Copyright Issues

To download photos from istockphoto.com you must sign up and become a member. Chose one of their payment plans, and then go back to photo and click download. Each photo has an amount of credits, so depending on wheather you get xsmall/small/medium/large determains the price of the photo. So for example one photo might be 90cents per credit and the photo is worth 70 credit for a large photo 3456 x 2067 pixels your price will be $63. 


Bus
xsmall - 418 x 287 pixels - 10 credits

1 credit = 95 US dollars 
95 US = .90 cents
=$9.00


Athletics track = vector image - 15 credits
= $13.50


Athlete stretching - xlarge - 4200 x 2800pixels - 16 credits
= $14.40


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Bureaufont.com is a site where you can buy fonts. The pricing is based on how many computers it will be installed on. 


For this font Runaway and its family to be installed on one computer  (MAC) it will cost $40.
2-5 computers - $80.00
11-25 computers - $200.00
876-1000 - $1,000.00


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This is the broadest license we offer. A client purchasing this license is permitted to install the fonts on all workstations owned by the entity (company or organization) licensing the fonts, and to distribute the fonts to anyone outside their entity with a special End User License Agreement (EULA) that limits use of the fonts to work for the client. This license is ideal for a corporate identity situation where, in addition to internal use, the fonts need to be used by affiliates, dealers, distributors, agents, or suppliers of the licensee, in order to create and maintain a brand. This license can also work very well for a product advertising campaign.

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3 concepts

My sport is athletics (running), since Apollo is fast and strong.  

FastLaces -  came from shoe laces from runners and Apollo is fast. 

Mine is a quick sketch in black and white, so the work laces will be 

similar to the letter 'b' underneath. 

On the left is "dusty cheetah" dusty running tracks and cheetah because Apollo is fast like a cheetah.

The right logo is "big guns" big-Apollos big muscles and gun-the shot gun at the start of a race.

trends

Typography, colourful & minimalism 

I found that the younger designers all had at least one of these three things in common, typography, use of bright rainbow colours and minimalism. Also the use of thick, bold fonts and different sizes and colours. For examples these two design done by Fanette Meillier and Chris Doyle. They both use a range of colour mostly bright vivid colours in their designs. Both these designers use the rainbow of colours, even for just one piece of work. Fanette uses lots of bright out there colours and commonly centres her designs. Which seems to work really well. Both these designers and more all have the theme of less is more in their works, lots of white space and simple designs that aren't cluttered. 
             Another artist I really liked was Claudio Kirac, who designs for billabong. His designs were contemporary and diverse. I love his work because they are all different and showed a range of techniques. Most of his designs express the simple/colourful theme as the others, but his designs are more vibrant and solid. Use of out there, in your face colour palette, that other designers would be afraid to use. He matches completely different colours and makes them compliment each other. 


textures

The amount of designs which has textures incorporated into their works was way more than I thought. I love when textures are used especially in flat 2d print works, it gives that something special and exciting to look at.  
     Stephen Dupont, Fanette Meillier expressed this through their designs. Stephan Dupont is a prime example, his mostly known for his photography and book, wheather its at a photography exhibition where he scratches the title or a quote into the wall next to the photo or in his books, where he physically sticks sticky tape on the corners of letters or the dust of the chalk in the pages. The textures have a nice sense of presence. 
     Fanette Meillier expressed this through her print work, she has a completely different technique something that I've never seen before and is really intriguing. She uses the idea of dripping wet paint in a unique way. Not quite sure what material she uses some sort of plasticine or thick gluey rubber, and once her artwork is printed she places this rubber over the top, this rubber has a wet shiny effect and gives the aesthetic that the ink is dripping out of her work. 




An interesting concept I found ...

Chris Doyle-Art Director 
The man is dead is the album title. 
The concept was to reflect the album title and still have a presence of art and design in the cover, to reflect the bands personnel/music. The idea was to come up with a design that represents death and feminism. So by using the scarf this represents the feminism and by covering the face this conceives what happens with death, that life disappears. Smart and design is really effective. His thought about the concept in depth and although its a simple design it's clear Chris has gone through a long process to get to this point. Using photography and simple type, down to the pattern on the scarf really adds interest, if it were just in a pink scarf it wouldn't have the same effect. 

http://www.manystuff.org/?m=200909

http://www.photomnivore.com/2011/william-klein-polka-gallery/

http://www.claudiokirac.com/

http://www.behance.net/originalseven