24 July 2007 @ 12:05 pm
Designer Showcase: Si Scott  
So I've been thinking for quite some time to do designer showcases. Not just the usual stuff, but showing the really big people in the industry. Or rather, the people that I find inspiring.

I'm gonna start with UK designer and Typographer Si Scott.

I'm not gonna write anything about him, just show you artworks, because they really speak for themselves.













To find out more about Si Scott, please check this website. And get inspired. You can also find some videos on youtube which show how he works.


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[identity profile] mystisblom.livejournal.com on July 30th, 2007 03:28 pm (UTC)
Sure :)

I don't have that many infos about him, because there just isn't that much also it was a rather short essay but here's what I found out.

- He left school at age 16 to study visual communications at the Leeds College Of Art & Design (he still workes there as a part time lecturer).
- Then he went to Buckinghamshire Chilterns University to further his studys and look into freelance work.
- He still uses pen and paper first to sketch out his designs before he uses the computer to finalize it.
- He co owns the studio ‘We are bitch’ wich looks already prommising.
- He says that most of his inspiration comes from music and esp. the lyrics.
- Himself talking about his designs: I always start by picking a font I feel fits the brief or works with what I am trying to achieve the piece and then will play around with different page layouts for a while. The next pahse is to just bring the piece to life using fineliners to create the illustration. I always work bigger than the finsihed piece is going to be and scan the illustrations at 1000dpi at 125% so when it is decreased to the actual size it's very crsip an clean.
I think I came to make this kind of work just through my love of drawing, type and design and trying to do something that encompasses all them together.
- His favorite fonts:
Helvetica (family)
Akzidenze Grotesk (family)
Pagan Poetry

Here's a video showing him at work
the secret of drawing (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6076632564739617549&hl=en)

I hope it helped :)