50 Years of Helvetica

2007 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Max Miedinger and Edouard Hoffmann's design Helvetica, the most ubiquitous of all typefaces.Widely considered the official typeface of the twentieth century, Helvetica communicates with simple, well-proportioned letterforms that convey an aesthetic clarity that is at once universal, neutral, and undeniably modern.

In honor of the first typeface acquired for MoMA's collection, the installation presents posters, signage, and other graphic material demonstrating the variety of uses and enduring beauty of this design classic.As a special feature in the exhibition, an excerpt of Gary Hustwit's documentary Helvetica reveals the typeface as we experience it in an everyday context.

American Indian art

The world of contemporary American Indian art is vibrant, lively, and ever-changing.Hundreds of artists from diverse communities and educational experiences work in a variety of media, from ceramics to painting.

Breaking the Mold celebrates the extraordinary passion and collecting eye of Virginia Vogel Mattern, who began collecting Pueblo pottery in 1988 while visiting Santa Fe, New Mexico.After that first purchase-a miniature pot by Dolores Curran-Mattern was hooked.A self-described "pot head," she spent the next several years acquiring more than 300 works by some of the best Native American artists in the Southwest.

Mattern's collection, on view in the J. Landis and Sharon Martin and Richard and Mary Pat McCormick Gallery, highlights the vibrance and dynamism of the contemporary American Indian art world.It includes pots, paintings, and textiles by artists from diverse backgrounds.

Helvetica : an Independent Film About Typography

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture.
It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives.The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about their work, the creative process, and the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type.
Helvetica encompasses the worlds of design, advertising, psychology, and communication, and invites us to take a second look at the thousands of words we see every day.The film was shot in high-definition on location in the United States, England, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, France and Belgium.It is currently screening at film festivals and special events worldwide.

FL studio

This is another software that similar to Garage Band. You can play with it to make your own music. Moreover, the advantages of this software is you can export the song that you create in mp3 file or in wav file. These format can easily import into your flash file or in your movie.
You can download the demo :
Download demo

Here are some tutorial step by step about how to use FL studio software with pictures to illustrate:

Basic Tutorial
Tutorial part 2
Tutorial part 3

How to make a tilte sequence

Creating a Title Sequence: A Tutorial in AfterEffects
The link

Kyle Cooper
Movie title-sequence designer
The link


Grand Prix - Title Sequence by Saul Bass

Behind the scence

This clip is interesting things about "300" movie. You can see how they make a movie with a green background. With computer software, they can play with what you gona see on the screen

Some Movie's Intro

These are some movie's intro with different styles such as comedy, action or horror movie. This will give you guy some ideas for the final project.

As you see, introduction of a movie can be present in many ways from simple to complex. Like in the intro of "Gone in 60 seconds", the intro is complex with many details. However, the intro for "The Hounted Theater" is very simple. It just a black back ground with text. The only thing interesting is the color and the font used for the intro.

These are some styles that you can take a look and find out a best way to make your own intro for the final project.

MIKE LEIGH & The strange movie making process

As we studied about movie, I would like to introduce with you guy one of my favorites director: MIKE LEIGH.
He is famous not only because of his movies but also because of the strange process in making movie. As you know, before starting a movie, you must have a scenario or a story board about what will be happen in the movie and the characteristic of each role. However, Mike Leigh does NOT go through that usual process. He started the movie with some sketch ideas of how he thinks things might develop. Even the actors also do not know about the ending of the movie or what will be happen next. The actors discover their fate and act out their responses as their destinies are gradually revealed. Mike Leigh will developed improvisatory his storylines during the filming.

That is so strange. I wonder how he can give the ending for the movie. Anyway, you should take a look at some of his work like: Secret and Lies, All or Nothing ...

Typography in motion

This is a very nice job about typography. The black and white are used as the two main colors in this clip. The white letter is floating and floating in the black background is smooth and it is like the star on the sky. As the clip used the effect zoom in and out letters, that is so great.
The second part of the clip you can see some other color such as blue, yellow, red and pink. This part also has the present of human. It looks like she walks in the wood of letter. She is not clear and some how blur.
This is really a good clip. I wonder that what software they used to make this clip. At first, I think it might make by flash but after that I changed my mind. It may be made by Adobe After Effect.