I have finally come back completely, meaning my jetlag hangover is gone and I can resume my dA activity again

I had an awesome time with `KubusRubus and I miss him terribly

DD suggestion notes will be looked at tomorrow and hopefully there are some awesome pieces in there I trust in you sending me great work I probably missed a lot on dA, some new/returned CVs have joined the team and things are exciting as always.

From the not so many really exciting things I have to share that I saw SNL's Fred Armisen in the subway and happened to spot Prince Harry. `KubusRubus tried to take pics of him cos he had his zoom on the camera, but due to lack of knowing Prince Harry he took pics of he wrong guy More reason he is awesome

We also met up with `bleedsopretty and `thespook in Virginia… which completely failed on my side, cos we didn't introduce with dA names and I only realized who he was after over half an hour Vacation me, funtiems
So awesome meeting you guys!

What did I miss? What were you up to in the last 4 weeks? Any exciting news or artworks you want me to check out? (I have deleted all 600 news and journals from my message center)

Pictures

Hi guys

just a quick journal to let you know, that I will be less active in the next four weeks because I will be on vacation with `KubusRubus

I will check dA less often, but I will still Just not as often

Some links to spare the time for you




See you soon

And back on track with this project I am very happy to have this article be the 20th "anniversary" of the series I enjoy every article as it shows so wonderfully the wide range of wonderful and amazing art you can find on dA. Every category has gems and can leave you in awe.

Remember: Never stop looking beyond your horizon

Or maybe just spin around, stop randomly and enjoy whatever is there

I always loved and will always love the diversity you can find on dA. So so many amazing artists have found a home on this site and it is a shame that most of us, me included, don't go "out" often enough to find those talented people, who are just a gallery away from us

I hope you enjoy this small selection as much as I do

Welcome to the February and March update about the Text Art and Typography Galleries on dA!

I am currently having computer issues, which makes f.e. reading notes rather a long and painful experience, so my responses may be even longer than usual, this does also mean I may not read DD suggestion notes quickly and reply to them.

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Daily Deviations February & March 2013

Of Interest!

Check out this awesome Interview with eugeniaclara I did some weeks ago!

A short editorial about Lettering vs Calligraphy.

And some thoughts on Suggested Changes for the Fonts Gallery, regarding a more streamlined and better understandable structure.

Typography Related Groups

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Foster Creative Genius

Thank you all for the sweet birthday wishes I try to reply to all of them



Meanwhile I will try to entertain you with some (eye) candy

All the awesome cakes

It would break my heart having to eat any of those tho

This is a new skin I made recently. Something spring like… especially as it is still snowing outside. I can't remember a birthday of mine where it was still snowing
I even bought me a fancy Übergangsjacke that I can't wear yet, cos it's still too cold

My computer is still not working, I am trying to do something today or tomorrow and hope it will work. And I won't lose my files If I will lose my files I would at least have a cheap offer to replace the HD. I hope it won't come to that

Anyway, no unhappy thoughts today

As of friday night, my computer is broken. I am currently online on my old and out-of-date computer, which makes browsing and typing a pain in the a**. I keep being told I use old browsers… as if I didn't know I cannot update this thing, which is why I bought a new computer last year

However it's an iMac and it won't start anymore. I tried safe boot and recovery mode. Recovery mode works, so I can run a disk utility which tells me there is something wrong and it cannot be fixed by disk utility.  I tried re-installing the OS, but the first try managed to connect to the net, but I was told I am not authorized to reinstall, which is bullshit cos I did buy the latest OS in the app store Trying it again today, I managed to connect an ethernet cable and succesfully connected to WLAN, but the reinstall process tells me I am NOT online W. T. F.

