Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Creating an company identity





Monday, June 1, 2009

Advertising Arzuaga wine


We where request to simulate and advertising with the minimum of letter and maximum of expressions...

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Creating movie intro presentation

HANDS LABOR NOTE:

We want to inform that this project is not completed but we have a video animation for those who wants to see the final result. (Please do not hesitate to contact us by email HandsLabor@gmail.com If you have any suggestion, we would love to have your input, thank you very much).

Covers for Veronica decide morir, El masacre se pasa a pie and Cronicas de una muerte anunciada



Learning Time!!! "The art of Fonts And Typography"

Font History [G] [Y]

What is a Font?

A font is all the letters, numbers, punctuation and other symbols which compose a typeface. Fonts were first developed as cast lead type for printing presses, and were later digitized as typefaces for use on computers.

The first font

The first typeface was designed by Johann Gutenberg, for his movable type press. Books were all hand-lettered at the time, and Gutenberg wanted to create a faster way to produce books that looked hand-lettered. He designed his type in the style of the Gothic blackletter at the time, so that his printed books would look hand-lettered.


As more printing shops opened up, printers began to look at other lettering styles to use as models for typefaces. More thought was put into creating typefaces, and this gave rise to the art of typographic design.


Roman and Italic styles

Nicholas Jenson designed the first true Roman typeface around 1460, which was used for books printed in Italy. This was an upright typeface that was lighter in design compared to the heavy blackletter type of German printing. To this day, upright typefaces are referred to as Roman, or Regular.

In the early 1500's, Aldus Manutius developed the first Italic typeface with Francesco Griffo, influenced by the popularity of cursive writing. The capitals were still upright, but all lowercase letters were slanted to the right, like cursive writing. The slanted letters took up less space on the page, so books could be smaller in size and therefore less expensive. This style was called Italic, meaning from Italy, but today an italic typeface refers to slanted, or oblique, letters (including capitals)


Definition of Typography

Definition:
The design and use of typefaces as a means of visual communication from calligraphy to the ever-developing use of digital type is the broad use of the term typography. However, the art and practice of typography began with the invention of moveable type and the printing press. Typography is sometimes seen as encompassing many separate fields from the type designer who creates letterforms to th
e graphic designer who selects typefaces and arranges them on the page.



HANDS LABOR NOTE:
Hello every body, so today we are teaching what its a typography and what is a font, where do they come from, who invented or who was the pionier on this beautiful!! art and design filosophy, how ever Fonts and Typography development are more deep knowledge, so for thous of you who wants to become part of this kind of designs!!! we will provide you some tools that you may found indispensable.

Creating a Font
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What else i need to know in orther to create my own font!!!!

well you have to study this following names:
Serifs
Sans Serifs
Side-bearings
kerning
Structure of Fonts:"we provide you a free poster of three of the best typographers and typography family and structure of a font, just click on 'TYPOGRAPHY AND FONT" if you need an translation for French, English, or Italian, please send us and e-mail to Handslabor@gmail.com, we will also be more than happy on changing the format to pdf so that you cand delith with a high definition of the design and also can print it on any place near to your home, thi is all free charge.

Font editing programs
We recomend you to investigate the following softwares to your affordability:

DTL FontMaster
FontMaster comes as seven different modules. Its quait expensive. It’s available for PC and Mac.
FontLab Studio
sn’t exactly cheap, coming in at $649 (US). Hes web site give you a 30 days free trial before you buy it. It’s available for both PC and Mac.
FontCreator
More affordable than FontLab. Only work with TrueType and OpenType fonts—no Type 1 fonts—and is for Windows only.
FontForge
Installing FontForge (at least under Windows) is not exactly a simple matter (you’ll need to install Cygwin first). Also, the program is not as well documented as FontLab. There was an interesting thread recently over at Typophile about FontForge that you might want to read, if you’re considering taking the open-source plunge. FontForge is available for PC, Mac, and Linux. (If you’re a Linux user, FontForge is more or less your only choice.)



Monday, April 20, 2009

Creating Olimpus Font, combining Helvetica, Bodoni and Caslon

The project:
The project was, creating as you already know, a single font, using diferent prossece, the original one, was to combine the three and differenced with different colors, well, we keep on going with the prossece and merge all of them after some adjustment.

Olimpus font:
Its about to bring to the people a different perspective for the unknown, the freedom of playing with new methods and style of fonts, we made this in order to createand unick tipography design, so we hope you enjoy it!!!.
The reason for Olimpus andnot any other word, was because, we have combine three of the most used Fonts around the hole world, so in order to keep with the legasy we named Olimpus, allthough it doesnt belong to any tipography family (because, once you have combine two or three or more than three tipes of fonts, your creating a hole new one).

Feautes:
We had already created the font!!! for your delight or just simply personal entertainment, Free with no cost. Keep sprade the good will.

Hebrews 13:16
And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

Learning Time "Brochure"




Origin
Acording to
Dictionary of Marketing Terms, 3rd edition, by Jane Imber and Betsy-Ann Toffler, published by Barron's Educational Series, Inc. The name originates from the French verb brocher, meaning "to stitch," indicating a booklet bound by stitching, although today other binding methods are also used.


Utility

Brochures have become vital in today's workplace, serving a wide variety of purposes. Some are quite complex and others are simpler; color brochure printing is one of the simpler options. It usually refers to printing using only a single color. Because brochures are extremely versatile in both content and use,..
The different types of brochure are magazine, product booklet, catalogs, company profile, annual reports, flyers, folders, leaflets and guides to name a few.