Comments on: ZAP! You've been Illuminated!

ZAP! You've been Illuminated!

taz — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 07:48:35 -0800

You have been disciplined all your life :::: Nothing Changed - Nothing Will

Words of encouragement from Piotr Szyhalski's Electric Poster Series (Animated gif images). Artist's web site here.

By: xmutex

xmutex — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 08:44:22 -0800

Uh, did you just use a HR tag in your post?

By: the fire you left me

the fire you left me — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 08:47:26 -0800

By: xmutex

xmutex — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 08:49:44 -0800

my HR is bigger than yours

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 10:30:02 -0800

Uh, did you just use a HR tag in your post? Hey, it made my day exciting. As did Piotr Szyhalski's ultra-cynical posters.

By: bshort

bshort — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 11:10:27 -0800

Can we use marquees on the front page now? Cool posters, btw.

By: ScottUltra

ScottUltra — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 11:28:13 -0800

There's lots of good stuff buried in the MCAD (Minneapolis College of Art and Design) site besides Szyhalski's work ... a good couple days worth of browsing at least. The only negative I can see is MCAD's emphasis on concept over workmanship, which doesn't necessarily apply to the series being discussed but rather MCAD's favored way of thinking about and teaching art.

By: damehex

damehex — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 11:39:20 -0800

His designs are amazing. Really a top-notch typographer. The posters made me feel frightened, then depressed, then a little bit ill. I think I'll mail #5 to my ex.

By: hama7

hama7 — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 12:38:07 -0800

I have a question for anybody who knows: How did the guy use all those nifty type fonts? Is it a relatively easy to find program or something? A plugin to photoshop? Anybody? Nice images. Thanks for the post, taz.

By: mikhail

mikhail — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 16:01:55 -0800

umm yeah, it's a plugin.

By: taz

taz — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 21:50:06 -0800

hama7, you just download fonts you like and once you've installed them they will be available to use in your graphics and word processing programs. Some of my favorite font sites are TypOasis, Font Paradise, Nick's Fonts, Astigmatic, and Misprinted Type.

By: taz

taz — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 22:17:01 -0800

Oh, and speaking of #5, damehex - is that a leech under a glass in the last image? Ew. Ouch. Ick. But nice metaphor. Sorry, xmutex, for the horizontal rule, but I didn't use my one free "egregious front page formatting abuse" pass last year, and I didn't want this year to slip by without taking advantage of it. It won't happen again!

By: hama7

hama7 — Sat, 06 Dec 2003 08:11:27 -0800

Thanks, taz.