I am so frustrated and depressed. Think today I will call up customer support ( I f***ing hate calling customer support of any kind) and have them tell me I need to give it to repairs. For a chance of getting back all my files. Cos duh, I suck at making backups. It's like "Yeah, I do that this sunday" and it never happens

No idea what was wrong with it in the first place. I was downloading google takeout from my google reader (cos f***ers shut that thing down) and it showed me the mac equivalent of a middle finger: the color wheel. For five minutes. I decided to power it off. It turned on again, but now the finder kept blinking… like: 1 second normal, 1 second only wallpaper, 1 secone grey screen, 1 second normal, and so on and on. I barely managed to turn it off the normal way.  I tried again, same thing. Turned on my old mac to get the keyboard combinations to reach recovery mode and others and now it won't turn on normally at all anymore. It reaches the apple logo and a progress bar but after one third it just turns itself off.

I feel sick thinking about it
I don't want to lose all my files That would be horrible and I'd probably cry. Or just be devastated. Cos I think somehow this whole thing also killed my SD card which contained ~800 unsaved pictures which was in a card reader when the whole shit happened. I am so not happy. I wish I could  wake up and it was al good Not gonna happen

So yeah, I won't be around as much I guess.

Last June a new gallery strcuture was introduced to Resources & Stock Images > Fonts. You can read more about it in the R&S - Font Gallery Update!.

During the process of finding thumbs for each of the Fonts categories in that tree, it became clear to me, that some of the galleries do not even contain one proper submission. I have to admit, I did not do as much moving of deviations into right categories as I should have, but I was also searching for specific fonts and was not able to find one or god forbid two deviations of that kind. There are 24 categories and not all of them seem necessary.

Now with the official announcement of the Gallery Makeover Project it is time to reflect upon the gallery and consider changes to its structure.

I have thought about this issue for months already! Inlcuding belly aches and headaches Basically my thoughts are "mmmh maybe we were shotting over the moon with this and maybe we should make it simpler". To be honest, making the decision to go into such detail with the subcategories was not an easy one back then either. I was afraid it would be too complicated for people to find the right gallery.

In order to streamline the fonts category, make fonts easier to submit and easier to find, I would suggest to focus on the seven main categories and close all sub-categories.

If you are interested in more of the details of this suggestion, you can read on

Chirographic

Let's have a look at Chirographic fonts and do some math:
Calligraphic = 23 / Chancery = 0 / Handwritten = 45 / Other = 30 / Script = 10. That makes 108 deviations spread among 5 categories*. This seriously brings up the question to me, whether those sub-categories are really necessary.
*Of course, this math is done including miscats, so there could be chirographic fonts in other categories as well as non-chirographic fonts in this one.

So in an effort to optimise this category it would seem logical to have no sub-categories and maybe even rename it from Chirographic to Script. Even tho Chirographic is the proper term, most font foundries do not use it, but refer to this kinda fonts as Script, so I see no reason why dA should not do that.

Non-western

While I still think this category is necessary and good, it probably does not need all the sub-categories. There are ~120 deviation in this category, with Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew and Japanese being basically empty. And I tried to look for it, some of those don't have one deviation in the whole of dA at all. So, we could keep Arabic and Other, but that would be kinda pointless, too, if you ask me, so it would most likely be best to nuke the sub-categories.

Reminder about Non-Western: Fonts that imitate a Non-Western writing system, but do actually make the Latin Alphabet belong into Fonts > Other.

Sans Serif

There are at about 480 deviations submitted to this category. The sub-cats each host less than 100 deviations each (this is due to last year's restructuring; some deviations do not show up in the deepest level because they have not been moved there).

A quick search brought up these results:
Geometric = 23
Grotesque = 4
Humanist = 2

Um… yeah. I am impressed by the lack of obviously proper submissions

Serif

Here I can see a number of ~600 deviations. (Funnily searching the whole fonts category for serif only brings up 246. You do the math for miscats. And even those results contained non-serif fonts >_>)

Under the assumption that a font designer who creates a new Serif would know what kind it is, would even if not submitted right, at least use a keyword to indicate affiliation, I searched the fonts gallery… here are my search results:
Garalde = 0 (1 result, but that was a Sans Serif font)
Glyphic = 0
Humanist = 0 (2 sans serif fonts)
Modern = 6
Transitional = 3 (3 non serif fonts)

Those search results do in no way justify the existence of these galleries. I am sorry to say it that way, but it's the truth

