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Conan O'Brien // Kinetic Typography
Digital Design (Spring 2011)
Oklahoma State University
Professor Justen Renyer
Illustrator, Soundbooth, Cinema 4D, After Effects
This Kinetic Typography project was created from the dialogue of Conan O'Brien's final episode of The Tonight Show on NBC. In this farewell address, he describes his feelings towards NBC and the situation at hand. His personality exudes positivity and humor allowing this dialogue to describe his character very well. Even through the hardships of leaving NBC he promotes hard work and kindness.
The concept behind this video is to show Conan O'Brien as a the monumental entertainer and solid wall that he is. Conan O'Brien is and will continue to be a seasoned television entertainer. After drawing inspiration from Lou Dorfsman's Gastrotypographicalassemblage, this concept was achieved by creating a literal wall from over 60 individual typographic layouts. These custom crafted layouts reference a variety of vintage type design. The combination of vintage styled typography and modern 3D letter forms achieved in Cinema 4D provides a contrast between old and new. This contrast emphasizes time to create a sturdy and timeless object. This solidity and timelessness is the perfect representation of Conan O'Brien.
Below is a walkthrough of how we created one of our recent invitation card compositions - it may serve to inspire you in your latest project.
1. Created a vector temple arch design in Adobe Illustrator which we bought into Adobe Photoshop as a smart vector object. The title font and the grunge background were also chosen at this point as per the client's brief:
We all have our favorite photos - however what makes a good composition? Is it something that one can learn?"The Rule of Thirds" is a simple compositional rule of thumb used in all visual arts (photography, painting and design).
The rule states that an image should be imagined as divided into 9 equal parts by 2 equally-spaced horizontal lines and 2 equally-spaced vertical lines (see opposite), and that important compositional elements should be placed along these lines or their intersections.
Proponents of the technique claim that aligning a subject with these points creates more tension, energy and interest in the composition rather than simply centering the subject would (which this rule discourages).
Have fun!
Inspiration?
Dictionary: in·spi·ra·tion (excerpt taken from Answers.com):
noun.
- Stimulation of the mind or emotions to a high level of feeling or activity.
- The condition of being so stimulated.
- An agency, such as a person or work of art, that moves the intellect or emotions or prompts action or invention.
- Something, such as a sudden creative act or idea, that is inspired.
- The quality of inspiring or exalting: a painting full of inspiration.
- Divine guidance or influence exerted directly on the mind and soul of humankind.
- The act of drawing in, especially the inhalation of air into the lungs.
The Google Font
As Google has become a household name over the last few years - many people ask "What font have Google used in their logo?"
The good news is that the font is named Catull BQ, created for Berthold in 1982 by German designer Gustav Jaeger. The bad news is that is that it is available to buy online from around $99 and upwards.
If however you want to create another logo like the Google logo (using the same colour scheme and styling), then why not try GoogleFont.com. See above for one I made earlier.
Some harmless fun otherwise...