Chaos

 This book is also by James Gleick. It's the best-selling book by Gleick that first introduced the principles and early development of chaos theory to the public. As soon as I look at the book cover I think of chaos. Even though it says chaos it also says chaos another way because of the way it's designed. The letters in chaos are slanted and it looks like they are falling. Because they aren't in a straight line it makes people look at the word longer. The background also gives a chaos feeling. The background has swirls and different colors in it. I like that there is a swirl in the opening of the "C." I'm not sure if they did that on purpose or not, but it looks really cool. I like the 2 blurbs on the cover. The white circle that says "Making a New Science" gives readers a little more information and I think that helps the book cover. I know that this book cover isn't completely designed in text, but the title of it is. I have to make a book cover only using text and this book cover gave me some ideas on what I can do with the text. I can make words/letters slanted or going different ways to convey a certain feeling or mood.   

The Information

 The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood is a book by science history write James Gleick. This book cover is clearly made out of only text. This is a good example of repetition, visual hierarchy, and color. He repeated the same words over and over again. On the first column he repeated the word, "The Information," but the second word is in red. He has the word, "A History," towards the bottom. In the second column he repeated the same thing, but he also added the words, "A Theory." and "A Flood." He kept those words black. The last column he repeated "By James Gleick" and "Author of Chaos." He made two of the words red. When I look at this book cover the first things I see are The Information by James Gleick Author of Chaos, so it actually reads as a title. Then I see the other words in black. I think the designer of the book cover did a good job with visual hierarchy because the red words are what directs people's eyes to the book cover. I like that they didn't make A History, A Theory, and A Flood in red. I think they look better in black because it makes people look at the cover longer to find those words. I also like that the designer used the spine as extra space. It repeats the title and the author and it also has one word in red. The designer definitely used repetition in designing this cover. I would probably open this book to see what it's about. This gives me some inspiration when I am designing my book cover for Neuromancer. I have to design the cover using only text.     

Neuromancer Book Cover

 Neuromancer is a 1984 novel by William Gibson. The novel tells the story of a washed-up computer hacker hired by a mysterious employer to pull off the ultimate hack. The book cover created by Rick Berry in 1984 was the world's first digitally painted book cover. This book cover was new to people because it was digitally painted. This book cover was probably impressive to people in 1984 because they didn't have all of the computer technology that we do today, so creating this book cover took talented and technology. This book cover probably isn't anything special to people now a days, but back then it was. As soon as I look at this book cover I think of cyberspace and science. It kind of has a Star Wars feel with the yellow lines and the title going into space. I like the image of the purple person. Just seeing this book cover makes me want to open it up to see what it's about. I like the quote at the top of the book cover. The quote gives a little more information on the author than the book cover does and I think that will make people open the book more. I like that he took the pink color from the font and put it in the pink bar behind the picture. I have to create a book cover for this book, the "Neuromancer" using only text. I am doing research on the book cover and the book itself, so I can more accurately design the book cover. It's harder to create a book cover out of text because there is no images that people can look at. If I want to create an image I have to do it out of text.       

Steve Jobs Portrait-Dylan Roscover

This is a potrait of Steve Jobs designed by Dylan Roscover. Dylan has also designed a portrait of President Obama and many other people and products. Dylan went to Full Sail's University for the Digitial Arts & Design Bachelor's Degree Program. He used text from the famous "Here's to the crazy one's" ad campaign in the 90s. He used a variety of Apple-related fonts:  Motter Tektura, Apple Garamond, Myriad, Univers, Gill Sans, and Volkswagen AG Rounded. This is absolutely amazing. I have made people/faces out of type before, but nothing as good as this. One of the reasons he got it to actually look like a face is because he rounded the type where it needed to be like on the cheeks and forehead. Some of the type is more straight like on the lip and the beard. He also made some of the text small and some of the text big. This is an example of visual hierarchy. The first few words I see are "crazy ones" and then when I look more I see the whole phrase "Here's to the crazy ones." I also see the words misfits, troublemakers, human, Steve Paul Jones, and the square holes. I didn't noticed it at first, but they is a low opacity Mac logo in the background. I also like the color scheme of this piece. It's like a blue, gray, and white color scheme. I am currently designing a flyer for my typography class and I have to use 90% type to design my flyer.    

Hidden Truth Poster

  This poster was done by Christina Koehn at the University of Washington, USA. I like how the type in this poster is angled. I am creating a music festival flyer with angled type in my typography class. I like how the words "Hidden Truth" look hidden. It took me a while to figure out what it actually said. I like the concept of trying to hide the words hidden truth, but I don't think it works that well. It looks like she randomly put 3 lines of text in the word hidden truth. I don't understand why there is such a big gap between the H and the I when the size of the text isn't that big. Unless she was trying to show that the words were coming down and on top of the words. The text at the very top next to the 06 is small. She should have made the type bigger since she now as all this dead space at the top. I have no clue what the giant 06 means in the corner. I like the concept of this poster, but I think it still needs some work done to it.

StockHolm Rock-Out Flyer

 This is the 2010 Stockholm Rock-Out Music Festival's flyer. It is a big metal music festival in the summer. I think the music festival is held in Switzerland. I don't really like the design of this flyer. It doesn't scream metal music. All they did was put the logo/type fonts of the bands that are playing in the center of the flyer. We all know that centering a design is too boring and not interesting. I guess if this is the official flyer of the music festival they have to use the same type faces of the bands that are playing. I think they could have been a little more creative in designing this flyer. One thing that would make it more interesting is having it off center. I think they should have made the date bigger because it's hard to read and it's too close to the title. I don't think the background fits the metal music festival. I think they should have a different background. I also think this flyer is too crowded. I know music festival flyers are supposed to have a lot of information on it, but I don't like how they designed this one. I am designing a electronic music festival flyer in my typography class now. I am looking at other music festival flyers to get some ideas of what to do and what not to do.  This is a metal music festival flyer and when I look at the flyer it doesn't say metal music festival to me.

Electronic Music Festival Flyer

I really like this flyer. It is very psychedelic. I love the galaxy background. I think it works well with it being a Electronic Music Festival. I still think this is a awesome flyer even though it's in a different language. I like how the words are angled. I am designing a Electronic Music Festival Flyer and I am thinking about angling my text so it is more interesting. It looks like it has 2 different fonts, but they used variation within the fonts, which is something I need to think about. I like how they laid out their information. I think this flyer works well for what it's promoting.