The search results for Sans and Serif also make me wonder… do people even know or care about keywords or descriptions?! From the looks of it, they don't. Or they just do not create those kind fonts.
I guess it also shows that a lot of people create fonts without much knowledge about categories and styles, which is okay, but it also goes to show a lack of professionalism. I don't mean this as an insult. Everybody has to start somewhere And that is totally fine. Nobody starts out at something as an expert, that would be absurd

Generally

The category structure in itself would remain as it is:

• Resources & Stock Images
• Fonts
• Chirographic (Script)
• Non-Western
• Other
• Pixel
• Sans Serif
• Serif
• Slab Serif

I see no necessary changes being made for Blackletter, Pixel or Slab Serif.

Why this change in mind about the sub-categories?
One reason is that I am not even able to distinguish between some of that without reading up and in detail comparisons. And I don't have the time to do that, just to move it to the proper category.

Second one is that as someone looking for a font to use, I will most likely have no idea what each sub-cats stands for either, so I would have a hard time finding a font and may give up in frustration.

Third one: if the big font foundries don't go into that much detail, why should dA? I know, if your friends jump from a bridge… and stuff like that, but seriously… those places make money with fonts and they don't do it!

If you are looking for a specific font, f.e. Garalde, enter it in the search bar and browse fonts. Of course you would have to rely on the creator adding it as a keyword, but if as a creator you made a Garalde font, I am sure you would totally add it to the keywords or description, cos you want your work to be found.

Possible Cons?

One of the initial thoughts of making the categories this deep, was to appear more professional. Also in the hope it would attract more typeface designer to submit their work to dA. Of course, the R&SI gallery is aimed at free content, with a variation of licences, but easy to download and use resources.
I am personally not convinced of this idea, as I believe the quality of submissions is more likely to make more people want to join, rather than a detailed gallery structure. An easier galley structure is in my opinion more likely to attract more quality submissions into their proper place.

The introduction of the Premium Content Platform was another hope to attract more (possibly professional) typeface designers making their fonts available via dA.

On a side note: I would prefer fonts that are available for purchase/download only off dA, to be submitted as designs only to Digital Art > Typography > Font Design with links to the purchase/download site.

Personally I cannot think of a second Con to this, your input is welcome, I may just not be able to see it.

But yeah, this is what may be happening Discuss

Are you ready for some news?

Paintings & Airbrushing merged with Drawings

There has been a not-so-minor change to the Browsing Digital Art gallery here on dA: Drawings and Paintings & Airbrushing has been merged!

Main reason for this is, that contrary to Traditional Art, the differentiation between the two media is almost impossible in Digital Art. Both use the same software tools and only differ slightly in appearance and maybe a bit more in technique. The deviations submitted to both categories could be completely interchangeable and instead of trying to fight windmills and clean it up (srsly who would wanna do that?!) or find a uncommon ground to write proper descriptions for both, it was pretty much common sense that lead to the decision to merge the two in Digital Art.

You can read more of the details over here
Digital Art - Drawings and PaintingsI'll be adding some points brought by the community at the bottom of the journal to deepen the discussion about them, scroll down for the edits!
Back in september, a discussion about the differences between Paintings and Drawings took place. The conclusion of said discussion was in a nutshell; that the differences between the two are not really that discernable which lead to confusion from the community and that was evident for you could see a mix of both in both sub-galleries. So now we're happy to announce that both sub-categories got merged into: Digital Art > Drawings & Paintings.
Another thing is that Digital Art > Other disappeared since that was another misleading category which included other sub-categories within,

Gallery Makeover Project

The aforementioned merge is part of a bigger project we are about to kickstart!
Gallery Makeover ProjectHello everyone
Recently my team and I worked tirelessly on a project to help improve the gallery descriptions and thumbnail examples.  While that project was indeed tedious with almost 4,000 categories in our system, it was also educational.  What I learned from sorting through thousands and thousands of categories was that we have a lot of redundancy and a lot of categories that seem to have been created on a whim that are now simply homes for junk.
Over the years, the desire to appease niche communities and people who just wanted a specific area has led to some categories that go up to 4 levels deep, and it's really no wonder it's so confusing for people to figure out where to submit their artwork.
The conclusion I've come to is simplicity.  While I'm not about to rip apart everything and make 6 stand alone categories, I do believe that there is a lot we can do to simplify the category tree.  That includes some of the following:
1. Merging categories that ma
The Gallery Makeover Project is going to be about looking at the galleries, especially sub and sub categories, and try to find a way to streamline things. Following the KISS concept (no, not black and white make up and disco music, ts what are you thinking?) we are looking forward to making submitting your work on dA simpler!
The easier to submit your work, the less miscats are bound to happen Or at least, that is one of the reasons we are doing this Let's hope for the best, shall we?

