Audi Sinfonie

This is simply brilliant. It's almost a form of story telling through the combination of audio and video by bringing together elements of live action video, digitally synthesised music combined with a live symphonic orchestra. By bringing together all these elements, it creates a unique experience that takes you on a visual joy ride through the production process of Audi to the final thrill of driving out on the open high way. This is interesting because it's something I would like my thesis to include, minus the live orchestra, unless I could get Toronto symphony to collaborate with me. But instead the bringing together of different elements and forming a sort of narrative. That's what I want to explore with graphic design and create some form of audio visual hybrid.

Waste Culture

The notion of waste culture presented by Ikea through Spike Jonze

In Process

Process work is awesome! I love looking at how things start out, design in their raw form, the initial thoughts going through before the conception and inevitable refinement of the final concept. Especially when that process involves type. Here's a look at one of my recent processes involving the creation of my 3-D typeface.

The Power of Motion Graphics

Nokta . from Onur Senturk on Vimeo.

The real reason I considered graphic design as a profession was simply spurred from the notion of wanting to create special effects incorporate with type, photography and illustration, combined so create meaning. This profession is called Motion Graphics and really, if you come to think of it is the future of graphic design. A better way to put it would be, it's the next level. Finding of communicating your intended message through as many mediums incorporate through different means. Truly something I would want to sink my teeth into. This is a taste of the power of motion graphics.

Tron Legacy

Tron when it first came out was a breakthrough in graphic capabilities. It was something new, never dreamt possible, and now, comes the release of the new Tron movie. Tron Legacy. Looks just beautiful. Very inspring work I must admit. I feel this will be the next escapist movie, right after the Matrix, though nothing beats the aura it was able to create. Very inspiring stuff!

CineFlex- Nowegian Sunrise

Cineflex - Norwegian sunrise from Leif Johan Holand on Vimeo.

Cineflex, these guys do a lot of cinematography capturing landscapes and nature. Truly inspiring work, especially this one in particular. The music and the scenes are just perfect. These things I dream about.

Faux Science & Bullshit

We’ve come to an age where less is more and the quicker you get your information, the better. Now this can in someway lead to us, as designers, wanting to seem more credible, hence, adopting science as our means of communicating our ideas and intentions. However, in the process of doing so, according to Jessica Helfand, we end up creating a sense of “Faux Science” From a designer’s point of view, making design connect with science would actually make sense. Design IS a form of science. It’s about, talking from a graphic designer’s point of view, an attempt at making visual connections with ideas and trains of thought. So does art to a certain degree, but it’s main function is to tell you how it’s artist feels- in which case, by looking at it you make your own meaning form what you see. But science, having achieved such a stable ground on being logical and sound, gives gain credibility because of its history and achievements over the centuries. As for design, well, by using scientific words and associations, it just ends up sounding like bullshit!