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Wolf sketch

Peter Čuhalev — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:26:55 +0000

The sketch logo plays on the idea that the wolf as the mother is sleeping and guarding the cubs with her tail wrapped around them. In this case the cubs are replaced with the ROMA characters which can then be related that the wolf is guarding the city of rome as its symbol also.

Quick exploration and sketch for a friendly passer by.

Trying out Typekit

Peter Čuhalev — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:38:36 +0000

If you are reading this and it does not look like some hand written script typeface, you are either using a RSS reader (click on header to go to the blog post to get the real rendering) or you are using an old browser that does not support CSS3 yet in this case try opening the post in Firefox 3.5 or Safari 4.

Happy Birthday Guinness!

Yesterday Guinness celebrated 250 years, I think this should be mentioned in the blog post and made into an everlasting post.

And a Cheers to many more years of good beer making.

As you can see all the text is rendered with the two specific fonts that I included through Typekit.

The typefaces are: Learning Curve as the hand scripted one and Droid Serif as the second serif one, which also has different styles included.

For more on the typefaces from Typekit click on the bottom right icon and they also have more info about other regarding things. Only bad side at least for the Trial version is that it does not include č,ž,š characters.

P.S. I have some invites left if anyone wants to try it, leave a comment or mail or tweet…

The Ikea Catalog Type in the Future

Peter Čuhalev — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:17:13 +0000

I think we all share a surprise at the new Ikea catalog and how can Ikea say that only the non designers will notice changes. I believe that everybody notices bad typography it is just that us as designers distinguish it and feel a deeper impact by bad visual data. Normal people are too used to it and filter it out, but we get that feeling in the back of the head every time we go by and see it. I’m just hoping that Ikea will not actually go down this path…
Click on the picture for a bigger one on Flickr.

Ars Electronica Festival 09 – Human Nature

Peter Čuhalev — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:42:25 +0000

What happened at this years Ars Electronica Festival. Well we saw a lot of robots, including Gemini the first clone robot coming from Japan and he was really life like as the author also walked around. At the Linz University the MIT media lab was this years featured university with some nice gadgets for rapid prototyping of industrial design and little electronics that interact between themselves regarding how you position them. But, the best part was this years theme for the Austrian national parade. It was Flood, as the ultimate flood from the bible where everything will be swept away. For that they made around 400 different animals that were strolling the whole day on Saturday around the city. And they outdid themselves on the fireworks again in the evening show. Oh almost forgot, the Gameboy music workshop and performance also rocked.

Lots of pictures on My Flickr account and a small preview below.

So razlike med Akzidenz Grotesk & Helvetica & Helvetica Neue?

Peter Čuhalev — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:01:45 +0000

Seveda so in še veliko jih je. Na hitro je Akzidenz Grotesk bila inspiracija za nastanek Helvetice nato pa so posodobili Helvetico z različico Helvetica Neue. Manjše višine srednjega črkovnega pasu, zaključki, ki niso pod kotom, manjša ali večja zaobljenost in glajenje potez so stvari, ki so jih spreminjali.

Za kaj več pa si preberite seminarsko, ki sva jo napisala skupaj s Felixom Osino: Razlike v oblikovanju Akzidenz Grotesk & Helvetica & Helvetica Neue (PDF)

Mladina Proglas | Finančna kriza.

Peter Čuhalev — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:49:19 +0000

Par mesecev nazaj je Mladina objavila razpis za PRoglas, ki ga objavljajo v vsaki Mladini na tretji strani ponavadi. Tokratni razpis je bil na temo Finančna kriza, omejitev pa ni bilo ravno kakšnih.

Kopijo besedila mi je priskrbel Miha Jesenšek, ki me je tudi povabil, da bi kaj prijavila. Sam pa sem iz njegovega besedila sestavil grafično podobo oglasa ter tudi naredil fotke.

Zmagali nismo, je pa na razpis prispelo okoli 90 del, v vsakem primeru pa je bilo zabavno in se naredilo malo drugače in neočitno. Mogoče preveč za razmišljat. Oglasa sledita spodaj.

Firefox T-Shirt

Peter Čuhalev — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:08:48 +0000

The year is around and Matjaž, the person who translates Firefox into Slovenian language asked me to make them T-Shirts for a special occasion. Firefox revenue went over 50% in Slovenia, which is a great accomplishment and we can be proud of it.

So Firefox For The Win!

Animateka Animation Workshops

Peter Čuhalev — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:53:11 +0000

So during the Animateka Festival they also organized a two week workshops to learn Classical Animation and Stopmotion Animation. I attended both ’cause I thought it would be a nice experience and to bring some fun away from University.

The whole workshop was a great introduction to animation. The mentors Grega Mastnak (Bizgeci) for Classical and Špela Čadež for Stopmotion were really helpful with pointing out the mistakes and how it is properly done. I recommend anyone who wants to have a quick go and try animation to see if he likes it to try the workshops out. They’re really fun.

The Classical animation, hand drawn, around 60 A4 sheets drawn.

Elephant goes for a walk from Peter on Vimeo.

The Stop motion animation, done in a group of 3. Every member made one animal and then we animated them together. Katarina Kos made the Mole, Saba Skaberne the Kangaroo and I made the Squirrel.

Underground from Peter on Vimeo.

Christmas Bunny

Peter Čuhalev — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 23:09:36 +0000

Don’t be afraid, he doesn’t bite and is actually quite friendly + he comes bearing gifts.

(Just don’t scare him though…)

Webpage: SIDG Congress

Peter Čuhalev — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:31:32 +0000

6. SIDG kongres, kongres dialektologije in geolingvistike, ki bo potekal od 14. do 18. septembra 2009 na Univerzi v Mariboru.

Zahteve, modra barva in slike Maribora. Izvirni so bili.

http://www.sidgcongress.si/