Traditonal Typography Makeover

On the subject of gallery changes, you still have chances to give me feedback for Traditional Typography right here
Input needed - Traditional Typography Gallery!After the successful restructuring of the Font gallery it is time to tackle the Traditional Art > Typography gallery with an update! 
I already have some ideas of what I think would be great additions / changes, but I want to know what you think about it, too! 

That is what this journal is for  
To share my ideas and to hear your ideas! 

Calligraphy, Typographic Stencil & Miscellaneous are a good base for a gallery, but in my opinion they do not adequately display the wid

Personal Updates

I know I have been quiet as a CV lately, didn't get around setting many DDs or do any other updates. Part of that was a short 3 day trip two weeks ago and me being sick this week. Hey, at least I managed to watch season 2 of The Walking Dead while being off sick So, can I just say… Oh. My. God. Yes, I have also been watching Friends as of recently again.
So anyway, I will try to catch up with things, also get less sick again, and be back to normal speed pretty soon

This needs more .GIFs…





Much better

Today I want to show you a project I came across doing some research today

"‘Lettering vs Calligraphy’ is a project by Giuseppe Salerno and Martina Flor. It consists of a visual dialogue between a letterer and a calligrapher, where they draw/write a letter responding to a keyword given by a moderator. The adventure aims to explore the capabilities of the two technical approaches. It delivers one letter daily and takes place online, where the visitors are invited to vote for their favourite."

I am instantly a huge fan of this project and probably followed them everywhere

Here are some of their fights

Btw this is also relevant…

Because there is going to be an update on the Traditional Art > Typography gallery here on dA (on which you can still leave feedback ^^), and Calligraphy and Lettering have turned out to be a sort of hot topic. Strictly speaking, what is actually the difference between them and are they not maybe the same thing?

I am of the stand point that they are very different.

Calligraphy to me has always come from actual writing, your pen/brush touches the paper and writes in one as continuous as possible stroke. Calligraphy is only characters and symbols and no extra decoration. Just the words, written in a beautiful and skillful manner. And it has to be passionate, you can feel rhythm and movement, looking at and creating calligraphy. It is a very emotional form, as the writer is inseparable from what he is writing, the connection is very close through the brush onto the paper.

Lettering on the other hand is something that is more constructed, that can use rulers and erasers and grids and so on. And it can contain a variety of styles in only one work. Different "fonts" and different appearances. It is much more graphic and sometimes even called "built-up-lettering". It may appear and sound to be less emotional, but talented artists manage to create emotions in lettering, too.

Some may even call lettering drawing, which actually makes a pretty good point as to their differences: Drawing vs Writing!

Of course, the difference between the two can be thin!

Elements from both can be combined and create something awesome. What you think it is, is up to you If you consider what you do as more calligraphy that is just as good as calling it lettering. This is a wager you have to make up with yourself.

Where do you stand?

Do you think Calligraphy and Lettering are two different things?

Looking forward to hearing your input

Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) is one of the most influental directors of the last century. If there is one thing most obvious that his works have in common, it is a strong inclination to the unsettling, sometimes disturbing and most likely controversial.

From ancient history over horror to science-fiction and erotica, there seems to be no topic he did not create a master piece in. He always avoided to repeat himself, yet you just know when you watch a movie of his.



He was a perfectionist who often drove his actors to the extreme. Repeating seemingly simple scenes 5o times or actually endangering their health for a certain shot.
Obsessed with every detail of the movie, from camera to costume, he was also immaculate about researching whatever theme he had choosen for his next project.



