Moneygami

For many years I have been doing little tricks with folding money such as the shirt and the queens head pictures at the bottom of these images as well as the great happy queen sad queen trick, but some of these 'moneygami' pieces are amazing.

Its made even better when some of the animal folds actually use the notes pattern to create facial features such as eyes.

I have read that Moneygami is not a great name for this art form due to the fact that mixing the words money and origami to create moneygami does not quiet make sense. This is because in Japanese the word origami translates as ori ( to fold ) and gami ( paper ) so moneygami in a literal translation means moneypaper. There are other names for this such as money folding, note folding and banknote folding.

I want to find some tutorials on how to create these folds especial the gorilla one that is my favorite. 

Typography Tests

So after seeing the Grammy Awards posters I wanted to try and create something similar, plus I haven't tried to do to much around typography. 

The stuff that I made above are all just fairly simple test pieces just to show the basics of how to create an effective piece with just type. They work really quiet well and are defiantly very effective and eye-catching with a very simple style.

Because they are just test pieces the subject matter is just my name [because I am self obsessed I guess] :) with the exception of the dinosaur poster. That poster contains the definition of dinosaurs from the almighty wikipedia, I chose that topic just simply because I really like dinosaurs.

Not as good as the grammy's yet but I'll keep trying.

TBWA 51st Grammy Award Typography Art Work

I meant to publish these pieces a while ago but hey I'm doing it now. I really like these posters they look stunning. The Artists depicted gave 15 songs that influenced them to the ad agency TBWA who then created these images with them.

I am going to have to try and create similar images to these as they do look so good so hopefully I will post some up soon.

Tilt Shift Trails

Ok so after finding out about tilt shift I looked through my stock photos to try and find suitable pictures to try out the photoshop version of tilt shift.

I found some from my media trip around Grand Central and also from a time I went to Wembley stadium. You can see the effect does work on them a little bit but they are no where near as effective as some of the examples I posted before. I defiantly want to actively go out and take some photos with the purpose of making them look good when miniaturized. 

So I will have to come back to this when I have a chance, hopefully soon.

Tilt Shift Photography

I have just stumbled across this photography technique called tilt shift. It is done with a specialized lens that as the name suggests tilts and shifts, this has the effect of 'shallowing' the depths of field.  

All the above photos are of real life situations but look like miniature toys and there are many more examples out there. I gathered these from the following web site;

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/11/16/beautiful-examples-of-tilt-shift-photography/

There is also another technique to gain the effect of miniaturization which does not require the use of specialized lenses. It involves blurring out certain areas of a photograph on photoshop to create a narrow line of focus. I think this technique is not quiet as effective but still looks very interesting. 

The whole effect looks awesome and I really want to create some pictures like this but with out the special lenses I will try and create the photoshop verse, hopefully Ill post them up here where I complete them.