Monday, December 5, 2011

Bio-Bak

Bio-Bak is an interactive website with endless possibilities. The illustrations are very interesting with a unified style to tie them all together. The main website has a huge layout and you can zoom in and out of it while scrolling through the endless illustrations. Many of the parts of the website move and respond to your interactions. Some of the illustrations are constantly moving while others only respond to clicking and dragging. There is an interactive game where you help a character on the website find his missing tools. You can use different objects from the website to help find these missing tools. the style of the entire website is hand drawn including the typeface. Boxes can be moved and you can explore the website, give donations and even just play with the different interactive characters. Your mouse is a hand that allows to you grab and move things quickly. When you press and hold the hand opens and acts as though it is pushing off of the floor. The voices are fun and quirky and you could spend hours exploring the website still not finding everything you can do.


Here's the link to it. Enjoy!

http://www.bio-bak.nl/

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Neville Brody






Neville Brody is most known for his work in the early eighties that broke the boundaries of Graphic Design. He worked with a magazine called "Face Magazine" where he implemented visual elements with architectural ones. He worked for this magazine from 1981-1986. His magazine styles soon became popular trends and media started to use these images in the 80's for everything.  Another large project that Neville worked on in the 80's was FUSE, which is a project where experimental typefaces and posters are published. Neville started a big trend by designing his own typefaces. His work has been commissioned by such major organisations as Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Greenpeace, Japanese companies Men’s Bigi and Parco, the Dutch Postal Service, the German cable channel Premiere and Austria’s ORF TV channel. Today, Neville Brody’s work focuses largely on electronic communications design. At the same time, he continues to create his unique and striking digital typefaces. His contributions to the world of graphic design and digital typography are absolutely invaluable. Often referred to as a “star typographer”, Brody has designed a number of very well-known typfaces.