Most of his movies were based on novels or short stories, often with the implication to make a better movie than the book was. "Lolita", a very controversial book due to its theme, was turned into a satire. Similar to the dark humour of "Dr. Strangelove" which featured a brilliant Peter Sellers.



Especially in his the later works he used classical music very often. In films like "2001: A Space Odyssey" this formed a high contrast to the sci-fi theme of the movie. But also in "A Clockwork Orange" classical music played a main role in the movie.



His photographic background is clearly one of the reasons for  his movies being visually extremely strong, creating fantastic worlds for the viewer to dive into.



Using the one-point-perspective to the extreme, for example, is one of his many trademarks, often unsettling yet always managing to catch the viewer.



He inspired a countless number of other directors and artists from pretty much every medium with his amazing works.

His Most Memorable Movies:

• Spartacus (1960)
• Lolita (1962)
• Dr. Strangelove (1964)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• A Clockwork Orange (1971)
• Barry Lyndon (1975)
• The Shining (1980)
• Full Metal Jacket (1987)
• Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

There is a pace an rhythm to his movies, unusual in modern cinematography. He let the visuals of his movies speak for themselves and gave them time to fully sink in.
He created almost iconic styles and images, which are immediately recognizable as sprung from possibly only his mind.

Questions for the reader!

• Are you familiar with Stanley Kubrick at all?
• If so, do you like/enjoy his work?
• What is it that you like/do not like about it?
• Has his work ever inspired you to something? (For art or just sparked an interest for something)
• If you haven't seen his movies, will you try them now?

Welcome back to Typo Talks, the recurring article series with interviews by various deviants active in the Typography community on dA.

Today we have another interview with an awesome typographic artist from dA: ~eugeniaclara She joined dA in 2008 and has since been an active artist and contributor to the community! Her mostly typographic works have a very personal and distinctive style, which always manages to put a smile on the viewers face.

You can find her not only on dA, but can also connect with her on tumblr, twitter or facebook.

The Interview!

Please introduce yourself first
~eugeniaclara: Hi! I'm Eugenia Clara, mostly written in internet as 'eugeniaclara', but you just can call me Clara. I like to scribble and doodle, and most of my art-works are related to typography / lettering.



How did you get into Art and Design?
~eugeniaclara: Some of my family/relatives also dive into art (dancer, painter, sculpturer, etc) - I guess It's kind of one in several generations- flesh and blood skill. I like drawing-things since i was a born (manual and traditional drawing) – until early 2008 I started to do 'digital art' and introduced to bitmap and vector drawing (A little late lol but didn't matter).

I like drawing-things since i was a born

What are your main sources of inspiration?
~eugeniaclara: Mainly on what I see on daily basis, Music, Films, and Books, and the most of all : Others' works; in real world also in internet.

What fascinates you about typography and makes you want to create it?
~eugeniaclara: First of all because I couldn't draw *giggle* - nope, I find it easier to write down what I want to say instead of paint a meaningful illustration. It will take too long for me to draw, instead, I write.

I was an almost-novelist and writer in several local magazines (went incognito with alias) years ago. A year after I dug about 'graffiti', I amused so much by lots of writings in the wall, most of them is meaningless or a bit too much of styles so it was kinda hard too read, but either way, I was totally amused by that. I mean, look at those people who can made a written word seemed interesting to read/see.

Also I wrote a lot of quotes, books, and doodles. From then on, I thought 'What can I do to make this text more appealing?' and so on, hence the urge to decorate the text. It started from that. I don't want my writing will be just another text on the paper or wall, I want to make it, well, at least, appealing to read. I knew the term 'typography' itself when I already published my 'text art' on internet, got feedback from people, on so on.



Do you think it helps young artists to join online communities?
~eugeniaclara: Of course it is helping a lot. I don't know about all young artists, but some of the 'artists' are unique, sometimes to attend a physical community takes a lot of courage, like, meeting new people, getting direct judging or discuss in person or something like that.

Online Communities are the best medium. We get to know a lot of people from another countries, it's wide, it's online.

