Awkward Signs

http://www.asylum.com/2008/10/23/public-sign-fails-theyre-just-not-right/?icid=100214839x1212221122x1200716738

Carlos Segura Outline

Part A:

- date of birth, place of birth, (death):

born in 1956 in Santiago, Cuba

- training or education:

promotions for the band

first job at an envelope manufacturer

- milestones in their life:

United States in 1965

in a band from 12-19

"first big break" in New Orleans (date?)

moved to Chicago in 1980 - met wife here (who is also his business partner)

worked for Marsteller, Foote Cone & Belding, Young & Rubicam, Ketchum,

DDB Needham, BBDO

founded Segura Inc. in 1991

T-26 begun in 1994

5inch.com begun in 2001

named one of the most influential graphic designers ( in Graphic Design for the 21st Century) in 2004

- is he/she attached to some art movement or style, if so explain:

"blending as much “fine art” into “commercial art” as he could"

Fonts designed by Carlos Segura:

Boxspring

Faxfont

Faxfont Fine

Faxfont Standard

Faxfont Tone

Flaco Inline

Flaco Solid

Peepod

Pintor

RPM

Sport

Square 40

Square 40 Outline

Square 45 Thin

Time in Hell

Sources:

Websites -

http://www.tdctokyo.org/awards/award01/01nonmembronze_e.html

http://www.identifont.com/show?1BE

http://www.itcfonts.com/Ulc/2721/CarlosSegura.htm

http://www.segura-inc.com/

Books:

Graphic Design for the 21st Century

Swag 2 : rock posters of the '90s and beyond

Logo design

(I haven't had a chance to pick the last two up from KC - I don't know if they will actually be useful)

If anyone knows of any other books/websites that have stuff on Carlos Segura please let me know!

Everything you always wanted to know, but were too afraid to ask...

The LEGO Automatic Binding Brick with four and eight studs was released in 1949.

http://www.lego.com/eng/info/default.asp?page=timeline6

Alice in Wonderland electronica style

That's right - electronica. It's kinda entertaining.

http://buzzfeed.com/scott/alice

I think the editing was very well done. The beat of the music and the actions on the movie clip match up nicely and everything. It's a pretty good example of what kind of editing you can do on the computer for anyone who is going to do a movie/animation for visual concepts.

Everything you always wanted to know, but were too afraid to ask ...
According to Pliny the Elder, the Phoenicians were using soap as early as 600 B.C.
http://www.droyt.com/soap-facts.html

Chronicle Books

I was considering making a book for the visual concepts project 3 (yes, oodles of extra work and crafting issues - blah) and I came across the Chronicle Books website. There is a pretty huge variety of coffee table style books that they publish. They range from the lame (Heirloom Beans), to the naughty sounding (XXX Porn for Women), to the holy-crap-I-f***ing-hate-fish-now (Ichthyo: The Architecture of Fish), to the what-the-hell (Poo Log - I'm not even joking). And actually, the fish book looks pretty nifty. It has x-rays of fish. Another interesting one is the World Unfurled. So, if you like books, pretty pictures, or are really bored I suggest that you take a look see. This company also offers a design fellowship for recent design graduates that might be a really awesome experience.

Everything you always wanted to know but were too afraid to ask...

Saturn has fifty-two known natural satellites.

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Saturn&Display=Moons