Type in Motion - Introduction flash

I found this flash with some brief introduction about type in motion, there are some terminologies with examples that I think will be helpful if we want to research more about the topic.

STRETCH Conference 2004, STEP Inside Design
Workshop Presenter: Lara McCormick lara@expression.edu
Program Director, Digital Graphic Design
Expression College for Digital Arts

Type in Motion Presentation (Flash)



Source: http://simplynifty.com/stretch/

french stop aids posters

Source: http://dianne.free.fr/index.php/french-anti-aids-shock-campaign

I once used these posters for the presentation about metaphor in DIM1, and I think they are impressive. They use photograph of people in sexual acts with partners that are ... poisonous insects. The posters make me shiver when I first saw them, but I think that because they're shoking or scary, they left greater impression. They convey the idea of danger in non-safe sex in a very straight forward way and actually make people feel that danger. I've nerver forgotten them since I saw them 2 semester ago. When I listened to Maddy lecture about safe sex posters, I immediately remembered these two.

Because they use photograph, it's easy to make people to pay attention. The campaign came with 2 posters, to aims to both men and women, the target audience is very clear in these poster too. The line of small text at the bottom right (in French naturally) translates into:
“without a condom, you’re making love to AIDS. Protect yourself”

Assignment - My self-portrait

This is myself portrait created for assignment 2A. When I finished it, I was surprised to find more similarity of this picture to me than what I planned at the beginning. I also think it look like me (even though everyone say they cannot recognize me anymore...)

I don't like taking picture of myself and really dislike staring at my image on the screen. that's why it took me quite a lot of time to get used to it. I found it easier to continue when I didn't see the real part of my face anymore. I thought a lot at first, but half way I was kind of having fun and just do what I feel like more than doing it on purpose, and I actually had fun.

This image is done by manipulating my own picture in photoshop and the outline shape of me is still kept. I chose some of the part I found most distinctive of me to represent. Many part of it is easily to recognize if you know me, just some part is what I don't express it outside as long as there is someone else with me. My glasses the only thing expressed my hobby. I love programming and coding, high tech and mechanical things. I sure pay attention to them and only feel interest in doing sth related to them, so I think that's an important interest of mine.