I was a lot shy back then, I didn't have the confidence. Personally I ever tried to join local art community and they were not nice on accepting so-called 'rookie', It was tough for me. I'd rather join online community where I can get decent feedback without have to 'appear physically' - lol I'm ranting, sorry, but, Online Communities are the best medium. We get to know a lot of people from another countries, it's wide, it's online. It wider the chance of introducing your art and yourself into the whole world, I mean, we can have a virtual 'personal space' in there, and it's easier to find a help that fits us. Beside, it's easier and more effective.

How much do you think where we come from, influences how our art looks like? (how does where you come from influence what you create)
~eugeniaclara: Hmm... never think about that before I guess it pretty much influenced the way I express thing. Like, I was came from, let's say, 'East' part of the world, where 'to talking blatantly' or 'speak out loud' is a bit contrary to popular norm. Also the shape, the style and the characters of the art itself much inspired by  traditional art around the places I lived.

Your work a lot with hand-writing; do you think it helps you express your words better?
~eugeniaclara: Yes, yes I am. I personally think If a picture can express a thousand words, then a writing can pictures thousand assumptions. Which is more complex in general. I choose hand-writing because sometimes it gives more personality, to make a point that "hey, this is me and this is what I made". Like, I want to write something witty-serious that no font can represent, something like that. Well, my personal works are mostly hand-writing, yes. But I still use helpful pre-made / ready sources for other works

[Hand-writing] gives more personality, to make a point that "hey, this is me and this is what I made"

What are your three favourite pieces from your own gallery?
~eugeniaclara: Haha it's kind of hard to choose because I see them generally. But here's some of the favorite (for sentimental reason lol).



Please share some of your favourite works by other dA artist and tell us what you like about them.





What medium/style did you always want to try, but have not yet?
~eugeniaclara: I always want to do a real-life 3D installation art. It takes patience and lots of works, and it's challenging as well. Looking forward to do that, hopefully, soon

Where else to find ~eugeniaclara

• Blog / tumblr
• twitter
• facebook

Thank you very much for the interview

Hello guys
Long time since I have written a personal only journal  Main reason: I have no "personal" journal skin that I like at the moment Significance of that reason? 1/10. Especially since I do make lots of skins For various reasons, but any other theme than "me" makes it easier to come up with design ideas. I know that I want to incorporate social media links, but damn, all those sites have blue icons Most of them, anyway: facebook, twitter, behance, linkedin, tumblr… as if there is no other color Thank you dribble and pinterest for sticking out. And dA, obviously, for being green

I wonder what the F*** he just messed up…

I am rambling

I use this .GIF way too often >_>

Second reason for not writing more personal journal: no news. Significance: 7/10.

Suit up, man! Woman… eh… yeah…

Okay, not true. I am not that bored. Maybe just not motivated and I totally want a shit load of .GIF's in here, so there you go. I also just got totally stuck at tumblr, so I forgot what I wanted to say.

Almost wasn't able to fall asleep last night. Out of nowhere, or just out of my brain, I thought about "Game of Thrones" Season 3. And tried to remember the third book and what was happening in it. And all the horror came back

I know, I know… WRONG fantasy! But: APPROPIATE!!

I mean, seriously, if you have read the third (and following) books of "A Song of Ice and Fire" you know what I am talking about and it will be sooooo emotional in Season 3. I am not sure I will survive it. Well, on the bright side I know who of the characters will and will not survive. Knowing TOTALLY does NOT make it any better tho.

I seriously just made that face wondering what .GIF to put here…

…

This is a couple of hours later than when I started to write it and now I remembered why I actually wanted to write it: KIRIBAN!
I will be hitting 190.000 soon, so if you catch that, you'll get something…

The next day…

How I feel today…

I rendered this completely useless myself by not finishing the entry earlier. The Kiriban has just passed. But it gives me time to think of what you will get if you catch the 200.000. Which will happen in something between 50 and 100 days

mwuahahahaha

I don't really know what else to say, except for that I will keep you updated on that new Kiriban as soon as it gets in a distance of like one week or some days. Today was just one of those thursdays I actually tried to make a lunch break, but I only got so far as to get me coffee and have one bit of my pretzel Like right before I was going home I ate some creamcheese premade snack bar thing from Philadelphia… I had to eat SOMETHING! So I shoved that in

It went down better than that.

