“Good typography is like bread: ready to be admired, appraised and dissected before it is consumed.”
The ingredients that are placed into bread will either make it rise or deflate and be sour. This is also true of typography. It’s the ingredients—type studies, reading the text, massaging—that will make the piece communicate the intended message or lose the appeal dilute the message. The use or misuse of type will make or break your communication and design. It will open doors to possible jobs or slam them in your face. Typography is about massaging the details. Type cannot flourish nor breathe by being slapped down on a page. It needs to be caressed and organized in order to achieve the correct expression and composition and to convey the message of the piece. This course will focus on organizing and producing complex typographic designs and layouts. After completing this course, you will feel comfortable in using large amounts of text and massaging the finer details.
Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.
We as artists have the [power] to change the future. The only trick is knowing how to wield that [power].
People ignore design that ignores people.
BEWARE:
“Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.”
Here is a small sample of my fractal works. I hope you all enjoy! Fractals are made with a program using mathematics. The program allows you to play with plasma, gas, liquid and much more. I then took these designs of matter and composited them in photoshop. Here is a little bit more information on fractals.
A fractal is “a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole,” a property called self-similarity.
A fractal often has the following features:
- It has a fine structure at arbitrarily small scales.
- It is too irregular to be easily described in traditional Euclidean geometric language.
- It is self similar (at least approximately or stochastically).
- It has a Hausdorff dimension which is greater than its topological dimension (although this requirement is not met by space-filling curves such as the Hilbert Curve).
- It has a simple and recursive definition.
Live what you dream.
“At the age of six I wanted to be a painter. At seven I wanted to be a space pioneer. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”
-Corey Koberna
Inspired by the famous surrealist Artist Salvador Dali.
“An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.”
This is a piece done by my good friend Dan Berry for a gallery I curated in 2009 called Scales of the Cosmos. Looks nice brotha.
“the black space can never be beautiful until the white space is beautiful.”
∞
∞ Design Possibilities
to the point,
the arrow floats,
to the target,
the medium shouts,
to the artist,
the design come,
infinite in possibilities,
the future holds.
Corey Koberna
