The story behind Cooper Black font!

Oswald Bruce Cooper was born in 13/4/1879 in Mountgilead, Ohio, USA. He died in 17/12/1940 in Chicago, USA . He is a type designer, calligrapher, and a teacher.
In 1913: draws the lettering which is used in advertisements for the Packard Motor Company and produced by the American Type Foundry (ATF).
In 1919: designs Copper Old Style.
In 1920: designs Coopper Black which becomes iconic in 1970s.

Typeface notes:
- Copper black is best used for big size displays, titles, sub-heading, short sentences in sizes over 18pt.
- It fits the need of "far-sighted printers with near-sighted customers".
- Cooper Black is based on Cooper Old Style.
- It is influenced by Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and the Machine Age.
- The outter contours are both strong and soft, which make Cooper Black an extremely flexible font. It has rounded serifs and long ascenders with extra bold face.
- The O and Q are tilted back.
- The dot on i and j are elliptical.

Awesome flash!

These two flashs are made by Duy, one of my friend! He is an excellent code writer in flash. Every time you click on the screen, it will generate differently, randomly at about 1/27bil times!
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j299/ttkbzoo/judaznodegenerate8_465-1.swf

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j299/ttkbzoo/judaz_judazsilentdancers_4564-2.swf

My welfare poster!

This is my welfare poster. I decided to design a poster about using condom for safe sex. That's the reason why the background is a woman's body. In her head, there's a picture of OK condom, a very famous condom brandname in Vietnam, to say that she is thinking about using a condom.

And the question below is the question she will ask her lover. My poster is kind of abstract, you have to take a closer look to understand what I'm saying. However, in Vietnam we usually do not talk about those kind of things straight, so I've to find another way, and the result is my poster looks abstract like this!

2D & 3D graphic picture!

These 3 pictures have the same common thing: there're tattoo on the back of each girl. The contrast of light, and the color is used very well. Moreover, the effects on each pictures make them look so beautiful. I love the water effect in the first picture best and the tattoo on the third girl also.

Amazing Body Painting!

These are excellent examples of body painting picture. I've been in love with this kind of art for such a long time, and now decided to share with you my interest. Tell me what do you think about them!

My Picture as a Machine Device!

This is my original picture which I've tanken using my mobile phone. And the picture below is my potrait as a machine device. Because I'm in love with music, so that I decided to illustrate myself as an instrument. Maybe it looks a litte bit weird, but somehow I really like it ^ ^"

Condom Posters!

This week we talk about welfare posters and focus on condom poster alot. So in this post I want to introduce you to some interesting condom poster. The first one talk about size; the second one talk about "woman as a gate keeper", to ask men use condom when they make love; and the third one using red condom as a ribbon to warn other people. ^ ^" I think they are quite well layout and designed. Hope u guys like it!

http://www.prostar.gov.my

http://www.martinfrost.ws

http://blog.petitmonsieur.fr

Mori Chack - The Creator Of Cute but Violent Gloomy Bear!

Mori Chack is a very famous Japanese artist. His art works usually follow traditional Japanese style. The Gloomy pink Bear (pronounce similar to stuffed toy) cute, but violence, has a very hard time of remember not to harm his owner. It's the arguement of Mori: Animal is still animal, and it can't co-exist with human. This kind of thinking is completely opposite with Hello Kitty or characters of Disney. His manga style, with pink color and abstract character make his success.

Depthcore!

This post I come up with some wonderful art works of amateur artists from www.depthcore.com. This website is a very useful and powerful website which have a lot of talented artists. As you can see, their designs are usually very complicated but they are all well arranged, we can clearly see the details. The white space, and colours are used beautifully which together created such wonderful 3d art works.

Tam Hoa company webiste layout!

This is the real order which I recieve from one of my customers to create a website for their companies. His company is about foreign exchange and stock market, so he asked us to make a website for him. I decided to make it into 2 version using hot & kool colors in a dark background. Through the process, I've learned a lots of things which is very useful and important for me in this semester, especially in WEB PROGRAMMING subject. How to design the layout or write the codes is such a matter. Plz gimme comment to develope out layout!