Will work be better in the next days/weeks/months?

I was told Sherlock .GIFs are necessary…

I don't really see it getting better and it's already frustrating cos today just made me feel dumb and I don't like feeling dumb and useless. I fucking hate thursdays

Damn, now I want beer and nuts.

OMG I am so sorry for being so pointless eventually I hope you had a good time with the .GIFs tho

See you around

Remember, don't try this at home!

More .GIFs at pica's .gifs on tumblr!

January update about the Text Art and Typography Galleries on dA!

Please check out my journal Input needed - Traditional Typography Gallery!, as I am looking for more input! More about that further down in this journal, too.

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Daily Deviations January 2012

Traditional Typography

I am still looking for input on the Input needed - Traditional Typography Gallery!

Input needed - Traditional Typography Gallery!After the successful restructuring of the Font gallery it is time to tackle the Traditional Art > Typography gallery with an update! 
I already have some ideas of what I think would be great additions / changes, but I want to know what you think about it, too! 

That is what this journal is for  
To share my ideas and to hear your ideas! 

Calligraphy, Typographic Stencil & Miscellaneous are a good base for a gallery, but in my opinion they do not adequately display the wid

The range of what you can see in Typography created by Traditional (aka non-digital) means is vast and amazing. There is so much more than the 2 galleries that exist at the moment. Especially with the Stencil gallery, I was always amazed by the fact that it even exists (and disgusted by the amount of miscats, obviously).

I appreciate ANY KIND of input! Even if you think you are unqualified, I call on bullshit, cos maybe actually not having a clue about Typography is exactly what is needed

I want the artform to be as open to anyone as possible and a proper gallery structure and gallery descriptions will definetely help here! So, don not hesitate to give me your thoughts

Looking forward to it

Typography Related Groups

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Foster Creative Genius

Did you know that vector artist and Community Volunteer `ChewedKandi has got a new title to add to her resume? She can now call herself: published author! Of what you may ask? Well, this makes it even more awesome! She is the author of Adobe Master Class Illustrator.





Some amazing artists from dA, among them some of who I can call my friends and other amazing artists I am admiring for a while already `ChewedKandi, *ssst and =Asher-Bee  



Here are more of the awesome artists who are in the book and the works with which they are in it!

`j3concepts =marywinkler *shiropanda ~TokyoCandies ~lanitta ~dimary *CQcat *NaBHaN ~roberlan `CrisVector ~ivan-bliznak ~shoelesspeacock and many many more

Stay devious!

Take this success story as an inspiration! Work hard and have fun, cos you never know what you can achieve!

After the successful restructuring of the Font gallery it is time to tackle the Traditional Art > Typography gallery with an update! 

That is what this journal is for  

To share my ideas and to hear your ideas! 

To better illustrate the ideas I had so far, I shall do so by using some examples

Welcome to the last monthly roundup of 2012 It has been a busy year, many things have happened and here is me trying to wrap them up a little and have a bit more than just last month's Daily Deviations in this summary.

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Daily Deviations December 2012

2012 in Typographic Review

Here's a little collection of things that have been going on this year on dA regarding Typogrpahy

Text & Typography Monthly

• January

• February

• March

• April - June

• July - August

• September - November

Contest

Bring Your Type To Life

Gallery Updates

Resources & Stock Images - Font Gallery Update
Earlier this year the Resources & Stock Images > Font Gallery has been updated with more professional and detailed categories.

#projecteducate

Project Educate: Typography Wrap Up
A Brief History of Typography
#projecteducate just never stops And why should it? There is always something to learn in every day and about anything. Especially on dA some things just cannot be repeated enough (miscast anybody?) Give this group some love

#ArtHistoryProject

Milestones of Digital Art
#ArtHistoryProject is a project started in 2012 to help educate about art and its history and it's implications in the digital world and dA. We focus on any kind of art and medium, so everything is possible

Celebrating Diversity

Celebrating Diversity series
This series kicked off in the middle of 2012 and is all about showing the huge diversity of amazing art posted to dA on a daily basis. It's all about stepping out of your comfort zone and finding wonderful gems in galleries you normally would never browse through.

