ARLO VANCE

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Category Archives: Swipe Saturdays

Swipe Saturday 6 Belated

Last Saturday came and went—now it’s Friday, and i just barely posted the next Type Thursday. This evening begins a week­end up in the moun­tains with no access to the inter­net (I still haven’t deter­mined the psy­cho­log­i­cal and/​​or phys­i­o­log­i­cal effects of a week­end deprived of tech­nol­ogy, but I’m assum­ing they’ll be pos­i­tive) So, this week is a com­bi­na­tion post […]

Swipe Saturday 5

Jeff Nishinaka uses paper in the most incred­i­ble way to make finely detailed bas relief type sculp­tures. Simple amaz­ing. As a grad­u­ate from Art Center College of Design, he stud­ied illus­tra­tion and devel­oped a deeply per­sonal rela­tion­ship with paper as a medium. I wanted to manip­u­late paper in the least inva­sive way, to keep the integrity and feel […]

Swipe Saturday 4

Recently I’ve been attracted to fur­ni­ture and fur­ni­ture design. Perhaps it’s the home­own­ers fever I’ve been get­ting, or just a desire to learn about some­thing new. Regardless, I’m work­ing on a project inter­sect­ing typog­ra­phy and fur­ni­ture, and I can’t stop look­ing at beau­ti­ful shapes and mate­ri­als. Here are a few pieces of fur­ni­ture by Saba Italia I par­tic­u­larly love because […]

Swipe Saturday 3

In Iron Man 2 the 3D inter­face used by Tony Stark for his research was stun­ning and extremely com­plex. Here are a few of the visu­al­iza­tions Prologue devel­oped for the film. visu­al­iza­tions of the ‘new ele­ment’ and other ele­ments from the film

Swipe Saturday 1

With the uni­fied look of my blog and web­site, I’m a lit­tle more moti­vated to actu­ally post more con­tent. Swipe or scrap is a huge part of how I keep myself inspired. I have almost 20 gigs of images I swipe from var­i­ous web­sites and blogs cat­e­go­rized to help me find quick inspi­ra­tion for new projects. This resources also helps […]

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