George Michael Brower » typography http://www.georgemichaelbrower.com I work with code, music and typography. Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:33:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Origami http://www.georgemichaelbrower.com/work/oragami/ http://www.georgemichaelbrower.com/work/oragami/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:04:08 +0000 admin http://localhost:8888/?p=43

Origami is a lettering tool. It also systematically improves the quality of your cursive.

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Photographs taken for posters promoting Girl Talk concert at UCLA's Ackerman Grand Ballroom, May 26 2009. In collaboration with Corinna Nicole Loo.

Type set in DIN laser cut from two sheets of plexi-glass. Plates were tilted at a slight angle as we photographed a number of different materials coursing over letter forms: anti-acids, detergents, inks and dyes.

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Campus Events Commission is a stu­dent-​fund­ed or­ga­ni­za­tion bring­ing the fresh­est fare in film, mu­sic, and speak­ers to UCLA. I worked as a print designer, designing posters and flyers for CEC during my junior and senior years at UCLA.

19 x 31" poster designed for a comedy writer's panel.
Font is Thesis by Lucas de Groot.

Yeasayer is an experimental/psychedelic rock group that starting gaining attention in 2007. Their music has an almost ecclesiastical flavor. These posters represent an effort to combine the aesthetics of stained glass with psych art.

Beach House is a two-piece from Baltimore producing distinctly ethereal pop music. Set in Archer. In collaboration with Corinna Nicole Loo.

High Places / Intricate Machines / Glasser could all be loosely defined as shoegaze. I built fantasy space-burst from 10 or so different nebulae, and generous doses of rainbow gradient. Font is Omnes by vllg.

Quarter-letter-sized flyers for writer's panel.

]]> http://www.georgemichaelbrower.com/work/campus-events-commission/feed/ 0 Date of Birth http://www.georgemichaelbrower.com/work/date-of-birth/ http://www.georgemichaelbrower.com/work/date-of-birth/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:45:18 +0000 admin http://localhost:8888/?p=29 Poster series investigating the circumstances of one's birth.]]>

Click to zoom.

Winter '08, Communication Design with Henri Lucas.

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Anamorphic Type Engine. A two dimensional image is “dissected,” its parts extruded on the z-axis. The size of the parts is a function of their position on the z-axis, so that from a given point, the image appears to be sitting on a two-dimensional plane.

The structures are conceived as hanging sculptures. The image above shows what a given “plot,” or the application’s output, might look like. Each piece of the structure is tethered to the ceiling by two wires. The application can produce an image of the ceiling showing the point at which each wire should be connected. A to-scale blueprint of the entire composition also dictates the length of each given wire.

More Anamorphic Type on Vimeo

The editing environment allows users to manipulate the position of pieces, as well as the the “focal point” that the illusion respects. As users drag pieces back and forth along the z-axis, their scale is automatically compensated to maintain the anamorphic illusion.

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Portfolio for design duo Willem Augustus. Willem Augustus is Willem Henri Lucas and Davey Whitcraft, professors of typography and book design at UCLA and OTIS, respectively.

The two had an idea for a portfolio with no images—instead, any one of the pair’s many multilingual friends lend their voice to an audio description of the project in question.

http://whlucas.com
http://www.newtypographers.com/

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