typographic glasses

I think designers like accessories very much. I see an increasing number in retro-glasses, cool and simple watches, beautiful leather bags and such things around me. I even have a cousin who is studying arts and wearing glasses without the actual glass. What is the thing that enables us to those little ornaments nowadays more and more? Is it our need for solidity in a very digital field? I call them ornaments because glasses are used more for decorative purposes than their function or wristwatches are somewhat like table calendars(hello teacher!) for many of us; more for beauty, less for function.

Following products are brilliant for many reasons. They are very elegant, they fill a very obvious gap in design field because typography lovers were out of typographic T-Shirts. (Ok we get it, you love typography) And my cousin may take the glass out of windows, I believe.

And I reveal the real reason why I made this post. Sorry but it was my idea; Marko Pasa logo contains glasses which is made of letters for a Freudian look... (or a Jungian; you'll not be forgotten) My glasses' font is Collaborate Thin. And I will try to make the actual glasses too for company's gift package which is getting more and more suicidal by the end of the break.

http://type.gs/

package design

I didn't understand very much the function of the balancing blocks. Also what is the chart for? It says:

SVBSCRIPTION is a luxury service for men that delivers a thoughtfully curated collection of objects to subscribers’ doorsteps. Based on a new theme each quarter, SVBSCRIPTION packages include items geared towards individuals who have an appreciation for design, culture and quality. For their V3 parcel they explored the notion of leisure, encouraging subscribers to take full advantage of their time off the clock with objects to entertain and inspire. Designed to emphasize states of leisure in both daytime and evening.

Ok, but how do they work? Apart from that, I liked the simplicity of the wooden box, the blue ink stamp logo, the material with geometric pattern and the balancing blocks. They are all very pleasing to eye.

I am also thinking a set of wooden blocks for Marko Paşa gift with the idea of 'we complete the missing wooden blocks/sticks' (eksik tahtaları tamamlarız)

selective perception

I'm just happy that I'm not doing Murat's project in Turkey(moustache land). But he can be happy too, for not living in 1980-90's.

混乱*

My visit to Tahtakale was a surreal experience with huge plush animal toys, illegal tobacco benches, vigorously dancing Santas, real meat smells, some shops which can be dated around 1960's. My eyes got so tired at some point from this over-exposed, exaggerated world with such different, sometimes weird components. You may hear that your heart beats but it was like I was in my heart or I had to eat my heart. (Ok, sorry) After I got used to the situation, my senses got so sharp that afterwards, when I got out of the labyrinthic market, I felt somehow desaturated with less vibrant colors with less action and with less components to see. Now, I may be exaggerating of course but this is the result of Tahtakale, the world of overness. (Tahtakaleye giren bir tahta vermeden çıkamaz, Sorry again!)

It is now quite hard to resolve a such a degree complexity. Think of it in this way, you read the word complexity letter by letter to word make a sense. What if the word complexity is in Chinese? (By the way I'm still looking for a Chinese reader: remember my post on  22th of October; Minor Crises)  Could you resolve the word without knowing the language which is in this case, Chinese?

Tahtakale is a place where the word is not only written in Chinese but also in other languages and perhaps this over composition is for now, over-over too difficult to break into letters;pieces.

I definetely need to make more visits to Tahtakale. I liked the place a lot.

a true name for a shop, reminded me of 'etme bulma dünyası' or 'kurtlar sofrası'

a gateway for timetravelling

sorry for the crappy photos, I took them with iphone because I didn't want to be the tourist-looking guy in this intimate place. 

*confusion in Chinese.

a phase

I don't want to make a comment about the video regarding the typography or style but here are some words for the content:

I felt somewhat relaxed after seeing this, I think most of us, vcd students, consider the taste we have as at least "above the average." I know that many of us are not satisfied with the work we've done, after seeing so many good pieces. A few of us think that it is something temporal, therefore I dedicate this (can I dedicate something even though the work doesn't belong to me?) video to my classmates who have constant insecurity for their work-including myself. 

something similar to Marko Paşa (I hope)

I found this while I was looking at Penguin Book covers. I would like to do something similar for my Marko Paşa Psikolojik Danışmanlık Hizmetleri branding project. I am also thinking of a bright red among various grey tones and black. 

Placement of the glasses is a nice reference to the title of the book since it is cropped as if the right corner has just left. It reminded me also the end of a line, glasses works as dash symbol. 

It is such a classy design.

making designs on a very exciting topic

Editorial design for the topic of synesthesia carries the danger of being lost in the content itself. Cross-sensation, intermingled perceptions and dense feeling of every sensory experience may confuse the designer therefore it is a very very exciting subject. What I liked about the following designs is that the designer was able to control him/herself so that the design is not over the content.

One could initially imagine a design with vivid or even perhaps psychedelic colours and interrelations such as a sudden irrelevant image in the work. (For instance a pink rabbit staring from the corner of the cover or so) Such emotional designs could be attractive but they would probably overshadow the content by leaving no room for the words.

That is why I liked this project a lot. It didn't fall into trap of over-design. Selected colours are more than enough; yellowish red, black and the off-white are very pleasing to the eye. The Æ detail is smart and refers to the cross sensory of synesthesia in a very neat way. Two layered cover is also a very incisive decision for the topic. It contributes the content but does not overshadow it. This project for me is about knowing where to stop in design process.

For the information about synesthesia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia