love works #5 [creative rules!]

My dear dreamers,

I've been working on this project since October. It's not finished yet but a sample of 10 works seems good enough to show you what I've been doing lately.



Rules of being creative #1 by ~BlackLuna on deviantART

Rules of being creative #2 by ~BlackLuna on deviantART

Rules of being creative #3 by ~BlackLuna on deviantART

Rules of being creative #4 by ~BlackLuna on deviantART

Rules of being creative #5 by ~BlackLuna on deviantART

Rules of being creative #6 by ~BlackLuna on deviantART

Rules of being creative #7 by ~BlackLuna on deviantART

Rule Of Being Creative #8 by ~BlackLuna on deviantART

Rule Of Being Creative #9 by ~BlackLuna on deviantART

Rule Of Being Creative #10 by ~BlackLuna on deviantART
Do you like rules or prefer chaos? Share your thoughts with me!

love works #4 [judge by the cover]

My dear dreamers,

These last days I've been working on a cover for a friend's poetry book, Rogério Prado Mendonça. It is entitled "Sobre o Amor e Outras Coisas Amargas", which in English is something like "About Love and Other Bitter Stuff". A series of sad and touching poems, which, I believe, everyone will address to.

Here's a sample of his work:

Suddenly she moves,
then all things become silence
We hear only the music of their muscles,
the battery of her heart
the song for her steps
While she dances every gesture she makes is a kiss and a slap,
each gesture is joy and sadness,
each gesture is love and indifference (but mostly love)
When she dances the perfection of her body defies the gravity,
and the gravity surrenders
When she dances her gestures and her smile are cathedrals,
cathedrals suspended in movement and beauty
While she dances her eyes shed darkness and stars on the audience,
and her hair, taken by the movement, shoots galaxies into the void
Suddenly the music stops,
Suddenly the movement stops
The audience suffers for a moment with the end of the movement,
then bursts into applause
She smiles a powerful smile and then leaves the scene,
taking with her all those hearts 

The movement, by Rogério Prado Mendonça

Book cover_Sobre o Amor version 8 by ~BlackLuna on deviantART

Book cover_Sobre o Amor version 7 by ~BlackLuna on deviantART

Book cover_Sobre o Amor version 6 by ~BlackLuna on deviantART

Book cover_Sobre o Amor version 5 by ~BlackLuna on deviantART

Book cover_Sobre o Amor version 4 by ~BlackLuna on deviantART

Book cover_Sobre o Amor version 3 by ~BlackLuna on deviantART

Book cover_Sobre o Amor version 2 by ~BlackLuna on deviantART

Book cover_Sobre o Amor version 1 by ~BlackLuna on deviantART See also his: ♣ Deviantart page ♥ Palavrarium (blog address to English version here) -- If you need a cover, or know someone who does, for your own book/CD, leave me a comment! My portfolio can be seen here. Thank you. ♥ --
♥ Do you have a favourite poet/writer? Share them with me!

featuring #6 [turn out the lights]

My dear dreamers,


Shhhh!... The movie session has begun: (Do you want to learn a new language? Watch these videos by EF:)

 

What would you show about your city/language?

breathing #8 [I lace you]

I know you hate Mondays, but I love them! It's the day of the Moon, my favourite luminary. I usually call myself as Luna, that means Moon is Spanish. However, that's not the only reason I prefer Mondays to Fridays or Saturdays.

As each day is a new fresh start, Mondays symbolizes a clean week where we can accomplish all our goals. Monday is energy. You're replenished from the weekend and you need to have your mind settled for the next five days. You'll not be as powerful as you are today, even if you can't feel it. That's why you need to feel inspired.

I'me here to wake you up and make you see the wonders of your life and how easy it is to put your hands to work and your hearts to love (yes, we can have more than one). Let's start!




♠  On the wonderful blog this is glamorous I read a long, but beautiful and invigorating article about lace (one of my favourite fabrics, along with silk and velvet). Make sure you read it too, don't be scared by the length of it as once you start to read you only want to know more and more. [Who is the girl who doesn't like lace? Lace is intricate, sweet, beautiful, delicate and sexy just like us.]

♠ If you're looking for great typography, you'll find it on Peter Hammarstrand's Behance Portfolio with 100 // Great things come out of boredom. Thank me later. 

♠  Travel to Rome in a white stair.

Did I changed your views about Monday? Tell me about it in the comments box.

feel safe

Another day, another work. Thursday is Thor's day, the god of Thunder. This is one of my favourite norse gods, along with Loki, Freyja, Bragi and Idun. And why? Because I love thunders and lightnings and scary skies. :)
Yesterday was one of those days where I could feel, with my whole body, the power of nature. I can't explain the sensation, but I adore it. Thurizas is the rune for health and strength, so I hope during this winter-feel time you'll have both.


Thor's day by ~BlackLuna on deviantART

be inspiring

My newest work project is about the days of the week. I didn't finished the flavours yet, but I'm working on that.

I like to think on the origins of things and the week days were always present on my mind, because they vary so much from country to country. Wednesday in English, mercredi in French, quarta-feira in Portuguese. 

Wednesday comes from the word Wōdnesdæg (Old English) and means "Day of Wodanaz" and it could also means "Mercury's day". I prefer the Nordic mythology to the Roman. Vikings are so cute.

Wodanaz (in Proto-Germanic) is Odin, the major god in the Norse mythology and the principal member of the Æsir (the major group of the Norse pantheon).

In futhark (or runic alphabet is an ancient Germanic and it is used for writing, divination and magic) , Odin is represented by the rune Othala //sorry, it's Ansuz!(the 4th rune; rune means secret) that represents intelligence, communication and inspiration. And today is a good day to stay at home, it's so cold outside!



Odin's Day by ~BlackLuna on deviantART Maybe you don't remember, but you all have seen these runes before At Lord Of The Rings, by Tolkien or in Nazi symbolism. I could say much more about the Nordic Lore, but it's mythology it's so complex it would take much time to write it here. but if you would like to know more about it, just ask me and in my next week-day work I'll give some more insight.
Note: Information taken from Wikipedia and Edred Thorssons' books, Futhark and Rune Lore.

just be inspired

I'm here to show some animations I watched lately (or maybe not). Enjoy them!








I've watched this a thousand times and I still laugh like the first one. Abbot and Costello are genius!

 


Another kinetic typographic work, now with my favourite quote form my favourite movie: The Devil's advocate and with my favourite actor: Al Pacino. I watched the movie more times that I'm willing to admit. 

 

Do you want to know what I love about kinetic typographic works? When they're well done they enhance the qualities of what they're quoting. It's a marvellous thing to watch.

See you soon!

think of me

I keep my promises, even when they come a little bit late. I don't know if you remember this post, but I finally managed to do the typographic work I wanted. It took a while because I always seek perfection and things didn't come out the way I desired for some time.

Experience is the new thinking. Is that true for you?



experience is the new thinking by ~BlackLuna on deviantART Hope you like and please tell me what you think.

two dreams designed

Castle by ~tereza-anton on deviantART

My life is starting to change: I finished my graduation (didn't entered the Master,though) and this weekend I'm moving in to my new house. Regarding this, I also have "bad" news, I'll don't be able to post every week because I don't have Internet there, but in August that issue will probably be solved.

Meanwhile check Tereza's portfolio, I love her works:

Heart by ~tereza-anton on deviantART

Today by ~tereza-anton on deviantART

life in black and white by ~tereza-anton on deviantART

Sad days by ~tereza-anton on deviantART

See you soon!

born this way

by nategonz, via flickr

Helvetica is the queen of typefaces: perfect in every way. She's dressed up for formal and informal occasions, for parties and funerals. It can appear in a love letter or in a sign next to you.

Arial is her rival: the fake and lousy imitation (redundant, I know). Only similar to Helv for the untrained eyes.

If you have Helvetica you don't need anything else, she's like the other side of your apricot (one of my favourite fruits, actually). That's why I did the work below:

Imperfection by ~BlackLuna on deviantART

Hope you've enjoyed! Oh! and if you're an Helvetica lover like me, you'll love these.

ABC

Do you remember Webcedario, a portuguese cartoon blog? Well, they're on facebook now and also launching a book. Isn't that amazing?

I decided to celebrate this with a cartoon of my own inspired by the ones that put a big smile on my face. Hope you like it!

Acid work

Do you remember sweet? 3 months passed since then, but I didn't forgot my project of creating a series of flavours. Today I present you Acid, among other two works I did this week.

Flavours:acid by ~BlackLuna on deviantART

One of them is Synaesthesia. I think I never told you about this neuropathology before, but I've been obsessed by this for the last 3 years because it's such a different way to see the world. It seems a good disease to me (if that exists) because we can relate it to design and creativity. My master's thesis will focus on this for sure.

Synaesthesia can be explain as a mix of senses ( a linkage really), in a sort of way. We use just the eyes to see, only the ears to hear, and the hands to touch, and so on. But people with this pathology can use eyes to hear or ears to see. They associate colours to letters and numbers, or even music notes! That doesn't sound amazing?

We use synaesthesia very often in our lives too, specially when we write. When you say 'what a sweet sound' or 'I'm feeling blue' you're being synaesthetic.

synaesthesia by ~BlackLuna on deviantART

The last one is about my love about design.

My home by ~BlackLuna on deviantART

I hope you've enjoyed them!

P.S Some of these works are available for print on DeviantArt.

fontface

fontface from atipo on Vimeo.

(via design you trust)

sweet

After seeing the result of The devil is in the details, I was eager to create some more typography. So I started to do a series of flavours. The first one is Sweet, because I am one. ;) Next will be: sour, salty and bittersweet (my favourite).

Flavours:sweet by ~BlackLuna on deviantART

Do you like it?

P.S. Click on the image to see it in the right background (it makes all the difference).

detailing

I'm proud of my newest work:


The devil is in the details by ~BlackLuna on deviantART

And once again, thanks to Tereza for all the help. <3

we're gonna make it better

This is a beautiful animation about typography. It shows us the possibilities of text: we only need to be open-minded and creative.

Make it better was directed by Climent Canal and the animation is from Sebastián Baptista. He's Uruguayan, but living in London, and has a great talent.


Make it better from Sebastianbap on Vimeo.

(via design you trust)

webcedário

"Heyyyyyy!.... My friends, can't you go find problems to other place?"
Letra #589 (Portugal), via Webcedário

Webcedário is a Portuguese cartoon blog that plays with letters and fonts, giving them a sense of humor. I'll put here the ones I love the most and translate them so you can laugh too.

"I am italic and you? We're from Pisa, in Italy."
Letra #577 (Portugal), via Webcedário

"Sorry... Which way is the queue?"
Letra #565 (Portugal), via Webcedário

Letra #561 (Portugal), via Webcedário

Hope you like it, please share your comments!