Typography Related Groups

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Foster Creative Genius

Hohoho! It's this time of year again I wish you all a very merry Christmas (or whatever holiday you celebrate at around this time of year) Look at me being all PC there Anyway, seems like we survived the Apocalypse or this is the after-life and nothing changed I want to thank all of you for the constant support thru out this year and also the years before. This community is awesome to be an online home! There may be some black sheeps around who make everybody grumpy from time to time, but I guess every family has their black sheep

Thank you for everything

For every fave, comment, reply, profile visit and crazy moment here on dA I am very happy to know so many awesome people here on dA, who do great things and are so positive and helpful, to me and to others.

2012 – huh, what a ride!

This is not going to be one of those "review" journals Just a bit of it There has been a lot going on, on dA and privately.


I am on my second term as Community Volunteer and $Moonbeam13 gave me the opportunity to become a Mentor on this awesome team It doesn't change that much for what you can see me doing, but it means my term has no "set" ending

Surprisingly I also received another DD this year, `ChewedKandi and ^KasumiCR are the bastards behind that Bastards cos getting a DD is crazy insane and has you panting for breath DAYS AFTER I love them both, tho

^Pixel-Spotlight is pretty much responsible for my addiction to .GIFs and Game of Thrones. But it would be unfair to blame her alone, so ^Beccalicious and ^neurotype get some of the blame, too.


This brings to another awesome event this year: I met up with `Exillior and `ginkgografix in Hamburg, walking around the city and even thru the old Elbtunnel (We talked about GoT as well >_> )

Coming to a bigger devMeet now, when I was in New York in May `KubusRubus and me managed to make it to the Celebrating Cinco dA Mayo meeting!  Organised was this awesome meet up by `HaveTales-WillTell and I even met some (more) dA staff: $Ayame-Kenoshi

That was in May. But when I made it to New York again in October/November, I was hit by the real US deal: not only became I witness to the insanity that elections are over there, but also was "trapped" in the middle of Sandy. I have not experienced such a storm and aftermath before. I was grateful for the German infrastructure after it  
It was also scary, how long so many people were without power. It is painful to see the most powerful nation in the world not being able to help its people as much as they needed. My hopes go out to those who suffered from the storm in that area

On a much more personal level, I have not yet had the time to share this with most of my followers. Those who are close to me or on the CR team already know, but I did not managre to tell it to the rest of you. In November my father passed away. It is still not easy to "admit" to it, things are still pretty fresh. This will maybe explain my lack of personal journals lately, as I was tying not to get into it too much. As weird as this sounds, it was not completely out of the blue. He had been 78 years old and been suffering from Parkinson in the last 10 years. This was never easy for our whole family. In November he had to be transferred into hospital and after several weeks and 3 infectious diseases that had to be treated with antibiotics, the last being a pneumonia, he just wasn't strong enough anymore and passed away.
This is really focusing on the facts, it is hard for me to write about it and I am not entirely sure yet what this all means for me and my mom. It's a big change and you should know about it, I kinda feel like a hypocrite if I don't share it with you

So, this does turn into a "review"  journal after all


But don't worry, I'm pretty much done with looking back There is not much left but look to the future

All together 2012 was a busy year. Work and life and dA keeps you on your toes at all times

Obviously, I am now on holiday vacation until January 2nd and I get sick on the last day of work. It's a pretty usual reaction, as long as I am under stress (at work) my body has no time to get sick. As soon as I have time to relax it all just melts down My defense go on vacation as well Bastards

As for 2013…

I don't have any plans yet The way things have played out this year, I don't know what I will do, yet. The idea to find a job in the US/NYC is still in my head, to finally be able to spend a good and "normal" amount of time with `KubusRubus. I have to work towards that, both mentally and in the sense of creating my own presence as a designer in form of a good portfolio and identity. This should not be decided hastily, so I will have to put thought into that

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Stay awesome!