite to reflect that a little. Sure, I love white and lots of it, but I wanted something different.

I like green, and my wife likes green, and our wedding was to be outdoors so green it was. I wanted it to have some feel of Josef Müller Brockmann in it so naturally I used Helvetica as the typeface. The figures were illustrated using Illustrator ( naturally ) and the grass and leaves were standard Photoshop brushes.

English on one side, Khmer on the other, printed on 300gsm matt cards.

I also designed an RSVP page for the guests, which made working out the numbers much easier.

2 more larger pictures of the invites after the jump.

First off, Ljósið by Ólafur Arnalds.

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Beautiful instrumental piece, directed by Esteban Diácono.

Next up is Hibi no neiro by SOUR.

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Very creative piece, must have taken a lot of effort to put the entire thing together, considering it was made with the help of fans from all around the world.

Those crazy Kiwis!

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Very cool. Unfortunately, I don’t know where this picture comes from so I can’t give credit.

Imitation the greatest form of flattery? Wish I could get paid to “design” these sort of pages.

Via NY Times