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I am Officially Blogging at JohnnyBrazil.com

I have made the switch, if you visit this site through wordpress, visit me here.

Coversourcing – Book Jacket Design Competition

So, I caught this link on Coudal’s Fresh Signals, and decided I wanted to give it a try, so I thought of this idea, hashed it out, then read the terms and conditions:

This competition is open to anyone aged 16 or over who is a resident of the UK or the Republic of Ireland except for employees of The Random House Group Limited (the promoter), its subsidiary companies, their families and any other company connected with the competition.

Ill see what happens.

Zach Galifianakis and Michael Cera or How come you look so much like cootie kid.

Zach Galifianakis is funny because you just have no idea what hes going to do next. Michael Cera is funny because if you throw a ball at him he turns his back to it. Put them together and… Just watch it. via chris glass.

Galifianakis vs. Cootie Kid.

My Font Experiment

So, If you don’t know this about me, I really enjoy typography. So with that being said, I wanted to make a simple font, with a straight line and a circle. Thats it. Rules were that I could rotate the line any degree however I could only crop the line and circle at 90 degree angles, the only rule i bent was to slightly increase the x height of the lowercase o, apparently your eye plays tricks on you if you don’t. So here is my complete lowercase set for what I am calling Kris Sans. Simple like my name, no frills and my first attempt at creating a font. Surprisingly, this took a lot longer than I thought it would. I can see how people get lost in the little details of a letter on the micro level.

Photography of the Moment: Michael Poliza’s Heli-Africa

A beautiful flickr set from Michael Poliza of a helicopter trip from Hamburg to Cape Town. via.

Motion Graphic of the Moment.

The new year will bring my new design, but for now I will try to post something, hopefully once a day, until I transfer my site over.. For now here is a beautiful short by Yves Geleyn about a bird and his home, not as touching as the kiwi, but beautiful in its own right. (via motionographer)

Johnny, Where have you been?

So, what’s been going on you say? Well, a lot, last weekend J and I went to Denver to visit a friend. So, how was denver? It was fun, We saw the art museum, which is one of the coolest, craziest buildings. We went skiing, 3 1/2 mile long runs… in 30 inches of fresh powder. Nice (besides my mogul face plants). We watched showgirls all the way through uncut, pure insanity. So that’s Denver. You know I was surprised by the amount of forced design I saw on the main strip there. Everything is so new and the branding is very calculated, so it gives the city a movie set type of feel, instead of the gritty non-time square nyc i’m used to. So, it seems once again that I love NY. (the city, not the show, minus a few choice quotes, “I’m afraid of parrots because they don’t know how to speak English diction”)

As far as this blog, i’m movin on up, to my own host, I figured it was pretty lame for a web designer to use a stock theme for his blog, so I am working on skinning my own blog over at johnnybrazil.com, however it is not linked because I am not ready to push, however it will be soon.

Also, I finished the beta test of my most recent site for the law firm Donahue & Goldberg.

And Speaking of law firms, I also just recently busted out some CMS (Content Management Systems) skills for my Morgenstern Jacobs & Blue site. Originally a static site, I recently retooled a wordpress theme to act as the dynamic interface for this site. I will be launching it soon.

Links to follow.

Photography of the Moment: Andy Clymer

I just recently found this photoblog by Andy Clymer, type designer at Hoefler & Frere-Jones, and really love this Steam picture. Check out his site, for his other photos and buy beautiful fonts from typography.com.

I dont play video games much.. but this is funny.

These new World of Warcraft commercials are ha.larious. Seriously, Mr. T is awesome, and so is Shatner, but Mr. T wins this one for me.